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  • Maman, Où es-tu?

    La Main du Diable
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    L’abus sexuel, la violence domestique, la prison, l’alcoolisme – Anne-Marie Courtemanche les a tous vécu et la plupart avant l'âge de quinze ans. Dans Maman, où es-tu ? elle partage son cheminement tissant ensemble une histoire de perte, de...


  • Scars Never Heal

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    This is a story about some traumatic events in my life. How it effects my future life. How I met my daughter’s father and how everything went downhill when I got involved with him. How much he damaged me to the point I couldn’t look at myself in...


  • Hopeless And Unwanted

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    This honest and raw memoir is not easy to read, but it should be deemed essential reading for anyone who works in the field of child welfare. Susan Cambridge’s childhood was horrendous. Unwanted and neglected, she was emotionally, verbally, and...


  • Mama Bird

    A True Story Of Family, Trauma & Survival
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    Mama Bird is a true story about the endurance and perseverance needed to survive an abusive marriage. When Susan found herself pregnant at the age of twenty-one, she did what she thought was the best thing and married her baby’s father, Cain....


  • Dare to Dream, Joe Shore

    A Memoir
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    Born into a dysfunctional family in Oakville, Ontario, in the 1950s, Jo-Anne Shaw was forced to leave home at sixteen to escape her abusive father. A high-school dropout, she would go on to endure two abusive marriages and years of serious...


  • My Truth

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    What do you do when your world is a living hell? Do you accept the hand you’ve been dealt, or do you fight for a better life? At every turn, Lafleur Barker chose the latter option. This is her story. Lafleur was born in Saint Vincent in the...


  • Not a Fairy Tale

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    For millennia, selected juvenile dragons from the Seven Kingdoms of Saridon have been commissioned to cross the dimensional boundaries to Earth on missions to accompany gifted or unique humans through their lives to their destinies. Over the...


  • From Thorns

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    A teenage pregnancy forces Amy to leave her abusive family home and search for help. Although she gets support from good people, poor self esteem and the voices from her past plague her. Just as she begins to gain some confidence, she’s drawn...


  • Surviving the System

    Nine Siblings tell their Stories in Foster Care
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    Surviving the System: Nine Siblings Tell Their Foster Care Stories is an important and necessary memoir that leads the reader through the harrowing—and often horrific—experiences of these siblings who were removed from their home in northern New...


  • The Deviant Son

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    What happens when the son’s sins become the father’s? Joseph Griler was a kind man, a loving father, and a great story teller. He also thrived on political discussions. After he passed in 1989, his spirit met up with familiar and unknown souls....