GIRLS LIKE US: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale
Author: RACHEL LLOYD
Rachel Lloyd’s riveting survivor story is the true tale of her hard-won escape from the commercial sex industry and her bold founding of GEMS, New York City’s Girls Education and Mentoring Service, to help countless other young girls escape “the life.” Lloyd’s unflinchingly honest memoir is a powerful and unforgettable story of inhuman abuse, enduring hope, and the promise of redemption.
THE BETRAYAL BOND: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships
Author: PATRICK CARNES
Exploitive relationships can create trauma bonds–chains that link a victim to someone who is dangerous to them. In The Betrayal Bond Patrick Carnes presents an in-depth study of these relationships, why they form, who is most susceptible, and how they become so powerful. He shows how to recognize when traumatic bonding has occurred and gives a checklist for examining relationships. He then provides steps to safely extricate from these relationships.
INVISIBLE CHAINS: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking
Author: Benjamin Perrin
The global problem of human trafficking is only beginning to be recognized in Canada, even though it has been hidden in plain sight. In Invisible Chains, Benjamin Perrin, an award-winning law professor and policy expert, exposes cases of human trafficking, recording in-depth interviews with people on the front lines—police officers, social workers, and the victims themselves—and bringing to light government records released under access-to-information laws.
THE NATASHAS: The New Global Sex Trade
AUTHOR: VICTOR MALAREK
The buying and selling of human beings for the worldwide sex industry is organized crime’s fastest-growing business with up to two million people globally—mostly women and children—being trafficked into the sex trade every year.
THE TRUE STORY OF CANADIAN HUMAN TRAFFICKING
AUTHOR: PAUL BOGE
This story chronicles the perspective of trafficking’s victims, the methods used for recruiting girls, the men who use them. The story revolves around Abby Summers, a high school student from Markham, Ontario, who is lured into the world of selling sex. When Abby finally wants out, she discovers she is trapped. Meanwhile, an Ottawa member of Parliament, Joy Smith, struggles to build support for a human trafficking bill to ensure that minimum sentences are given to anyone convicted of luring girls into sex slavery. It’s an uphill battle.
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STOLEN: The True Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor
Author: kATARIINA rOSENbLATT
A dramatic memoir of an American woman who as a child was recruited, bought, and sold as a victim of the sex trade without ever leaving Us borders. As Kat shares her harrowing experiences, readers will quickly realize the frightening truth that these terrible things could have happened to any child—a neighbor, a niece, a friend, a sister, a daughter. But beyond that, they will see that there is real hope for the victims of sex trafficking. Stolen is more than a warning. It is a celebration of survival that will inspire. This book is written from a Christian perspective.