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It is a raw uncut observation of where we went wrong as parents as siblings and remedial family. A theory based on the idea that we are all to blame for the state and fate of our family. By the choices we make to accept and enable our generations beyond immediate repair. We are the change we seek.
302) In My Mother's Hands
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Elizabeth Ward, known to one and all as Biff Ward, has written a very moving account of her childhood. Of a household that tiptoes around her mother, who clearly has her demons. We learn early on that before Biff and her younger brother, Mark, there was Alison, who drowned in her bath. Maybe this baby died when her mother was distracted but, as the story unfolds, we become more certain that she was actually killed. Biff, too, is once almost throttled...
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With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters-and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy. In more than 35 years as a therapist, Forward has worked with large numbers of women struggling to escape the emotional damage inflicted by the women who...
304) Hidden Inside
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This book spans decades and tells the story of a young girl growing up in the 1970's and 80's, and her later struggles to deal with trauma unimaginable. She looked a lot like other girls her age. Inside, she held a terrible and haunting secret, too afraid to speak it out loud. Follow the tale on this roller coaster of a ride down a dark path where betrayal, wickedness and evil meet innocence, and a survivor's yearning to turn that into a way to help...
305) Vice
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Betrayal, family loyalties, secrets: not all gangsters live in the east end. Two families run this part of Manchester: the Johnsons and the Bennetts. With the head of the Johnson family banged up, the Bennetts have made their move. But power comes at a price... Now Lenny Johnson is out of prison and he wants his empire back. But the Bennetts have had a taste of the money and the control. Lenny's sons want to strike now and destroy their rivals but...
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I am unapologetically broken; I am tired, but I keep moving. I am hurt, but I keep helping. I am delicate and strong. I am intelligent, but I don't have all of the answers. I am giving to a fault, and I am still learning how to ask for help. I have wronged others and I have been, wronged. I have wonderful friends who show up when I need them the most, and I have others who only take; until they took too much. I am still figuring it all out, while...
307) The Graduating Bully
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Discover how to recognize the workforce bully and implement proactive responses for deflecting and deflating the bully behaviours. The Graduating Bully by Faith Wood is the second in a three-part series that offers solutions to victims of workforce bullying, as well as responses to deflect and deflate bullying behavior. If you or someone you know is a victim of a workforce bully, Wood's book includes how to recognize the signals of a workforce bully,...
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A Story of Grandparent Carers
What happens when a family falls apart, for whatever reason? Be it drugs, alcohol, mental illness or domestic violence, children are caught in the middle, and they suffer. But who will step in to save them?
This dilemma faced Donna, a migrant mother, when she realised that her own infant grandchild had been born into a bad situation. Isabella was neglected, a child at risk, when Donna and Tom commenced the long battle...
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What if you just trusted the whisper of calling placed on your heart?
Kathy Izard was volunteering at Charlotte's Urban Ministry Center when an unlikely meeting with a homeless man changed the course of her life. She realized that serving at the soup kitchen was feeding her soul, but not actually solving the needs of the homeless population.
Rather than brush it off and avoid what she now felt called to take on, she quit her job and took on what...
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"Who do you thank you are, the Quane of Anglund?" That's what Grace Marie's father used to say to her whenever he thought she was getting out of her place. In her fifties now, Grace Marie is a college professor living in a beach town in California, and when she gets a phone call telling her that her father is dead, she is glad. She hopes her return for his funeral will be her "last trip home."
As a young girl Grace Marie struggled to escape from...
311) Daddeee...I'm Scared
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Laura Bedrosian, kidnapped at age 13 and ransomed by her father, is forced to repay him by becoming a sexual replacement for her mentally-ill mother. For the next 20 years she repays that debt. But at age 33, her father, now suffering from dementia, is taken to a county fair where he is abandoned.
The father's only ID is a piece of paper stating that his name is Larry. With her new-found freedom, Laura attempts to gather the shattered pieces of her...
