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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Describes the tragic family conditions that led to the author's victimization at the hands of a pedophile, describing how her abuser became an insidious part of every aspect of her young life and traumatized her for more than fourteen years before he committed suicide.
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Plume
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A memoir from one of the most successful stuntwomen in Hollywood chronicles her path to recovery from a childhood of sexual abuse and offers hope for others who have suffered through the same ordeal.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A powerful, haunting memoir about one woman's childhood of abuse and her harrowing decision to leave it all behind that redefines our understanding of estrangement and the ability to triumph over adversity. To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross's childhood--growing up in a "nice" Jewish family in middle class Long Island--seemed as wholesomely American as any other. But behind closed doors, Jessica suffered years of physical and emotional abuse at the...
14) Out of darkness
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"'I have a burning desire to tell people who are hurting that there is a way out of their pain. There is hope for their lives.' Stormie Omartian tells her compelling story of a childhood marred by physical and emotional abuse that eventually led her into the occult, drugs, and tragic relationships. Finding herself overwhelmed by fear and on the verge of suicide, she shares the turning point that changed her life and reveals the healing process that...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A two-part documentary that explores the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James "Jimmy" Safechuck, at age ten, and Wade Robson, at age seven, both of whom were befriended by Michael Jackson. They and their families were invited into his wondrous world, entranced by the singer's fairy-tale existence as his career reached its peak. Through gut-wrenching interviews with Safechuck, now 37, and Robson, now 41, as well as their mothers,...
Author
Publisher
LittlePuss Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A rich and moving epistolary memoir about transgender childhood, sexual trauma, motherhood, and a young queer life in 1970s Argentina. In these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer and her enemies, paramours and friends. Writing to childhood figures such as her rapist's daughter, her father's mistress, her best friend, and her mother, Gentili probes deeply...
Author
Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life--one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who threatened his life and then released him in an odd moment of mercy. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of...
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