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The second volume of Helen Forrester's four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression.

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In 2004, Brent Jeffs filed the first sexual abuse lawsuit against Warren Jeffs, his uncle, the president and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the polygamous Mormon sect. Lost Boy shows how cults like FLDS control their members, how their absolute power corrupts their leaders, and how hard it is to escape.

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When mother and daughter meet, Sue thinks she has finally reached the end of her journey. Then Sue discovers she wasn't the only baby her mother gave away...

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'An honest and deeply chilling account of what it's like to suffer from a compulsion to look for love in what are most definitely the wrong places' Elle

For Sue Silverman, the wrong places to look for love include: At the end of a phone, when a stranger calls her college dorm late night and asks what she's wearing.

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A devastating first-hand testimony exposing the cruel and widespread practice of forced marriage.

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Mighty be their Powers chronicles the unthinkable violence Leymah Gbowee has faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped to broker by empowering her country women and others around the world to take action and change History.

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One of the most enduring images of the Ethiopian famine that shocked the world in 1984 was that of the young International Red Cross nurse who, surrounded by thousands of starving people and with limited supplies, had the terrible task of choosing which children to feed, knowing that those she turned away might not last the night.

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Yet, despite numerous official reports of abuse from social workers and health boards, their suffering continued ...

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This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history.

Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans.

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David had everything. No-one knew the London businessman was born into a world beyond poverty, the son of a rapist father and disturbed mother. Abandoned as a baby, he spent most of his childhood in care and suffered appalling sexual abuse. But no-one knew. But a call from the abuser's wife, 30 years on, proved he was living in a house of cards.

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Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it.

Illegitimate and unwanted, Celine was forced by her foster mother into prostitution.

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"[Aronson] offers a revealing portrait both of himself and of social psychology in the past half-century."-Nature

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In this fascinating book, Darwish speaks out against the dark side of her native culture--women abused by Islamic traditions, the poor and uneducated mistreated by the elites, and bribery and corruption as a way of life. She calls on the Arab world to embrace the values of democracy, respect for women, and tolerance for all religions.

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How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childhood. She didn't stand a chance. All too soon hope turned to fear and she knew she'd have to run again.

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The selections are geographically representational of the broad railroad network.

There is renewed interest in the Underground Railroad, exemplified by the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati and energized scholarly inquiry.

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If it had been the other way round, I know Gina would have done the same for me.

Jane and Gina were the best of friends. And after cancer claimed Shaun's life, Jane stepped in to care for the two orphans, becoming the mother her best friend could no longer be.

This is the moving true story behind an incredible act of love.

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The harrowing true story of one boys experiences in a brutal approved school for young offenders in 50s London, run by Catholic monks where violence and abuse were rife.

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In Romances with Schools, John Goodlad steps out from behind the public persona of distinguished scholar and advocate for public schooling to offer a moving personal account of a life devoted to educating the young. He deftly interweaves fascinating personal details with refl...

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Through a unique combination of narrative history and primary documents, this book provides an engrossing biography of Sequoyah, the creator of the Cherokee writing system, and clearly documents the importance of written language in the preservation of culture.

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She's Not the Man I Married is an extraodinarily written examination of relationships, not just those of cross-dressers with their partners, but also of those who question and bend gender roles, whether heterosexual or homosexual and those comprised couples who fall along the gender continuum.

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