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The beckoners
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Carrie Mac |
When Zoe moves to a new town, she finds the line between victim and tormentor is easily crossed. |
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Comfort
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Carolee Dean |
Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison. |
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Chemical dependency and the dysfunctional family
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Jeff Biggers |
Discusses the causes and dangers of chemical dependency, its effects on the family, and ways to get help in dealing with this problem. |
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Everything will be all right
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Douglas Wallace |
In this raw testimony of a heart-breaking, hardscrabble childhood, Doug Wallace paints an unforgettable portrait of a child determined to free himself from the cycle of poverty that strangled his fam… |
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Ellen Foster
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Kaye Gibbons |
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children. |
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The bold saboteurs
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Chandler Brossard |
"This autobiographical novel marks Brossard's emergence from the formal influence of Flaubert and Camus into a wildly free, multilayered narrative where fantasy and reality, sanity and insanity coexi… |
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Transgenerational addiction
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Jeff Biggers |
Discusses drug abuse and alcoholism, how they may be passed from one generation to the next, and the problems they can cause in families. |
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CHILDREN EXPOSED TO PARENTAL SUBSTANCE MISUSE: IMPLICATIONS FOR FAMILY PLACEMENT; ED. BY RENA PHILL…
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Girl unbroken
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Regina Calcaterra |
"They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawn… |
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Blending perspectives and building common ground
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United States. Administration for Children and Families |
Introduction -- Understanding addiction, substance abuse treatment, and recovery -- The nature of child maltreatment -- The extent and scope of the problem -- The complexity of child and family needs… |
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'We ain't got no drink, Pa'
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Hilda Kemp |
Growing up in the slums of 1920s and 30s Bermondsey, Hilda Kemp's childhood was one of chaos and fear. Hilda knew what it was to grow up in desperate poverty, what it was to feel hunger. The eldest o… |
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Breathe for me
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Terri Whitmire |
Tara Fowler, the child of an alcoholic mother, survives deplorable living conditions, abuse and neglect to become the whole woman God predestined her to be. |
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If I should die before I wake
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Eileen Munro |
"In her bestselling memoir'As I Lay Me Down to Sleep, ' Eileen Munro vividly documented the abuse she experienced at 'the hands of her adoptive parents and, later, within the care system. The birth o… |
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Alcohol
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Paula McGuire |
Discusses how alcohol affects the body, dangers and consequences of drinking too much, and how to handle peer pressure and living with an alcoholic parent. |
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When someone in the family drinks too much
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Richard C. Langsen |
A self-help guide to enable children to cope with alcoholism in the family setting. |
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When your parent drinks too much
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Eric Ryerson |
A self-help guide for teenagers with alcoholic parents, discussing alcoholism, methods of dealing with it, and where to go for help. |
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Family secrets
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Rachel V. |
Tells the stories of fifteen individuals who grew up with alcoholic parents, and explains how they have learned to accept their childhood memories and move on. |
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The lost boy
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David J. Pelzer |
Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had… |
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The Moonlight Man
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Paula Fox,Rafael Lara Martínez |
Fifteen-year-old Catherine and her father take their first joint vacation in Nova Scotia and finally get to know each other. |
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A Teenager's Journey
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Richard B. Pelzer |
Many thousands of readers were moved by Richard B. Pelzer's heart-wrenching memoir, A Brother's Journey, in which he detailed the horrifyingly abusive childhood he endured at the hands of his mother,… |
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