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2005., Warner Books Call No: 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Summary Note: A memoir from the brother of David J. Pelzer.
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1995., Health Communications Call No: 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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c1995., Health Communications Call No: B Pelzer Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prairie EversSummary Note: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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c2011., Akashic Books Call No: Sports FIC Watson Genre: Sports Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Depicts sixteen-year-old Billy Dyer as he struggles to join the small-town football team whose tradition of brutal training resembles that of the ancient Spartans. However, in the course of this situation, he discovers that his father has been blackmailed into working with Blake Rainey, the town's most powerful and wealthy man, in a land-acquisition scheme. When Rainey offers Billy a Faustian deal to rejoin the football team, Billy must accept the consequences of his choice.
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c1994., Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Call No: PRO 362.2 AL-ANON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Al-Anon adult children tell their stories.
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c2005., Scribner Call No: Class Set FIC WAL Availability:30 of 30 At Location(s)Publisher description Sample text More... Summary Note: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family. When the money ran out, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town Rex had tried to escape. As the dysfunction escalated, the children had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they found the resources and will to leave home. Yet Walls describes her parents with deep affection in this tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life.--From publisher description.
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c1997., Health Communications Call No: Biography NF PEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and found love and contentment in his life.
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c1997., Health Communications Call No: B Pelzer Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and found love and contentment in his life.
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[2000], c1999., Plume Call No: 921 PELZER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The final entry in a trilogy of memoirs in which Dave Pelzer, brutally abused as a child, discusses the struggles he faced as an adult, and his determination to have a meaningful life.
