The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse
10 best books like The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse (Jane Rowan): Leaving the Hall Light On, Secret Survivors, The Tender Land: A Family Love Story, The Invisible Storm, Faint Echoes Of Laughter (Empty Chairs, #2), Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir, Out of Sync, Two Hearts: An Adoptee's Journey Through Grief to Gratitude, Finding Gloria ~ Special Edition
Leaving the Hall Light On
| Author | Madeline Sharples |
| ISBN | 0982579489 |
Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother's Memoir of Living with Her Son's Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. Madeline Sharples, author, poet and web journalist,...
| Author | E. Sue Blume |
| ISBN | 0345369793 |
"A resource of excellent caliber...Highly recommended for those who suspect that they are unconscious survivors of abuse and especially for therapists to dig into the darkest shadow part of human existence."
ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, M.D.
SECRET SURVIVORS is the first book to expand the...
| Author | Kathleen Finneran |
| ISBN | 0618340742 |
A superb portrait of family life, THE TENDER LAND is a love story unlike any other. The Finnerans -- parents and five children, Irish Catholics in St. Louis -- are a seemingly unexceptional family. Theirs is a story seldom told, yet it makes manifest how rich and truly extraordinary the ordinary daily...
In this powerful memoir, Juanima divulges a plunge into a darkness few are able or willing to speak about: the terrifying, anxiety-driven world of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her family unaware, Juanima endures abuse and multiple rapes as a child, and at nineteen years of age decides to...
The shocking and spirited sequel to the much-praised Empty Chairs.
Life on the streets of Sydney was preferable to the nightmare Stacey Danson had survived in the hell that was home.
She hit the streets running at the age of eleven, and armed with a flick-knife and a fierce determination...
| Author | Linda Joy Myers |
| ISBN | 1938314026 |
At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas to watch the train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be only an occasional and troubled visitor. Linda Joy Myers's compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story...
| Author | Sue William Silverman |
Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper--or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps...
| Author | Belinda Nicoll |
| ISBN | 0985571306 |
In 2001, when a couple leaves South Africa for a stay abroad, they land at JFK International Airport on September 11th, unprepared for the sight of smoke billowing from the Manhattan skyline or the horror of a second plane exploding into the North Tower. Over the next ten years, as their host country confronts...
Linda Hoye was in her early twenties when she found herself parentless for the second time.
Adopted at five months of age, her heritage, medical history, and access to information about who she was or where she came from was sealed; it was as if she had never existed before being adopted. When...
| Author | Marianne Curtis |
| ISBN | 1481063928 |
Author Marianne Curtis reveals her own personal, heart-wrenching, and, ultimately, inspiring story in Finding Gloria. Her past is laid bare in achingly honest detail, and her willingness to share her story with resonate with readers everywhere.
Pouring her own hardships out onto the page,...
| Author | Jeanne Safer |
| ISBN | 0385337566 |
What is it like to grow up with a sibling who is difficult or damaged?
Few bonds in our lives are as psychologically and emotionally significant as the ones we share with our sisters and brothers, although little has been written about this formative relationship. In this first-of-its-kind...
| Author | Alyson Schafer |
| ISBN | 0470837438 |
Within each new mother lives an ideal that like the perfect house and husband is doomed to fall short. The "good mother myth" an ideal that parents create for themselves says psychotherapist and parent coach Alyson Sch fer, is the sort of widely held misconception that ultimately sabotages people's...
| Author | Phyllis Schieber |
| ISBN | 1611940451 |
""Schieber has painted a fine portrait of the struggles and challenges of being different in an unforgiving world. Her characters are authentic and touching. Using language that is at once both straightforward and evocative, Schieber writes a story that you will recognize and remember long after...
| Author | Debra Brenegan |
| ISBN | 1438435878 |
"There may be married people who do not read the morning paper. Smith and I know them not ... It is not too much to say the newspapers are one of our strongest points of sympathy; that it is our meat and drink to praise and abuse them together; that we often in our imagination edit a model newspaper, which shall...
| Author | Richard Biggs |
| ISBN | 1466488298 |
Apparently writing "see comments" can get a review banned (an author just nixed one but who cares, it's on the same shelf as this one and the shelf name speaks for itself) so this will be a proper review of the various excerpts I read and downloaded on the net.
This author, who calls himself Dick,...
| Author | Sharon Bially |
| ISBN | 0615475604 |
Veronica Berg has everything she needs to achieve her dream of becoming a painter--a charming home studio in Provence, a hardworking husband, and a nanny who watches her two-year-old twins. Yet instead of painting, she spends her days lingering over meaningless chores and secretly indulging in lengthy...
| Author | Angela Elwell Hunt |
| ISBN | 1439182051 |
One innocent mistake… a lifetime of consequences.
One innocent mistake . . . a lifetime of consequences.
After growing up an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can’t afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn...
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
| Author | Erica Jong |
| ISBN | 1585424447 |
I discovered Jong's 1973 debut FEAR OF FLYING in my basement at 14, and it was the most thrilling overnight-read of my life. I spied it on a forgotten shelf on a private quest for a “sex book,” which was any book in which sex was implied, discussed, or— please, lord— described. The front cover featured...
Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0385267622 |
In her previous (excellent) book, THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD, Alice Miller still wrote from a psychoanalytic frame of reference. Now she has abandoned that model of therapy, believing that it only further instills in the client a repression of feeling memory.
Everyone who thinks that s/he...
Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers
| Author | Kate St. Vincent Vogl |
| ISBN | 0878393315 |
I expected to find an interesting and intelligent read from this author, but found so much more. There is precision and beauty and a twining of tales that will be meaningful to anyone who has been a mother or had a mother, adoptive or otherwise. Kate St. Vincent Vogl tells the story of coming to terms with...
Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs on the back-burner. After her mother dies of cancer, she goes on a spiritual journey looking for enlightenment and a purpose for her life. Eventually, she ends up as a volunteer in the relief effort following...
Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman s search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck s investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows the profound...
| Author | Daleen Berry |
| ISBN | 0615388604 |
This memoir follows the author’s harrowing journey from teen mom to award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author. At thirteen, Daleen Berry was raped. By sixteen, she was barefoot and pregnant. And at twenty-one she was a mother of four children, tumbling headlong into a dark...
| Author | Nick Arvin |
| ISBN | 0061995169 |
At a loose end after college, Ellis Barstow drifts back to his home town and a strange profession: reconstructing fatal traffic accidents. He seems to take to the work immediately , and forms a bond with his boss and mentor, John Boggs, an intriguing character of few but telling words.
Yet Ellis...
Can death bring a man back to life? When UW Professor Benjamin Bradshaw discovers a despised colleague dead inside the Faraday Cage of the Electric Machine, his carefully controlled world shatters. The facts don't add up - the police shout murder- and Bradshaw is the lone suspect. To protect his young...
