Author: Kelly R. Patterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998090931
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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In the quaint streets of small town USA, where neighbors are close friends and families share meals together, a young girl is snatched while walking home and savagely gang raped. Her life in the Heartland appears as it should with high grades and medals for athletics and music. However, the hidden dark shadows of her existence are only known by those who groom her as a slave for their brutal sexual cravings.These are the events that Kelly lived as a child and young adult. Shame and pain kept her silent for years. This heartbreaking account of personal survival from the sex trade industry in Heartland USA is full of hope and resilience. Kelly's journey of healing and freedom are giving her a loud voice today.From Trafficked To Treasured will help you discover how and why sex trafficking in rural America is surrounded in secrecy and is incredibly difficult to expose. It will cause you to recognize the signs of sex trafficking where you live, come alongside trafficked survivors, and become an advocate for those who are currently victims. Most importantly, if you are a victim, this book will help you get on the road to freedom. Buy this book as an essential tool in helping to understand one of the worst epidemics devastating our world today.
Author: Jasmine Grace Marino
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541154940
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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In her true story, The Diary of Jasmine Grace, this modern-day abolitionist reflects on the values and experiences that influenced her. From dating a man who would eventually sell her body, to finding redemption in the back seat of a car, Jasmine reveals the strengths, vulnerabilities and processes that changed her. She opens a door into her life as a prostitute, sharing her diary and the struggles that eventually landed her a seat in a 12-step program, a job in the anti-trafficking movement and a place in a community church. Speaking candidly about her years as a prostitute and heroin addict, Jasmine discusses how faith influenced her, and she sheds light on the road to recovery, relapse and redemption. Readers will: ∙ Understand the manipulation and mental programming in commercial sex ∙ Realize the role of the brain in addictive behaviors and recovery ∙ Learn about recovery obstacles after exiting the commercial sex trade
Author: Audrey Frank
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736975489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Hiding behind the Muslim woman’s veil is a heart longing for honor but often covered in shame. Meeting her will transform us all. Muslim women are coming out of hiding and telling their stories. With courageous voices, they disclose tales of shame and a fierce desire to be valued. We hold our breath as they whisper accounts of Jesus dressed in light, coming to them in dreams, offering honor in the place of shame, freedom instead of oppression. Their tales narrate a secret reality for all of us. We all long to be known, to be valued, to be rescued. We all are in desperate need of a Savior. In Covered Glory, you will meet Muslim women living in a culture with an honor-shame worldview that perpetuates their shame. As you discover how these women find freedom when they uncover their true identity, you will find that shame affects each one of us. Learn that while… shame tells us we are unworthy, truth tells us we were made to be loved shame tells us we are nobody, Jesus tells us, “You are somebody to me” shame tells us we are broken, God’s Word tells us healing comes from him It is only when we begin to understand the honor-shame gospel that we are set free. And so is our Muslim neighbor when we learn to tell her of the love of Jesus in a language she understands: the language of honor and shame.
Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 163557448X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak. In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still active-for 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun rises and her friends sleep soundly nearby, she remembers her life-and the lives of others, outcasts like her. Tequila Leila's memories bring us back to her childhood in the provinces, a highly oppressive milieu with religion and traditions, shaped by a polygamous family with two mothers and an increasingly authoritarian father. Escaping to Istanbul, Leila makes her way into the sordid industry of sex trafficking, finding a home in the city's historic Street of Brothels. This is a dark, violent world, but Leila is tough and open to beauty, light, and the essential bonds of friendship. In Tequila Leila's death, the secrets and wonders of modern Istanbul come to life, painted vividly by the captivating tales of how Leila came to know and be loved by her friends. As her epic journey to the afterlife comes to an end, it is her chosen family who brings her story to a buoyant and breathtaking conclusion.
Author: Kendall Talbot
Publisher: AnnetteKendall
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Will Archer’s quest to right a terrible wrong tear him and Rosalina apart forever? Trapped in a treacherous do-or-die contract that threatens the lives of everyone he knows, Archer is determined to settle the score. But, forced to scuba dive in shark-infested waters, Archer and Jimmy find a deadly secret that was never part of the deal. As the days tick down to the birth of their child, and Rosalina’s fiancé is missing half way around the world, she questions why they wanted to bring a newborn into their tumultuous lifestyle. And when a deadly nemesis crashes into their lives yet again, it seems not everyone will survive this time. Could this tear Archer and Rosalina apart forever? Treasured Tears is book six in the romantic suspense Treasure Hunters series, full of drama, danger, and passion. Get ready for new twists and turns in the glorious settings of Tuscany and the Caribbean Islands.
Author: Serenity Rayne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781957589053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Rejects? Outcasts? Motley Crew..Our brotherhood is forged in steel and blood. Thousands of miles ridden together have changed us from club to family. Ride or die isn't just a catch phrase it's a way of life for us.One call from Leviathan has turned our world upside down. A string of Omega abductions has finally caught the old dragon's attention. Summoned by the Wyrm himself we are sent out on what could possible be our last ride.Will we save the females or die trying? Only time will tell. I pray Fenrir is on our side.
Author: Harmony Dust
Publisher: Monarch Books
ISBN: 9780825463099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Fear of being abandoned keeps nineteen-year-old Harmony Dust trapped in an abusive and cruel relationship. She thinks she has hit bottom--tens of thousands of dollars in debt, struggling to get by, and so controlled by her boyfriend that she doesn't protest when he begins openly sleeping around. Things can't get worse . . . until someone tells her how much money she can make as an exotic dancer. For the next three years, Harmony lives a double life as Monique, a dancer in a fully-nude strip club. Scars and Stilettos is Harmony's stark, honest, and ultimately hopeful story of how God found her in that dark, noisy place and led her out. She has since married, completed an MA in social welfare, and now leads Treasures, an organization helping women in the sex trade discover their true worth. "Harmony wrote her story so that you and your friends may get help out of whatever dark tunnel you find yourself in. I know her heart, and it is to see all of us live our lives in the very purpose for which we were created. I do want to warn you . . . once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. You will laugh, you will cry, you will be encouraged, you will fall in love with God all over again . . . and you will want to get a copy for every person you know." --Holly Wagner, from the preface "Harmony's story is compelling evidence of how far the love of God reaches to heal broken lives and restore all that has been stolen." --Nancy Alcorn, Mercy Ministries
Author: Patricia Werner
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821750711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Pirate Queen Eldora Rawley meets her match in Robert Lamley, a former first mate to Captain Kidd. Sworn to find a trove of long-lost riches and clear Kidd's name, he takes to the seas again, hoping to outrace his beautiful rival, ravish her, and make her his bride.
Author: Bill Katovsky
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Contains over sixty highly personal perspectives about the media at war in Iraq.
Author: Arash Khazeni
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520958357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this trail unfolds the story of turquoise--a phosphate of aluminum and copper formed in rocks below the surface of the earth--and its discovery and export as a global commodity. In the material culture and imperial regalia of early modern Islamic tributary empires moving from the steppe to the sown, turquoise was a sacred stone and a potent symbol of power projected in vivid color displays. From the empires of Islamic Eurasia, the turquoise trade reached Europe, where the stone was collected as an exotic object from the East. The Eurasian trade lasted into the nineteenth century, when the oldest mines in Iran collapsed and lost Aztec mines in the Americas reopened, unearthing more accessible sources of the stone to rival the Persian blue. Sky Blue Stone recounts the origins, trade, and circulation of a natural object in the context of the history of Islamic Eurasia and global encounters between empire and nature.
