All Blog Posts Tagged 'abuse' (52)

He Thought Of Days He Had Handed Over To A Bottle

Illustrated by Phantomphreaq…

By Louise Erdrich

Harper Perennial 272 pgs

978-0061536106

Rating: 4

This book is excruciating. Also spellbinding. You will be appalled by the mind games being played but you will also come to understand them. At first you won't believe that you would ever play these games. But then you will begin to reflect and wonder if you haven't played some of these games yourself. I enjoyed this book greatly. It is a pleasure to read. Just be…

By Suzzy Roche

Hyperion, 259 pgs

978-1-4013-4177-0

Rating: 3

(Aside: This book was shipped to me with Wayward Saints as the addressee, causing my stepmother and sister to inquire as to whether I'd joined a cult.)

Saint is the surname of the principle characters in Wayward Saints: Bub, Jean…

A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel

By Taylor Stevens

Crown Publishers, 331 pgs

978-0-307-71712-2

Rating: 2.5

Vanessa Michael Munroe is back in the follow-up to her debut performance in The Informationist, which I reviewed in December of last year. The mission she is hired for this time is to rescue a child from a cult and return her to her parents. Michael, as she is known, travels to Argentina, last known location for the girl, and sets about…

By David Klein

Broadway Books, 376 pgs

978-0-307-71683-5

Rating: 3

The only people who stay in character in Clean Break are a gambling addict (Adam) and a 10-year-old child (Spencer). Now I don't know about you but I would tend to believe that the man with no character left, and the young one just developing character, would be the ones most likely to violate. Instead it's the adults, who have up until now been solid, responsible and dependable…

Hi!  My name is Noel Linton Allen.  My first book "From the Ghettos to the White House Hotel" was featured (full-page) in the June 27, 2007 edition of the New York Daily News.  I have a new book out about Roman Catholic priest abuse, entitled, "Robbed and Raped by my Two Fathers."  This book is a SELF HELP book since it shows, clearly, the steps rape victims must take to get Cash Settlements from the so powerful Roman Catholic Church.  I was raped at 11.  I came forward at 67.  I received a…

Taliban Escape!

One Woman’s Journey out of hell

By Aabra

     It is difficult to believe that so many women still live in extreme violence and are killed in the hands of their partners. We all want to think that this doesn’t happen. But as Aabra shows in Taliban Escape, violence against women is a growing problem.

     Taliban Escape is about one woman’s struggle to free herself from the shackles of violence and…

Soul Rape: Recovering Personhood After Abuse (Kindle Edition)

Recovery after abuse by 

A Quote: "But how does one come to be…

Aleja Robbins Bennett was born in East Elmhurst Queens New York by her unknown biological mother July 9th 1973 at 7:23 am. In 1976 she was raised in East New York Brooklyn by her church attending adopted parents who still serves as a deacon and deaconess up until this day. From the age of two through nineteen they physically-verbally and mentally abused her.

She was tortured, starved and neglected all through her childhood. Alcohol became an escape for her…

SHAME ON YOU!

By Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee

Do you know?  Yesterday was a very unusual day, not only that... so, was Wednesday evening. 

I was there at two separate incidents to know 'it was all true', it all would have been hard to believe ... if I hadn't seen, or heard it... myself.  I saw, I believe, I know... this all to be the truth. 

It began on Wednesday evening when I saw a woman who is the kindest soul you've ever met... be attacked verbally…

A mother suffering from mental illness.

A little sweet girl who wants nothing more than her mother’s love.

Family members who turn their backs to the blatant horror that is staring them in the face.

Call Me Tuesday was a tough book to read. Based on true events, it is a fictionalized story of what really happened to author Leigh Byrne while…

I struggled for three long years to sum up the inner message of Little Deadly Things. My wife cocked her head, looked at the ceiling, thought for three short minutes, and nailed it in one try. 

In her segment of the video that accompanies my Kickstarter project, Jody said, “This book is about us as people, and how our…

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Don’t Cry, Daddy’s Here: One Woman’s Journey to Recovery from Incest is a deeply disturbing memoir. At the same time it is an important book, one that offers a strong message of hope and renewal to victims of this terrible crime.

"My decision to write this book came from a deep desire to say, 'You are not alone.' I share some of my memories and some lessons…

Getting Out of Dodge City, Heading for L.A. on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe is a short novel that reads like a memoir and that will appeal to those interested in black American history and the dynamics of poor black American families from the early 1800s to the 1960s.…

NEW! Suspense/Drama fiction - "A Child A Mother Should Love" ... by Donna Lee Comer ----

      CAYLEE ANTHONY is in heaven at the hands of her mother! ---- What happens to the mind of a child who survives her mother's abuse?? ----(Jill Lawson is a narcissistic, self centered, egotistical lady tycoon, who creates a stylish, very public presence with her beautiful face and body!…

On the surface, twins Taylor and Trevor Forrestier appear as confident and successful operators of a growing architectural design firm. However, things aren’t always what they seem … The Visionary by Pamela Thibodeaux is the story of their journey toward emotional healing after suffering from horrific abuse as children. Along the way, each twin also finds true love, something that neither thought would be possible. But freedom from the past isn’t without its own…

Orange Petals in a Storm…