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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.
 
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.
 

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...
 

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...
 

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)...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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."...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...
 

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...

 

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...
 

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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Taking Back My Life 

By Nancy Ziegenmeyer & Larkin Warren
Ziegenmeyer, angry and frustrated by the delayed trial of the man who raped her, responded to an appeal in 1989 by a Des Moines Register editor for rape victims to tell their stories...

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Living Beyond Breast Cancer: A Survivor's Guide

By Marisa C.Weiss, M.D.
"Breast cancer is never completely over," says author Marisa C. Weiss, M.D., a radiation oncologist...