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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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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 WALBass, 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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Summary: A grown woman confronts an older man, her former neighbor, to find out why he abandoned her after they had a sexual relationship when she was thirteen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vision Films 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNADingle, Shannon
Summary: Shannon Dingle has experienced more than her fair share of tragedy and trauma in her life, including surviving sexual abuse and trafficking as a child that left her with lasting disabilities and experiencing faith shifts that put her at odds with the evangelical church that had been her home. Then, in July 2019, Shannon's husband was tragically killed by a rogue wave while the family was on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DINGLE, SHANNON DINMills, Stephen Tukel
Summary: "At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLS, STEPHEN TUKEL MILSummary: Shares twenty stories from diverse survivors of childhood sexual violence, explaining how they overcame the boundaries of stigma and silence to help prevent trauma and loss of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.85 THIAllender, Dan B.
Contents: Pt. 1. The dynamics of abuse. The reality of a war : facing the battle ; The enemy : sin and shame ; Deflection : the clash with contempt ; The war zone : strategies for abuse -- Pt. 2. The damage of abuse. Powerlessness ; Betrayal ; Ambivalence ; Secondary symptoms ; Style of relating - Pt. 3. Prerequisites for growth. The unlikely route to joy ; Honesty; Repentance ; Bold love ; Epilogue :...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NavPress 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8583 ALLSummary: A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COLLewis, Alex
Summary: Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin. Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood, your family, and the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2013
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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 MADStevens, Michelle
Summary: "Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist--an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks Michelle in a cage, tortures her repeatedly, and uses her to quench his voracious and deviant sexual whims....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEVENS, MICHELLE STECutting, Linda Katherine.
Summary: Autobiography of concert pianist Linda Katherine Cutting, discussing her experiences as an incest survivor and how she found healing through her playing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CuttiPlymale, Stephanie Thornton
Summary: The founder of the Heritage Home Foundation nonprofit documents her secret abuse-marked childhood in and out of foster care and what she discovered while investigating the story of her mother's own harrowing past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLYMALE, STEPHANIE THORNTON PLYMurphy, Kimberly Shannon
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURPHY, KIMBERLY SHANNON MURSummary: François Ozon's gripping drama follows three men who band together to dismantle the code of silence that continues to protect a priest who abused them decades ago. Based on events from the 2019 conviction of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon for concealing the conduct of Father Bernard Preynat, the film compassionately illustrates the varying effects of trauma on survivors and their families...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BYDe Milly, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1999
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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 KAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 KAHFeehan, Christine
Summary: Torpedo Ink is Aleksei 'Absinthe' Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family - his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEHarrison, Rachel
Summary: "A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive novel from the author of Cackle and The Return. Rory Morris isn't thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby's father, and needs support, so Rory returns to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARWalker, Alice
Summary: Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. This classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALForbes, Lisa
Summary: "Riveting, honest, and raw, I Can Take It From Here recounts Lisa Forbes's harrowing journey into darkness -- including a fourteen-year-long stint in a maximum-security prison -- and her fierce resolve to understand the effects of the trauma she endured, to take personal responsibility for her actions, and to ensure that her history does not dictate her destiny. The youngest of six children,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press/Truth to Power Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORBES, LISA FORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FORBES FORBarry, Sebastian
Summary: "Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019