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This is the story of a courageous young woman who grew up in a home headed by a sexual predator and an abused mother who lost her mind when Christine was only fourteen, disappearing until she was a mother herself. It recounts the secrets and lies that were designed to protect the darkest family secret of all, which had the effect of making the eight children strangers to each other, and then prisoners of the passions that disordered their lives, and...
313) Hombres Abusivos: Identifica las Señales de un Hombre Tóxico o Narcisista y Toma el Control de tu Vi
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¿Cómo saber si tu pareja te está manipulando? ¿Hace tiempo que estás en una relación que ya no te hace feliz? ¿La mayoría del tiempo sientes que todo lo malo en la relación es tu culpa? Entonces sigue leyendo...Si tú pareja te ha llegado a decir 'estás loc@', 'no hagas dramas', 'por qué siempre estás a la defensiva' y 'de qué hablas', repetitivamente, entonces debes prestar atención porque probablemente estás siendo víctima de algún...
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“My name is Julien. I'm 31 and it's 2014. At least that's what it's just explained to me. I just regained consciousness in the hospital, in intensive care. I don't remember anything, not even my own life before that. "
No one knows what happened except him, somewhere buried deep in his memory. He will gradually remember the facts. Dispute. Insults. Domestic violence. Then Catherine, who disappeared from the road after the assault she perpetrated...
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Growing up, Tiffany Rochelle had no reason to believe her mother was not who she claimed to be, but that all changed when she was nine. She learned her mother had been living under a false identity since before she was born, and that the name her mother had used on her birth certificate wasn't real. From that point, Tiffany's life was never the same.
By the time she was twenty-five, her mother had used twenty-seven known aliases and had created just...
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«Es el año 2014. Mi nombre es Julien, tengo 31 años, -o, al menos, eso me acaban de explicar-. Estoy en el hospital, en el área de cuidados intensivos. He despertado después de un largo tiempo sumergido en un mortal coma. No recuerdo nada, ni tengo memoria alguna de mi propia vida antes de esto.»
Nadie sino él sabe lo que sucedió, sin embargo, dicho recuerdo está en algún lugar, enterrado en lo más profundo de su memoria. Recordará poco...
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A man, who has lived in dysfunctional homes, endured child and sexual abuse, ostracism and racism, holds a dismal view of the world and himself. These life experiences shape Hakeem Lewis' perceptions of reality, and thus, positively and negatively influence his behavior. For better or worse, he strives to escape a distressful past. Unfortunately, his methods fail to permanently cure him of sustained psychological damage.
318) La última oportunidad: Hay decisiones que marcan el futuro. Leer este libro puede ser una de ellas
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Guillermo está convencido de que casarse con Shaden fue un error.
Sus temperamentos chocan. Ella no se siente amada y él es sumamente explosivo. Pero su hijo Daniel les ha suplicado que no se divorcien. Por otro lado, algunas personas externas complican la relación. Los familiares de ella intervienen en todo y la sensual asistente de él está dispuesta a darle consuelo.
La última oportunidad es una novela que aborda frontalmente el tema de...
319) A Map to the Stars
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A portrait of a stolen childhood. Once upon a time, Avery lived in a place filled with family, magic, and love. It ended when her mother came for her. Ripped from the only home she ever knew, young Avery endures horrific exploitation, familial separation, and a childhood without the promise of a happily ever after. Part prose, part poetry, all primal scream, “A Map to the Stars” explores the acerbic betrayal of family, unthinkable abuse, and the...
320) Haze of Oblivion
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"My name is Catherine. I'm 35-years-old. I own an apartment in Paris, and I have a well-paid job. I also have a 5-year-old son, William, and a golden nanny, Claire. I have everything it takes to be happy. And yet..."
Being constantly checked by a psychologist, she tries to have a normal life amidst the moments when she loses ground between alcohol, depravity and blackouts. Being the sole witness to a murder in the convenience store where she usually...
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