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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jeremy Bamber loved the high life, but greed was suffocating him...he wanted more. In one of Britain's most notorious killings, he shot his mother, father, sister, Sheila Cafell and her five year old twins at the family farm and blamed it on his schizophrenic sister. But the police suspected him of the crime and when his girlfriend Julie Mugford went to the police and told them that he'd confessed to her, he was arrested and charged with murder. Though...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The caste system in India was outlawed over 60 years ago, but the power of khap panchayats remains. For thousands of young women across the country, what began as a tale of romance lead to the unimaginable; fathers, uncles, and brothers turned killers... all in the name of honor. In this film, follow the story of three couples who defied village tradition and married. Anuradha, Brijesh, Srinivasan, and Prathiba live in fear that family members will...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An excellent book which can help not only survivors of abuse, but all women who are feeling like victims." - Library Journal Finding Your Voice is a personal, comprehensive guide for survivors of abuse making the journey toward healing. Led by an author who has walked the path for more than three decades, readers will find encouragement and hope as they move step-by-step to a place of recovery. Part memoir, part blueprint for recovery, Finding Your...
6) Third degree
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A tale spanning a traumatic single day follows Liz Pike, who awakens in her small-town home to discover her husband frantically preparing for what he claims is an IRS audit, but she soon realizes that he has discovered the truth about her affair with another man.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
There's no justification or reason good enough for someone to hurt, threaten, neglect or take advantage of you. Especially when the person doing it is supposed to care about the victim. Recognizing Abusive Relationships is a compelling and informative program that tackles this important issue with sensitivity and openness. Viewers are provided with straightforward information to help them understand and identify what abuse looks like in family and...
8) Call Me Dad
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is a story about men who have perpetrated, or are at risk of perpetrating, family violence. At stake is the safety of children and partners, the stability of families, and the power we as a society have to intervene. These men struggle to maintain intimate relationships without resorting to abuse, physical or otherwise. We follow a group of men who have all committed acts of violence and intimidation against their families, but desperately want...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Una joven encuentra la colección de fotos de su hermano menor. No entiende por qué Julián decidió conservar esas imágenes. No retratan momentos particularmente alegres, por el contrario, casi todas pueden verse como la antesala de una catástrofe doméstica. Pensándolo bien, eso fue su infancia en Veracruz: la antesala y las secuelas de una catástrofe continua, la construcción minuciosa de las ruinas que son ella, su hermano y su madre....
10) A vigilante
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Give her a call, and she'll give justice. After escaping her violent husband, Sadie makes it her life's mission to help free others in danger. Now, after months of rigorous training in survival skills, boxing, and lethal martial arts, Sadie is back with a vengeance in this fight-packed action-thriller.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journalist reflects on his own journey to come to terms with his brother's terrible crimes-and to find justice for the young girl he killed. 368pp., 100K
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When survivors of domestic violence reveal their predicaments, the first question many ask is "Why did you stay?" Here, an abuse survivor answers that question through her own story of survival and offers help to those who want to leave and rebuild their lives"--
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one-year-old Nel has lived in Britain since she was six, after her family fled Afghanistan's violence and oppression. She has always felt a strong connection with her native country and longs to know what her life would have been like had she grown up there. This film tells the intimate and moving story of Nel's return to Afghanistan on a quest for answers. In Kabul, she sees the face of the country with her own eyes and through those of her...
15) Mom and Dad
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
16) Clover's secret
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In an imaginary land where people can fly, two young girls form a friendship that helps one of them deal with the problems she faces at home.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2000
Language
English
Description
Every 12 seconds in America, a woman is beaten by her husband or boyfriend. This program presents the experiences of three women who sought to break the cycle of violence by seeking refuge at a safe house, a place providing sanctuary for physically abused mothers and their children. Through their stories, Nancy, Jasmine, and Yenesia reveal a way of life in which the victims, hurt most by those who supposedly love them, often feel like the culprits....
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks she's having an existential crisis. And she might be right; she does keep running into past and future versions of herself as she wanders the urban ruins of Philadelphia. Or maybe she's finally waking up to the tornado that is her family, the tornado that six years ago sent her once-beloved older brother flying across the country...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
Language
English
Description
Get a cop out here, I'm hurt," pleads an elderly voice to the 911 dispatcher. "There's a maniac in the house." Although the distress call is muffled and chaotic, the facts of the case soon become horrifically clear: 96-year-old Miss Mary has suffered a brutal sexual assault at the hands of her grandson, Billy. As Mary later shares on camera and in the presence of victim advocates, Billy's attack was the culmination of years of systematic abuse, including...
20) Toffee
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Runaway Allison strikes up a strange kind of relationship with Marla, a lonely and increasingly confused elderly woman. A verse novel exploring abuse, identity, mental health and friendship.
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