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82) The lottery rose
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Georgie Burgess doesn’t talk about the abuse that he receives from his mother and her boyfriend. Instead, he finds escape between the pages of books depicting beautiful gardens and flowers. When Georgie wins a small rosebush in a supermarket lottery, he gives it all the love and caring he’s never had. Soon after, his life begins to change when child services remove him from his mother’s care and look for a new, safe home for him....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Skye turns to her best friend Ben when she is forced to confront her abuser after her mother rekindles her relationship with a former boyfriend.
Art school is Skye's ticket out; all she has to do is survive her senior year, not get too drunk at parties, and be there for her little sister, Emma. Then her mom's ex-boyfriend slithers his way back into her family. They have no idea about the dark secrets about him -- and Skye never thought she would...
84) Breath to breath
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old William is uprooted from his home and sent to live with his estranged father. When he is confronted with a situation in which he must help an abused four-year-old boy, horrible memories come back to him, and William realizes that he and the boy are connected. He vows to hurt those responsible for hurting the child, but must find the love and compassion he needs to make the right choices.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born to hippie parents and raised in New York City's East Village in the 1970s, Lisa's early years were a mixture of encounter groups, primal screams, macrobiotic diets, communes, Indian ashrams, Jefferson Airplane concerts in Central Park, and watching naked actors on off Broadway stages during the musical HAIR. By the time Lisa was ten, Lisa's mother had them pledging their lives to the Unification Church (the Moonies) and self-appointed Messiah,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Canada, 2018: At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn't have much time left. Soon she'll be gone, just like her husband, her daughter, and the many loved ones she's lost over the years, and the story of her shameful past will die with her. When her great grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can't lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago. . . England,...
88) Runaways
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly know they can't take any more abuse from their foster parents, so the girls develop a plan to run away and start their lives over again in California. Along the way the girls learn they can't run from their past, because it will always be chasing them.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xvi, 631 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Omnigraphics' Health Reference Series is designed for the general reader seeking guidance on how to avoid serious illness by following preventive lifestyles and recognizing early warning signs. It also supports the layperson who has received a diagnosis of a serious disease or disorder as well as the family member or nonprofessional caregiver who must learn to care and to cope with the illness. Each volume in the series deals comprehensively...
90) A terrible secret: scared for her safety, Tilly places herself into care : a shocking true story
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him. Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go into foster care and is placed with Cathy. Tilly arrives with a graze on her cheek and Cathy becomes increasingly concerned by Dave's behaviour, especially when she learns he has been showering Tilly with gifts. While she's busy looking after Tilly and trying to keep her safe, Cathy is also worried about her own daughter,...
92) Child abuse
Author
Language
English
Description
Investigates the various forms of child abuse and the sources of help that are available for victims and abusers.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xvii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Each year at least a billion children around the world are victims of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that range from physical abuse to racial discrimination to neglect and food deprivation. The brain plasticity of our most vulnerable makes the adverse effects of trauma only that much more damaging to mental and physical development. Those dealt a hand of ACEs are more likely to drop out of school, have a shorter life, abuse substances, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
390, 14 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In prison, Archie Colbrook spends his time writing letters. Letters addressed to a person against whom he committed terrible, nameless harm. Archie knows he doesn’t deserve forgiveness. Yes, he didn’t mean to hurt anyone, and sure, he was only following orders. But does that matter? He still did it. In a small coastal town of Northern England, Claudia Winters hopes to feel safe for the first time in years after fleeing from her abusive...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The author had fostered fifty children over twenty years but none of them had been as disturbed as Jodie, a troubled eight-year-old whose violence and aggression had seen off five foster carers in just four months. When Jodie arrived, the author had no idea what lay beneath Jodie's shocking behaviour, which included smearing feces all over the house, erupting into violent rages and even cutting herself. Little by little, as Jodie's rage was met with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixty-one-year-old Shelby Truman, a romance novelist, has received a request to visit her childhood friend, Eddie, who is on Death Row. Though mentally ill, Eddie is scheduled to be executed for the disturbing, brutal murders of his wife and unborn child. -- amazon.com
99) Helping victims of sexual abuse: a sensitive biblical guide for counselors, victims, and families
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Includes documentation of abuse of children and adults and the work of the support group BECOMERS in restoring victims to normal, productive lives through relationship with Christ. Covers nine steps to mental, emotional, and spiritual wholeness"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. They developed a method, "loving nonviolent re-parenting," to best care for foster children. "Re-parenting" represents the complex task of caring for children who have been parented already, often inadequately, and mostly involving physical, emotional, and/or systemic violence. Welcoming Strangers analyzes the...
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