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Stolen
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilpin
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Publisher's summary
A gripping chronicle of psychological manipulation and abuse at a “therapeutic” boarding school for troubled teens, and how one young woman fought to heal in the aftermath.
At 15, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer, and a rising soccer star, but behind closed doors, her undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc on her life. Growing angrier by the day, she began skipping practices and drinking to excess. At a loss, her parents turned to an educational consultant who suggested Elizabeth be enrolled in a behavioral modification program. That recommendation would change her life forever.
The nightmare began when she was abducted from her bed in the middle of the night by hired professionals and dropped off deep in the woods of Appalachia. Living with no real shelter was only the beginning of her ordeal: She was strip-searched, force-fed, her name was changed to a number, and every moment was a test of physical survival.
After three brutal months, Elizabeth was transferred to a boarding school in Southern Virginia that in reality functioned more like a prison. Its curriculum revolved around a perverse form of group therapy where students were psychologically abused and humiliated. Finally, at 17, Elizabeth convinced them she was rehabilitated enough to “graduate” and was released.
In this eye-opening and unflinching book, Elizabeth recalls the horrors she endured, the friends she lost to suicide and addiction, and - years later - how she was finally able to pick up the pieces of her life and reclaim her identity.
Critic reviews
"Elizabeth Gilpin’s memoir broke my heart. She writes in vivid prose about how, as a fifteen year old girl - an honor student and a promising athlete - she was kidnapped in the middle of the night by strangers, sent to live in the woods for months, and finally placed at a cruel, abusive, 'therapeutic' boarding school. The story is fascinating. It is also a powerful and timely examination of the consequences of misdiagnosing and mistreating mental health and trauma." (Molly Bloom, best-selling author of Molly's Game)
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This stunning debut novel from Australian author Lucy Christopher generated considerable buzz for its nonstop suspense and breathtaking imagery. Sixteen-year-old Gemma is on a layover at Bangkok Airport, headed to Vietnam with her parents. Then the vaguely familiar Ty drugs Gemma’s drink and steals her away. Her head swirling in confusion, Gemma soon finds herself fighting to survive in the unforgiving Outback.
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already listened twice
- By barnes on 09-08-10
By: Lucy Christopher
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I See You, Survivor
- Life Inside (and Outside) the Totally F*cked-Up Troubled Teen Industry
- By: Liz Ianelli, Bret Witter - contributor
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Liz Ianelli
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Liz Ianelli, known around the world as Survivor993, spent years at the Family Foundation—labeled an “institution for troubled teens.” The children who went through The Family School like her were good people. They had potential and dreams, but they came out with lifelong trauma: anxious, angry, paranoid, self-hating and in pain. Most of them have suffered lives of hardship, unable to integrate back into society. Hundreds have died, mostly by overdose and suicide. I See You, Survivor is about what really happened at The Family and what continues to happen at thousands of facilities like it.
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A massive trauma dump
- By Angela on 09-19-23
By: Liz Ianelli, and others
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Dead Inside
- A True Story
- By: Cyndy Etler
- Narrated by: Heather Masters
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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I never was a badass. Or a slut, a junkie, or a stoner, like they told me I was. I was just a kid looking for something good, something that felt like love. I was a wannabe in a Levi's jean jacket. Anybody could see that. Except my mother. And the staff at Straight. I was 13 when I ran away from my abusive home. After a month in a shelter for kids - the best month of my childhood - my mother heard about Princess Di and First Lady Nancy Reagan's visit to this place that was working miracles with troubled teens. Straight Inc., it was called.
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Places like this still exist
- By Ryan Martin on 12-04-23
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Dead, Insane, or in Jail
- A CEDU Memoir
- By: Zack Bonnie
- Narrated by: Zack Bonnie, Anne M. Carley
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Zack Bonnie was 14 when his parents sent him to a "troubled teen" facility. The author takes listeners there in a thrilling psychological ride. Sequestered where bizarre cult-like techniques become the norm, hear for yourself exactly what the controversy is about. Should we mold a child's behavior using the tools of brainwashing? With coarse, brutal dialog and authentic source materials, this nonfiction memoir exposes the secrets and tells it all.
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This book is as important as it is well written.
- By Ryan Parker on 04-17-18
By: Zack Bonnie
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Troubled
- The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs
- By: Kenneth R. Rosen
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
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Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control - suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage - are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these “troubled teens” fear it’s their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever.
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Validating
- By Andrea Gold on 03-14-22
By: Kenneth R. Rosen
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The Forgotten Girls
- A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
- By: Monica Potts
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- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Growing up gifted and working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives—broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In the end, Monica left Clinton for college and fulfilled her dreams; Darci did not.
