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In her new book, the Sunday Times and New York Times best-selling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her. Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever fostered. Sweet and seemingly well balanced girl, Dawn's outward appearance masked a traumatic childhood so awful, that even she could not remember it.

In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother. Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally...

June Briand shot four bullets into her husband's head and was sentenced to 15 years to life. This is the shocking, true story of survival - and the intense bond June shared with her pathologically violent husband, a monster who physically and sexually tortured, degraded, and dominated her so relentlessly she refused to believe he was dead even after she killed him.

In a world defined by uncertainty, loss, and relentless change, the human spirit is tested as never before. Desperate Optimism explores the paradox at the heart of endurance: the power to hope, create, and act even when circumstances seem bleak, and outcomes are uncertain. It is neither naïve faith nor passive wishful thinking, but a deliberate, defiant choice to engage fully with life despite its fragility.

A Desperate Housewives recap podcast. Listen as two unwed women watch and recap ABC's critically acclaimed show, Desperate Housewives.

In 2009, Samieh Hezari made a terrible mistake. She flew from her adopted home of Ireland to her birthplace in Iran so her 14-month-old daughter, Rojha, could be introduced to the child's father. When the violent and unstable father refused to allow his daughter to leave and demanded that Samieh renew their relationship, a two-week holiday became a desperate five-year battle to get her daughter out of Iran. If Samieh could not do so before Rojha turned seven, the father could take sole custody - forever.

This is the story of Sofiya Kalyna, a young woman on a mission to heal the world. One heart at a time. Beginning with hers. #D4L is the first podcast where the host transforms in real time. Not after the glow-up, not once she’s “healed,” but right in the middle of the chaos. Unfiltered. Unafraid. Unapologetic. Sofiya exposes the parts of herself—and all of us—that don’t fit the feed. Each episode rebels against the algorithm and reveals what most people would never admit online. Tune in and remember: the most powerful thing you can be is yourself. Your power starts now.

In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America’s largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. In The Desperate Hours, award-winning journalist Marie Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city.

Welcome to Desperate Times Podcast – where two hospitality grads turned marketers try to make sense of life, careers, and everything in between. From switching industries to navigating adulthood (and making some questionable choices along the way), we’re here to talk about it all!

Hosts Julian and Tanesha Grace share how marriage has awakened a deep desire to seek God's grace. In a loving and comical way, the couple illustrates the importance of showing understanding and forgiveness in marriage. Married for seventeen years, they've experienced the struggles and joys of matrimony while raising four children and a pup. Those mountains and valleys are all there to remind us that we are all desperate for grace.

Each week, Leslie Simon discusses the latest pop-culture headlines hitting her social feed, lovingly dissects the current state of music, revisits delicious watercooler moments from the early aughts, and examines the life and times of the scene's biggest bands.

Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time. Follow us on Instagram: @desperatereaderspod and Twitter: @DeserateReads Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana Opening music by Seth Thomsen

Desperate House Vibes – Der Podcast von besten Freundinnen für alle, die das Chaos lieben. Wir sind zwei beste Freundinnen, die sich seit über 20 Jahren durch das Leben, Liebesdramen, Beauty-Fails und jede Menge WTF-Momente begleiten. Was als Therapiesitzung in Sprachnachrichtenlänge begann, ist jetzt ein Podcast – für alle, die sich im ganz normalen Wahnsinn des Frauseins wiederfinden. Neue Folgen gibt’s jeden Desperate Donnerstag. Weil nichts so gut zum Wochenend-Craving passt wie ein bisschen ehrlicher Girl-Talk.

On September 17, 1862, the "United States" was on the brink, facing a permanent split into two separate nations. America's very future hung on the outcome of a single battle--and the result reverberates to this day. Given the deep divisions that still rive the nation, given what unites the...

American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump. We have never had a president who gave rise to such widespread alarm about his lack of commitment to the institutions of self-government, to the norms democracy requires, and to the need for basic knowledge about how government works. We have never had a president who raises profound questions about his basic competence and his psychological capacity to take on the most challenging political office in the world.

Noted academics and political commentators Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky each spoke for about 20 minutes and answered questions for over an hour. At the beginning, Zinn jokingly said that he would speak about hope and let Chomsky deal with desperation. Both Zinn and Chomsky spoke about how political and social matters had improved for the better during the past century and that today's times were not as desperate as in the past.

Integrity First: America’s Desperate Need for Leaders with Strong Moral Courage is a compelling call to action for citizens and leaders to reclaim the values that built the United States. Written by J. Stark Davis, this book addresses America’s current leadership crisis and the growing threats to the freedoms our Founding Fathers fought to secure.