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Black Swan: The Twelve Lessons of Abandonment Recovery
Susan Anderson
Rock Foundations Press, 2000
A Guy's Review - Scientifically proven system
I bought this for a woman I care deeply about. I knew she had some abandonment issues and thought it may help and want her to be happy and healthy even if she's not with me. I read through it briefly. I'm sure it helped me too and I don't have this type of issues. It's ...
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Ghostly Ruins: America's Forgotten Architecture
Harry Skrdla
Princeton Architectural Press, 2006
Disappearing fast
A very impressive photo documentary of buildings and places that have been left to uncertainty, the elements, or destroyed. The brief histories given for each place makes for some interesting reading. The photographs are magnificent, I wish I could step into them and ...
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Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment and Fear
Claudia A. Black
Hazelden, 2002
Great insight and solutions for both addicted & family.
Claudia Black has an inside track of what it feels like to be a family member in a family where addictive behavior is going on. She is able to write in understandable fashion the complex dynamics that go on in addictions and recovery. She never fails to understand ...
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The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Turn the End of a Relationship into the Beginning of a New Life
Susan Anderson
Berkley Trade, 2000
Changed my life
I struggled for years to get over an abusive marriage and the loss of my mother at 9. I picked up this book after a bad relationship in which I was, once again, loved and abandoned. I didn't know I had abandonment issues until I looked at this book. I related to ...
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Runaway
Wendelin Van Draanen
Laurel Leaf, 2008
Runaway
Runaway is one of the best books I have ever read it keeps you entertained until the end. If you don't like this book you are crazy. This book has adventure andand saddness. I almost cried. It is a great book and you should raed it.
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Abandonment
Kate Atkinson
Nick Hern Books, 2001
An excellent play that tells two linked stories
"Abandonment," be Kate Atkinson, is a play that switches back and forth in time to tell two connected stories. The opening pages of the book note that the play was first performed at the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2000; also noted is the fact that the ...
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Warming The Stone Child: Myths & Stories About Abandonment And The Unmothered Child
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Sounds True, 2005
Insight into Emotional Hunger
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. is the author of Women Who Run With the Wolves and is an award-winning poet. Her voice is mysterious and beautiful. In "Warming the Stone Child" she introduces myths to give insight into the psyche of adults who felt they were abandoned in ...
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The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945
David S. Wyman
New Press, 2007
Disturbing.
The reader will not want to believe what is being read. The evil, satanic Nazi regime and it's methods intent on the slaughter and genocide of the European Jews is well documented elsewhere. Little is written or heard about the passive accomplices....I hesitate in ...
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Abandonment to Divine Providence (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)
Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Dover Publications, 2008
let go - let God
A very comforting form of spirituality, one practised by Therese of Lisieux (the little flower). In a world of shoulds, filled with spiritual directors & self help gurus de Caussade maintains that the Holy Spirit, who knows us intimately and loves us passionately, ...
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Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
HarperTeen, 2004
Walk Two Moons
Never judge a book solely on its cover. Wait until you read it. When the guy in ratty clothes drives by in a junk pile on wheels, don't assume he's poor. He may be the richest man in town. When it takes that socially awkward student in your class extra time to ...
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The Day My Mother Left
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2007
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Jeremy's mother has often been disappearing for hours at a time, but on a Sunday afternoon all truths are told.
His mother has found a new love - the father of Jeremy's enemy at school and on the baseball field. A fight occurs between Jeremy's mother and father. ...
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Finding the Right Spot: When Kids Can't Live With Their Parents
Janice Levy
American Psychological Association (APA), 2004
Right on Target
Finding the Right Spot has a double meaning in this superb book of the same name. It is a story of disappointment and reconciliation for a little girl placed in foster care and the dog who is unapproachable until she finds just the right place to touch him. Geared ...
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Skate
Michael Harmon
Laurel Leaf, 2008
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Fifteen-year-old Ian McDermott already has a tough life: He's never really known his father, his mother is a drug addict and spends most of her time on the streets, and he is left caring for his younger brother, Sammy. What he needs from "the system" is some help; what ...
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Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta
HarperTeen, 2008
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Taylor Markam was abandoned by her mother at a 7-Eleven on Jellicoe Road when she was a mere eleven years old. Only moments later a woman by the name of Hannah picked her up and brought her to the Jellicoe School. Now she is seventeen and finds that Hannah is a rock in ...
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Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence
Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade
TAN Books & Publishers, 1987
The true meaning of God's omnipresence
God's omnipresence is taken for granted by all Christians. But it is so easy to assume this applies merely to the physical and material world. If He is omnipresent in a physical sense, then He must also be present in every circumstance we experience our lives, no ...
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