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Interesting story, difficult narration
- By Kim on 06-02-24
By: Monica Potts
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Stolen
- By: Lucy Christopher
- Narrated by: Emily Gray
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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This stunning debut novel from Australian author Lucy Christopher generated considerable buzz for its nonstop suspense and breathtaking imagery. Sixteen-year-old Gemma is on a layover at Bangkok Airport, headed to Vietnam with her parents. Then the vaguely familiar Ty drugs Gemma’s drink and steals her away. Her head swirling in confusion, Gemma soon finds herself fighting to survive in the unforgiving Outback.
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already listened twice
- By barnes on 09-08-10
By: Lucy Christopher
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Stolen
- The True Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor
- By: Katariina Rosenblatt, Cecil Murphey
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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Stolen is the true story of one survivor who escaped - more than once. First recruited while staying with her family at a hotel in Miami Beach, Katariina Rosenblatt was already a lonely and abused young girl who was yearning to be loved. She fell into the hands of a confident young woman who pretended friendship but slowly lured her into a child prostitution ring. For years afterward, a cycle of false friendship, threats, drugs, and violence kept her trapped.
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I've Never Hated A Book So Much...
- By IcePrincess on 12-03-20
By: Katariina Rosenblatt, and others
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Playing Nice
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- Narrated by: Ben Elliot, Amelia Cormack, Peter Forbes
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Pete Riley answers the door one morning and lets in a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, a stranger who breaks the devastating news that Pete's son, Theo, isn't actually his son - he is the Lamberts', switched at birth by an understaffed hospital while their real son was sent home with Miles and his wife, Lucy. For Pete, his partner Maddie, and the little boy they've been raising for the past two years, life will never be the same again.
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A real page turner!
- By Sheila S on 07-30-20
By: JP Delaney
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Scarred
- The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult That Bound My Life
- By: Sarah Edmondson, Kristine Gasbarre
- Narrated by: Sarah Edmondson
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The shocking and subversive memoir of a 12-year-NXIVM-member-turned-whistleblower, and her inspiring true story of abuse, escape, and redemption. "Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor." Scarred follows actress Sarah Edmondson's account of her recruitment into the NXIVM cult, founded by Keith Raniere. It narrates in detail the 12 years she spent within the organization, during which she enrolled over 2,000 members, chronicling her breaking point and her harrowing fight to get out, help others, and heal.
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Riveting!
- By Ellen on 10-23-19
By: Sarah Edmondson, and others
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Before and After
- The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
- By: Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
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From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis. The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann’s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of 15 adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots.
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Badly written
- By Stacie on 02-25-20
By: Judy Christie, and others
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Troubled
- A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
- By: Rob Henderson
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- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he was adopted into a loving family, he hoped that life would finally be stable and safe. But divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence marked his adolescent and teen years, propelling Henderson to join the military upon completing high school.
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Surprisingly good
- By Chris on 06-04-24
By: Rob Henderson
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Unspeakable
- Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice
- By: Jessica Willis Fisher
- Narrated by: Jessica Fisher
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher tells a lacerating story of finding her voice after two decades of silence and an unforgettable story of risk and faith.
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"Don't tell" culture exposed
- By Angela on 11-03-22
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-13-21
Compelling and Informative
Elizabeth and I went through these programs together, so, of course, I relate to the experiences she describes in Stolen. However, there are two things that I genuinely appreciate about this book: (1) she includes some of the more harrowing moments of our time there and, (2) she introduces the troubled teen industry as a whole. The latter is a critical aspect of Stolen, as the troubled teen industry is not widely known, and our school is just one among countless others. For the general public, Stolen provides insight into an unregulated industry that deserves scrutiny. For former students, it gives voice to our collective experiences in private programs like Carlbrook, as our stories are often not told, and if they are, they are not believed.
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- Teri McIntire
- 09-21-23
But the narration!!
I could get over her never admitting to her own mistakes, her inability to see that her parents really loved her, that the place was horrid, but I could not get over her narration. I thought she was upset? She cried but where’s the emotion between? This woman should NOT have read her own book. That was the big mistake.
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- Tamara Tschudy
- 09-09-21
The Narrators Voice is Monotone
This book is too difficult to listen to because the narrator’s voice is so monotone. I couldn’t even finish listening.
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- Thomas A. Siewert
- 12-07-21
Riveting account of a therapeutic school
This is a riveting account of one person's experience in a therapeutic school, something I hadn't realized existed until I listened to this. Having said that, I have mixed feelings about the content. On the one hand, some of the experiences she said were horrible were things I wish I had experienced in high school, such as parts of her outdoor experience, the hiking and tent living. I also think that her negative attitude contributed to the negativity of her experience, however from my own experience I can see that this negativity was likely caused by her depression. On the other hand, the experience she describes was abusive, without a doubt, and the kind of "counseling" they often did was based on thoroughly flawed beliefs and methods. I understand the value of breaking someone down to then build them back up, which is done in nearly all brainwashing methods. It does have its use in therapy for some cases. But from what I can tell they did a horrible job of the "build you back up" part. To think that this method works for all cases is terribly misguided. The author would have done much better seeing a psychiatrist or psychologist for what she needed, not being subjected to this kind of abuse. I understand she has reconciled with her parents. I'm not sure most people would have been able to do that after all she went through. Thank goodness the school is closed.
