Adult Children of Abusive Parents
10 best books like Adult Children of Abusive Parents (Steven Farmer): Last Exit to Brooklyn, Valley of the Dolls, Invisible Man, The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities, Brideshead Revisited, Babycakes, Lost Horizon, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
| Author | Hubert Selby Jr. |
| ISBN | 0747549923 |
Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.
Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn...
| Author | Jacqueline Susann |
| ISBN | 0802135196 |
Dolls: red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight-for Anne, Neely, and Jennifer, it doesn't matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three women become best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City and then climb to the top of...
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects...
| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
| ISBN | 0811200701 |
A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret.
First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of...
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
| Author | Flora Rheta Schreiber |
| ISBN | 0446359408 |
Another old book review from my blog:
This was one seriously fucked up book. I have never seen the movie but, of course, knew what I was in for when I got the book. The name "Sybil" is very well known, and carries some stigma, in pop culture.
However, I had no concept of the extent or the perversity...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926345 |
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian...
| Author | Armistead Maupin |
| ISBN | 0552998796 |
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay...
James Hilton’s bestselling adventure novel about a military man who stumbles on the world’s greatest hope for peace deep in Tibet: Shangri-La.
Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British...
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0465016901 |
The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply...
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
| Author | Donna Jackson Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 1476748357 |
A groundbreaking book showing the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, and cancer. Childhood Interrupted also explains how to cope with these emotional traumas and even heal from them.
Your biography becomes...
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'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'
Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories...
| Author | Donald Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0684824795 |
“Eccentric, dazzling…the literary conversation piece of the year.” –San Francisco Chronicle
An American short story writer and novelist acclaimed for his playful, postmodern style of short fiction, Barthelme’s first novel, Snow White, is a countercultural, experimental...
| Author | Arlo Guthrie |
| ISBN | 0394176642 |
You can get anything you want there, or so went Arlo Guthrie's song, a lengthy monologue about a Thanksgiving dinner and how its aftermath kept Guthrie out of the Vietnam-era draft. Arthur Penn's movie version, which stars Guthrie, James Broderick, and Pat Quinn, has a shambling, good-natured feel,...
| Author | S.E. Hinton |
| ISBN | 0440975344 |
Rusty-James is the toughest guy in the group of high-school kids who hang out and shoot pool down at Benny's, and he enjoys keeping up his reputation. What he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. He wants to stay calm and laughing when things get dangerous, to be the toughest...
Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance
| Author | Tian Dayton |
| ISBN | 0757306098 |
Picking up right at the point where Janet Woititz’s 1990 hit book Adult Children of Alcoholics left off, clinical psychologist Tian Dayton’s latest contribution contains fresh perspectives and new analysis on how to gain back emotional stability after growing up with the trauma of addiction,...
Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles
| Author | Gabrielle Bernstein |
| ISBN | 0307887405 |
How does a New York City publicist and party girl turn into a go to guide for the next generation? In her new book, Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles, Gabrielle Bernstein shares the story of how she transformed her life, offering her spiritual journey as a guidebook for overcoming...
Healing from Trauma: A Survivor's Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life
| Author | Jasmin Lee Cori |
| ISBN | 1600940617 |
Psychotherapist and trauma survivor Jasmin Lee Cori offers new insight into trauma-related difficulties (including PTSD, depression, substance abuse), provides self-care tools, candor about therapy and medications, and addresses spiritual issues.
While there are many different...
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
| Author | Mark Wolynn |
| ISBN | 1101980362 |
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in...
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware : Society's Betrayal of the Child
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0452009294 |
Child abuse is beginning to be recognized as something more significant than an isolated family affair. The title of Alice Miller's book, first published in Germany in 1981, spells out the unspoken commandment that such abused children - indeed, all of us - have been obeying since early childhood....
| Author | Harlan Greene |
| ISBN | 0525933786 |
This book is very hard to review. Plots are easy to write about and can be just descriptive. This book is about more than plot. In fact the plot is simple enough and is described succinctly enough on the cover. What is not so easily described is the way the author conveys the thought processes of the boy/man...
Textbook of Medical Parasitology: Protozoology & Helminthology
| Author | Subhash Chandra Parija |
| ISBN | 8180040437 |
Preface About the Author Acknowledgements Color Photos Section I : General Parasitology Chapter 1 : Introduction to Parasitology Section II : Protozoal Infections Chapter 2 : Introduction to Protozoa Chapter 3 : Amoebae Chapter 4 : Intestinal, Oral and Genital Flagellates Chapter 5 : Blood and Tissue...
| Author | William J. Lederer |
| ISBN | 0393356728 |
A piercing exposé of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in 1958. The book introduces readers to an unlikely hero in the titular “ugly American”—and to the ignorant politicians and arrogant ambassadors...
| Author | Steven Corbin |
| ISBN | 0854491864 |
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Young Man From The Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall
| Author | Alan Helms |
| ISBN | 0816642680 |
Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship because of his sexual orientation, he soon became an object of desire in a gay underground scene frequented by, among many others, Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstein,...
Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s
| Author | Brad Gooch |
| ISBN | 0062354957 |
Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. Smash Cut is his bold and intimate memoir of this exhilarating time and place. At its center is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, pieced together from fragments of memory and fueled by a panoply...
