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To uncover the truth, she'll have to break the code of the hills. In the Missouri Ozarks, some things aren't talked about ... even abuse. But prosecutor Elsie Arnold is determined to change that. When she is assigned to prosecute a high-profile incest case in which a father is accused of abusing his three young daughters, Elsie is ready to become the Ozarks' avenging angel. But as Elsie sinks her teeth into the case, everything begins to turn sour....
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Nic Costa mysteries volume 9
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Investigating the suspicious death of a man on the streets of ancient Rome, Questura detective Nic Costa interviews the victim's haunted daughter and discovers unsettling links between the case and a murder from centuries earlier.
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She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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At age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she'd recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect her parents' well-crafted family myths while continuing to silence her own voice? Or was it time to challenge those myths and speak her truth--even the unbearable truth that her generous and kind father had sexually violated her? In this powerful...
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NavPress
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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"Sexual abuse knows no religious or social boundaries. The Wounded Heart is an intensely personal and specific look at this form of abuse. Dr. Allender explores the secret lament of the soul damaged by sexual abuse and lays hold of the hope buried there by the One whose unstained image we all bear. Includes information about false memory issues"--Publisher description.
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Editorial Arcopress
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Breaking the silence narrates in the first person the shocking story of Estefan̕a Igartua, whose life has been marked by the different ill-treatment received in her childhood; among them, the most monstrous of all, that your own father sexually abuses you. Later , during her adolescence and much of her youth, she allowed herself to be used as an object by many men, becoming their worst enemy because she despised herself."
"Romper el silencio narra...
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"If you have experienced hurt or rejection from your father, this biblical, practical book will help you identify the lies you've believed and overcome wounds such as insecurity, low self-esteem, perfectionism, and trouble connecting with God"--
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