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Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel!
Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she's so busy delivering home-style justice on her days off, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she barely has time to run her sewing shop in her rural Missouri hometown. Some men need more convincing than others, but it's usually nothing...
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Criterion collection volume 297
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The Criterion Collection
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[2018]
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Français
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"A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema ... follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson's unconventional...
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"Lauren Delaney has a life others envy: a successful career, a husband who is a prominent surgeon, and two beautiful daughters. But on her twenty-fourth wedding anniversary, Lauren decides to stop pretending that things are perfect. Defying the controlling husband who has privately mistreated her throughout their marriage, she files for divorce. As Lauren starts her new life, she meets a man who is also struggling with the decision to end his unhappy...
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Based on the author's own experience, When I Hit You follows the narrator as she falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. Soon, the newlywed experiences extreme violence at her husband's hands and finds herself socially isolated. Yet hope keeps her alive. Writing becomes her salvation, a supreme act of defiance, in a harrowing yet fierce and funny novel that not only examines one woman's battle against terror and loneliness...
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Blackstone Audio, Inc
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[2013]
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English
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Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for murdering her Danish fiance, escapes police custody. Meanwhile, someone tries to abduct Natasha's eight-year-old daughter from a Red Cross center. Nurse Nina Borg has been following Natasha's case for several years and just can't see the young mother as a vicious killer. But in her effort to protect Natasha's daughter and find the truth, Nina realizes there is much she doesn't know about...
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A controlling or abusive partner can break even the strongest woman, resulting in fear, anxiety, depression, trauma, and low self-esteem. Written by an expert in domestic violence and based on her highly successful twelve-week, three-stage recovery program for women with controlling partners, this book will empower women to overcome the abuse and coercion, and give them the strength to finally address the problem--or leave the relationship once and...
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In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasy novels under the pen name "Samuel M. Key." Now, beginning with Angel of Darkness and From a Whisper to a Scream and concluding with I'll Be Watching You, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint's own name.
Rachael Sorenson feared she would never escape her ex-husband's abuse. Then a passing stranger came to her rescue---a stranger who had watched her from afar.
He...
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"After escaping an abusive relationship, Chelsea Spencer flees to Chickadee Creek the town where her great aunt Rosemary owns a quaint little antique shop. There, Chelsea plans to help with the shop as her aunt heals from an accident and perhaps find some healing of her own. Liam Chandler was one film away from a leading role when his brother Jacob was stricken with cancer. After spending the last months of Jacob's life with him in Boise, Liam heads...
55) Preacher's kid
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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[2010]
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English
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Angie is the daughter of a stern but loving bishop. She becomes attracted to the hunky star of a traveling gospel show. They decide to hit the road, and head straight into romance. But life on the road isn't what it seems and the actor's ongoing lies and abuse eventually trigger an epiphany for her, sending the prodigal daughter home to the father and the keyboardist that love her.
56) Girl, unframed
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While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
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Para aquellos que han experimentado abuso sexual, Sin Deshonra es un devocional único que contiene 40 devocionales diarios escritos para ayudar en el camino hacia la paz.
Este libro devocional es una guía amena para llevarlo a la contemplación y relacionarse con Dios a raíz del abuso que ha enfrentado. Es posible que esté experimentando sentimientos de miedo, vergüenza, ansiedad e inutilidad, pero la Palabra de Dios es más poderosa, y este...
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Pantheon Books
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[2022]
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English
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"At once disturbing and empowering, the memoir of a courageous woman, who, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, was manipulated, exploited, and abused as a sex worker; who killed her pimp/father figure-and was unjustly sentenced to life in prison without parole. "I was 11 when I met GG. I realized later that he had to have been aware of the chaos that was my life... because he played me perfectly. I was walking home after school... I heard his...
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Crown
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[2023]
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English
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"This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone-from a leading activist and fashion pioneer. Aurora James's story is not a "success story." Or at least, it shouldn't be told that way. Having dropped out of high school, struggled with body image, and dabbled in street racing, her eventual arrest might have been her rock bottom. But as a visionary and optimist, that experience became...
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