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A nurse escapes her abusive husband, a New York policeman, taking their son with her to Florida. She assumes a new identity and even finds romance, but there is a price, the 10-year-old boy misses his father and she lives in constant fear the father will find them, which he does. The novel analyzes why abused women wait so long to make their break.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A young Indian woman falsely rumored to have killed her husband finds a way to make her unfortunate reputation surprisingly useful--but complications arise when other village women seek her help offing their husbands--in this provocative, razor-sharp debut. "The Bandit Queens heralds a prodigious and sophisticated literary talent." Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of Inland In the five years since her husband's disappearance, Geeta...
5) Gaslight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She become the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In this suspenseful romantic thriller, Julia Roberts stars as Laura, a young woman who thinks she's found the man of her dreams in Martin (Patrick Bergin). Only after they are married does she discover the real Martin--compulsive, controlling and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear and dread, Laura finally escapes, only to have Martin track her down.
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Marriage wasn't bliss for Marilee. Instead of finding contentment with the handsome duke, she found betrayal, neglect and fear, a fear that finally lifts when her husband dies, freeing her from his domineering hand. When her charming neighbor intrudes on her quiet life, she must determine whether his interest is genuine, and whether he deserves the fragile bit of trust she has managed to scrape together.
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Dollanganger family volume 0.5
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Before terror flowered in the attic there was a young girl. An innocent, hopeful girl ... When young Olivia arrives at Foxworth Hall, she thinks her marriage to handsome Malcolm will bring the joy she has longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with festering desires and forbidden passions, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread--an evil that will threaten her children, two charming boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within...
Author
Publisher
University of Utah School of Medicine
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
"Domestic violence doesn't just happen "out there" somewhere. It happens in our town, in our neighborhood, on our street. It happens to women we see at the supermarket, the movie theater, the ballet, and the PTA board meeting. It happens to our friends and our co-workers. It happens to our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, and ourselves. This book tells the stories of twelve women. Each was a victim of domestic violence. Each escaped from her abuser....
12) A stir of bones
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Oliver Ryan, handsome, charismatic, and successful, has long been married to his devoted wife, Alice. Together they write and illustrate award-winning children's books; their life one of privilege and ease-- until, one evening after a delightful dinner, Oliver delivers a blow to Alice that renders her unconscious, and subsequently beats her into a coma. As Alice hovers between life and death, the couple's friends, neighbors, and acquaintances try...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
15) Face of betrayal
Author
Series
Triple threat volume 1
Language
English
Description
While home on break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares television reporter Cassidy Shaw, Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce, and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. Together, these life-long friends call themselves The Triple Threata nickname derived from their favorite dessert as well as their uncanny ability to crack cases from their three unique positions...
16) Shudder: a novel
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Clare's wedding briefly reunites her with best friend Darcy. When Clare becomes trapped in ugly family politics and vicious treatment from her fiancé, she finally calls on Darcy for help.
19) Enough
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married the man of her dreams. After the arrival of her daughter, Slim begins to see the hidden, abusive side of her husband. Terrified for her and her daughter's safety, Slim flees. But her husband's resources allow him to relentlessly pursue them. Finally Slim fights back, engaging her husband in a physical and psychological battle.
Author
Publisher
Guilford
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This influential book provides an innovative framework for understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, Donald G. Dutton demonstrates that male abusiveness is more than just a learned pattern of behavior--it is the outgrowth of a particular personality configuration. He illuminates the development of the abusive personality from early childhood to adulthood and presents an evidence-based...
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