Bestsellers
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What Happened to You?
- Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
- By: Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry
- Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22,475
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Performance19,579
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Story19,411
"[Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past." —AudioFile This program is read by the authors. Our...
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I waited more than 30 years for this book.
- By Gary S. on 04-28-21
By: Oprah Winfrey, and others
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My Time to Stand
- A Memoir
- By: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, Melissa Moore, Michele Matrisciani
- Narrated by: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall898
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Performance871
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Story871
A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world.
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So many contradictions in one book
- By Ckelly on 12-17-24
By: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, and others
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- By: Bruce D Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,386
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Performance1,993
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Story1,986
In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover?...
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Nice to see some good come to those abused/neglect
- By C. Turner on 06-07-19
By: Bruce D Perry, and others
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The Mother Next Door
- Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
- By: Andrea Dunlop, Mike Weber
- Narrated by: Andrea Dunlop
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall493
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Performance473
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Story473
This program is read by the author. A groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that investigates Munchausen by Proxy from the host and creator of the award-winning true crime podcast Nobody Should Believe Me. "I devoured this chilling yet critically important book in 48 hours, unable to...
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So informative
- By Kindle Customer on 12-12-25
By: Andrea Dunlop, and others
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The Deepest Well
- Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- By: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,195
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Performance1,933
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Story1,927
A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems, and shows us what we can do to break the cycle. Two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, or ACE, such as abuse, neglect, parental substance dependence, or mental illness...
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A waste of time.
- By Sharrie DeCouto on 06-13-18
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The Hospital
- By: Barbara O'Hare
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,305
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Performance1,226
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Story1,221
A shocking account of how vulnerable children were preyed upon by a doctor entrusted with their care....
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Horrific childhood. Almost too bad to believe.
- By Suzy L. on 01-04-19
By: Barbara O'Hare
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What Happened to You?
- Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
- By: Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry
- Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22,475
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Performance19,579
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Story19,411
"[Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past." —AudioFile This program is read by the authors. Our...
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I waited more than 30 years for this book.
- By Gary S. on 04-28-21
By: Oprah Winfrey, and others
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My Time to Stand
- A Memoir
- By: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, Melissa Moore, Michele Matrisciani
- Narrated by: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall898
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Performance871
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Story871
A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world.
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So many contradictions in one book
- By Ckelly on 12-17-24
By: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, and others
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- By: Bruce D Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,386
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Performance1,993
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Story1,986
In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover?...
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Nice to see some good come to those abused/neglect
- By C. Turner on 06-07-19
By: Bruce D Perry, and others
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The Mother Next Door
- Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
- By: Andrea Dunlop, Mike Weber
- Narrated by: Andrea Dunlop
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall493
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Performance473
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Story473
This program is read by the author. A groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that investigates Munchausen by Proxy from the host and creator of the award-winning true crime podcast Nobody Should Believe Me. "I devoured this chilling yet critically important book in 48 hours, unable to...
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So informative
- By Kindle Customer on 12-12-25
By: Andrea Dunlop, and others
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The Deepest Well
- Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- By: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,195
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Performance1,933
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Story1,927
A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems, and shows us what we can do to break the cycle. Two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, or ACE, such as abuse, neglect, parental substance dependence, or mental illness...
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A waste of time.
- By Sharrie DeCouto on 06-13-18
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The Hospital
- By: Barbara O'Hare
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,305
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Performance1,226
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Story1,221
A shocking account of how vulnerable children were preyed upon by a doctor entrusted with their care....
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Horrific childhood. Almost too bad to believe.
- By Suzy L. on 01-04-19
By: Barbara O'Hare
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Slave Girls: Candice
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Slave Girls, a new series by bestselling author Louise Allen, reveals a shocking modern-day scandal of County Lines–the single most dangerous form of systematic child abuse prevalent today.
By: Louise Allen
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A Family Secret
- My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell
- By: Maureen Wood
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall904
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Performance820
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Story819
A shocking true story about familial betrayal, horrifying secrets and when justice prevails....
