All Blog Posts Tagged 'abuse' (63)

Love at War: A Love Story

By Lynelle Clark

    This is an unforgettable story of seeing love in the most unexpected places. It is a story about abduction, rape, abuse, reproductive rights and much more. It is not a book for sensitive readers. But it is a story that will haunt the reader for a very long time.

    Sonia had a very hard life. She suffered some horrific ordeals. She was…

      It is sad that child abuse is so prevalent by law enforcement people such as the police. We are taught from an early age to respect the Police because they are supposed to serve and protect. However, when this doesn’t happen, our psyches are fractured, and a loss of trust ensues.

      This book is a sad memoir of how a life can be hampered and destroyed by child molesters who should know better. Steve Mizera was physically and mentally abused as a child in an…

You see them on street corners, hiding in doorways, furtively watching, waiting for their next fix, selling drugs, or perhaps they have just had a shot.

When you see drug addicts or alcoholics on the streets, or in the dark corners of bars, do you ever wonder why, and how, they became addicted?

What made this person take that particular route through life, and at what stage couldn’t…

Official trailer for "The Journey Home" a memoir by Patrice M. Foster. A story of strength, courage and determination, Patrice M Foster’s moving journey from poverty, neglect and abuse is a tribute to the human spirit. 

Visit http://patricemfoster.com to purchase the book or for more information. Coming soon to Amazon.com.

Video production by Castelane in association with Readers' Favorite.…

Please join Marsha Casper Cook on September 1 at 4EST 3 CST 2 MT 1 PST when her special guest will be Marsha Marie.



In 1992, when Marsha…

Hi, do you know statistically over 48% of women in western culture been in physical or emotional abusive love stories. 



Cinderella Tears is a novel that try to illustrate this frequent, but unspoken reality within our modern western society. 



While completing a combine  in media and social science, in university, I was surprise to find the statistic that an obsession with fairy tale romance, has result in 48% of women in…

As an Asian person that moved to the west, I am amazed by the extend western women goes to, for fairy tale romance.  Despite the west self claim to be the world leader in gender equality and women right, statistic show over 48% of women in the west been in physical or emotional abusive relationship and actively choose to stay in those relationship, if it contain fairy tale romance characteristic.  A number probably higher then region, the west claim to discriminate against…

"Although repeated exposure to narratives of romance in popular culture from an early age may lead young women to expect idealized romance in their heterosexual love relationships, a good number encounter abusive experiences. This article draws on young women's stories of abuse in heterosexual love relationships gathered from interviews with 23 young women aged 16-18 years. These stories are examined using a feminist, poststructuralist form of narrative analysis to explore the…

Thought provoking reflections on life.

This story begins in Arkansas with the nine-year-old Michael, and his younger brother, abandoned by their father, living with their strict grandmother who regularly beats them. The family attend church regularly, he discovers at a young age, he has a gift for playing the organ and it is the beginning of a lifelong love of music.

In…

  Wards of the State - Data Collection v. Privacy – November 4, 2013

       As an author of fiction revolving around the premise of government abuse, the recent fodder supplied by the daily news is astounding. In conjunction with researching for conspiracy theories, there seems to be no end. Using the theories as a story basis is hardly new, but one wonders if it is…

Jay D Roberts MD is a board-certified physiatrist, specializing in the treatment of physical disabilities with a focus of adding quality to life. He is currently in private practice in California. He is a member and lecturer at national and international conferences related to his specialty, a contributing author to Current Trends in Physiatry, and author of…

La Bella Mafia – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish

I was old enough to want to try to figure out how I became the person I was.  I felt a need to locate people who had known me when I was little.  I was able to find one of the social workers who worked with my whole family…

Means to an End - Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish

Taliban Escape!

One Woman’s Journey out of hell

By Aabra

     It is difficult to believe that so many women still live in extreme violence and are killed in the hands of their partners. We all want to think that this doesn’t happen. But as Aabra shows in Taliban Escape, violence against women is a growing problem.

     Taliban Escape is about one woman’s struggle to free herself from the shackles of violence and…

A mother suffering from mental illness.

A little sweet girl who wants nothing more than her mother’s love.

Family members who turn their backs to the blatant horror that is staring them in the face.

Call Me Tuesday was a tough book to read. Based on true events, it is a fictionalized story of what really happened to author Leigh Byrne while…

Don’t Cry, Daddy’s Here: One Woman’s Journey to Recovery from Incest is a deeply disturbing memoir. At the same time it is an important book, one that offers a strong message of hope and renewal to victims of this terrible crime.

"My decision to write this book came from a deep desire to say, 'You are not alone.' I share some of my memories and some lessons…

Getting Out of Dodge City, Heading for L.A. on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe is a short novel that reads like a memoir and that will appeal to those interested in black American history and the dynamics of poor black American families from the early 1800s to the 1960s.…

On the surface, twins Taylor and Trevor Forrestier appear as confident and successful operators of a growing architectural design firm. However, things aren’t always what they seem … The Visionary by Pamela Thibodeaux is the story of their journey toward emotional healing after suffering from horrific abuse as children. Along the way, each twin also finds true love, something that neither thought would be possible. But freedom from the past isn’t without its own…

As I looked beyond the fields of trees and dry land, there, over in a gaze was a woman standing there waving! Looking deeper, she resembled a frighten women who looked familiar!

“Is that me,” A whisper came into my mind! There in back of her was a man with a gun! It was Creighton!  Her lips started moving, shouting out a warning that her life was at an end!

 I screamed franticly to help her! But at the same time she was yelling for help, not for herself! She…