Abuse category: 3108 books
Girl Unbroken
A Sister's Harrowing Story of Survival from The Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie’s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival.
They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic...
by Rosie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate. Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother’s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie’s loving care. Rosie is supposed to...
by Casey Watson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
A BOY WITHOUT HOPE is the heart-breaking story of a boy who didn’t know the meaning of love. A history of abuse and neglect has left Miller destined for life’s scrap heap. But in this turbulent story of conflict and struggle, Casey Watson is determined to help Miller overcome his demons, show...
by Casey Watson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
A BOY WITHOUT HOPE is the heart-breaking story of a boy who didn’t know the meaning of love. A history of abuse and neglect has left Miller destined for life’s scrap heap. But in this turbulent story of conflict and struggle, Casey Watson is determined to help Miller overcome his demons, show...
by Casey Watson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
A BOY WITHOUT HOPE is the heart-breaking story of a boy who didn’t know the meaning of love. A history of abuse and neglect has left Miller destined for life’s scrap heap. But in this turbulent story of conflict and struggle, Casey Watson is determined to help Miller overcome his demons, show...
Keeping Secrets
One Woman's Story from Sexual Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
She didn’t think she mattered to anyone, much less to God. Life was little more than a nightmare, a dark narrative that included seduction and child rape, emotional brutality, and all the countless injustices that flow in its wake. It began when she was twelve and didn’t end until she was seventeen....
Helping the Addict You Love
The New Effective Program for Getting the Addict Into Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
It's okay to love them. It's your right to help them.
Addiction destroys people and can even end lives. When you know or suspect that someone you love is suffering from addiction you have two goals: getting your loved one into treatment and turning that treatment into full-fledged sobriety....
by Megan Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and...
Life After Darkness
Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
From Michelle Knight-Cleveland kidnapping survivor and #1 NYT bestselling author of Finding Me**-comes an inspirational book about healing and resilience, on the five-year anniversary of her escape.**
Michelle Knight-now known as Lily Rose Lee-captured the world's attention in May 2013, when...
by Alice Keale
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.' This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again. Within days of spending their first evening together,...
Racehoss
Big Emma's Boy
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
“A timeless classic” (San Antonio Express-News), reissued with a new foreword, afterword, and ten percent more material about a black man who spent seventeen years on a brutal Texas prison plantation and underwent a remarkable transformation.
First published in 1984, Racehoss: Big Emma’s...
Lost in Care
The True Story of a Forgotten Child
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care, and the beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities, and institutions began. Let down and frequently abused,...
Summary of Hope
by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Hope by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus | Includes Analysis Preview: Hope, the story of two of the three young women held captive by Ariel Castro, is a graphic and gripping account of a decade of abduction, assault, and abuse in a rundown house on Seymour Street in a rough section...
Game Over
Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the Cullture of Silence
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The shocking details chronicling how a beloved coach and esteemed university became enmeshed in one of the worst scandals in U.S. sports history
It's a scandal that began in a place called Happy Valley. But it's not as happy as it once was, as the child-sex-abuse charges against a longtime...