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The Women
The Impossible Knife of Memory
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
The Great Alone
What My Bones Know
Free Hand (Irons and Works, #1)
Love in the Afternoon (The Hathaways, #5)
Speak
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
Ten Tiny Breaths (Ten Tiny Breaths, #1)
Something like Normal
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Archer's Voice
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Best Mentally Ill Characters
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Judith Lewis Herman
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible e ...more
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