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Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up the eldest daughter in a large, highly controlled, fundamentalist Christian household, Jessica Willis was groomed to perform, and to conform to her father's disturbing and chaotic teachings. Cut off from anything unapproved by her father, Jessica was persistently curious about the outside world, always wondering what was normal or potentially dangerous about her upbringing. When the Willis family rocketed into fame after their appearances...
Author
Publisher
Split/Lip Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In her fiercely beautiful memoir, Jeannine Ouellette recollects fragments of her life and arranges them elliptically to witness each piece as torn and whole, as something more than itself. Caught between the dramatic landscapes of Lake Superior and Casper Mountain, between her stepfather's groping and her mother's erratic behavior, Ouellette lives for the day she can become a mother herself and create her own sheltering family. But she cannot know...
3) The apology
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This book, The Apology, written by Eve from her father's point of view in the words she longed to hear attempts to transform the abuse she suffered, with unflinching truthfulness, compassion, and a expansive vision for the future. Through The Apology Eve has set out to provide a new way for herself and a possible road for others, so that survivors of abuse may finally imagine how to be free. In it, she grapples with questions she has sought answers...
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.
5) 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...
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