Abuse category: 3108 books

The horror of loneliness. Over 10 years in prison. Hooked on heroin, cocaine and drugs for 23 years. A chronic alcoholic for 27. Homeless. Eating out of garbage bins. Born into a violent alcoholic home. Molested by a pedophile in a residential school for three years. Surviving on skid row for 10 years....

Unraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel. More than just a true-crime story, it is the stunning expose of spurious science that sent medical researchers...

Upbeat, encouraging, and pragmatic, not theoretical. Written by one who "knows the ropes." Author has experienced fifteen years of interacting with an addicted child and understands the way to speak to others with the same experience. Offers the author's "twelve...

Humble préposée aux soins dans une résidence pour personnes âgées, Martine, l’héroïne de 18 ans de cette histoire vraie, voit sa vie transformée à jamais lorsqu’elle tombe éperdument amoureuse d’Herby, un Haïtien beau comme un dieu. Sous prétexte qu’elle doit l’aider à payer...

“You can smile now; you’re rid of this a**hole.” That’s the last thing he said when I dumped him off in a motel parking lot, fittingly and not without much difficulty on April Fools’ Day 2000. It may be the only thing he ever said to me that was true. “You Can Smile Now” is a...

A father is threatened when his oldest son gets stronger and stronger lifting weights. He orders his son to quit lifting.  The son retaliates in a way his father never imagined.

Shannon Woodard's TREATED LIKE SHIT is a short collection of stories based on the tragic and unfair side of love. Whether it's from the perspective of self-love or love from others it's not always the beautiful thing Hollywood and our dreams paint it to be. From Jess's parents running off the...

Women are special creatures. We are strong, sturdy, resilient, beautiful, soft, sensitive, silent, and fragile at times. There is no other being on Earth like a woman. We have different gifts, talents, and mindsets, but we are created for Him.  God uses fragments from the trials and troubles...

This book describes the difficulties a family encounters as they live through a heartrending journey with a son who has chosen a life of addiction. Many families will be able to relate to the scenarios within their own lives. It is written with an interesting twist of nursery rhymes revised to describe...

After 35 in the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I am still in awe of the miracles I see. People who are so messed up when they first come into this program and totally change into a rational, even thinking human beings. This happens not by just going to meetings, that won't do it. It is only by fully...

Chi sono i serial killer dell’anima? Come agiscono? Perché certi uomini si presentano in un modo e poi si rivelano completamente diversi? Cosa induce molte donne a farsi maltrattare? Perché a fronte di molestie, umiliazioni e vessazioni costanti anziché fuggire rimangono accanto al loro persecutore?...

Nel mondo, ogni otto minuti viene assassinata una donna. In Italia ne viene uccisa una ogni due giorni. Sono prede facili, indifese, emarginate, spesso abbandonate da tutti. Luciano Garofano con Rossella Diaz ci racconta storie vere di donne e ci conduce nei drammatici labirinti del male, tra paura,...

Come può un uomo far credere agli altri di amare follemente una donna e poi fare di tutto per disintegrarla emotivamente e psicologicamente? Come può compiacersi e godere del dolore che provano le sventurate che si innamorano di lui? Come può razionalmente e meticolosamente programmare la distruzione...

La violenza contro le donne è una terribile piaga sociale che assume forme che vanno dall’estremo del femminicidio allo stalking e alle tante declinazioni di violenze quotidiane e famigliari, fisiche e psicologiche. Beba, diminutivo di Benedetta, la protagonista di questo libro, è vittima di violenza...