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A Child Called 'It' : One Child's Courage to Survive
David J. Pelzer, Dave Pelzer
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9.6 |
David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It." T
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The Lost Boy : A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
Dave Pelzer, David J. Pelzer
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Current:
9.5 |
"The Lost Boy" is the harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story of a boy's journey through the foster-care system in search of a family to love. This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to "A Child Called "It". The Lost Boy" is Pelzer'
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A Man Named Dave : A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
David J. Pelzer, Dave Pelzer
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Current:
9.5 |
The third tale in David Pelzer's autobiographical trilogy, A Man Named Dave is an inspiring story of terror, recovery, and hope experienced by the author throughout his life. Known for his work as a child abuse advocate, Pelzer has b
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Toxic Parents : Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
Susan Forward, Craig Buck
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Current:
9.4 |
All parents fall short from time to time. But Susan Forward pulls no punches when it comes to those whose deficiencies cripple their children emotionally. Her brisk, unreserved guide to overcoming the stultifying agony of parental manipulat
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Allies in Healing : When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused As a Child, a Support Book
Laura Davis
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Current:
9.3 |
Filled with information, support, and guidance, here is the eagerly awaited book that answers the most important questions asked by partners of survivors of child sexual abuse. Laura Davis, the coauthor of the bestselling The Courage to Hea
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Struggle for Intimacy
Janet Geringer Wotitiz, Janet Geringer Woititz
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Current:
9.2 |
The struggle for intimacy is part of a life-long process for those who have grown up with alcoholism or dysfunction in the home. To be intimate, to be close, to be vulnerable, contradicts all the survival skills learned by Children of Alcoh
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The Sexual Healing Journey : A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Wendy Maltz, Carol Arian (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.1 |
A step-by-step guide to recovery from sexual abuse offers first-person accounts of women and men at every stage of the sexual healing journey and includes exercises and techniques for survivors. Reprint. $25,000 ad/promo. First serial,.
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When Rabbit Howls
Truddi Chase
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Current:
9.1 |
To escape the horror of violent abuse, the two-year-old child "went to sleep" and created the inner world of "the Troops," the 92 voices that shielded her from pain, but that she didn't know existed until adulthood. This is a journey throug
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When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships
Neil S., Ph.D. Jacobson, John Mordechai Gottman
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Current:
9.1 |
When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships by Neil Jacobson and John Gottman, is based on a decade of research with more than 200 couples in dangerous relationships. Jacobson and Gottman, professors at the
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Ghosts from the Nursery : Tracing the Roots of Violence
Robin Karr-Morse
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Current:
9.1 |
Hardly a week goes by without a headline screaming out the details of another heinous crime committed by an adolescent or young child. A 14-year-old massacres his classmates at a school prayer circle, two even younger boys fire into a crowd
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Legacy of the Heart : The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood
Wayne Muller
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Current:
9.0 |
A gentle, entirely new approach to uncovering a source of spiritual strength hidden in the scars of childhood. Wayne Muller brings together the teachings of many different religions and spiritual traditions in a healing program that will ap
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Outgrowing the Pain : A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children
Eliana Gil
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Current:
8.9 |
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Victims No Longer : Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse
Mike Lew, Ellen Bass
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Current:
8.8 |
For the millions of men who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse and for all those who wish to help them, this work offers new hope, understanding, and essential advice. Read m
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Emotional Incest Syndrome : What to Do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
Dr. Patricia Love
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Current:
8.7 |
From Dr. Patricia Love, a ground-breaking work that identifies, explores and treats the harmful effects that emotionally and psychologically invasive parents have on their children, and provides a program for overcoming the chronic problems
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Ghosts in the Bedroom : A Guide for Partners of Incest Survivors
Ken Graber
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Current:
8.5 |
While it is important for abuse survivors to get help, all too often their partners are forgotten. Ken Graber's book is for those forgotten victims whose lives have also been affected by the sexual abuse their partners have suffered.
