
Dear Sister
A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
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In this "incendiary" memoir, a woman fights the criminal justice system to release her incarcerated sister after she kills her longtime abuser (Publishers Weekly).
In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton’s life: she learns that her sister has just shot her partner and is now in jail. Stunned, Michelle rearranges her life to raise Nikki's two young children alongside her own son.
During the investigation that follows, Michelle is shocked to learn that Nikki had been hiding horrific abuse for years. Michelle launches a fight to bring Nikki home, squaring off against a criminal justice system designed to punish the entire family.
Since Dear Sister’s original publication, Michelle’s fight—alongside a tireless network of supporters—has resulted in Nikki’s release from prison.
With a new chapter, an update from Nikki, and never-before-seen photographs documenting the homecoming, this edition provides a touching new conclusion to a profound, intimate story of resilience and the unbreakable bond of family.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. To be a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For young Drew Gilpin Faust, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial privilege proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was the necessary price of survival.
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My Life written by Her.
- De Jacqueline L Larner en 09-03-23
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Etched in Sand
- A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
- De: Regina Calcaterra
- Narrado por: Regina Calcaterra
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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In this story of perseverance in the face of adversity, Regina Calcaterra recounts her childhood in foster care and on the streets and how she and her savvy crew of homeless siblings managed to survive years of homelessness, abandonment, and abuse. Regina Calcaterra's emotionally powerful memoir reveals how she endured a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness in the shadow of the Hamptons, and how she rose above her past while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together.
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Big eye-opener about our Foster Care system
- De Jo L. en 09-14-16
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Girl Unbroken
- A Sister's Harrowing Story of Survival from the Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho
- De: Regina Calcaterra, Rosie Maloney
- Narrado por: Rosie Maloney, Regina Calcaterra
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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They are five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who leaves them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all, they have each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives "like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path". But when Regina emancipates herself as a minor and escapes, her siblings are separated.
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Needed a different person reading aloud
- De Mindy en 02-09-18
De: Regina Calcaterra, y otros
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Stolen
- The Astonishing Odyssey of Five Boys Along the Reverse Underground Railroad
- De: Richard Bell
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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Philadelphia, 1825: Five young, free Black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the US. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.
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Should have been a fact based novel
- De Cate F. en 01-11-21
De: Richard Bell
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Girl Hidden: A Memoir
- De: Jesse Rene Gibbs
- Narrado por: Lessa Lamb
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Echoing among the Blue Ridge Mountains were the cries of newborn babies that disappeared into the night. The screams of children nearly drowned out by the sound of crickets. A girl, hidden and waiting to be found, terrified, and confused. The fireflies sparkling in the woods, bringing light to darkled places.
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Beautiful Story
- De JMAR001 en 04-13-22
De: Jesse Rene Gibbs
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Limitless
- The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance
- De: Mallory Weggemann, Tiffany Yecke Brooks - contributor
- Narrado por: Mallory Weggemann
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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On January 21, 2008, a routine medical procedure left Mallory paralyzed from her waist down. Less than two years later, Mallory had broken eight world records, and by the 2012 Paralympic Games, she held fifteen world records and thirty-four American records. Two years after that, a devastating fall severely damaged her left arm. But despite all of the hardships that Mallory faced, she was sure about one thing: she refused to give up.
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Inspiring read
- De Mewmemphis en 04-25-21
De: Mallory Weggemann, y otros
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The Purest Bond
- Understanding the Human-Canine Connection
- De: Jen Golbeck, Stacey Colino
- Narrado por: Jen Golbeck
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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With all of the seismic shifts in today’s world, rates of anxiety and depression have been skyrocketing, and people have been turning to their dogs for solace and stability. Amidst these dire realities, something wonderful has taken shape. As people have brought furry friends into their lives for the first time or seized this opportunity to deepen the connections they already have, they are looking to understand how owning a dog can change their lives. Now, The Purest Bond explores the benefits our dogs can have on our physical, emotional, cognitive, and social well-being.
