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“emma charles”

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  • How Could He Do It?

    by Emma Charles ...
    'In many ways we were an ordinary family: mum, dad, two kids, three dogs, one rabbit, two guinea pigs. I stayed at home, studying with the Open University, and dad worked, and the kids went to private schools. We lived in a rather nice semi in a rather nice area of Edinburgh, with a rather nice Volvo in the drive, and took rather nice holidays, wearing rather nice clothes. I loved Daniel deeply ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • A Green Dragon Sleeping

    by Emma Charles ...
    The Sparrow grows up in Singapore in the late 1800s after her mother is killed in a shipboard mutiny. As a child, she was taken in by an elderly Chinese apothecary and his Malay wife. Now a young woman, a chance encounter with an American reporter, Benjamin T. Greaves, results in the Sparrow's true identity as Samille Beauvoir Langley being uncovered. After Samille is reunited with her father in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nelle

    by Emma Charles ...
    In this historical novella, Elanor Rose 'Nelle' Keller and her younger sister, Josephine Joy 'Pheen' Keller grow up in a close-knit family along Brushy Fork in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in the years preceding and including World War II. Beautiful, headstrong Nelle moves confidently through life to achieve her dreams. Shyer, quieter Pheen watches her big sister with awe. While Pheen worries and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A High Sanctuary

    by Emma Charles ...
    After a shipwreck along the California coast in the late 1880s, a child is presumed orphaned. She's given a name-Juliana Russell-and a home by the lighthouse keeper and his wife, Bernard and Faith Russell. The only clue to her identity is an enigmatic gold figurine she wore as a necklace. Years later, when another shipwreck brings two young men-James Dutton and Will McKenna-to the lighthouse, an ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • LITTLE ANN

    by Emma Charles ...
    Growing up in Eastern Kentucky between the world wars is hard enough for Little Ann and her family, but the hard times are tempered by a house full of love. That world changes when shaken by an unexpected loss, and Little Ann must contrive to take care for her siblings in a harsh new reality. With a stepmother and new mouths to feed, will she find a way forward for her brothers and sisters? And ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    by Sophie Young ...
    Sophie Young tells her shocking true story in Please Will Someone Help Me?Sophie Young was born into a dysfunctional family, with a violent mother and father. Sophie was routinely neglected and harmed, starved and left to fend for herself. Social workers were often involved but, despite numerous visits and extensive reports, nothing was ever done.When Sophie was six, her life took another horrible ... Read more

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  • Never Call Me Mummy Again

    by Peter Kilby ...
    The heartbreaking but inspiring true story of a childhood of abuse, and finding a way out of the darkness.Peter was just a toddler when his mother tragically died after trying to abort a child they simply couldn't support.When his father swiftly replaced her with his mistress, Peter made the mistake of calling her 'Mummy'. Dragged outside, trampled on and shouted at, Peter never made that mistake ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Cupboard Under the Stairs

    A Boy Trapped in Hell...

    by Paul Mason ...
    Paul Mason's father was a policeman. He was also a member of a sadistic paedophile ring. He would keep Paul locked up and naked in a tiny cupboard under the stairs of their home before sexually abusing him. This cycle of abuse continued for several years and also affected his brother. The cupboard became a horrific prison where fear and terror filled his every moment.The Cupboard Under the Stairs ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • You Love Your Daddy, Don't You?: A True Tragedy About Sexual Abuse

    by Sarah Harrison ...
    Mama, something terrible is wrong with me. There is blood in my panties! Those were the words of seven-year-old Sarah. Mama told her she must have fallen or something and not to worry. Sarah went away feeling sad; her chance for help was gone! It was Sarahs alter, Susie, who had been sticking pencils and other items in her private place. Susie had come when Sarah was only four years old. Susie ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • As I Lay Me Down to Sleep

    by Eileen Munro, Carol McKay ...
    When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen. Then, when their marriage broke down, they failed to protect her from sexual abuse at the hands of a family friend.After watching ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • City Kid

    by Mary MacCracken ...
    From the author of international bestsellers A Circle of Children and Lovey comes an inspiring true story of a gifted teacher’s determination to understand the ‘rotten’ city kid everyone has given up on.Sitting quiet and withdrawn at a battered school desk, Luke had the looks of a shy angel – and a past that special needs teacher Mary MacCracken could barely believe.Already Luke had been picked up ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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  • Childhood Lost

    by Claire Atherton ...
    The one person who was meant to protect and love me above all else was the one person who refused to give it; who excelled at dishing out brutal punishments without fear of reprisals just for the fun of it.The sky was the limit when it came to my fathers demonic designs in ways to maltreat myself and my sister - bible, cooking utensils, vacuum cleaners and slippers were the regular tools of choice ... Read more

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