Abuse category: 3108 books
by Randy Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
This book is designed to help the reader acquire the knowledge and skills to learn how to make new habits to replace old habits. The reader will learn about "super habits", and why old habits never really die. More importantly, the reader will learn the key to building new habits and maintaining...
Get Up
A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As an atheist with a background in fundamentalism, Bucky Sinister was skeptical of 12-step groups when the time came for him to get sober. He was afraid of losing his artistic abilities and had big problems with the higher power concept. In spite of his hesitations, he stuck with the program and it...
by Jamie Lee Coulter
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Imagine, if you can, putting your three-week old baby into the freezer because her crying is interrupting your peace and quiet. And yes, I did say freezer and not refrigerator. And why was the baby crying? Because you were too messed up on heroin and hadn’t fed her all day. Imagine, if...
by Nancy Enn
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Nancy Enn drops her alcoholic son into the reader's lap. A powerful, raw collection of journal entries, "Killing Me With Your Booze" exposes the slow death of all that is good. Discover how her son's drunkenness harms their relationship, steals hope and defies happiness. It's a robust sharing...
by Geoff Clynes
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
This memoir plots the waning influence of a strict religious upbringing on a life littered with major changes in direction. The story follows one person’s growth from naïve and amoral childhood through a devout Catholic teenage through a series of false starts to eventual survival, self-employed,...
The Ex-Offender's Guide to a Responsible Life
A National Directory of Re-Entry Tips and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Going beyond mere survival issues, this incredibly detailed and user-friendly resource helps ex-offenders stay out for good by focusing on many key ingredients that lead to a responsible life. The directory identifies important support services and common sense tools for dealing with the day-to-day...
by Oliver Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
If you've ever tried to give up smoking, you know how hard it can be.
The Smoking Diet is a new approach to quitting that is designed to make the process of giving up smoking feel easy and natural.
The Invisible Girls
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Now with a new postscript and reading group guide, perfect for book clubs.
After nearly dying of breast cancer in her twenties, Sarah Thebarge fled her successful career, her Ivy League education, and a failed relationship, and moved nearly 3,000 miles from the East Coast to Portland, Oregon,...
The Biology of Desire
Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.
The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have...
Too Scared to Cry
A True Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
A digital short story from author and foster carer Maggie Hartley. Also contains a sneak peek chapter from Maggie's highly anticipated debut memoir, TINY PRISONERS.
Brothers Ben and Damien are shockingly quiet when they arrive on Maggie's doorstep. They don't shout or play like normal three...
A Desperate Cry for Help
Rejected by her family, Meg is lashing out. And now Maggie and her other foster children are in danger
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Twelve-year-old Meg arrives at Maggie's after a fire destroys the children's home she's been living in. Terrified and having lost most of her possessions, Maggie must work hard to make the vulnerable young girl feel at home.
But traumatised by the fire, and angry and vulnerable, having been...
The Girl Who Just Wanted To Be Loved
A damaged little girl and a foster carer who wouldn’t give up
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
'A remarkable woman' Casey Watson
A heart wrenching true story from foster mum Angela Hart.
Eight-year-old Keeley looks like the sweetest little girl you could wish to meet, but demons from the past make her behaviour far from angelic. She takes foster carer Angela on a rocky and very...
A Family For Christmas
When a tragic accident scars a family, will it take a miracle to heal them?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
When foster carer Maggie Hartley meets Sean and Sheila, they're facing every parent's worst nightmare. A split-second decision to leave toddler Edward alone for a few short minutes results in a tragic accident, and Edward is left fighting for his life. He survives, but is tragically left severely...
Too Young to be a Mum
Can Jess learn to be a good mummy, when she is only a child herself?
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
When sixteen-year-old Jess arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep with her newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else to go.
Arriving straight from the hospital having just given birth, Jess is like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Scared, alone, and practically a child herself, she...