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"What the hell is happening to me? I feel possessed. I'm talking gibberish in the mirror and somebody else's voice is coming out of my mouth."
Cameron West was in his thirties, a successful businessman, happily married and the father of a young son when he spoke these words. The "voice" he heard belonged to Davy, the first of twenty-four distinct alter personalities to emerge over a period of several months as West began to recall memories of
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Pub. Date
2003.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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1050L
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English
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The author describes her life as the daughter of a woman afflicted with Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse in which a parent, most often a mother, invents or induces illness in a child in order to gain attention from medical professionals, tells how she was able to save herself, and discusses her efforts to have another young girl removed from her mother's care.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Waking Up in Heaven is the story of Crystal McVea, the day she died for nine minutes, went to heaven, and stood before God. In this remarkable autobiography, Crystal shares her experience of walking with God towards the gates of heaven - a place so full of light and love that she did not want to leave. But Crystal was miraculously revived and came back to consciousness in a hospital room surrounded by doctors, nurses and her own mother. Previously...
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2009.
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English
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Deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than thirty unidentified bodies, some possibly of young boys who had been sent to live at the old Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna. Investigations into the unmarked graves have compelled many grown men to come forward and share stories of the abuses they endured and the atrocities they witnessed in the 1950s and 1960s at the institution. Many suspect...
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1992.
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English
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"My autobiography has the sole purpose of educating the public that not all Amish are alike. It is against Swartzentruber Amish ordnung to report child abuse to the local authorities. The local legal system is very reluctant to get involved with child abuse cases. The long term effect of abuse on a child is astronomical."--[page 4]Cover.
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2022.
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English
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"This book is a story of childhood trauma, desperation and survival as a born Amish, queer, neurodivergent and AFAB person in America's Amish country, with oppression and silencing from all sides. A collective failure of adults within medical, secular and Amish communities to provide safety to abused children. How many more children are there like this? How long are we, collectively sitting back and allowing these human rights violations to continue...
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[2023]
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English
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"Surviving a traumatic childhood in foster care was difficult enough for Barbara and her sister Kay, but the loss of her nine other sisters was a loss Barbara would not accept. Her quest to solve the mystery of what befell her family of origin and to locate her nine lost sisters took forty-three years. Once reunited, Barbara invested fifteen years to become the voice for all eleven abandoned and abused sisters by capturing each story. What she discovered...
11) Who am I?
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2022.
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English
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Chad Richard Gaines was born on June 3, 1973. Author and Speaker now. He is widely known for his book, Who Am I, and the details of his horrific child abuse when he was a young boy. He spends much of his time doing lectures and coaching on PTSD and the long tern effects. Gaines is now a coach about the concepts of resilience. 2001, His mother killed his stepfather, and he writes the details in his book based on his life “Who Am I” the Chad Gaines...
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[2007]
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English
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A memoir in which the author describes his childhood with an abusive escaped child killer he believed to be his father, discusses what happened when the truth finally came to light, and tells of his search for his real identity, his struggle to come to grips with his past, and the people and events that helped him transform his life from victim to victim's advocate.
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