A haunting new take on True Crime and Child Abuse Biography Eight shocking true stories of children who were abused and murdered by their own parents or caregivers. Baby Peter's nightmare intensified on the arrival of his mother's sadistic boyfriend. Amy was hung up by her hair on a door frame and used as a punchbag. A 3-year-old was burned with a blowtorch to punish him for bed-wetting. Sylvia's foster mother encouraged the neighbourhood children to humiliate and abuse her. In his death throes, Dennis clawed desperately at his brother's back in the bed they shared. In a bid to raise awareness of these horrific crimes, Jackson often tells the stories from the child's point of view, giving a voice to those were neglected and tortured to death, following with the facts of each case, such as trials and sentencing, and concludes by searching for answers to the question, "How can we save children from this horrific fate?" This book is not suitable for children, and those who find depictions of the suffering of children deeply upsetting may wish to tread cautiously.

A true story of child abuse and a comprehensive guide to what you can do to stop it.

Psychological Maltreatment of Children is a brief introduction to the emotional abuse of children and youth metnal health professionals, child welfare specialists, and other professionals involved with research, education, practice, and policy de Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Your Turn is the first book for adults who were abused and maltreated by older family members who are now faced with the aging and death of those abusive elders. This book discusses the reasons that this normal life passage has become especially difficult for adult survivors, drawing on psychological research about the long-term effects of childhood maltreatment. It then addresses how adult survivors can move through this time of time and make it into an opportunity for their own healing. Specific suggestions for self-care and strategies for decision-making are presented. An extensive list of written and on-line resources on a variety of related topics is included in the book. Your Turn is the only book that speaks to the special concerns of adult survivors of childhood maltreatment who are at this juncture in their lives.

Although long-winded and only covering a period of fifteen traumatic years, this biography is a true account of hidden child abuse. It is not for the faint-hearted. Kat Ward relates, with utter candour, her experiences at the hands of the mother who hated her even before she was born, her step-father, who regarded her as something to be used on a whim and her step-father's friends -- to whom he 'sold' her. Even with so-called 'professionals' involved and despite the fact that Keri told the truth to her teacher, priest, social workers and child psychiatrist, nothing got better. In fact, things got worse and worse.

The daughter of a judge in a New Hampshire school shooting case witnessed the events but cannot remember the last several minutes of the attack.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”

What sort of girl loves sin like I do?What sort of person thrives in it?I'm the princess to a dirty throne of motorcycles and madness, daughter of the president of the Death by Daybreak Motorcycle Club. My father's four closest officers--men dressed in blood and death and sin--they're my honor guard, cloaked in leather vests and tattoos. Only, there's nothing honorable about them at all.They're all wrong for me.Every motorcycle club has its old ladies.These guys ... they share one.They share me.***I WAS BORN RUINED is a 90,000 word new adult, reverse harem, motorcycle club romance with one daring, bada** leading lady, her four sexy outlaws, and a romantic suspense plot. Contains cursing, violence, and sexual situations.

Soon to be a TV series by Warner Brothers Television and Ellen Degeneres's A Very Good Production. FBI special agent Mercy Kilpatrick has been waiting her whole life for disaster to strike. A prepper since childhood, Mercy grew up living off the land--and off the grid--in rural Eagle's Nest, Oregon. Until a shocking tragedy tore her family apart and forced her to leave home. Now a predator known as the cave man is targeting the survivalists in her hometown, murdering them in their homes, stealing huge numbers of weapons, and creating federal suspicion of a possible domestic terrorism event. But the crime scene details are eerily familiar to an unsolved mystery from Mercy's past. Sent by the FBI to assist local law enforcement, Mercy returns to Eagle's Nest to face the family who shunned her while maintaining the facade of a law-abiding citizen. There, she meets police chief Truman Daly, whose uncle was the cave man's latest victim. He sees the survivalist side of her that she desperately tries to hide, but if she lets him get close enough to learn her secret, she might not survive the fallout...