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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan. Sutton starts with diagnosis?what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and sometimes surprising strategies for dealing with assholes?avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Highly sensitive people (HSPs) and those who identify as empaths are natural targets for narcissists, emotional vampires, and other controlling people due to their giving nature. The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People is a practical road map to help HSPs identify and deal effectively with toxic people-at work, in the family, in friendships, or in romantic relationships"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on over a decade of clinical and domestic abuse research, Women with Controlling Partners will help you identify the coercive constraints that can be predictive of intimate partner abuse, recognize the harmful effects of psychological abuse on your mental and physical health, and gain the personal strength and power to break free. Using the authors three-stage recovery model, youll be empowered to move out of denial, deconstruct what holds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 261 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Gaslighting is a technique of manipulating others to gain control, often practiced by those with personality disorders (including Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder). Whether it's a spouse, parent, coworker, or friend, gaslighters use a series of manipulation and distraction tactics to distort the truth--from lying, controlling, withholding, triangulation, and more--making their...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant...
Author
Publisher
Safe Place Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvii, 207 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist: Finding Healing After Hidden Emotional and Psychological Abuse is the most comprehensive and helpful book on the topic of covert narcissism. This type of narcissism is one of the most damaging forms because the abuse is so hidden and so insidious. You can be in a relationship that can last for decades and not realize you are being psychologically and emotionally controlled, manipulated, and abused. These people...
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 223 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on clinical research, stories from clients, and her own experience, an expert on religious trauma shows how readers can live as healing individuals after leaving a high-demand, high-control religious system"--
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 249 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This guide for getting over a toxic relationship looks at the Ten Foundational Steps to True Healing that can help survivors move forward, stop blaming themselves and find peace.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maybe you can relate. Maybe you know all too well the perils of modern dating. But let's say, eventually, you meet someone. You think to yourself, "Wow, they're perfect! Take me off the market, put a ring on it, knock me up, the whole enchilada, because they are 'the one.'" Let's also say that they "feel the same way" about you. Your life starts to make sense! All the pain, heartbreak, and frustration from past failed relationships was worth it....
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
216 pages
Language
English
Description
"For many people, cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and well-being. In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist Sherrie Campbell offers readers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member and provides powerful tools to help them heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma"--
Author
Series
Vita Nostra novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The sequel to the highly acclaimed Vita Nostra takes readers to the next stage in Sasha Samokhina's journey in a richly imagined world of dark academia in which grammar is magic--and not all magic is good.
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
He's an alcoholic freelance art director. And he likes to hurt girls. Mentally, not physically (except for that once ...). She's a photographer's assistant. Hurt people hurt other people more skillfully-- and they've both been very hurt. How much will they do to each other-- and allow to have done to themselves?
20) Harleen
Author
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Harleen Quinzel has a theory: mental illness is a survival mechanism. As she seeks to help the broken souls of Gotham City piece together their sanity she will become the one thing she fears the most: one of them. A bold new retelling of the tragic origin of Harley Quinn told through the eyes of the only person who knows her better than anyone: Harleen. It's been months since Harleen began interviewing criminals at Arkham Asylum, and she's having...
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