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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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2000., Omnigraphics Call No: Guide 362.82 Dom Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Health reference series
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2005., Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale Call No: 362.82 HAU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Opposing viewpoints seriesSummary Note: Challenges the reader to question his or her preconceived opinions and assumptions about domestic violence and maintains that only through a careful examination of opposing views can the individual understand the inconsistencies in their own convictions.
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[2018], Random House Call No: HI-INT B WES Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
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[2018]., Random House Call No: B Westover Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
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c1996., Juvenile, Clarion Books Call No: [Fic] HAH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1945, Gordy's grandmother takes him and his family into her North Carolina home after his abusive father is arrested, and he just begins to respond to his grandmother's loving discipline when his father returns.
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2012., Rosen Pub. Call No: 362.82 MIC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: FAQ, teen lifeSummary Note: Addresses common questions teens have about family and domestic violence, including what it is, what are the different types of abuse, what the warning signs are, why family violence happens, how to break the cycle of abuse, and other related topics.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Supernatural Fic Rhodes Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventh-grader Jerome is mistakenly shot by a white police officer, and as a ghost, observes the turmoil in his community as a result of his death. He then meets the ghost of Emmett Till who helps Jerome understand how systemic racism led to his death, but also understand how far the effects of his death really go by introducing him to the grieving daughter of the police officer who struggles with her father's actions.
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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.
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2014., Back Bay Books Call No: FIC BUL Edition: First Back Bay paperback edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows ten-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America.
