After the Darkness: A Survivor's TRUE Story of Childhood Incest, Rape, Abuse, Domestic Violence , and Her Ability to Overcome the Negative Impact These Events Had on Her Life
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The author shares her story of childhood incest, abuse , rape, and domestic violence. She tells of her ability to overcome these events. Adult content.
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Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just 14 years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the US, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.
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Moves very slowly
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By: Diane Guerrero, and others
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A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980s, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.
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Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his midteens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself. Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born.
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Confessions of a Video Vixen is the widely anticipated memoir of Karrine Steffans, the once-sought-after sexy siren who appeared in the music videos of multiplatinum hip hop artists such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly, and LL Cool J. A top-paid video dancer, Karrine transitioned to film when acclaimed director F. Gary Gray picked her to costar in his film A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel.
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It ishard to stop listening to this one
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Chiquis Rivera is a singer and the daughter of the late music superstar Jenni Rivera. In Forgiveness, her memoir, Chiquis bravely reveals the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father during her childhood and the difficulties she's faced in her personal life as a result. Despite growing up marked by the wounds of abuse, she eventually conquered her fear of love and intimacy.
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Audio
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By: Chiquis Rivera
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A Bad Idea I'm About to Do
- True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
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Chris Gethard has often found himself in awkward situations most people, including you, probably would have safely avoided. The good news is now, thanks to this book, you can enjoy the painfully funny consequences of his unfortunate decisions at a safe distance. A Bad Idea I'm About to Do invites listeners to join Chris as he navigates an adolescence and adulthood mired in hilariously ill-fated nerdom, and to take comfort in the fact that - as his experiences often prove - things could always be much, much worse.
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Disgruntled
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Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's black - most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are, too. Maybe it's because she calls her father - a housepainter-slash-philosopher - "Baba" or because her parents' friends gather to pour out libations "from the Creator, for the Martyrs" and discuss "the community".
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Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
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An ok way to kill some time
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Brian Belovitch has the rare distinction of coming out three times: first as a queer teenager; second as a glamorous transgender woman named Tish, and later, Natalia Gervais; and finally as an HIV-positive gay man surviving the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. From growing up in a barely-working-class first-generation immigrant family in Fall River, Massachusetts, to spinning across the disco dance floor of Studio 54 in New York City, Brian escaped many near-death experiences. Trans Figured chronicles a life lived on the edge with an unforgettable cast of characters.
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How utterly exhausting
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By: Brian Belovitch
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After the Eclipse
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her ultimate mission to know the woman who gave her life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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By: Sarah Perry
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Dancing For the Devil
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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blunt
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Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels
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Recently hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in The New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this staggeringly candid and hilarious novella-length memoir. With a recent diagnosis of attention deficit disorder, and news that V's first lover from childhood has been imprisoned for impersonating an undercover police officer, Bond recalls in vivid detail coming of age as a trans kid. Always haunted by the knowledge of being "different," Bond was further confused when the bully next door wanted to meet secretly. Their trysts went on for years, and made Bond acutely aware of sexual power and vulnerability. With inimitable style, Bond raises issues about LGBTQ adolescence, homophobia, parenting, and sexuality, while being utterly entertaining.
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Justin Vivian Bond Knocks It Out of the Park
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Peace from Broken Pieces
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,866
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New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned—from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughter's 15 months of illness and death on Christmas day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Iyanla is Inspirational! A GREAT LISTEN!!!
