Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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By Ito, Tom1995., 5-8, Lucent Books Call No: FAM 362.7 6 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Lucent overview seriesSummary Note: Discusses many aspects of child abuse, showing how the protection of children is one of society's greatest challenges.
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c1992., Young Adult, F. Watts Call No: FAM 362.7 6 0973 Edition: Rev. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Investigates the various forms of child abuse and the sources of help that are available for victims and abusers.
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1989., 8.9; Young Adult, Chelsea House Call No: FAM 362.7 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Encyclopedia of healthSummary Note: Discusses the forms of child abuse, its historical and cultural context, and society's methods of dealing with it.
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c1994., Young Adult, Greenhaven Press Call No: FAM 362.7 6 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Opposing viewpoints seriesSummary Note: Presents opposing viewpoints concerning issues related to child abuse, including its causes, how widespread it is, and how the legal system should respond to it.
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c1991., A. de Gruyter Call No: FAM 362.82 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Social institutions and social change
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c1992., Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC ALL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ruth Ann Boatwright, a South Carolina bastard, tells her life with her family and the emotional and physical violence she experiences.
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c2002., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FIC ROB Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Seth Quinn returns from Europe a successful painter to settle down once again in the seaside town of St. Christopher, Maryland, and becomes interested in local florist Dru Whitcomb, but the course of true love does not run true when their pasts conspire to tear them apart.
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-- Do you not dare read this, Missus Dunphrey2004, c1996., 2.8; 5-8, Simon Pulse Call No: G HAD Edition: Simon Pulse ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father abandons her and her brother, and her mother follows him.
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2002., Adult, Ace Books Call No: ROM BRI Edition: Ace mass-market ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ward, having pretended to be dimwitted for years in order to avoid the abuse of his father, has trouble convincing his relatives and the local population that he is bright enough to rule after his father dies and sets out to make himself a war hero, not realizing he has fallen into a trap laid by traitor who wants the magical dragon bones that lie beneath Hurog Keep.
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[2019]., Adult, Thomas & Mercer Call No: TRUC 364.152 3 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother's dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders. Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor's story of absolute evil--and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today--loving, loved, and moving on." --
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20190910., Adults, Scribner Book Company Call No: FIC KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.” In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.
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p1998., Adults, Random House Audiobooks Call No: AUD STE Edition: Abridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
Includes Additional InfoSummary Note: A harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood abuse, and one woman's unbreakable spirit.
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p2005., Adults, Simon & Schuster Audio Call No: AUD CLA Edition: Abridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity of their names. To erase Liza's past, her adoptive parents change her name to Celia. Her peace of mind later in her life is shattered when her new husband, Alex Nolan, surprises her with a gift -- the house in Mendham, New Jersey, where she killed her mother. On the day they move in, they find the words little lizzie's place -- beware painted on the lawn, splotches of red paint all over the house, and a skull and crossbones carved into the door. More and more, there are signs that someone in the community knows Celia's true identity.
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[2022]., Adults, Thomas Nelson Call No: FIC MAR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Murphy Shepherd novel Volume: #3Summary Note: When his beloved mentor and friend disappears without a trace, Murphy Shepherd, who lives by the mantra that love always shows up, engages in a cat-and-mouse game that tests him both physically and mentally at each turn.
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c1998., Adult, W. Morrow Call No: FIC SHE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three beautiful young women, Ashley, Toni, and Alette, are linked to a rash of brutal murders throughout the U.S. and Canada, and it is not long before police come to the horrifying conclusion that they are dealing with one killer who has multiple personalities.
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2019., Adults, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC ROB Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm -- and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt across the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. As his father's violent, controlling rages -- and his mother's complicity -- become more and more oppressive, Zane counts the years, months, days until he can escape. He looks out for little Britt, warning her: Be smart; Be careful. In fear for his very life, he plays along with the insidious lie that everything is fine, while scribbling his real thoughts in a secret journal he must carefully hide away. When one brutal, shattering night finally reveals cracks in the façade, Zane begins to understand that some people are willing to face the truth, even when it hurts. As he grows into manhood and builds a new kind of family, he will find that while the darkness of his past may always shadow him, it will also show him what is necessary for good to triumph -- and give him strength to draw on when he once again must stand up and defend himself and the ones he loves ..." --
