This book will help educate and empower survivors of sexual violation to work through the healing process. Sexual violation affects survivors but does not have to dictate their future, and this book shows readers how various paths to healing can help them not only overcome the trauma of sexual assault, but also thrive as they move on with their lives. Contributors aim to arm the reader with access to multiple internal and external resources that can...

Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that 52 year-old Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested in a minute, unless she does as he says. This chilling novel traces the next two harrowing years as Frank mentally and physically...

"Multiple lives cross in this story of victims and victimizers, and how the pain of early childhood traumas can continue throughout the characters' adult lives. Jiz is an intelligent yet socially insecure young man who struggles to work at an adult newspaper. He was victimized as a child by a friend of his father. Jiz's name comes from the nickname his dad gave him while making him mop up the messes left behind in the peep show booths at the neighborhood...

Presents the story of Tony Comes, a Toledo, Ohio, fireman, husband, and father, as he comes to terms with his molestation by a Catholic priest when he was a teenager.

Delia Carson was only sixteen when she fled her hometown--running thousands of miles away from the deadly Texas tempest of lies and shadows that tore apart her family... and her aching love for smalltown bad boy Marsh North. But she never could escape.

Chronicles the story of how serial sexual predator Larry Nassar got away with decades of abuse before a team of brave women banded together to stop him. For decades, in a small-town gym in Michigan, Larry Nassar honed his manipulations on generations of aspiring gymnasts. Kids from the neighborhood. Girls with hopes of a college scholarship. Athletes and parents with a dream. Pesta describes Nassar's increasingly bold predations through the years,...

When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer, and she is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege--and the fight for her life.

As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.

"In this unique blend of memoir and how-to, learn strategies for transforming the scarred life of a victim into the healed and joyous life of a survivor. Find inspiration, courage, and hope as you follow Roberta Dolan's journey toward healing after a childhood of sexual abuse."--from cover, page [4].