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It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl called Keeley who’s run away...

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend. Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand...

'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.' This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again. Within days of spending their first evening...

Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate. Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother’s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie’s loving care. Rosie is supposed...

Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America. When Tanya Selvaratnam met then New York State Attorney...

In the spirit of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Margaret Kimball’s AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS begins in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother’s...

In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter’s love for her...

When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be brought to Cathy with a police escort as it’s...

‘Each time my mother laid a finger on me… it was another step into the jaws of hell. Her abuse, more so than any other, destroyed me. It was the ultimate betrayal.’ Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant...

Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband and eldest son. Struggling to cope, she puts Jackson into foster care. Cathy, his carer, encourages Jackson to talk about what has happened to his family, but...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A heartbreaking memoir from a girl who escaped county line trafficking only to become prey to other abusers… Emily has always felt like an outsider, so when a family friend takes her under his wing she is delighted. But soon it becomes clear that his motives...

Genitori che si lamentano di una generazione arresa e senza passioni, che sembra aver perso anche la capacità di stupirsi. Come se questo mondo non l'avessero creato proprio loro. Un pamphlet severo ma anche pieno di speranza, con cui Crepet ribadisce tenacemente che educare significa soprattutto preparare le nuove generazioni alle difficili, ma anche stimolanti, sfide del futuro.

Nichts konfrontiert uns schneller und stärker mit den Konflikten der Herkunftsfamilie als die Begleitung der eigenen Kinder, insbesondere in stressigen Situationen. Carina Thiemann, systemische Familientherapeutin und Gründerin des erfolgreichen Instagramkanals und Unternehmens "Weltvonunten", hilft Eltern diesen Kreislauf zu durchbrechen und für den eigenen Nachwuchs eine unbeschwerte und liebevolle Kindheit zu gestalten.

În această carte, Alexandra Mit ne deschide ușa către o poveste personală complexă, sinceră și plină de vulnerabilitate, în care explorează alegerile, trădările și lecțiile dintr-o relație marcată de intensitate și provocări. Prin experiențele ei de iubire, decepție și renaștere, autoarea scoate la lumină realități incomode, dar și puterea unei mame de a-și proteja copilul și de a-și regăsi drumul într-o lume în care încrederea a fost zdruncinată.

Trixia Valle, experta y pionera en tratar el tema del acoso, ha trabajado desde hace más de una década para cimentar las bases de esta fórmula antibullying que explica en este nuevo libro: lenguaje transformador + verdadera inclusión + tolerancia positiva = paz efectiva. Se trata de una mezcla que armoniza tres ingredientes sustanciales para erradicar la violencia de nuestra sociedad. Trixia nos invita en esta obra a aplicar la fórmula en las aulas, los hogares, el trabajo y en cualquier comunidad virtual o física, para convertir el ambiente más hostil en un remanso de paz efectiva.

What is the aftermath of sexual abuse? A shattered sense of self, ruptured relationships, and deserted dreams. Join Innocence on her journey as she walks wounded, turns wounds to wisdom, and resurrects dreams.

To others, Dr. Lawrence Mieczkowski (Dr. Mitch) was a successful physician, caring father, and good husband—but inwardly, he was suffering from deep despair. When the 1999 Columbine shootings triggered a descent into near madness, he lost his ability to fight off the demons dragging him further into the darkness of depression and hopelessness. Something had to be done.

Libérate de las personas tóxicas de tu vida: ¡la negatividad y la manipulación terminan aquí! Este es el camino para construir la vida que mereces: ¿Sientes que caminas constantemente sobre cáscaras de huevo, intentando mantener la paz, preocupado de que tu próxima acción haga explotar —otra vez— a ese amigo o familiar tóxico? ¿Te cuestionas qué es real y qué no, sintiéndote confundido, perdido y cada vez más lejos de tus sueños? Si tu vida está rodeada de negatividad y creencias limitantes que no reflejan quién eres, no estás solo.

În această carte, Alexandra Mit ne deschide ușa către o poveste personală complexă, sinceră și plină de vulnerabilitate, în care explorează alegerile, trădările și lecțiile dintr-o relație marcată de intensitate și provocări. Prin experiențele ei de iubire, decepție și renaștere, autoarea scoate la lumină realități incomode, dar și puterea unei mame de a-și proteja copilul și de a-și regăsi drumul într-o lume în care încrederea a fost zdruncinată.

اخرج واعثر عن الحب هو دليل للرحلة التي يجب على أي شخص يغادر علاقة مسيئة أن يقوم بها، في ثلاث مراحل — فهم (الأسباب التي تجعلنا نقع في سوء المعاملة ولماذا نتسامح معها)، والخروج (الهروب، وكسر الحلقة، والتوصل إلى حل). الابتعاد والحصول على الحب (البحث عن الإغلاق واستعادة الثقة والحب في الذات).