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Kaffir Boy
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 357
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tragic yet we'll written
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A Chance in the World
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A Chance in the World is the unbelievably true story of a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience, determination, and vision. Through it all, Steve's story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Book
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Finding Me
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In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely beautifully Written❤️
- By Love bug23 on 05-02-22
By: Viola Davis
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Unfortunately, abuse happens everywhere and can come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes, it can happen right in front of us, and we still won't see it, or maybe, we just choose to ignore it hoping that one day it will go away on its own. This is my true story about living with a monster - a monster whom only those in my household would have ever had the unfortunate chance to meet. The monster I called my daddy!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard listening
- By Wanda on 03-12-21
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Father's Days
- A True Story of Incest
- By: Katherine Brady
- Narrated by: Renee Despins
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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To the outside world, she was a bright, popular, all-American adolescent. But at home, behind closed doors, lived another Katherine - shamed, isolated, afraid - locked in a forbidden embrace from which there was no escape. It was a secret too terrible to silence. It had to surface, shattering her life, changing it radically - but with its release, bringing at last a new hope, not just to Katherine and her family, but to all the Katherine Bradys everywhere who will recognize themselves as they hear her story.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator reads way too fast
- By Brian Agnetti on 11-27-23
By: Katherine Brady
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KERI 8: The Original Child Abuse True Story
- Child Abuse True Stories
- By: Kat Ward
- Narrated by: Bridget Thomas
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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When Kat Ward put down her pen after finishing the seventh book in her “KERI” series, she considered her mission complete. Nearly twenty years had passed since her therapist originally recommend writing as a means of healing her childhood wounds. And after taking listeners on a stomach-twisting journey through her hellish formative years, she was ready to look in the mirror again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Written beautifully
- By Amazon Customer on 10-14-24
By: Kat Ward
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 802
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Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher tells a lacerating story of finding her voice after two decades of silence and an unforgettable story of risk and faith.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Don't tell" culture exposed
- By Angela on 11-03-22
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Enslaved
- My True Story of Survival
- By: Emily Vaughn
- Narrated by: Janine Cooper Marshall
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Emily has always felt like an outsider, so when a family friend takes her under his wing she is delighted. But soon it becomes clear that his motives are not all they seem. At the age of 11, Emily is groomed into being a ‘county lines’ drug trafficker. It is the beginning of a vicious cycle that sees her become prey to one abuser after another, involving a huge child-sex-trafficking gang. The scale of the abuse—at the hands of hundreds of men—is sickening, and at times it feels like there will never be an escape. But then, in the darkest of moments, a ray of light shines....
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3 out of 5 stars
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misleading title
- By Lisa H. on 01-21-21
By: Emily Vaughn
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Every 9 Minutes
- A Memoir
- By: Christina Vitagliano
- Narrated by: Paige Reisenfeld
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
With poignant prose and a deeply authentic personal story, this harrowing account exposes the stark and painful realities of childhood abuse, painting a heart-breaking picture of the lasting pain and fear that it inflicts on its victims. Spanning 30 years, in this coming-of-age memoir, author Christina Vitagliano recounts in vivid detail the frightening nights spent when her father loomed in the doorway of her bedroom, along with the psychological toll that the relentless familial abuse took on her psyche.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written
- By Amazonbuyer on 12-24-23
What listeners say about After the Darkness: A Survivor's TRUE Story of Childhood Incest, Rape, Abuse, Domestic Violence , and Her Ability to Overcome the Negative Impact These Events Had on Her Life
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- Am
- 11-16-20
heart breaking.
heartbreaking to read at times but good read . she has a strong testimony. wow
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- Melissa B
- 08-08-20
very graphic. but powerful.
Candace is a survivor. Her faith is God is inspirational. Her drive to succeed and beat the odds is encouraging. Great book. Hard to listen to at times. Thanks for sharing.
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- Aicesha Monteiro
- 12-22-18
Inspirational
Knowing Rev. Candance Breen personally, I was only privy to a small part of what she has revealed in this book. She is a strong devoted wife and mother that has overcome many obstacles in life. This book serves a tremendous inspiration to the many of us who have unfortunately dealt with abuse or abandonment. It shows that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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- samantha
- 10-07-19
This book is absolutely amazing!!
I absolutely recommend reading this book. Especially if you're a survivor. This book makes you feel every emotion possible.
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- Nubi
- 01-06-22
Story is great
The story is good it was just hard for me to to stay focused or connect to it because it just didn’t sound right…maybe if it was a black woman I think I would’ve been been more in tune but I had to rewind often because I would lose focus…either way the story is definitely something to listen to
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- Kelly Pelesky
- 08-08-24
Hard to get through.
The reader is very monotone. Difficult to follow story. All over the place. Very confusing timeline.
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