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Abused children California Daly City Biography Abusive mothers Family relationships California Daly City Adult child abuse victims United States Biography Aged Counseling of Aging Health aspects Children of alcoholics California Daly City Biography Family violence California Daly City Foster home care California Case studies Pelzer, David J Women Family relationshipsSummary: When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now under the control of his abusive mother, Langston must take his future into his own hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KNUPelzer, Richard B.
Summary: "Richard Pelzer tells the courageous and moving story of his abusive childhood. From tormenting his brother David to becoming himself the focus of his mother's wrath to his ultimate liberation - here is a horrifying glimpse at what existed behind closed doors in the Pelzer home"--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.76 PELPelzer, David J.
Summary: In this sequel to A Child Called "It" answers will be exposed and new adventures revealed in this compelling story of his life as an adolescent. Now considered and F-child--a foster child--young David experiences the instability of moving in and out of five different homes. Those who feel that all foster kids are trouble--and unworthy of being loved just because they are not part of a real...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PELZER, DAVE PELPelzer, David J.
Summary: [This book] is [an] account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games - games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1995
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Summary: "All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self reliance. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality, denying him food and clothing, torturing him in any way...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.76 PELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PELZER, DAVE PELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B Pelzer PelTaylor, Clementine
Summary: "Aisling and Maya's connection is unexpected. Maya has recently returned to the University of Edinburgh for her second year, confident in her place there and in her first proper relationship with her childhood best friend, Ethan. Finally, she is one of them, those happy couples, self-satisfied in the knowledge that they are one half of something solid. Aisling is a first-year student from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYBrockes, Emma.
Summary: Documents the author's investigation into a shattering childhood trauma in South Africa, tracing the discovery of her grandfather's abuse of her mother, which compelled her mother's unsuccessful attempt to kill him before fleeing the country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCKES, PAULINE DULCIE BROSummary: Verbal attacks, death threats, duping them into signing away property, monitoring phone calls so other family members never find out what's going onin this program four women discuss the abuse they endured while living with their adult sons. Anne reveals what it's like to obtain a restraining order against her own child yet still want him to be a part of her life, and Rita wishes her son would...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011