St. Clair, Chip.
Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCWebb, Jonice
Summary: In 2012, Dr. Jonice Webb introduced the invaluable concept of Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) to the world. In this book, Dr. Webb applies the tools to the effects that CEN has on marriages, parenting, and relationships with emotionally neglectful parents. Sometimes, talking directly about CEN with your partner, parents, or children can be remarkably healing, and Dr. Webb covers exactly how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 WEBBerman, Ella
Summary: "A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a charming, manipulative film director and the moment when she decides his time for winning is over. At the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, teen star Grace Turner disappeared. Now, tentatively sober and surprisingly numb, Grace is back in Los Angeles after her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERWebb, Jonice
Summary: "This book is not about what happened to you as a child; it's about what failed to happen for you as a child. It's an extremely subtle, almost invisible factor called emotional neglect, and it disrupts one's life in untold ways. Psychologist Jonice Webb, PhD shows how emotional neglect in childhood has an insidious effect on us as adults, causing us to struggle with self-discipline and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Publishing 2019
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Summary: Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what's wrong with them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through Nora's body. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIChase, Truddi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHASE, TRUDI CHAMiller, Alice.
Contents: The drama of the gifted child and how we became psychotherapists -- Depression and grandiosity: two related forms of denial -- The vicious circle of contempt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 MILBlack, Justin
Summary: In a stark and wholehearted true story that shares how two individuals on separate paths found each other, Alexis and Justin merge their course into one full of hope and purpose. And hand-inhand, with a desire to help others, they learned to reject the abusive patterns of their poast, thereby intentionally breaking the cycle of generational violence and unhealthy behaviors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Global Perspectives Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation BlackDowd, Michelle
Summary: "A memoir of the author's experience growing up in an apocalyptic cult, with an emphasis on how understanding the natural world was her key to escape and survival"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOWD, MICHELLE DOWRoberts, Nora
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm -- and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt across the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Roberts 2019Roberts, Nora
Summary: Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt across the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: "When bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher returns to Salt Lake City to settle his estranged mother's estate, a young woman arrives looking for her birth mother who lived with Jacob's family during her pregnancy. They discover a diary written by Noel and begin a quest to find her, reconcile their pasts and rewrite their futures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVAMadden, Amy.
Summary: The author describes how she survived being abused by her stepfather and learned to let go of her anger towards her mother and herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Syren Book Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.764 MADKahn, Laurie
Summary: "For three decades, Laurie Kahn has treated clients who were abused as children? People who were injured by someone whom they believed to be trustworthy, someone who professed to love them. Their abusers? A father, stepfather, priest, coach, babysitter, aunt, neighbor? Often were people who inhabited their daily lives. Love is why they come to therapy. Love is what they want, and love is what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 KAHLinney, Laura
Summary: Two adult children of an elderly, cantankerous man must come together to care for their father despite that fact they have not spoken to him or each other in years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SAVMcCrae, Shane
Summary: "An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCRAE, SHANE MCCBass, Ellen.
Summary: First published in 1988, the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse has been completely revised, updated, and expanded for its 20th Anniversary edition. Considered "a classic" and "the bible of healing from child sexual abuse," this inspiring, comprehensive and compassionate guide provides a map of support of the healing journey and a lifeline for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Courage to Heal Press 2015
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Means, Brittany
Summary: "I can't write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. That's not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car was normal. Better, it was comfy and fun. I loved my bed made of clothes inside a trash bag that I sank into slowly like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family movie... I loved the motels and their swimming pools and trashy daytime TV channels......
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEANS, BRITTANY MEAGil, Teresa
Summary: This book highlights the resilient capacities of mothers who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and gives them the opportunity to break their silence, share their struggles, and give voice to their experiences, pains, and triumphs. By offering their stories, Teresa Gil sheds light on the challenges of mothering after childhood sexual abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 GILWalker, Alice
Summary: Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC WALRoss, Tracy.
Summary: The author explains how her love for the outdoors--and her journeys to natural landscapes in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska--became her only source of redemption after suffering sexual abuse from her stepfather for more than six years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSS, TRACY ROSSKent, Christobel
Summary: Bridget has a secret--one she keeps from everyone, even her husband. One that threatens to explode when her childhood music teacher, Carmichael, walks into her dress shop. With him is a young girl on the cusp of adulthood, fresh-faced and pretty. She reminds Bridget of herself at that age, naïve and vulnerable. Bridget wants him away--away from her, away from that girl. But Carmichael won't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019