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Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595312578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Siobhan St John
Publisher: Rahgor Publishing & Company
ISBN: 9780997831139
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Scars Left to Heal is Siobhan St. John's memoir that shares her past of dealing with cancer at a very young age and the life experiences that molded and shaped her into the woman she is today. Through her memoir, Siobhan reminds readers that we must always keep our faith and never waiver in the midst of our storms.

Author: Rammy Black (Casey)
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493160311
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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As a young fourteen-year-old African American five-month pregnant girl, I was nearly killed by my Mother. Scars were left behind when my Mother put me in the New York Foundling Hospital for pregnant young girls. I was pretty much on my own. I didnt have a Father figure growing up; because my daddy died the day before I turned four years old. I didnt have a Mother figure; because my mothers alcoholism led her to be abusive to her children, and the ones around her. My Mother didnt teach me about the facts of Life, and my brothers and sisters werent sibling figures; because they were older, and into themselves. Throughout my Trails and Tribulations in my Life, I left Scars behind from my peers and the bullies. During my Journey, I didnt let the hardship of the scars succumb me from my dreams. When you dream~ you imagine. When you imagine ~ you are hoping for a result to happen. I imagined leaving my scars behind; so I could have a better mentality to deal with society emotionally. I imagined becoming a writer, for the World to admire my talents. I was on my own again at the tender age of twenty-two, when my foster/adopted Mother put me out her house, for having sexual relations with her son. I became scared forever from a love affair I wasnt supposed to be involved in. Scars Left Behind, were not only physically on my body; but also in my Heart and Soul. The will power to become a Survivor is a Purpose, I have within my Calling.

Author: Keith Edmonds
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735417202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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In a true story of triumph after trauma, Keith Edmonds recounts his real, raw experiences of child abuse and the devastating impact it had on his life. His unlikely story of redemption will not only inspire us but teach us how to use our scars, emotional or physical, as the fuel to help us reach our full potential.

Author: Caitlin Crews
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373130848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Rafe McFarland, eighth Earl of Pembroke--and twenty-first-century heartthrob--has secretly wed former model and tabloid darling Angel Tilson Angel has long been believed to be in financial difficulty, prompting feverish speculation that her marriage to the tortured billionaire is one of the strictest convenience.... Bearing terrible scars from his time in the military, Rafe rarely leaves his remote Scottish estate. And with the terms of this deal negotiated, possibly behind tightly closed bedroom doors, is Rafe demanding repayment--in kind--from his new wife...'

Author: Gabriela Contartese Tulián
Publisher: Editorial Dunken
ISBN: 9878537722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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When Vera decides to travel from Argentina on holidays with her best friend to Los Angeles, the city of glamour and beauty stereotypes, she is unaware of how her life will turn around as she bumps into a famous Hollywood star, whose life is under the scrutiny of the cameras of paparazzi, so different from hers. Vera has seen Theo on the big screen many times, but little does she know that an unforeseen event will bring the two of them together and so, unexpectedly, love, desire, and passion join their paths facing them with the unavoidable challenge of choosing a different destiny. Scars Behind the Wall is a novel that tells the story of a woman who at an early age is forced to endure a bilateral mastectomy due to breast cancer. This makes Vera radically change the way she sees her body, deciding to turn off her sexuality and sensuality completely and lead her life alone away from men. In addition to stating how we all have some kind of physical or emotional scar, the reader will bear witness to whether Theo will manage with his love to break through the wall Vera has built around her heart, and thus make her rediscover a more compassionate image of her body and everything she has been through. Scars behind the Wall will surprise you, move you, and make you fall in love.

Author: Kayla Cockle
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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the scars left behind is a collection of short poetry and prose highlighting some of the hardships of depression and mental illness. sexual abuse, depression, anxiety & suicide, 'the scars left behind' takes readers in a journey of the bitter moments in life and the road to recovery and healing.

Author: Allison K. Dagney
Publisher: Akd Publishing
ISBN: 9780578809212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Allison has all the appearances of a perfect life. No one would ever guess she's been suffering from emotional torment inside the walls of her own home. Fans of dramatic memoirs will devour this captivating read as they journey with Allison through her confusion, denial, and grief paired with thoughts of death and murder. Can she escape captivity before she loses herself entirely? Discover what happens when Allison realizes she's not the one who's crazy as her husband made her believe. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: ★★★★★ "I was immediately hooked!" ★★★★★ "I couldn't put it down!!!" ★★★★★ "So raw & real. I blew through over 2/3 of it in one sitting." ★★★★★ "Allison K. Dagney does an excellent job bringing the reader into the world of narcissistic abuse." ★★★★★ "This book had me feeling, anger, fear, frustration, excitement and above all, a great sense of compassion." ★★★★★ "A very heart-felt and emotional read." To the outside world, Allison has all the appearances of a perfect life: a handsome husband with a well-paying job, her own polished good looks, and of course, the most well-behaved children in the neighborhood's elite, private school. No one would ever guess she's been suffering from emotional torment inside the walls of her own home. In this memoir, Allison K. Dagney reveals her secret life of living with an emotional abuser, sharing true tales from eighteen years of marital misery. She feared losing everything, unless she could discover-and remedy-the source of her anguish. Grab your copy of When Tears Leave Scars today to experience this journey from trauma to triumph!

Author: Elisa Morgan
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 084996525X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Find beauty and hope by facing and dealing with the messiness of family life. The family is an imperfect institution. Broken people become broken parents who make broken families. But actually, broken is normal and exactly where God wants us. In The Beauty of Broken, Elisa Morgan, one of today’s most respected female Christian leaders, for the first time shares her very personal story of brokenness—from her first family of origin to the second, represented by her husband and two grown children. Over the years, Elisa’s family struggled privately with issues many parents must face, including: alcoholism and drug addiction infertility and adoption teen pregnancy and abortion divorce, homosexuality, and death Each story layers onto the next to reveal the brokenness that comes into our lives without invitation. “We’ve bought into the myth of the perfect family,” says Elisa. “Formulaic promises about the family may have originated in well-meaning intentions, but such thinking isn’t realistic. It’s not helpful. It’s not even kind.” Instead she offers hope in the form of “broken family values” that allow parents to grow and thrive with God. Values such as commitment, humility, relinquishment, and respect carry us to new places of understanding. Owning our brokenness shapes us into God’s best idea for us and enables us to discover the beauty in ourselves and each member of our family.

Author: Laurence Ralph
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672980X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander Jon Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square “black site” show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds—perhaps thousands—of Chicago residents. In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public’s complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protesters, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge’s Area Two and follows the city’s networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay—Ralph’s story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism. Combining insights from fourteen years of research on torture with testimonies of victims of police violence, retired officers, lawyers, and protesters, this is a powerful indictment of police violence and a fierce challenge to all Americans to demand an end to the systems that support it. With compassion and careful skill, Ralph uncovers the tangled connections among law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with us—and lending a voice to those long deceased.