child sexual abuse

A collection of first-person accounts of childhood sexual abuse.

The author shares the story of his twenty years as an Interpol operative, discussing how he came to be recruited, and providing details of his missions fighting crime around the world.

Provides anecdotes, interviews, exercises, and advice designed to help teens deal with the effects of sexual abuse.

The author provides an account of his life as a person with multiple personalities, discussing his efforts to understand what was happening to him, and his struggles to hang on to his family and some semblance of normalcy.

Explores the hysteria surrounding child sexual-abuse cases in the 1980s and 1990s, recounting the events surrounding high-profile cases and how they were portrayed in the media.

Tony Johnson reveals how he grew up abused, made school and New York's mean streets a refuge, was rescued by people who could love him, and ultimately had to face an AIDS diagnosis.

Despite their different backgrounds, Sarabeth, a teenager living with her mother in a trailer and transferring to a new school, makes friends with Grant and her affluent friends, including troubled Patty who shares a painful secret about her uncle.

Margaux Fragoso recounts the dark memories of her childhood, detailing her meeting and relationship with Peter Curran, a man forty years her senior, and the roles he played in her life as playmate, father, lover, and captor until his death by suicide when she was twenty-two.

Fifteen-year-old Dawn, who cares for her alcoholic mother, tries to suppress a painful childhood memory as she contemplates killing God, whom she blames for her father's disappearance.

Sandburg, early 1960s: In the dust and shadows of the attic, two friends as close as sister shared everything--fanciful stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the world. For Karen, the attic is her escape from the reality of her stepfather's unwanted attentions. Together in the eaves of a house with its own murderous history, the best friends concoct a scheme that will put Karen's stepfather in his place. It wasn't supposed to turn deadly. But in the attic Karen shares one more secret with her best friend--a secret to take to the grave.