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"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...
4) Gossamer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
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Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Opens doors to richer, more connected relationships by naming the elephant in the room 'Childhood Emotional Neglect'" (Harville Hendrix, PhD & Helen Lakelly Hunt, PhD, authors of the New York Times bestseller Getting the Love You Want ). Since the publication of Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect , many thousands of people have learned that invisible Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN, has been weighing on them their entire...
6) Back roads
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Harley Altmyer, left to raise his three younger sisters when his once-devoted mother is sent to prison, is struggling along just fine until he meets and becomes obsessed with the sexy, melancholic mother of two who lives down the road.
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New Growth Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Jimmy" joined the church a year ago. Before long, he volunteered to teach a Sunday School class and got to know eight-year-old "Peter." Things started innocently. A hug at the end of class. Gifts for Peter. Lots of extra attention. And then it happened. Jimmy took advantage of Peter. In On Guard , Deepak Reju examines why child predators target churches and offers eleven straightforward strategies to protect children from abuse and to help young...
11) Salt dancers
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1995
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English
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Julia, unmarried, pregnant, and 41-years-old, returns to Spokane and to her father whom she hasn't seen in twenty-three years. Julia is determined to understand her own past before her child is born.
12) Orbiting Jupiter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Begin to heal and recover from your narcissistic mother
As the daughter of a mother with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), healing from childhood narcissistic abuse begins by understanding what happened to you and how it affects your life as an adult. This workbook helps you process these difficult emotions and experiences so you can recover from trauma and break the cycle of narcissistic abuse.
• An intro to NPD-Get a clear explanation...
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Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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This informative guide helps you identify and heal from childhood emotional neglect so you can be more connected and emotionally present in your life. Do you sometimes feel like you're just going through the motions in life? Do you often act like you're fine when you secretly feel lonely and disconnected? Perhaps you have a good life and yet somehow it's not enough to make you happy. Or perhaps you drink too much, eat too much, or risk too much in...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
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A study of the child welfare system in the United States, focusing on the case of David Edwards, an abused infant who was killed by his mother, and arguing that the system is equally responsible for the baby's death and desperately in need of reform.
16) Lila
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2014
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English
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Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church -- the only available shelter from the rain -- and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and...
17) Our Gracie Aunt
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Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children/Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their mother's sister because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
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Abbey Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Sometimes life just seems to get the best of us. The wounds can cut very deep on occasion: addiction, divorce, grief, feeling unloved and unwanted, and so many others. And the scars may never entirely heal. However, our Christian faith urges us to recall that Jesus rose from the tomb with visible but transformed wounds, demonstrating that nothing in life is wasted in the economy of God's mercy. Getting Through the Hurt offers timely reflections on...
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