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Perfectly Planned
- Overcoming Incest, Rape & Sexual Abuse
- Narrated by: Denise Nelson
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A survivor of 20 years of abuse and battles that would destroy most, from incest to sexual molestation, physical and verbal abuse, rape, and abandonment, speaks out.
I am a woman who knows my past and understands that my experiences are purely lessons meant to bring me closer to self-knowledge and unconditional self-love. I also know that without God, I am nothing. My life was Perfectly Planned by the Lord himself.
Abuse is like AIDS: It has no prejudice. Demographics, nationality, gender, religion, or age cannot spare you. If you are uneducated and unprotected, you can become a victim of abuse. The effects it has on your mind, body, and soul will devour you.
I was a victim, but now I am a survivor, and the purpose of this book is to inspire you to forgive yourself and your abuser(s). It was written to educate you on how to not allow your past to dominate your present and future as well as to accept, own, and embrace your past. Understand that there is life after abuse.
So ask yourself one question: Has it ever happened to you? If you answered yes, then listen to this book and free your mind. If you answered no, then listen to this book and cultivate your mind.
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- D. Sullivan
- 09-11-17
Shouldn't get Any Stars!
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
This book is poorly written, even more poorly narrated. And while I thought it would give me insight into working with victims of sexual assault, it merely was a very poor attempt at porn, in my humble opinion; which I do not wish to read.
Would you ever listen to anything by Kelly R. Porter again?
Probably not
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narration was awful. When narrating words of the author, the tone never changed from a very young child... even as the story line progressed the author in age.
Any additional comments?
I do not recommend this book. I would not give it any stars at all in my review, if that were possible.
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- Sandi Duprey
- 06-06-19
Kelly is a walking miracle
It’s hard to fathom the abuse that children suffer at the hands of pedophiles and other abusers. And harder yet to see them grow through the trauma and come out on the other side a healthy, kind and genuine soul who’s life mission is to help others. Kudos, Kelly, for transformation. You truly are an inspiration.
One issue with the narration is that in several places in the book, sentences are repeated. It was kind of distracting.
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- How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair)
- By: Rosie Perez
- Narrated by: Rosie Perez
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Rosie Perez first caught our attention with her fierce dance in the title sequence of Do the Right Thing and has since defined herself as a funny and talented actress who broke boundaries for Latinas in the film industry. What most people would be surprised to learn is that the woman with the big, effervescent personality has a secret straight out of a Dickens novel. At the age of three, Rosie’s life was turned upside down when her mentally ill mother tore her away from the only family she knew and placed her in a Catholic children’s home in New York’s Westchester County.
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Informative Memoir
- By Delah on 10-02-14
By: Rosie Perez
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The Hearts of Men
- By: Travis Hunter
- Narrated by: Ezra Knight
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Songwriter, poet, and best-selling author Travis Hunter was named Author of the Year by readers of the Atlanta Daily World. In The Hearts of Men, a reformed player, a workaholic trying to overcome his past, and a faithful husband diagnosed with lung cancer all struggle to be the men they hope to be. But life and human frailty have a way of throwing stumbling blocks before the best of intentions.
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Straight To The Hearts of Women
- By Naomi M. Stevens on 06-10-09
By: Travis Hunter
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Miss Brenda and the Loveladies
- A Heartwarming True Story of Grace, God, and Gumption
- By: Brenda Spahn, Irene Zutell
- Narrated by: Pam Ward, Bahni Turpin, Johanna Parker, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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For Brenda Spahn, entrepreneur and businesswoman, wealth was a lifestyle - until a brush with the law threatened to send her to prison. In those dark moments, Brenda made a promise to God.
Spared incarceration, a renewed Brenda glimpsed into the lives of women serving time in one of the worst places in America - the JuliaTutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. What she saw prompted a God-inspired vision. With a heart to help and a will that couldn't be crushed, Brenda fought the system and overcame tremendous obstacles to take ex-cons into her home.
