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The author recalls his childhood growing up in a small southern college town in the 1950s, discussing how his parents' devotion to keeping up appearances and a strict rule against talking about the family outside the home hid secrets of alcoholism and abuse that eventually drove him to attempt suicide.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Traces the author's journey of recovery after a childhood marked by her mentally ill father, a respected suburban doctor with an obsessive need for control that caused him to torture his wife and children about the most minute details of their lives.
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The ninth child of bounty hunter Duane Chapman, made famous on the A&E show Dog the Bounty Hunter, Lyssa Chapman has overcome an upbringing that can only be called tragic. In her piercing memoir, she shares the details of her harrowing childhood and her journey to faith, and offers compassionate guidance, advice, and hope to those who might feel overwhelmed in their own circumstances.As a child, Baby Lyssa's parents divorced and left her neglected....
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[2021]
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"A traumatic childhood led to a life burdened by a negative self-image. But what truths lie undiscovered in the wreckage of the past? Justin Long never felt comfortable in his own skin. After years of physical and psychological abuse from his parents, he was a self-loathing stranger to love. But at thirty-two, he faced up to the fact that his existence had become a downward spiral of alcoholism and despair. Knowing something had to change, Justin...
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[2002]
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"Born eighth in a family that was on its way to becoming almost twice that size, Stephen Zanichkowsky spent much of his life trying to understand his place in the crowd at home. As a boy, he and his thirteen siblings were caught in a desperate struggle to avoid their father's violence and the physical and emotional collapse of their mother. At his mother's funeral, Zanichkowsky, now an adult, realized she'd spent 144 months of her life pregnant, and...
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[2015]
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"A vibrant new voice ups the self-deprecating memoir ante with tragicomic tales of her dysfunctional life in swampland Florida and America's Big Easy. A dive bar palm reader who calls herself the Disco Queen Taiwan; a slumlord with a penis-of-the-day LISTSERV; and Betty, the middle-aged Tales of the Cocktail volunteer who soils her pants on a party bus and is dealt with in the worst possible way. These are just a few of the unforgettable characters...
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