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Adult Children of Abusive Parents : A Healing Program for Those Who Have Been Physically, Sexually, or Emotionally Abused
Steven Farmer
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Current:
8.5 |
The violent forms of child abuse that make headlines are not the only ones that leave lifelong scars. A child who grows up in an unstable environment where empathy, clear boundaries and trust are lacking, can end up living a ravaged adultho
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Ghost Girl : The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her
Torey L. Hayden
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Current:
8.5 |
Recounting her experiences with Jadie, a student in her class, a teacher describes how she persuaded Jadie to break her silence and reveal the family secrets that were plaguing her. By the author of One Child. Reprint. PW.
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Outgrowing the Pain Together : A Book for Spouses and Partners of Adults Abuse As Children
Eliana, Phd Gil
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Current:
8.5 |
A guide to overcoming childhood abuse for couples guides the partners into understanding what adult survivors go through, offering a series of self-help exercises. Read moremore]
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What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding
Thomas Hill, Patrick Merrell (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.4 |
A humorous, tongue-in-cheek guide for fathers-to-be discusses each month of pregnancy and features such sections as "What Your Wife Will Be Complaining About" and "What to Ask Your Wife to Show You Are Concerned." Original. more]
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The New Father : A Dad's Guide to the First Year
Armin A. Brott
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Current:
8.4 |
Fathers have long played second banana to mothers in parenting books, but Armin A. Brott, author of The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-to-Be and more]
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The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood
Jesse Green
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Current:
8.2 |
Journalist Jesse Green's delightful memoir makes it quite clear that the pleasures and perils of parenting are always the same--even for a gay 37-year-old man who stumbles into it by falling in love with a person who has an adopted son. As
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Raising a Modern Day Knight
Robert Lewis, Stu Weber
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Current:
8.1 |
What does it mean to be a man? Moreover, how does a father instill these qualities in his son? By Raising a Modern-Day Knight. Beginning with a biblical perspective of manhood, author-pastor Robert Lewis shares a unique approach to s
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Wisdom of Our Fathers : Timeless Life Lessons on Health, Wealth, God, Golf, Fear, Fishing, Sex, Serenity, Laughter, and Hope
Joe Kita, Lam Kam Chuen
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Current:
8.1 |
Have you ever looked back on an experience and thought, had I only known, it would all have turned out differently? In this inspiring book of life lessons, journalist Joe Kita asked men in their autumn years what they wish they had known 30
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How to Father a Successful Daughter
Nicky Marone
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Current:
8.1 |
HOW TO FATHER A SUCCESSFUL DAUGHTER reveals, step by compassionate step, how a father can provice high-quality parenting for his daughter, promote self-esteem and confidence that will take her through her adult years, and offer the first --
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Raising a Son : Parents and the Making of a Healthy Man
Jeanne Elium, Don Elium
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Current:
7.9 |
One of the few parenting books that husbands steal from their wives, this is the straightforward, easy-to-read family bookshelf standard. The Eliums continue to chart new territory with this new, updated, expanded and revised edition. Look
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A Father's Legacy : Your Life Story in Your Own Words
Sanford L. Braver, Diane O'Connell
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Current:
7.9 |
A Lasting Heritage for your Children. The title is: A Father's Legacy. Brown cover with a black and white picture, fishing pole, baseball mitten, and a granpa's watch, and a decoy duck on the back cover. Its similar to a journal with 208 em
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Prodigal Father : Reuniting Fathers and Their Children
Mark A. Bryan
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Current:
7.9 |
Given our cultural blinders, it's easy to forget that fathering is just as challenging and rewarding as mothering. The trials and triumphs of single mothers especially have received a great deal of attention. But what about men who have had
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101 Ways to Be a Special Dad
Vicki Lansky, Pomeranc White (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.8 |
A Father's Day gift idea contains tips for entertaining children, including taking a child to work for the day, reading the funnies together, planting a tree, and more. By the author of Feed Me, I'm Yours. 35,000 first printing.
