Kategoria BISAC: Family & Relationships >> Abuse - Child Abuse

In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie's harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival.

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 fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives "like a hurricane, blind and...

In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie's harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival.

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 fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives "like a hurricane, blind and...

This is book two of the seven book series collection The Bruises from my Mother's Love. Read how Lunye' Williams take matters into her own hands by escaping her mother's torture chamber and look for love in the dangerous streets of Chicago. This series will take you to places in her life that will not only have you in tears, but she will inspire you with her courageous effort to save herself from a life of misery. Not only will she inspire you, she will also take you on an emotional joyride and keep you guessing how she survives endless encounters of the dangerous streets. Think twice...

With deceptively pellucid language, Dangerous Bodies offers, in poem after poem, precise, jewel-like crystallizations of understanding that illuminate the craggy and often harrowing emotional terrain of a family gone wrong. Out of abandonment and incest, the wounded child turns to the long building of a self she can rightfully claim as her own.

Knowing that "Closeness and distance / are all that we can be sure of," Warren successfully navigates the road from indictment of her father --"All your life you were...

Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo's wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endured numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness.

Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother's retirement community, she asked to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother? It turns out that it was...

Through My Eyes is the emotional journey of a boy who survived horrifying abuse in his childhood and his long road to recovery and defining himself separately from his circumstances.

He recounts the terrible physical, mental, and emotional trauma he suffered at the hands of those he trusted and the long-lasting damage inflicted by the unwillingness or inability of his mother to stop the abuse from happening. He details the excruciating process of learning to trust and love after years of abuse and how he was able to overcome his experiences for the sake of his mental...

Peter R. Onedera gives a graphic account of his life in Wednesday's Child.

The tropical paradise that was Guam in the early 1960s wasn't all about scented flowers, gentle breezes, lazy afternoons, sipping piNa coladas under the shade of huge mango and breadfruit trees, living in quaint Quonset huts with colorful curtained windows, and swimming in the azure waters of Tumon Bay. Childhood horror existed and the author was abused by his three older siblings.

Loneliness and isolation were the only things Onedera knew. When berating and belittling are constant, one...

The Little Girl that Never Got to Be is the tale of Karin Newsom's journey through her childhood as the victim of abuse by many people in her life who she thought were loved ones. A therapeutic tool, this book helped Karin deal with the many trials and tribulations she had to endure. Join her on this poignant journey, and maybe you too will find comfort and hope.

About the Author

This is Karin Newsom's fist book. She was born and grew up in Germany before moving permanently to the United States in 2000. Karin is the mother of two children, Justin and...