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The Convent is the shocking true story of Marie Hargreaves, the girl who survived an evil nun’s care home from hell. When a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in 1959, her dad tells her she is going on holiday. But little does she know she will not see her home again for four...

Just A Girl is the shocking true story of Scarlett Jones, who was abused by her loved ones, groomed and trafficked by a gang, all the while fearing for her life. I was a good girl who was just 'helping Daddy' in the hell that I called home. Scarlett is just 8 years old when the horrific abuse at...

This book is intended to transform your tears to champagne. The author understands that tears are bitter and salty, but with a change of attitude and positive outlook on life one can change the bitter tears to champagne.

A book that challenges our notions of family honour and morality Sometime, somewhere, the conspiracy of silence around Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Indian homes had to be shattered. This path-breaking book'the first of its kind in the country and subcontinent'attempts to give that...

An unhealthy obsession and a dark secret spell trouble for Louise in a disturbing case... A baby is named ‘Marilyn’ after the Hollywood legend, Norma Jean. Marilyn inherits her parents’ fascination for Marilyn Monroe and develops an obsession with her alter-ego. She wears red lipstick and...

DON'T SAY A WORD is the empowering memoir of Kate Marshall, a mother of four from Manchester. Ripped from her many brothers and sisters at the age of eight, Kate's mother uproots her to a new life in which love and safety are not priorities. With little explanation, Kate is thrown into a world of chaos and neglect, a world which her Uncle Phil exploits through a campaign of shocking abuse over many years.

Todo el país se volcó con Jonathan Conyers después de que su inspiradora historia se volvió viral, recaudó millones en donaciones para la Brooklyn Debate League (Liga de Debate de Brooklyn), y conquistó el corazón de Estados Unidos. El niño que llegó a la escuela con dificultades para leer terminó convirtiéndose en la revelación de su equipo de debate del bachillerato gracias a una amistad que formó con su entrenador de debate, una persona transgénero, que marcó su vida para siempre.

When Vicky was growing up she idolised her big brother David. Their mother worshipped the ground he walked on and as far as she was concerned, David could do no wrong. But then he betrayed little Vicky in the most shocking way imaginable. David began raping his sister. Vicky's happy home life was brutally twisted into a nightmare—he whispered threats into her ear over the kitchen table and she was crippled with fear about what he would do next. Then, at just twelve years old, Vicky discovered she was pregnant with her brother's baby.

Old Before Their Time is the deeply personal story of a thirty-five-year scientific investigation of the effects of childhood sexual abuse on child development and adult outcomes. The startling conclusion is that early childhood trauma accelerates biological aging of the body and the mind. The...

Circling the Wagons is a raw, courageous memoir that chronicles one woman’s journey to reclaim her life after surviving intra-familial childhood sexual abuse. After decades of silence, the author breaks that silence to tell the story she once could not, offering truth, validation, and hope to survivors everywhere, without oversharing. Written primarily for fellow survivors of childhood trauma, the book also speaks to friends, family members, and professionals seeking to better understand and support them.

A dramatic and terrifying memoir of a ‘catfish’ scenario – when a woman meets a man online but nothing is what it seems. 25-year-old Megan Henley put her five-year-old daughter to bed one evening and switched on her laptop. A Facebook ‘friend request’ seemed to be genuine. There were a...

Este libro es una invitación a evaluar la forma en la que estamos criándolos, a modificar nuestras creencias, la manera de interactuar, vincularnos y educarlos en favor de su cuidado. Tras haber diagnosticado y acompañado en sus procesos de sanación a cientos de víctimas infantiles, les comparto información, herramientas y técnicas para desarrollar habilidades que les permitan, a ustedes y a sus hijos, identificar y prevenir la VSI.

'They made me do it, it wasn't my fault!' When three brothers come to live with Maggie, she knows that it's going to be challenging. They are all already struggling with rejection after their dad abandoned them, their mum having died several years before. While four-year-old Billy is a delight...

Diego's Story is the thirteenth instalment in the popular Thrown Away Children series. Diego and his siblings live in desperate poverty, but nobody seems to notice or care as they come close to starving, scouring food banks to survive. But he’s wrong – someone has noticed him. County Lines...

Raw and riveting, Girl, Groomed is seasoned psychotherapist Carol Odell’s evolving story of deepening her understanding of how the crisis she blindly imposes on her marriage is rooted in her own history of sexual abuse and violence at the hands of a predatory horse trainer who, for far too much of her young life, held all the reins. Chapters toggle back and forth between scenes of her childhood growing up jumping horses on the show circuit in Virginia and the therapy sessions she later undergoes as an adult sitting in “the other chair.”

Un bébé décédé. Une mère suspectée. Aline pensait que la naissance de son fils serait le point de départ d'une vie nouvelle, une chance de créer la famille aimante et stable qu'elle n'a jamais eue. Mais dès les premiers jours, la maternité prend un tournant chaotique bien loin de...

El abuso sexual infantil, la violencia intrafamiliar y la violencia de género constituyen realidades dolorosas que marcan, de una u otra forma, la vida de los seres humanos que han tenido el infortunio de sufrir estas experiencias. Uno de los aspectos más lamentables relacionado con esta...

Wenn man von Kindesmissbrauch hört, fragt man sich zuerst, was einen Erwachsenen dazu bewegt, dies einem Kind anzutun. Die Gefühle der erlebten Momente aus der Perspektive des Opfers zu spüren, sich die Angst, Verzweiflung und die Scham dieser Momente vorzustellen, sind fast unmöglich. Sie sind etwas, das die meisten Menschen verdrängen, aus Angst davor, zu erfahren, was ein Kind in diesen Momenten der Machtlosigkeit empfindet. Ausgeliefert und allein ohne die Hilfe einer geliebten Person, oder oft sogar in dieser Situation mit einem nahestehenden Menschen.

Libro que muestra la dimensión, gravedad, causas y consecuencias de los golpes al educar, al mismo tiempo que proporciona medidas para la prevención, protección y el cuidado infantil. Brinda más de 100 métodos pedagógicos positivos para erradicar el maltrato en la educación y romper así...

La niña liberada. Violencia sexual y poder es un testimonio sobre el abuso sexual sufrido por la autora en su infancia de parte de su propio padre, un militante del Partido Comunista que en la calle luchaba contra la dictadura de Pinochet, pero en casa era abusivo e irresponsable, todo esto en...