Catalog Search Results
163) Little Children
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherhood and seem to relish all that their new role brings. One day, Brad, a stay at home dad brings his son to the playground. Sarah is amazed to find these...
Author
Series
Frank Clevenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A riot occurs in a mental asylum in Massachusetts led by a doctor, incarcerated after being framed as a serial killer of women. Police call in a psychiatrist to talk the doctor into surrendering, unaware the psychiatrist is the one who framed him.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while treating countless others at his office on Michigan State University's campus. It was largely within the high-pressure world of competitive gymnastics that Nassar exploited young girls, who were otherwise motivated by fear and intimidation, sexually assaulting hundreds of them under the guise of medical treatment.
In Start...
168) Filthy rich
Author
Formats
Description
An account of wealth, power, and the influence they bring to bear on the American justice system follows the story of Jeffrey Epstein, a member of New York City's financial elite, whose fall from grace resulted from charges of abusing and exploiting underage girls at his home.
170) Excavation: A Memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Wendy C. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her relationship with a charming and deeply flawed private school teacher fifteen years her senior appeared to give her the kind of power teenagers wish for, regardless of consequences. Her teacher-now a registered sex offender-continually encouraged her passion for writing while...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
El fenomeno mundial continua... Eva y Gideon enfrentan los demonios de su pasado y aceptan las consecuencias de sus deseos obsesivos...Desde el primer momento en que conoci a Gideon Cross, reconoci algo en el que yo necesitaba. Algo que no podia resistir. Tambien vi el alma peligrosa y danada que llevaba por dentro... un alma tan similar a la mia. Me senti atraida. Los necesitaba con la misma intensidad con la que necesitaba el latido de mi corazon.Nadie...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. When Henley unwittingly entered the trap, Corll evidently sensed he'd be of more use as a second accomplice than another victim. He baited Henley with the same deal he'd given...
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 6
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Jonah Steel has fallen in love with Melanie Carmichael but still lives with the guilt that consumes him as he tries to unravel the mystery of his family's past. A new threat has surfaced, and he finds himself trapped in a web of deceit and lies.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
"The TV-perfect family of Walter De Milly III was like many others in the American South of the 1950s - seemingly close-knit, solidly respectable, and active in the community."--BOOK JACKET. "To the outside world, Walter's father is a prominent businessman, a dignified Presbyterian, and a faithful husband; to Walter, he is an overwhelming, handsome monster. Whenever the two are together, young Walter becomes a sexual plaything for his father; father...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The eldest daughter in a large, highly controlled, fundamentalist Christian household who performed as the Willis Clan and presented themselves to the world as extraordinary and happy reveals what happened behind closed doors, in this harrowing story of the manipulation and codependence that defines abusive family relationships--and how she found her voice to break free.
179) Secretos de familia
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Paulinita, es una nią rica que aparentemente tiene todo, pero le falta lo principal: el amor de sus padres. Un buen da̕ llega de Espaą a visitarlos el to̕ Manuel. Rp̀idamente Paulinita se identifc̕a con ľ, pues tiene tiempo para jugar con ella pero-- Manuel tiene un pasado tormentoso: fue abusado por su pap èn su infancia. Manuel, aprovechando la falta de atencin̤ de sus padres, abusa a la nią. Finalmente Manuel se va de la casa y Paulinita...
180) My body is private
Author
Pub. Date
[1984]
Description
A mother-child conversation introduces the topic of sexual abuse and ways to keep one's body private.
.png)