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Fatherhood
Bill Cosby, Alvin F. Poussaint (Afterword)
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Current:
7.8 |
Bill Cosby's bestselling warm and humorous look at fatherhood now includes a warm Father's Day wish--a special card for "dear ol' dad." Reissue. Read more
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Baby Tips for New Dads Baby's First Year
Jeanne Murphy
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Current:
7.7 |
This book will help any dad adjust to his new role so he can enjoy the experience and be a hero. The book makes a great gift for new fathers. Read more
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Invention of Solitude
Paul Auster
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Current:
7.7 |
Beginning with the deconstructed detective novels of the New York Trilogy, Paul Auster has proved himself to be one of the most adventurous writers in contemporary fiction. In book after book, he seems compelled to reinvent his style from s
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She Calls Me Daddy : Seven Things Every Man Needs to Know About Building a Complete Daughter
Robert Wolgemuth
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Current:
7.6 |
Focusing on seven things every man should know about raising a daughter, this book concentrates on specific areas of growth to reveal what a father can do to ensure she becomes the woman God wants her to be. more]
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The 7 Secrets of Effective Fathers
Ken R. Canfield
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Current:
7.5 |
Five years of research conducted by a noted national research and counseling organization form the basis for this insightful, applicable book. Drawing on profiles of over 5,000 fathers nationwide, The 7 Secrets of Effective Fathers p
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Tender Warrior : God's Intention for a Man
Stu Weber
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Current:
7.5 |
King. Warrior. Mentor. Friend. In this revised and updated release of his bestseller, with two new chapters, Stu Weber paints a dramatic and compelling picture of balanced manhood according to God's blueprint. A Tender Warrior is what every
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Letters to My Son : A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love
Kent Nerburn, Richard Carlson (Introduction)
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Current:
7.4 |
In an attempt to gather what wisdom he could to guide his son into adulthood, Kent Nerburn published a powerful collection of essays that touched the hearts of parents and children everywhere. In this beautiful revised edition, Nerburn refi
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The One Minute Father : The Quickest Way for You to Help Your Children Learn to Like Themselves and Want to Behave Themselves (One Minute Series)
Spencer Johnson
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Current:
7.2 |
Differentiates between the providing parent and the nurturing parent while outlining the disciplinary benefits of the One Minute Reprimand, One Minute Praise, and One Minute Goal as a part of a more rewarding fatherhood experience. 25,000 f
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Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers That Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be
Ross D. Parke, Armin A. Brott
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Current:
7.1 |
Even if we don't believe in the myth of Ward Cleaver and other old TV dads any more, most of us aren't really sure what to believe instead. Evidence is mounting that our confusion about fatherhood is affecting our children and helping to cr
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Child Custody Made Simple : Understanding the Law of Child Custody and Child Support
Webster Watnik
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Current:
7.1 |
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First Person Plural : My Life As a Multiple
Cameron, Phd. West
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Current:
7.1 |
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The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond
Patricia Evans
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Current:
7.1 |
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First Person Plural : My Life As a Multiple
Cameron, Ph.D West
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7.1 |
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Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out; On relationship and recovery
Patricia Evans
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Current:
7.0 |
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The Healing Power of Play : Working With Abused Children
Eliana Gil
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Current:
6.9 |
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Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
Sue William Silverman
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Current:
6.9 |
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The Expectant Father : Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-To-Be
Armin A. Brott, Jennifer Ash
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6.8 |
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she's having a baby : and I'm Having a Breakdown
James Douglas Barron(Introduction)
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Current:
6.7 |
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She's Had a Baby-And I'm Having a Meltdown : What Every New Father Needs to Know About Marriage, Sex, and Diapers
James Douglas Barron
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6.7 |
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Business Dad : How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (And Vice Versa)
Tom Hirschfeld, Julie Hirschfeld
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6.6 |
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Divorced Dads : Shattering the Myths
Sanford L. Braver, Diane O'Connell
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6.6 |
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Becoming a Father : How to Nurture and Enjoy Your Family (Growing Family Series)
William Sears, Paul Froelich
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6.5 |
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