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Family violence United States Family violence United States Case studies Feminists United States History Marital violence United States Modernism (Literature) Poor whites Southern States Social conditions Sundberg, Kelly Victims of family violence Victims of family violence United States Women journalists Texas BiographyBancroft, Lundy.
Summary: In this book, domestic violence expert Lundy Bancroft uses his perspective as a therapist for abusive and controlling men to help women, their children, and other family members who have been touched by abuse understand why abusers behave the way they do and what can be done about it. Bancroft teaches women how to survive and improve an abusive relationship; how to determine how dangerous an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.82 BanSnyder, Rachel Louise
Summary: "An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors. We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 SNYSundberg, Kelly
Summary: "In this brave and beautiful memoir...a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse--examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship, why she endured years of physical and emotional pain, and how she eventually broke free."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SUNDBERG, KELLY SUNSt. Clair, Chip.
Summary: Describes the author's early experiences of abuse at the hands of Michael Grant, the man he thought to be his father, how he eventually turned the man over to the police, and his discovery that Grant was a wanted child murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCMills, Linda G.
Summary: Mills challenges the orthodoxies surrounding intimate abuse. She reveals that many couples don't want to end their relationships-- instead, they're looking for tools that will help stop the abuse, and argues for a comprehensive approach to prevention that encourages victims to overcome their shame and get the help they need.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 MILSafran, Joshua.
Summary: Tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of Safran's childhood chasing the perfect life off the grid--and how he and his mother survived the imperfect one they found instead. More than just a coming-of age story, "Free Spirit" is a journey of the spirit, as Safran reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAFRAN, JOSHUA SAFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.461 SAFBrewster, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8 BRETrethewey, Natasha D.
Summary: "A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy."--Dust jacket. At nineteen Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRETHEWEY, NATASHA D. TRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B TRETHEWAY TRESteiner, Leslie Morgan.
Summary: Takes you inside the violent, devastating world of abusive love. Conor said love and rage danced intimately together in his psyche. Why didn't Leslie leave? Has she fallen into love-- or into a psychological trap?
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 Steiner 2008Beasley, Gertrude
Summary: "Originally published in Paris in 1925, My First Thirty Years is a brutally honest memoir by Gertrude Beasley, who grew up in poverty in rural Texas and suffered unthinkable emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of her family. The themes in this book are still relevant to readers today, telling the story of a woman who grew up in brutal circumstances, but who ultimately found a way out....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021