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1) Girlhood
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlotte Nicholls and her nearly four-year-old daughter, Chloe, have started over, with the help of Charlotte's birth mother, Anna, who has recently reentered Charlotte's life after a twenty-six-year absence. Little Chloe is thriving in her new home, and despite lingering effects from a terrible trauma Chloe has suffered, Charlotte is hopeful that love will pull her through. And though their relationship is tentative, Charlotte and Anna are slowly...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruby, a Midwestern girl named for the jewel that is believed to ward off evil spirits, has a special gift, a sixth sense that makes her at one with nature and gives her the ability to know her own destiny. After growing up in an abusive family, Ruby escapes to Los Angeles and learns of her soulmate, Orion Woolf, a British actor. She travels to England, where she works at a potions and herbs shop, and through a series of coincidental circumstances,...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Since the publication of Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect, many thousands of people have learned that invisible Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN, has been weighing on them their entire lives, and are now in the process of recovery. Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships will offer even more solutions for the effects of CEN on people's lives: how to talk about CEN, and heal it, in relationships with partners,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from V.C. Andrews, the legendary author of Flowers in the Attic--now a hit Lifetime TV movie!"--
Seventeen year old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father's construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for...
Author
Publisher
Bell Bridge Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
240 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellie Wayne has grown up in frightening circumstances, damaged by a sexually abusive father and mentally fragile mother. Scarred and still threatened by a father she hates and fears, Ellie believes her future holds nothing more than danger, shame and secrets . . . until the unspeakable happens, and Ellie is forced to choose. She can claim her life or continue to hide in the shadows.
10) Split
Author
Publisher
Alice James Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
87 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Split crosses borders, exposing truths and dreams, violations of body and mind, aligning them until the deep push-pull of silence and song become a bridge. And here we cross over into a landscape where beauty interrogates, and we encounter a voice that refuses to let us off the hook."-Yusef KomunyakaaIn this stunning debut, we follow one woman's profoundly personal account of sexual violence against the backdrop of cultural conflict deftly illustrated...
Author
Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
©1991
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nine-year-old Jessie's words and illustrations help other sexually abused children know that they're not alone, that it's OK to talk about their feelings, and that the abuse wasn't their fault."
12) Beautiful child
Author
Language
English
Description
Tory Hayden, an educational psychologist and special education teacher, chronicles her experiences over the course of one school year, focusing on her work with Venus, a severely troubled seven-year-old girl.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A deeply moving, tragicomic adventure about a boy who escapes his small town in a stolen library on wheels in search of freedom, friendship, and, most of all, family.
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (ca. 85 min.) : col., sd. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
This video captures the emotional conflicts within a family. Evan, age 11, has been exhibiting serious behavioral problems since the age of four. With the family's permission, their private life is filmed for a period of three months and reveals the intense verbal and emotional abuse that takes place.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary master" by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and "one of our most talented living writers" by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw "a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre." On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath...
17) Perfect match
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
For District Attorney Nina Frost, who specializes in the prosecution of child molestors, and her stonemason husband, Caleb, life becomes a nightmare when they discover that their own young son Nathaniel has been molested, a trauma that has left him mute, terrified, and unable to reveal the identity of his attacker.
19) Broken trail
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abondoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses.
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