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Bravery in Spades
- By Mama of Roses on 03-22-21
By: Maureen Wood
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A Man Named Dave
- A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
- By: Dave Pelzer
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance29
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Story29
A Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy of memoirs that began with A Child Called It and The Lost Boy.
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Honest
- By STAHM on 08-07-25
By: Dave Pelzer
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This Happened to Me
- A Memoir
- By: Kate Price
- Narrated by: Kate Price
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance42
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Story42
A Washington Post Noteworthy Book (of July and August); a Book Riot Best Nonfiction Book of Summer; WBUR (Boston Public Radio) Twelve Books to Read This Summer “Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others.” —Jeannette Walls, #1...
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The Courage to Speak Truth, Shall Set You Free
- By mary c burnham on 08-17-25
By: Kate Price
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The Cutting Girl: Charlotte
- Slave Girls, Book 1
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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Story19
Slave Girls, a new series by bestselling author Louise Allen, reveals a shocking modern-day scandal of County Lines–the single most dangerous form of systematic child abuse prevalent today.
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Eye opening!
- By Philodendronmama on 10-29-25
By: Louise Allen
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Mothers Who Can't Love
- A Healing Guide for Daughters
- By: Susan Forward, Donna Frazier Glynn
- Narrated by: Susan Forward, Kathleen Gati, Julia Whelan, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall954
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Performance824
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Story825
With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters—and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful...
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Very Powerful. Deserves 6 stars!
- By wendy on 03-25-15
By: Susan Forward, and others
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Tears of the Silenced
- An Amish True Crime Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Brutal Betrayal, and Ultimate Survival
- By: Misty Griffin
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,029
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Performance5,730
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Story5,723
When Misty was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch where they were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence....
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Author is definitely dedicated
- By Felisa Kay on 09-15-20
By: Misty Griffin
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Where Children Run
- By: Karen Emilson
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall395
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Performance379
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Story380
Twins David and Dennis Pischke's lives change forever when their father dies and a man damaged by the war arrives at their farm near the isolated town of Moosehorn, Manitoba. Boleslaw Domko quickly works his way into their lives and their mother's bed....
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Must read
- By Shay on 11-06-24
By: Karen Emilson
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Unspeakable
- Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice
- By: Jessica Willis Fisher
- Narrated by: Jessica Fisher
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,029
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Performance958
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Story958
Read by the author. Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher gives a lacerating portrait of a girl finding her voice after years of being silenced and an unforgettable story of risk and faith. Growing up the eldest daughter in a large, highly controlled...
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"Don't tell" culture exposed
- By Angela on 11-03-22
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True Crime Case Histories, Books 1, 2 & 3
- 32 Disturbing True Crime Stories (3 Book True Crime Collection)
- By: Jason Neal
- Narrated by: Timothy G. Little
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall250
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Performance214
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Story214
What you are about to hear are my first three books. The stories in this collection will make you realize just how fragile the human mind can be....
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For true crime beginners....
- By BG on 06-03-21
By: Jason Neal
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My Daddy the Pedophile
- A Memoir
- By: Lily Palazzi
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall604
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Performance531
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Story530
After years of suffering multiple forms of abuse, a vulnerable young girl flees her home only to land straight into the arms of her biological father - a sexual predator....
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Tragic and healing
- By Terri on 10-22-21
By: Lily Palazzi
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Trish Hinde: Not My Fault
- By: Trish Hinde, Ann Cusack
- Narrated by: Laura Brydon
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance38
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Story38
A mum of three who was abused and raped as a child by her own father has revealed her ordeal drove her into the clutches of middle-aged paedophiles.
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Good story about survival
- By Sarah Marie on 11-09-25
By: Trish Hinde, and others
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Slave Girls: The Shrinking Girl
- Slave Girls
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
Slave Girls, a new series by bestselling author Louise Allen, reveals a shocking modern-day scandal of County Lines–the single most dangerous form of systematic child abuse prevalent today.
