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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Responsible for protecting her younger siblings from their abusive father, Bethoc Matheson is in no position to rescue another soul in Scotland. Yet when she sees a bleeding man on the verge of drowning, that's exactly what she does, securing him safely in a cave where she can return day after day to tend to his wounds. Sir Callum MacMillan can scarcely believe such a slight lass as Bethoc could save him from the grasp of death. But he knows the telltale...
163) Roadrunner
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
A retired major-league baseball player slips into prescription drug abuse and violence in Roadrunner, an engaging second novel by Trisha R. Thomas (Nappily Ever After). When Dell "Roadrunner" Fletcher attacks his scriptwriter wife, Leah, Officer Angel Lopez answers her call for help. Angel falls for the lovely Leah, but he is also an old Roadrunner fan. Then Dell disappears, and Angel inserts himself into the lives of Leah and her young son with suspicious...
164) Squabbles
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Squabbles, a raccoon family newly arrived in the Forest of Glade, shock the community when it is discovered that the father is beating his wife and son.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Bea is drawn back into the questionable doings of the members of the multi-billionaire Holland family, including an engagement with a fake diamond ring, an alleged suicide attempt, an abusive man who tries to put the frighteners on Bea, and the ambiguous behaviour of the black sheep of the family, who turns out to be the joker in the pack"--Author's website.
167) Someone to love me
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Cindy Gibson, an African-American teenager struggling with her mother's neglect and her mother's boyfriend's emotional abuse, must find strength she did not know she had when the boy she thought would be her savior begins beating her.
168) The letter
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way ... Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Originally published in Paris in 1925, My First Thirty Years is a brutally honest memoir by Gertrude Beasley, who grew up in poverty in rural Texas and suffered unthinkable emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of her family. The themes in this book are still relevant to readers today, telling the story of a woman who grew up in brutal circumstances, but who ultimately found a way out. Beasley's memoir is one of the most raw coming-of-age historical...
170) Rage
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
All eyes are on famous prosecutor Teodor Szacki when he investigates a skeleton discovered at a construction site in the idyllic Polish city of Olsztyn. Old bones come as no shock to anyone in this part of Poland, but it turns out these remains are fresh, the flesh chemically removed. Szacki questions the dead mans wife, only to be left with a suspicion shes hiding something. Then another victim surfaces-a violent husband, alive but maimed-giving...
171) Crazy love: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Formats
Description
The author tells the story of her first marriage to a charismatic man who also abused her.
172) Hush little baby
Author
Pub. Date
c2013.
Description
"If I stay, he will kill me. If I leave, he'll destroy Addie and Drew." Jillian Kane appears to have it all--a successful career, a gorgeous home, a loving husband, and two wonderful children. The reality behind closed doors is something else entirely. For nine years, she has hid the bruises and the truth of her abusive marriage in order to protect Addie and Drew, knowing, if she left, Gordon would destroy her--destroy them. When, in an act of desperation,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
The survivor of an abusive relationship herself and a licensed counselor of abused women for more than a decade, Susan Brewster teaches readers how to recognize the signs of abuse, handle negative feelings, become an effective advocate, deal with the abuser, and more.
178) A child called "it" and "The Lost Boy" 2 Complete Books In 1 Volume: one child's courage to survive
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
A child called "It": The author's account of his early years describes one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. The lost boy: The author continues the story of his own child abuse, and his experiences being a foster child moving in and out of five different foster homes.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
"Set in the 1930s, The Sound of the Trees tells the story of Trude Mason, a boy escaping from a brutal father and a violent past. Without a vehicle or the knowledge of how to operate one, Trude and his mother set out on horseback on a grueling journey through the extreme desert and mountainous terrain of southwestern New Mexico. Their destination: Colorado, a place Trude imagines to be abundantly fertile, wild, and free. Yet the wilderness proves...