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From the ground up
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John L. Hoich |
"Autobiography of John Hoich, who endured an abusive father and his mother's death when he was seventeen years old. To survive, he started a lawn mowing business and built it into a multimillion-doll… |
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House Rules
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Rachel Sontag |
At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal figh… |
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Once upon a time
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Harry N. MacLean |
ONCE UPON A TIME is absolutely gripping, and an example of true crime writing at its insightful best. Maclean is a master of the genre, and the case itself is fascinating. The family dynamics are hor… |
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Forgiving our parents, forgiving ourselves
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Dr David Stoop |
For more than 15 years, people who grew up in dysfunctional families have found hope, healing, and the power to move forward with their lives in the classic Forgiving Our Parents, Forgiving Ourselves… |
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I refuse
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Per Petterson |
"[A] tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood thirty-five years ago. Back then, Tommy was separated from his sisters after he stood up to their abusive father. Jim w… |
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The danger game
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Kalinda Ashton |
Alice and Louise are sisters united by a distant tragedy, a house fire lit by their brother who burnt to death. Alice teaches at a dirt poor school the government wants to close while Louise is a rec… |
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The murderer's daughters
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Randy Susan Meyers |
After the murder of their mother by their father, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives where Lulu denies he ever existed and Merry dutifully visits him in prison, only to find their lives on t… |
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Hurt people hurt people
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Sandra D. Wilson |
Do you know someone perhaps even a Christian who seems impossible to get along with? From the people in the pews to the members of our families, we are surrounded by people who hurt other people. And… |
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Estranged
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Jessica Berger Gross |
A powerful, haunting memoir about one woman's childhood of abuse and her harrowing decision to leave it all behind that redefines our understanding of estrangement and the ability to triumph over adv… |
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Espoir pour les mal-aimés
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Yolande Vigeant |
Livre-témoignage sur les traces laissées par la violence de toutes sortes que l'on retrouve dans des familles perturbées. [SDM]. |
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After the sucker punch
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Lorraine Devon Wilke |
They buried her father at noon, at five she found his journals --and that's when she discovered that he thought she was a failure. Every child wants to know her father loves her, and Tessa Curzio --t… |
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Caged in America
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Zubaida Sharif |
"Author Jasmine Sharif born in Guban, Yemen in 1974 has republished her first book that tells the story of her life as she escaped from the tyranny and violence she experienced from a very young age.… |
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Stories that heal
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Lee Wallas |
xi, 224 p. ; 24 cm |
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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
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Ruth Rendell |
When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared … |
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Even Dogs Go Home to Die
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St. John, Linda |
"In snapshot pictures of her life, acclaimed "outsider" artist Linda St. John tells the story of her dirt-poor childhood in southern Illinois - her father's casual brutality and her mother's cruel in… |
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