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A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments A Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy. "All those years you... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries by Alice Miller Publisher Comments In direct opposition to the Freudian drive theory, the author of the best-selling The Drama Of The Gifted Child believes that children, at birth, are inherently good, and she traces all forms of criminal deeds to past mistreatments.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brother's Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse by Richard B Pelzer Publisher Comments Mom has no one like David around to beat on anymore. I am more afraid of her than ever...I get in more trouble for anything I do or say. Now I find that I'm always in trouble and I don't know why. Now that David is gone, I'm afraid that she will try to... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Victory Over Verbal Abuse: A Healing Guide to Renewing Your Spirit and Reclaiming Your Life by Patricia Evans Publisher Comments You're too sensitive. You'll never amount to anything. You're crazy. If this is what you hear--from your spouse, your parent, your boss--then you've been the victim of verbal abuse. This insidious behavior permeates our culture--from the privacy of our... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How To Stop Being Abused and How To Stop Abusing by Beverly Engel Publisher Comments "Engel doesn't just describe-she shows us the way out." -Susan Forward, author of Emotional Blackmail Praise for the emotionally abusive relationship "In this book, Beverly Engel clearly and with caring offers step-by-step strategies to stop emotional... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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When Love Goes Wrong: What to Do When You Can't Do Anything Right by Ann Jones Publisher Comments Chapter OneIf This Is Love, Why Do I Feel So Bad?When love goes wrong you "feel it -- usually long before you can name or talk about exactly what the problems are. That uneasy sensation creeps up on you, like a bad case of flu. You brush it off, hoping... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso Publisher Comments A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title Tiger, Tiger is a Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Found by Jennifer Lauck Synopsis Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one womans search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Laucks investigation into her own... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck Publisher Comments To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Trauma Myth (11 Edition) by Susan A. Clancy Publisher Comments Drawing on the latest research on memory and traumatic experience, Susan Clancy, an expert in experimental psychopathology, demonstrates that children describe abuse and molestation encounters in ways that don't fit the conventional trauma model. In fact,... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Victims No Longer 2ND Edition Men Recovering Fro by Mike Lew Publisher Comments For millions of men on the path to recovery, Victims No Longer is the next step. The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma. Now, in this... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A House Divided: Suspicions of Mother-Daughter Incest by Paul R Abramson Publisher Comments Searching for the truth behind these accusations, while reconstructingthis troubling tale from case interviews, trial transcripts, policereports, and other documentary sources, the authors find in thisunusual case an ideal springboard for a serious... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Child Abuse and Neglect: Definitions, Classifications, and a Framework for Research by Margaret M Feerick Synopsis Historically, it has been difficult to measure child maltreatment because researchers, agencies, and states all define it differently. Child Abuse and Neglect tackles this issue in three main ways: 1) it examines the history of classification and... (read more) List Price $50.75 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory Publisher Comments A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor?s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she?s tall, skinny, and weak. It?s four o?clock, and she hasn?t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lucky by Alice Sebold From Powells.com Once in a while a book so captures the public imagination it becomes a benchmark of the collective psyche. Last summer's The Lovely Bones is a perfect example. Something about this story narrated from heaven by a young girl learning to cope after her... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Violent No More : Helping Men End Domestic Violence (2ND 00 Edition) by Michael Paymar Synopsis The author guides readers through the process of recognizing abusive behaviors, taking responsibility for them, and learning to express anger without violence. This new edition includes updated resources, additional exercises, and guidelines for men of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Point Last Seen by Hannah Nyala Publisher Comments THE ACCLAIMED MEMOIR FROM HANNAH NYALA -- A MOTHER, A TRACKER, AND A TRUE SURVIVOR. POINT LAST SEEN Escaping an abusive marriage, her children abducted by her violent husband, Hannah Nyala was left alone to pick up the pieces of her life, to heal... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In My Father's Arms: A True Story of Incest (Living Out) by Walter De Milly Publisher Comments The TV-perfect family of Walter de Milly III was like many others in the American South of the 1950s—seemingly close-knit, solidly respectable, and active in the community. Tragically, Walter’s deeply troubled father would... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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