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Grace, God . . . and Giving Back
- By Debbie on 11-10-16
By: Brenda Spahn, and others
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White Lines
- By: Tracy Brown
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Jada left home at the age of sixteen, running from her own demons and the horrors of physical abuse inflicted by her mother’s boyfriend. She partied hard, and life seemed good when she was with Born, the neighborhood kingpin whose name was synonymous with money, power, and respect. But all his love couldn’t save her from a crack addiction. Jada goes from crack addict and prostitute to survivor and back again before she finds the strength to live for herself and come out on top.
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A very compelling story
- By Dornetta on 12-25-11
By: Tracy Brown
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Dancing For the Devil
- One Woman's Dramatic and Divine Rescue from the Sex Industry
- By: Anny Donewald, Carrie Gerlach Cecil
- Narrated by: Anny Donewald
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The daughter of an NCAA Championship-winning basketball coach and a stay-at-home mom, Anny Donewald had a seemingly blessed childhood. Then, at thirteen, one of her father’s players sexually abused her, and Donewald embarked on a path toward self-destruction. When Donewald was convinced to compete in an amateur night at a strip club, she found herself drawn into a world of drugs, money, and flesh peddlers in Michigan and Chicago - and eventually Las Vegas’ hottest XXX clubs.
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blunt
- By nicole on 05-23-15
By: Anny Donewald, and others
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A Gangster's Girl
- Gangster's Girl, Book 1
- By: Chunichi
- Narrated by: iiKane
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Ceazia, a very attractive, very good girl who has just left the safety of her parents' home and entered into the world of bad boys and fast money. Ceazia thinks the world belongs to her when she meets Vegas, one of the Tidewater, Virginia, area's most notorious drug dealers. Even though a relationship with Vegas goes against everything her parents taught her, she still can't resist his bad boy persona.
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I enjoy it
- By Anonymous User on 10-12-20
By: Chunichi
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I Was Made to Love You
- The Ceanna and Avantae Story
- By: Jessica Wren
- Narrated by: Keith Benn Jr.
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Ceanna is forced to bury her best friend after a sudden illness. Now she's guardian to her best friend's daughter, and Ceanna wonders if she can raise Jalisa and deal with the newly discovered betrayal by Tonya and her husband, Jaceyon. Fighting for a divorce while carrying Jaceyon's twin daughters, Ceanna tries to mask her emotions and deal with her situation. Avantae knows that loving his stepbrother's wife is wrong, but he can't deny his feelings for Ceanna. He is determined to be a better man for Ceanna. Things are finally looking up for him, until Zaria comes back to settle a score.
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just unbelievable
- By AJWalker on 12-26-18
By: Jessica Wren
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Call Me Cockroach
- Based on a True Story
- By: Leigh Byrne
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Our prisons and mental hospitals are filled with tragic stories like Tuesday Storm's. Her early childhood was riddled with torturous "games" and violent physical attacks. She was isolated from the rest of her family, locked in an attic with nothing but a bare bed and a bucket for a toilet, and fed just enough to be kept alive. The experts say it's next to impossible to find the soul's light in a dark past like Tuesday's.
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The rest of the story...
- By PJH on 07-11-15
By: Leigh Byrne
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Cover Girl
- Prized Posessions
- By: Brittani Williams
- Narrated by: Nicole Small
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Brooklyn Johnson had it all - money, jewels, designer clothes, a successful modeling career, and men falling at her feet. Now she's struggling to keep up the facade. When life was good, she wasn't always good to those around her. Even as she developed a drug addiction and struggled to maintain her sanity, she never felt she needed anyone. Now that an illness has turned her life upside down, she finds herself having to make amends with all the people she's wronged.
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GREAT BOOK
- By PK on 02-19-19
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I Ain't Me No More
- Book One of the Always Diva Series
- By: E. N. Joy
- Narrated by: Diana Luke
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Helen wasn't just born the devious vixen of New Day Temple of Faith. There had to be something rooted deep within her to make her inflict and feed off other people's pain. Perhaps it was her own pain that she had suppressed for so many years - an unimaginable pain - that created an internal prison of which her mind was the only captive. But once the demons within her break free, those around her better beware, as Helen surely becomes the epitome of the saying, "Hurt people, hurt people".
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This Can't Be Life
- By Readers Paradise on 07-29-14
By: E. N. Joy
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Heavy
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion, and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been.
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Be prepared
- By Amy Eberle on 10-30-18
By: Kiese Laymon