By: Louise Allen
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The Incest Diary
- By: uncredited
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall271
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Performance246
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Story248
“In the fairy tales about father–daughter incest—‘The Girl Without Hands,’ ‘Thousand Furs,’ the original ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Donkey Skin,’ and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivors—the daughters are all as you would expect them to be: horrified by...
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If I Can Bear Witness, I Must
- By Erin - Audible on 07-27-17
By: uncredited
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The Letter
- By: Sarah Sidebottom, Ann Cusack
- Narrated by: Charlotte Worthing
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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Story22
Co-written by the writer of Sunday Times bestsellers The Asylum, The Convent, Silent Sisters and Abandoned, this is the harrowing emotional story of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of a father.
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The Aftermath of Trauma
- By Jonathan Williams on 10-21-25
By: Sarah Sidebottom, and others
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Stella's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 1
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall401
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Performance387
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Story387
In her brand-new series Thrown Away Children, Louise Allen shares the harrowing stories she is exposed to as a foster mother. The first in the series, Stella's Story, tells the astonishing true story of a young girl scarred by an abusive past....
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Heartbreaking and wonderful!
- By Deb S. on 10-28-24
By: Louise Allen
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You're Not the Problem
- The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal
- By: Helen Villiers, Katie McKenna
- Narrated by: Helen Villiers, Katie McKenna
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance48
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Story48
Two popular psychotherapists explore narcissism in family of origin, unpacking the fallout from being raised by narcissistic parents, and offering strategies for how to heal. Many emotionally abusive behaviors from parent to child have become socially acceptable because of the way we repeat...
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Life changing
- By Amazon Customer on 08-16-24
By: Helen Villiers, and others
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The Courage to Heal
- A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
- By: Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
- Narrated by: Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance202
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Story201
Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child...
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Detailed and inspiring
- By Millican on 03-06-17
By: Ellen Bass, and others
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Angel Blue
- A Song of Redemption
- By: Forrest Lang
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Machado
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance43
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Story43
A homeless foster kid finds redemption in Iraq....
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Wow! What an Overcomer story!!
- By Nolan weltsch on 12-10-25
By: Forrest Lang
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Daddy's Wicked Parties: The Most Shocking True Story of Child Abuse Ever Told
- Skylark Child Abuse True Stories, Volume 2
- By: Kate Skylark, Lucy Gilbert
- Narrated by: Mackenzie Leigh Barmen
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall507
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Performance442
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Story444
This is the second volume of true, heinous child-abuse stories....
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NOT the most shocking child abuse story ever told.
- By debbieterryrn on 02-23-21
By: Kate Skylark, and others
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Etched in Sand
- A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
- By: Regina Calcaterra
- Narrated by: Regina Calcaterra
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,590
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Performance2,308
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Story2,301
#1 International Bestseller Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, former New York State official, and foster youth activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite...
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Big eye-opener about our Foster Care system
- By Jo L. on 09-14-16
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Toxic Parents
- Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
- By: Craig Buck, Susan Forward
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall776
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Performance653
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Story647
In this remarkable self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward draws on case histories and the real-life voices of adult children of toxic parents to help you free yourself from the frustrating patterns of your relationship with your parents....
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Its worth a listen.
- By Amanda on 08-20-12
By: Craig Buck, and others
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Willow's Story
- Thrown Away Children
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance70
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Story70
A young girl's life is shadowed by secrets and lies. When Willow arrives in the Allen household, curious things begin to happen. Who is the strange child dressed in outlandish clothes who refuses a mobile phone? What are the mysterious allegations that have been made about her?
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Basically a diary entry of a foster mom who doesn’t agree with iPhones and technology
- By Cupcake on 12-02-25
By: Louise Allen
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The Wounded Heart
- Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
- By: Dan B. Allender
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall243
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Performance207
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Story206
Sexual abuse knows no religious or social boundaries. The Wounded Heart is an intensely personal and specific look at this form of abuse....
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Not what I was hoping for ...
- By Kelly Cea on 05-09-17
By: Dan B. Allender