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- Sarah Foster
- 06-29-22
Emotional
I couldn't stop listening to this story!
I really loved that fact that you could hear her pain in her voice while reading certain parts which made the listeners understand just how much pain she was in recounting specific times!
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- Rhonda Koch
- 09-03-22
Heart Wrenching
This book was heartbreaking to listen to. As a parent who sent their son to a “therapeutic school” it hit extra hard. His/Our experience was different in many ways. (It’s been 10 years since he graduated) He still says it saved him. I agree. They helped get him on medication (for the first time) and getting his depression and anxiety under control. They taught him coping skills through equine and different therapies. They built up his self esteem. He graduated early and at the highest level attainable which was really something as he struggled to finish anything prior to Ironwood Maine. Listening to Elizabeth’s account of her experience made me think how it could have been for my Trevor, had we picked the wrong school. It made me almost nauseous at times to think out of shear luck we didn’t send him to a nightmare school like Elizabeth experienced. Hearing the raw emotion in her voice brought tears to my eyes more than a few times. My Trevor still struggles at times with his depression. It’s a chronic battle for him. I pray Elizabeth continues to find happiness in her life and that this book reaches parents like me, that may be considering a therapeutic school for their child. Researching to an extreme would be my advice. Not only call the parents on the list most schools hand out for you to ask their experience, but ask to speak to the child/person that went to the school themselves. If I were in the position we were in 10-11 years ago, and had the information I’ve read in Elizabeth’s book, I would insist on it. I’d like to say I’d never send him in the first place…but I think back to the days of desperation…Trevor talking about taking his own life on a daily basis and we had exhausted all avenues to help him ourselves. This was a last ditch effort to save our son. We did it. It helped him. After reading this book I feel like we dodged a bullet. Congratulations to Elizabeth on this incredible memoir. I hope she’s finding peace and joy in her life.
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- Lee Ann Marks
- 06-28-24
Poor narration
I had to start this story twice. I quit the first time after a few minutes because the narration was so bad. I started it again and suffered through the entire story, Not only was the author a terrible narrator (her voice had no life). As with most addicts she didn’t take responsibility for many bad decisions she made throughout her life.
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- Queen City Mom
- 08-02-21
Insightful, heartbreaking look into abuse of the TTI
The troubled teen industry has been conning parents and abusing children for over 4 decades. Using deceptive marketing tactics, these for-profit schools kidnap children from their beds in the middle of the night, strip them of their identity, and cut them off entirely from the outside world. Elizabeth’s book is an insightful emotional journey on her experience through this hell. Children are stripped of their humanity, after their parents signed away their custodial rights, which ‘Stolen’ describes in gut-wrenching detail.
Most of these ‘programs’ masquerade as schools, with little to no government oversight. Staff members are unqualified and untrained, subjecting children to whatever dark whim they choose to inflict. The schools have numerous lawsuits again them, with allegations of abuse, will close down and open back up under another name. Such has been this horrifying cycle.
As a survivor of one these schools, though under the now defunct WWASP branch of schools not CEDU like Elizabeth’s school, it amazes me places like this are still open today. The majority of these kids leave the schools with lifelong CPTSD, and a host of other mental issues they did not go in with. At 33 years old, this book made me know that I am not alone in my struggle to confront this absolutely horrible time of my life, most of
the memories I have attempted to completely block out.
The most heartbreaking part of this book was the ending, where Elizabeth dedicates ‘Stolen’ to every victim of Carlbrook Academy who has since passed away; suicide and overdose are all very common outcomes for survivors of such programs.
Elizabeth does an excellent job of explaining that teenagers in pain don’t need these programs - they need intensive therapy, warmth and support from their parents. Shipping your difficult teenager off is not the solution. For parents considering this, check out the Breaking Code Silence movement, in which thousands of victims have finally begun speaking out.
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- LeAnn Chrisman
- 01-26-22
Real, Raw, Heartbreaking
Elizabeth shares an event that altered her life. Her raw emotion and description of the time there and after are expressed in a raw format. Though heartbreaking this is a real example of a strong young woman that has overcome so much yet will always push on as she did then.
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- The Mark n Shelby Show
- 01-08-22
awesome
great book i feel for the Elizabeth and the things that she endured. Good book!
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