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“diane l redleaf”

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  • They Took the Kids Last Night

    How the Child Protection System Puts Families at Risk

    by Diane L. Redleaf ...
    This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine, family interests, and child safety can clash.They Took the Kids Last Night shows a rarely exposed side of America's contemporary struggle to address child abuse, telling the stories of loving families who were almost destroyed by false ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • What Can Be Held Briefly

    by Diane L. Redleaf ...
    Diane Redleaf's chapbook of 25 poems is part memoir, part musing, and part parenting guide for parents and grandparents who want to savor the fleeting moments from baby's birth to the ready-for-preschool years. Diane Redleaf is nationally-renowned child and family advocate who turned to poetry just as she became a first-time grandmother and caregiver during the COVID pandemic. These joyful and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Satan's Silence

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  • Romantically Disturbed: Love Poems to Rip Your Heart Out

    by Ben H. Winters ...
    Illustrated by Adam F. Watkins ...
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    Love Poems to Rip Your Heart OutFind a love to die for with Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters’s 30 haunting love poems. Accompanied by Adam F. Watkins’s beautifully horrifying illustrations, these eerie poems reveal that love is not always what it seems to be . . . ... Read more

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  • Inside This Place, Not of It

    Narratives from Women's Prisons

    Edited by Ayelet Waldman, Robin Levi ...
    Series series Voice of Witness
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  • When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough

    Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession

    Edited by Suzanne Gordon ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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  • You Are Not Alone

    by Anastasia Preston ...
    Strength is a thing we are made of We women carry it on our shoulders And in our minds. The struggle comes in never wanting to quit Never giving up envelops the strength Holding us together. I am STRENGTH I am HEART We are STRONG We play our part. --from I Am, I Have ... Read more

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  • Insane

    America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

    by Alisa Roth ...
    An urgent exposéf the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisonsAmerica has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders.In this ... Read more

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  • Tales of New York

    by Guy New York ...
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    by Silja JA Talvi ...
    More and more women—mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters—are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars.Oddly, there's been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here, and why? The answers are in Women Behind Bars, in ... Read more

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  • Dying to be Ill

    True Stories of Medical Deception

    by Marc D. Feldman, Gregory P. Yates ...
    Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with illness. By playing sick, we gained sympathy, care, and attention, and were excused from our responsibilities. Though doing so on occasion is considered normal, there are those who carry their deceptions to the extreme. In this book, Dr. Marc Feldman describes people’s strange motivations to fabricate ... Read more

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