Abuse category: 3108 books
Recovery
Freedom from Our Addictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery
“This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is...
by Anne Heche
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2001
A beautifully written and evocative memoir of pain and redemption, of hurt and healing, from an actress whose private life and personal choices have made her a household name.
"My life is a life movies are made of," wrote Anne Heche in the proposal for her memoir. Yet what is truly surprising...
Etched in Sand
A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope.
Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an...
by Theresa Weir, Anne Frasier
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
THE MAN WHO LEFT is about the importance of fathers. It's about the men who leave, and the men who stay.
It's a familiar story. Father leaves his wife and children and never looks back. Theresa Weir was five when her father left his family for a better life with a wealthy socialite. Many...
Vindicated
Confessions of a Video Vixen, Ten Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
For a decade, Confessions of a Video Vixen author Karrine Steffans and the details of her private life have been the subject of debate and scrutiny. But, as gossipmongers and critics speculated, assumed, and manufactured tall tales about the New York Times bestselling author, Karrine hid herself and...
Escape from Bellevue
A Memoir of Rock 'n' Roll, Recovery, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Read Christopher John Campion's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Indie rock raconteur Chris Campion-one of the few patients ever to escape from Bellevue's locked ward-recalls his band's tumultuous ride, his plummet into addiction, and the strange road back to sobriety
Chronicling more than...
Hunger
A Memoir of (My) Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I...
The Girl Who Wanted to Belong Free Sampler
The True Story of a Devastated Little Girl and the Foster Carer who Healed her Broken Heart
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
The Girl Who Wanted to Belong can either be read as a full-length eBook or in three serialized eBook-only parts. This is part one of three.
Author Angela Hart is an experienced foster carer; The Girl Who Wanted to Belong is the moving story of her experience fostering one little girl with a...
by Kirby Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The fishpond had been built in the 1500s by the king of Moloka'i. Before its construction, a man named Kilo had told the king that the work could not be done without the help of kahunas. The king said Kilo's punishment for this outburst was to be cooked alive in an imu when the pond was complete....
Where There's Hope
Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller (October 2013), My Story—about being held in captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive—with a powerful and inspiring book about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one’s life.
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by Torey Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Six-year-old Sheila never spoke, she never cried, and her eyes were filled with hate. Abandoned on a highway by her mother, unwanted by her alcoholic father, Sheila was placed in a class for emotionally disturbed children after she committed an atrocious act of violence against another child.
Everyone...
by Torey Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
When Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a table. Desperately afraid of the world around him, he hadn’t spoken a word in eight years. He was considered hopeless, incurable, but Hayden refused to believe it. With unwavering devotion and gentle, patient love, she...
L'Alliance de la brebis
Rescapée de la secte de Moïse, édition revue et augmentée
Language: French
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Les victimes des sectes ne parlent pas, c'est bien connu. On ne sait pas toutefois si c'est la peur de la damnation éternelle, la honte ou quelque chantage des plus humains qui les en empêchent. Au Québec, en 1993, aucun livre n'avait encore été publié à ce sujet. Voici l'histoire complète...
Orphan Spirit
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Author Maria Star developed in a schizophrenics womb for nine months. After Maria was born, she was given to the Childrens Aid Society and subsequently experienced life in six foster homes before being adopted. In Orphan Spirit, she narrates the story of her life and how her early abandonment affected...