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Voices
of Courage By Mike Domitrz
Mike Domitrz is one of the leading experts on healthy dating, consent,
rape, and sexual assault awareness. He has the unique ability to
connect with audiences of all ages and demographics. |
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May I
Kiss You? By Mike Domitrz
Mike Domitrz is one of the leading experts on healthy dating, consent,
rape, and sexual assault awareness. He has the unique ability to
connect with audiences of all ages and demographics. |
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The
Gift of Fear By Gavin De Becker
Each hour, 75 women are raped in the United States, and every few
seconds, a woman is beaten. Author Gavin de Becker says victims
of violent behavior usually feel a sense of fear before any threat
or violence takes place. They may distrust the fear, or it may impel
them to some action that saves their lives... |
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Waking the Tiger
By Peter A. Levine & Ann Frederick This
insightful book reinforces the wholeness of the human vehicle, that
our body and triune brain of instinct, emotion and rationality are
totally connected to the human experience and to our connection
with all of life... |
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I Can't Get Over It By
Aphrodite Matsakis
I Can't Get Over It was written to guide
survivors of crime, acidents, rape, family violence, and sexual
abuse through the process of recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD)... |
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Trust After Trauma By
Aphrodite Matsakis
This book provides information for trauma
survivors to understand their emotions, and behavior, it also offers
insight for loved ones and partners of trauma survivors... |
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Surviving the Silence By
Charlotte Pierce-Baker
In Surviving the Silence, Charlotte Pierce-Baker provides a space
for survivors to discuss the unthinkable act of rape. Pierce-Baker,
a survivor herself, places rape within a historical and cultural
context, explaining the shroud of silence that surrounds it within
the black community... |
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Black and Blue By
Anna Quindlen
"The first time my husband hit me
I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken
heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue... |
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After Silence By
Nancy Venable Raine
The words shut up are the most terrible
words I know," writes Nancy Venable Raine. "The man who
raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of
my attack... |
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Lovely Bones By
Alice Sebold
On her way home from school on a snowy
December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish")
is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally
raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man
she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey... |
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Lucky By
Alice Sebold
When Sebold, the author of the current
bestseller The Lovely Bones, was a college freshman at
Syracuse University, she was attacked and raped on the last night
of school, forced onto the ground in a tunnel "among the dead
leaves and broken beer bottles."... |
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
By Glenn R. Schiraldi
An important guidebook for those suffering
from a traumatic experience provides information on coping mechanisms,
emotional triggers, the mental defenses that protect us from further
harm, and much more. Original... |
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Sexual Assault By
Kay Scott
Scott writes passionately of the aftermath of agony that haunts
the victims of rape. Yet with equal passion she offers a message
of hope and healing... |
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I Never Called It Rape By
Robin Warshaw
Based on first-person accounts, scholarly
studies and data from a nationwide survey of college campuses conducted
by Ms. magazine, freelance journalist Warshaw draws a devastating
portrait of men who rape women they know... |
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Just Get Me Through This!
By Deborah A. Cohen, Robert M., MD Geldfand,
Robert M. Gelfand
It's hard to believe that a breast cancer guide can be fun, but
breast cancer survivor Cohen and oncologist Gelfand have produced
a book that combines medical information with the kind of warm,
funny, rueful sharing a woman gets from a good talk with her girlfriends... |
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Dr. Susan Love's Breast
Book By Susan M. Love
Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book has been considered
the bible of breast-care books since it appeared in 1990. In 1995,
Love completely updated the book in a 600-page second edition, including
new biopsy and screening methods, implants, the pros and cons of
hormone therapy... |
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After Breast Cancer By
Musa Mayer
Each year, around the world, over one million
women will be told they have breast cancer. All will face surgery,
and most will undergo radiation, chemotherapy and hormonal treatment.
But the worry isn't over when treatment ends... |
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The Victoria's Secret Catalog
Never Stops Coming By Jennie Nash
Touching and courageous, The Victoria's
Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming blends the medical realities of
breast cancer with the wise and thoughtful opinions of author Jennie
Nash... |
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Hope Lives!
By Margit Esser Porter
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in October of 1995. While undergoing
treatment I circulated a questionnaire across the country, collecting
advice, support, and inspiration from other women with breast cancer... |
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What to Say When You Talk
to Yourself By Shad Helmstetter
We are our own worst enemy sometimes by limiting ourselves with
our own thoughts. This book helps you think better of yourself and
by doing that you achieve more because of your new confidence...
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Working with
Available Light By Jamie Kalven
Ostensibly, Jamie Kalven's Working with Available Light focuses
on a single, life-altering event, but it's primarily about a marriage.
While running along Chicago's lakefront area near their home in
Hyde Park, Kalven's wife, Patsy, was brutally beaten and sexually
assaulted... |
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Women of Spirit By
Katherine Martin (editor)
Thirty-five women who succeeded in making
a difference in the world relate their experiences in this inspiring
collection. Katherine Martin introduces each first-person account
with background information on the writer and the obstacles she
faced... |
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Nonviolent Communication
By Marshall B. Rosenberg
We learned to speak but not communicate
and that has led to so much unnecessary personal and social misery.
In this book you will find an amazingly effective language for saying
what's on your mind and in your heart... |
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The Structure
of Delight By Nelson Zink
The cast of characters in this book of
stories is headed by an old mining engineer named Noom, who reminds
one of a Nebraskan Lao Tzu. Included are stories of an herb-gathering
mid-wife, a cranky mule, and a chalk-dusted professor. Also appearing
every now and then is a giant haiku-quoting carp. |
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The Hidden Messages in Water
By Masaru Emoto
The Hidden Messages in Water is an eye-opening
theory showing how water is deeply connected to people's individual
and collective consciousness. Drawing from his own research, scientific
researcher, healer, and popular lecturer Dr. Masaru Emoto describes
the ability of water to absorb, hold, and even retransmit human
feelings and emotions. |
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The Healer
Within By Roger Jahnke
With this guide, you will learn four simple and effective techniques
to release your natural powers for healing. The methods -- gentle
movement, self-applied massage, breathing exercises, and meditation
-- are drawn from the ancient Chinese healing system of Qigong (Chi
Kung) and are easily adaptable to every lifestyle. These methods
can increase you endurance, vitality, and longevity. |
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Masters
of Success By Ivan R. Misner & Don
Morgan
Who has not admired the titans of sport, entertainment, commerce
and public service and been inspired to set course by those stars?
What youth has not dreamed of becoming rich and famous? What restless
fast-food manager has not dreamed of being the boss of a nationwide
restaurant chain? What hard-working employee has not dreamed of
running his own company? |
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