Download or read book Cruel One Child s Story To Survive written by Denise Richardson and published by New Horizons. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing, yet inspiring true story of a young girl's abusive childhood, from new author Denise Richardson. Denise endured emotional and physical cruelty and molestation at the hands of her mother and her drunken boyfriends. In an environment full of toxic emotions and violence, her survival depended on navigating daily, a safe passage through the basest of human behaviours. An absent, paedophilic father could not be trusted, and her older brother fled, as soon as he was able. Alone, in this domestic battlefield, she faced an unpredictable psychotic mother, regular beatings and torture, all against a backdrop of fear that she would be killed. But throughout Denise kept alive dreams of escaping. This book covers the early years of her life and is an affecting and inspirational book of the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive.
Download or read book A Child Called It written by David J. Pelzer and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational story; one child's courage to survive.
Download or read book The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati Enquirer The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
Download or read book You Can t Say You Can t Play written by Vivian Gussin Paley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-16 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who of us cannot remember the pain and humiliation of being rejected by our classmates? However thick-skinned or immune to such assaults we may become as adults, the memory of those early exclusions is as palpable to each of us today as it is common to human experience. We remember the uncertainty of separating from our home and entering school as strangers and, more than the relief of making friends, we recall the cruel moments of our own isolation as well as those children we knew were destined to remain strangers. In this book Vivian Paley employs a unique strategy to probe the moral dimensions of the classroom. She departs from her previous work by extending her analysis to children through the fifth grade, all the while weaving remarkable fairy tale into her narrative description. Paley introduces a new rule—“You can’t say you can’t play”—to her kindergarten classroom and solicits the opinions of older children regarding the fairness of such a rule. We hear from those who are rejected as well as those who do the rejecting. One child, objecting to the rule, says, “It will be fairer, but how are we going to have any fun?” Another child defends the principle of classroom bosses as a more benign way of excluding the unwanted. In a brilliant twist, Paley mixes fantasy and reality, and introduces a new voice into the debate: Magpie, a magical bird, who brings lonely people to a place where a full share of the sun is rightfully theirs. Myth and morality begin to proclaim the same message and the schoolhouse will be the crucible in which the new order is tried. A struggle ensues and even the Magpie stories cannot avoid the scrutiny of this merciless pack of social philosophers who will not be easily caught in a morality tale. You Can’t Say You Can’t Play speaks to some of our most deeply held beliefs. Is exclusivity part of human nature? Can we legislate fairness and still nurture creativity and individuality? Can children be freed from the habit of rejection? These are some of the questions. The answers are to be found in the words of Paley’s schoolchildren and in the wisdom of their teacher who respectfully listens to them.
Download or read book A Child Called It written by David J. Pelzer and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother
Download or read book One Child s Story To Survive written by Allen Primeaux and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing, yet inspiring true story of a young girl's abusive childhood. Her innocence was lost at a tender age of not understanding and the fear she encountered at that time as well affected her entire life. In these child abuse books, you will discover: - The sexual, physical, and emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of her Stepfather and Mother, who then sold her into marriage at the age of 16 - The heartbreak she suffered when she naively left her 22-month-old baby behind when she fled to London with the man she fell in love with, only to be abused by him for a further 23 years - The self-loathing, depression, and despair she felt during those lonely years - The enormous sacrifices she had to make to save herself and start a new life Let's not waste any more time! Dive in and start reading!
Download or read book It to Yobareta Ko written by デイヴペルザー and published by . This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: カリフォルニア州史上最大の虐待といわれた児童虐待を受けながら、不屈の勇気をもって生き延び、愛深き人たちによって、ついに救い出されたデイヴ少年。苦しみを乗り越えて書き上げた、感動の記録。
Download or read book Outside Over There written by Maurice Sendak and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1989-02-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride.
Download or read book The Child s Life of Jesus written by Charles MacKenzie Steedman and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book For the Story Teller written by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the art of storytelling with "For the Story Teller, Story Telling and Stories to Tell" by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. This charming book provides tips and tricks for captivating your audience with engaging tales and a collection of delightful stories to get you started!
Download or read book Raped Every Day From 8 Years Old written by Edward White and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to a young child who has been subjected to unimaginable cruelty by her own family and is then raped every day from the age of 8 years old? What does that terror do to a child's mind - and what happens next, when that adult child is denied justice?In Raped Every Day From 8 Years Old, Leona Dalton tells the horrific true story of how she was abused daily by her own brother and then watched helplessly while several of her other sisters, including a 4-year-old, were raped as well. When she called a neighbour for help that was just the beginning of a long nightmare that has led to one of the most appalling travesties of justice ever witnessed in the history of the Irish state. Dalton's determination to seek justice has cost her the support of her entire family and her astonishing story of survival will leave you struggling for breath.
Download or read book A Child Called It and The Lost Boy written by Dave Pelzer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about child abuse.
Download or read book Shifting the Center written by Susan J. Ferguson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families, Sixth Edition is a popular anthology of readings used in Sociology of Family and of Marriages/Families/Intimate Relationship courses. Editor Susan J. Ferguson brings together carefully selected pieces written by leading family researchers and drawn from a variety of scholarly sources, including articles from the leading family journals and excerpts from several classic book-length studies. She also provides background and context to help students connect the topics in the readings to the broader themes in the study of family sociology. The table of contents follows the same scope and sequence as the leading family survey texts. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.
Download or read book A Child Called It and the Lost Boy written by Dave Pelzer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agony of One Child s Weeping The True Stories of One Abused Child s Encounters with the Monsters in His Life written by Tommy C. Eugene and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnesota, 1973. The true and terrifying story of an abused and tortured 12 year old child and his terrifying struggle to escape the 'Monsters' in his life. Experience first hand one frightened and traumatized young boy's graphic descriptions of escaping one tormentor only to fall prey to another and yet another! From Pedophiles to Child Abusing Manipulators! And an unbelievably violent, animal beating, child torturing farmer who under the disguise of a County funded 'Foster Home' inflicts the most Horrible Brutality that no small boy should ever have to survive! This gripping story takes hold of your heart and your interest from page one, and never lets go! Including a terrifying encounter with a 10 foot Female Sasquatch in the deep woods of Northern Minnesota, that will leave you a BELIEVER from someone who knows they exist! Ride along, as he fights to save a terrified young girl from the hands of a Merciless and violent Rapist, and their wild escape to freedom in the BEAST! You will find yourself, laughing, crying and cheering as this incredible drama unfolds in an exciting, descriptively honest way by this very talented new writer! *WARNING* This book is written exactly as the author remembers it, with all the foul mouthed expletives and gory bloody descriptions and details that can only be properly and completely understood in their original verbiage. To 'sugar coat' or minimize the painful descriptions of trauma and abuse retold in this book, would also minimize it's effectiveness as a reminder to us all, to be aware of the Dangerous Strangers stalking our children and of the unknown creatures that inhabit the forests of this country. You wouldn't think that a book about a child's anguish and about Sasquatch would work together, But this incredible author puts the two together in one fantastic true story, Ingeniously! Enjoy! (If You Dare!)