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I love dogs but
- De thomas en 09-18-24
De: Jen Golbeck, y otros
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Thunder Dog
- The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
- De: Michael Hingson, Susy Flory, Larry King - foreword
- Narrado por: Christopher Prince
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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First came the boom - the loud, deep, unapologetic bellow that seemed to erupt from the very core of the Earth. Eerily, the majestic high-rise slowly leaned to the south. On the 78th floor of the World Trade Center's north tower, no alarms sounded, and no one had information about what had happened at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001. Blind since birth, Michael couldn't see a thing, but he could hear the sounds of shattering glass, falling debris, and terrified people flooding around him and his guide dog, Roselle.
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Amazing story, some issues with the writing
- De Matthew en 04-08-22
De: Michael Hingson, y otros
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The Convent
- The Shocking True Story of Surviving and Evil Nun's Care Home from Hell
- De: Marie Hargreaves
- Narrado por: Dorothy Lawrence
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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When a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in 1959, her dad tells her she is going on holiday. But little does she know she will not see her home again for four long years. Her family cannot afford to keep her at home. Marie tells the story of how she was taken away from a poor but happy and loving home life to live in a convent - away from everyone and everything she holds dear. Her hair is bluntly chopped, her clothes are taken away and her name is changed. Then a horrific ritual of physical, sexual and mental abuse begins.
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Stunning Book
- De madameEmily en 10-09-21
De: Marie Hargreaves
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Between Two Trailers
- A Memoir
- De: J. Dana Trent, Barbara Brown Taylor - foreword
- Narrado por: J. Dana Trent
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic father, King. While King struggles with his unmedicated psychosis, Dana’s mother, the Lady, a cold and self-absorbed woman whose personality disorders rule the home, guards large bricks of drugs from the safety of their squalid trailer. But when the Lady impulsively plucks Dana from the Midwest and moves the two of them south, their fresh start results in homelessness and bankruptcy.
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This book was everything and more
- De Jim Henning en 05-15-25
De: J. Dana Trent, y otros
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Where Was God?
- De: Jennifer Dawn Turpin
- Narrado por: Tonia Rich
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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As far as Jennifer can remember, her father was abusive but her mother wasn’t always. She remembers a time when she felt loved by her mother. All that changed when Jennifer was 11. Her mother snapped and became a monster like her father was. Then they turned on her. Jennifer fought to become who she wanted to be, and not who her parents were trying to make her be. She refused to allow the torture change her, like it changed her mother. This is the story of Jennifer’s past, how she got through it, and how she survived it all.
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my best friend jennifer turpin
- De J.R. Taylor en 08-10-24
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The Bad Room
- Held Captive and Abused by My Evil Carer. A True Story of Survival.
- De: Jade Kelly
- Narrado por: Caro Clarke
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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When Jade Kelly met her new foster mother, she thought her prayers had been answered. Kindly Carol Docherty was everything her violent, drug-addicted mother was not. Loving and nurturing, she fed and clothed 10-year-old Jade and offered a life free of fear from near constant abuse. Or so Jade thought. As soon as social workers in Lancashire stopped their regular checks on Jade’s progress, Carol turned. Over the next six years Jade and three other girls were effectively kept prisoner in a bedroom she called the ‘bad room’ and subjected to unrelenting physical and mental abuse.
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The Bad Room, great story line and reading.
- De Gwen's Collection en 04-05-25
De: Jade Kelly
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Willow's Story
- Thrown Away Children
- De: Louise Allen
- Narrado por: Melanie Crawley
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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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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what a sad sad story, poor Willow
- De kaz2055 en 05-17-25
De: Louise Allen
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Everything Is Fine
- A Memoir
- De: Vince Granata
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received the news that would change his life - his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home.
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Brutal and Beautiful
- De 3dogknits en 07-14-21
De: Vince Granata
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A Most Tolerant Little Town
- The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
- De: Rachel Louise Martin
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Megan Tusing
- Duración: 10 h
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In graduate school, Rachel Martin was sent to a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of September 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to attempt court mandated desegregation.
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Amazing read!
- De Chris Thompson en 02-07-25
This book was very well written and the audible version was beautifully read. 
A Must Read
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true story
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Wonderful writing, heartbreaking, anger provoking
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Strong bonds/ strong sisters
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A must read so as women, we know there is no way we must continue to stay quiet.
Unbelievable resilience!!
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Best audible listen to date
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I highly reccomend this book. the writer is honest, insightful and A SUPERHERO
Couldn't Put it Down - All on a Sunday
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Absolutely beautiful
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Best book I’ve listened to yet!
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Very real
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