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Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.
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Publisher
Spanish Pubs Llc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
268 pages ;
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"Romper el silencio narra en primera persona la impactante historia de Estefan?a Igartua, cuya vida ha estado marcada por los diferentes malos tratos recibidos en su infancia; entre ellos, el m?s monstruoso de todos, que tu propio padre abuse sexualmente de ti. M?s tarde, durante su adolescencia y gran parte de su juventud, se dej? utilizar como un objeto por muchos hombres, convirti?ndose en su peor enemiga porque se despreciaba. Sent?a odio, rabia...
4) The tale
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Tale is a fictional narrative starring Laura Dern as the adult documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Fox, and Isabele Nelisse as her 13-year-old self. -- filmmakermagazine.com.
"A groundbreaking film memoir, based on the filmmaker's own personal experiences, this HBO Films presentation tells the story of Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern), a globetrotting documentarian and professor living an apparently enviable life with her boyfriend (Common) in NYC. That...
7) When a man you love was abused: a woman's guide to helping him overcome childhood sexual molestation
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Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"One in every six males has experienced unwanted or abusive sexual experienced before the age of sixteen. The myriad of lasting effects are as varied as the men themselves and can have a devastating impact on future relationships. Yet while so many must deal with it, few are talking about it. Until now. Writing with the empathy that only a true survivor can convey, New York Times best-selling author Cecil Murphey has written and honest and forthright...
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Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love...
9) Yes, Daddy
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages
Description
Jonah Keller moved to New York City with dreams of becoming a successful playwright, but, for the time being, lives in a rundown sublet in Bushwick, working extra hours at a restaurant only to barely make rent. When he stumbles upon a photo of Richard Shriver-the glamorous Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and quite possibly the stepping stone to the fame he craves-Jonah orchestrates their meeting. The two begin a hungry, passionate affair. When summer...
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From the renowned president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a coming-of-age tale of privilege and hidden sexuality at a New England boys' boarding school. Sam has spent more than half his life at the prestigious Leverett high school, which lies at the heart of an affluent Connecticut town of the same name. First as a student in the late 1960s, before coeducation, then as an English teacher after Harvard and Oxford, he developed a keen sense of loyalty...
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"Many people seem to have it all together outwardly, but inside they are a wreck. Their past has broken, crushed, and wounded them inwardly. They can be healed. God has a plan, and Isaiah 61 reveals that the Lord came to heal the brokenhearted. He wants to heal victims of abuse and emotional wounding. Joyce Meyer is a victim of the physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Yet today she has a nationwide ministry of emotional...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 221 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A victim of Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse, Aaron Fisher first spoke up against Sandusky at age 14, weathering ostracism, harassment, fear, frustration, and guilt through the years it took to finally bring the coach to justice.
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Sexual abuse of young girls is epidemic, but if the abuse can be processed when girls are still young (in their teens and early twenties) remarkable healing can take place. Invisible Girls weaves together powerful first-person narratives with gentle guidance and seasoned insights to help girls through the maze of feelings that swirl around the abuse experience.
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Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 1
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Description
When Lei, seventeen, is stolen from her home to become one of nine Paper Girls, the Demon King's concubines, she proves to be more fire than paper.
17) Panic
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Investigates the secret crimes of Father Lawrence Murphy, a Milwaukee priest who abused more than 200 deaf children in a school under his control. The film documents the first known public protest against the pontiff himself. The investigation helped uncover documents from the secret Vatican archives that show the Pope, who must operate within the mysterious rules of the Roman Curia, as both responsible and helpless in the face of evil.
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International Prize A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his "Favorite"-the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice...
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