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Nonfiction Memoirs, Nonfiction Help books and fiction that features abuse dynamics in the primary plot. Please Add relevant books to list.
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Dear Teddy
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Telling Teddy
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Stupid Boy
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Goodbye Teddy
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Dear Mr. Ted
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Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002]
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The Color Purple
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2003 - Thanks for the Vodka
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Broken and alone... right?: I think we should talk...
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Magic America
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3.81 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Asleep with One Eye Open
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Masked: Relationship Abuse and Recovery Guide
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October Snow
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Jenna Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
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Abby Sher (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
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Ashley Marie Berry (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 88 ratings
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An Early Frost
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Jenna Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Carer
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Scott Nelson (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Domestic Violence-The Cure
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Benjamin Janey (Goodreads Author)
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Rescue Me
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Toni Leland (Goodreads Author)
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Beaten Down: Silently Suffering Trauma
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White Oleander
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Janet Fitch (Goodreads Author)
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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
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Women and Womb: A Journey Through the Transfer of a Destiny
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W.D. Smith (Goodreads Author)
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How Many Lies Are Too Many?
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How Far Will You Go for the Ring?
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Don't Forget Steven
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Dancing with Devia
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Viveca Benoir (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Womanarchy
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Khurt Khave (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Wild Truth: A Memoir
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Carine McCandless (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 13,722 ratings
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Beneath the Skin
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Kyla Stone (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
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Broken Chains
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Emiliya Ahmadova (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings
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No Fourth River. A Novel Based on a True Story. A profoundly moving read about a woman's fight for survival.
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Christine Clayfield (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Walking Over Eggshells
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Lucinda E. Clarke (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 344 ratings
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When I Hit You
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Meena Kandasamy (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 6,527 ratings
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Nobody's Home
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Robert Sherriff (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 82 ratings
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All the Silent Spaces: A Memoir
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Christine Ristaino (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Sam's Great Mission: Tell It Till It's Told
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Alice Had a Palace
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Brenda Rae Schoolcraft (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Release: Love Defamed
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Jasmine Farrell (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Great Endurance: My Journey. My Truth. My Life.
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If We Ever Tell
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My First Thirty Years
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Trained to Please: & Other Childhood Baggage
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Stevie Weber (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Hear Me
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Vicki Edwards (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Owning My Crazy: Learning To Overcome Trauma
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Mia’s Odyssey: Taking Back My Soul
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Mia Odeh (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Goodbye to Lovely: The harrowing true story of a woman’s struggle with urban poverty, domestic violence and addiction
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Buck Starmer (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Mariposas en la escalera: (Historia del peor abuso)
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RED-HEADED STEPCHILD
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Nightbird
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Shavaun Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond
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Simisola (Inspector Wexford, #16)
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To Murder Matt
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Viveca Benoir (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Only Alien on the Planet
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Kristen D. Randle (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 3,014 ratings
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Masked: Relationship Abuse and Recovery Guide
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Help Me
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Vicki Edwards (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Goodbye to Lovely
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Buck Starmer (Goodreads Author)
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Domestic Violence The Disease: The Sara Farraday Story
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Annette Reid (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 579 ratings
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An Unkindness of Ravens (Inspector Wexford, #13)
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Those Who Believe
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Secrets: The Conflicted Role of First-Generation Nigerian American Women Experiencing Domestic Violence
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Hold Me
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Vicki Edwards (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Torn From the Inside Out
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Sara Niles (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Deviation (Breaking the Pattern, #1)
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Betty's Child
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June & Justin (Between the Cracks, #2)
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Torn From the Inside Out
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Sara Niles (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Lion Within
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P.D. Workman (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Empty Chairs
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Spilled Milk
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K.L. Randis (Goodreads Author)
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The Journey
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 457,438 ratings
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A Woman Like You: The Face of Domestic Violence (New Leaf Series)
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No Visible Wounds: Identifying Non-Physical Abuse of Women by Their Men
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Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias
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