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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Ocho tipologías de hombres peligrosos, estrategias de defensa, señales de alarma e historias reales de éxitos y de fracasos ¿Qué es un hombre peligroso? Muchas de nosotras pensamos de inmediato en alguien físicamente violento, pero hay otros comportamientos que también ponen en peligro no sólo el equilibrio espiritual y emocional de una mujer, sino también su calidad de vida."--Back cover.
165) The Color Purple
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who's forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam. As a palace insider, she offers a glimpse of life under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle". She was asked to erase her memory as she heard of crimes she was not supposed to hear of, and witnessed her mother hiding her tears lest it upset...
167) The Invisible Man
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy scientist, Cecilia Kass escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being...
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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Molly and Lawless John: Sentenced to hang for a bank robbery, a handsome rogue manipulates the sheriff's lonely and abused wife into helping him escape. Yuma: When a US Marshal heads west to Yuma Territory to bring law and order to the frontier, he fights a wealthy and powerful gangster who controls the town and answers to no one.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
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The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"When a bride says "I do," she doesn't expect violence to scar her marriage. For many women, though, that is the case as their dream home becomes an emotional prison, a jail cell filled with feelings of powerlessness and worthlessness. You probably know someone who is subject to verbal, physical, or sexual abuse because statistically, 25% of Christian women are victims. It might be a neighbor, a daughter, a sister, or even a friend. Does the God of...
171) Preacher's kid
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Angie is the daughter of a stern but loving bishop. She becomes attracted to the hunky star of a traveling gospel show. They decide to hit the road, and head straight into romance. But life on the road isn't what it seems and the actor's ongoing lies and abuse eventually trigger an epiphany for her, sending the prodigal daughter home to the father and the keyboardist that love her.
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