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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Whatever the number, domestic violence victims remain far too many for a preventable crime. More and more victims of intimate partner violence are reaching out to police, prosecutors and judges only to be sorely disappointed, even betrayed. While laws and programs have multiplied over the last few decades to address domestic violence, the country is getting safer for almost everyone except for women who have, or have had, abusive male intimate partners....
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Set against the stark and surreal landscape of New Mexico, Land of Enchantment is a coming-of-age memoir about young love, obsession, and loss, and how a person can imprint a place in your mind forever. When Leigh Stein received a call from an unknown number in July 2011, she let it go to voice mail, assuming it would be her ex-boyfriend Jason. Instead, the call was from his brother: Jason had been killed in a motorcycle accident. He was twenty-three...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In this brave and beautiful memoir...a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse--examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship, why she endured years of physical and emotional pain, and how she eventually broke free."--
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Roaring '20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything, the looks, the wiles, the smokey jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin 'The Gimp' Snyder, who, even as he propelled her career, afflicted her. Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performance of songs from the era [the film] is based on the tough-minded tale of Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip she escaped...
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