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2) La ternera
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 661
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
A single gesture was enough to turn her into a calf. Small, so much that she does not know that she has been placed in a place that does not belong to her. Abyss in hers her eyes of the sea and her gaze full of amazement. Her house has become without a place. Her neighbor's house - her friend's house - hers has made her a meat for the first time, without being old enough for it. Now everything is loneliness.
Un solo gesto bast̤ para hacer de ella...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Face on the Milk Carton meets The Impossible Knife of Memory in this ripped-from-the-headlines novel that explores the power of being an ally—and a friend—when a kidnapped boy returns to his hometown.
Sam Walsh had been missing for three years. His older sister, Beth, thought he was dead. His childhood friend Josh thought it was all his fault. They were the last two people to see him alive.
Until now....
Sam Walsh had been missing for three years. His older sister, Beth, thought he was dead. His childhood friend Josh thought it was all his fault. They were the last two people to see him alive.
Until now....
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on her way to the school bus in 1991. In 2009, she was found. For eighteen years she had lived in an outbuilding on the property of a registered sex offender named Philip Garrido, just two hours away from her childhood home Kept in complete isolation, she was raped by Garrido, who fathered her two daughters.-- Cover, p. [4]
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking book, leading psychologist Dr. Beverly Engel reveals the truth about how childhood sexual abuse affects victims, dispels common myths surrounding this type of abuse, explains the nuances behind the emotion of shame, and teaches readers how to develop more self-awareness about how shame has manifested in their lives along with powerful and effective shame-reduction strategies"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own. When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing for more than eighteen years, held captive by Philip...
11) Caprice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house in Baltimore where it all happened--Caprice has never...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
English
Description
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions of the boy's identity comes up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
13) Mysterious skin
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"At the age of eight, , Kansas youngsters Neil and Brian played on the same little league baseball team. Now ten years later, the two boys couldn't be more different. Neil is a charismatic but emotionally aloof male hustler while Brian is a nervous introvert obsessed with the idea that he has been abducted by a UFO. When the boys' parallel lives inevitably intersect, the pair unearth dark, repressed secrets on a harrowing and unforgettable journey...
Author
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated...
16) The incest diary
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Anonymous memoir of a daughter's abuse by, and attachment to, her father"--
17) Perfect match
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jodi Picoult is a #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have been adapted for both the small and silver screen. In Perfect Match, she spins a story of a mother who does the unthinkable to protect her child. Lines blur when assistant DA Nina Frost learns that her five-year-old son Nathaniel was sexually abused by a priest. She takes the law into her own hands, killing the man accused. But then details surface clearing the priest and putting...
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