Abuse category: 3108 books

Sunday Minor slid into the dining chair across from her foster parents. It was 3 a.m. and her night terrors had shaken them for the last time. They told her they’ve done all they can, and she’s a case best left to someone else. Sunday wished it could’ve been different, but she wasn’t surprised.  While...

Regret… remorse… anguish. Rose White always believed that one day she would live happily ever after with the man of her dreams, in a house full of their beautiful children. When she finally fell head over heels in love, she thought that those dreams had come true. But when she packed up her belongings...

This is the story of a woman’s survival from a life filled with landmines of loss, betrayal, abuse, and abandonment. Erika sought to fight her inheritance of self-loathing through relationships, alcohol, drugs, and suicide. She shows us a tumultuous journey in her quest to find the father that abandoned...

The Men I chose is about my journey through life and the men that I chose to love. We see one thing growing up mimicking it because we think its right and not knowing that love can be so much different than what the eye see. We tend to fall in love with an image thinking it will stay. The image we...

Jena had been afraid for over twenty years, afraid of taking chances in life, afraid of believing in herself, afraid of just living comfortable with her own sense of direction. Jena remembered growing up feeling confused about who she was. She grew up in an environment where she was not allowed to...

J, a recent college grad, met the Director almost a decade ago when he approached her at a coffee shop on the Upper West Side. He complimented her beauty and told her that she was what he needed in order to realize his next film. Their exchange of phone numbers that afternoon marked the beginning...

No one could have imagined how as a child Beverly Engel could have managed to become who she is today—an internationally known expert on abuse recovery and the best-selling author of twenty-two self-help books. This is the raw, candid story of how she made her way in the world in spite of her mother’s...

Written from the viewpoints of the molester, the victim, and the victim’s mother, LaQuisha Hall tells a story of manipulation and molestation and how they each deal with abuse. When 14-year-old Aliyana’s childhood home burns to the ground, her family move s in with her mother’s friend,...

Readers who praised this story of coming of age -- and coming into grace -- will love this new book club edition! More than a memoir, this book is a promise of hope for anyone who was abandoned as a child, to anyone who woke up hungry and went to bed hungrier every day, for every wife who has...

Written from daily journals, *Weigh The Wind *chronicles the author’s life story from unloved girl child to insightful adult woman. The journey winds through surviving a near honor killing at the hands of her ethnic farm parents to a storm of daily life with an alcoholic, drug addict and spousal...

Life can be crazy. Life can be stressful. Life can be hard to take. These are all truths that are just simple facts. Because life can be difficult, people look for different ways to cope with the stress that life brings. Regrettably, drugs have become the most prominent coping mechanism that people...

Rachael Mangum investigates the actions of a 14-year old youth in her juvenile facility.  Did this young man have a chance given the circumstances he was born into? Can she forgive him for the heinous crime he commits?  Can she identify evil in the eyes of others? Is everyone worthy of forgiveness?...

This is a true story:I was never fortunate enough to have enjoyed social teenage development years.Sexually abused from 11 years old.Kept out of the schooling systemLocked up like a criminalSpent years running from the lawShunned by my parentsHaving two children with different fathers due to sexual...

Written from a personal perspective and drawing upon current psychosocial research. This book explores domestic abuse; covers perpetrators motivations and methods of operating, how to avoid toxic relationships, survival and escape strategies and how to seek help.