"[The author} explores America's epidemic of domestic violence and how it has been misunderstood, sharing insights into what domestic violence portends about other types of violence and what countermeasures are needed today."

"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...

With a new name and fake ID papers, Sarah Patterson, on the run from her violent estranged husband--a police lieutenant--takes a job working with Hollywood's golden boy director who, as their bond deepens, attempts to keep Sarah out of harm's way.

Includes facts about risk factors, warning signs, and forms of physical, sexual, mental, emotional, and financial abuse in women, men, adolescents, imigrants, elders, and other specific populations. Also facts about digital dating abuse and cyberbullying, victims and abusers, strategies for preventing and intervening in abusive situations, interventions through workplaces and faith communities, tips regarding legal protections, a glossary of related...

"Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and Lana's daughter, Cheryl, witnessed her mother's bruises...