Books for All (updated Q2 2024)
Justice for All VC’s commitment to social justice extends to making social justice literature accessible to all. We assist book clubs and other community groups by providing program participants with access to free books, regardless of income or background.
We’re pleased to assist the following partners by providing digital access! Our PDF library is made possible through collaboration with Archive.org and Anna’s Archive, empowering us to offer Books for All as a resource for all. Click a book link below, then click “Download now” or “GET” for your PDF.
JFS Hope‘s Domestic Violence Reading List
“Each year, JFS Hope provides a 40-hour domestic violence certificate training course for social service providers, therapists, case managers, agency interns, and volunteers. The training is a state requirement for those hoping to work with survivors of domestic abuse.”
Not To People Like Us: Hidden Abuse In Upscale Marriages
Author: Susan Weitzman
Print length: 304 pages
Publication date: August 16, 2001
Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Author: Lundy Bancroft
Print length: 432 pages
Publication date: September 2, 2003
The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Expanded Third Edition: How to recognize it and how to respond
Author: Patricia Evans
Print length: 240 pages
Publication date: January 18, 2010
The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
Author: Beverly Engel
Print length: 272 pages
Publication date: 30 July 2003
The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics
Author: R. Lundy Bancroft, Jay G. Silverman, Daniel Ritchie
Print length: 352 pages
Publication date: September 14, 2011
It Could Happen To Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay
Author: Alyce D. LaViolette, Ola W. Barnett
Print length: 272 pages
Publication date: April 20, 2000
The Battered Woman Syndrome, Third Edition
Author: Lenore E. A. Walker EdD
Print length: 512 pages
Publication date: March 23, 2009
When Dad Hurts Mom: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse
Author: Lundy Bancroft
Print length: 384 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2005
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Author: Rachel Louise Snyder
Print length: 320 pages
Publication date: May 7, 2019
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
Author: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk
Print length: 288 pages
Publication date: May 4, 2009
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Author: Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Print length: 464 pages
Publication date: September 8, 2015
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Author: Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick
Print length: 288 pages
Publication date: July 7, 1997
PPCCC Book Club‘s Community Reading List
“Become a member of our new Book Club! The Planned Parenthood California Central Coast Book Club strives to engage our community through the joy of reading.”
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Author: Azar Nafisi
Print length: 400 pages
Publication date: November 4, 2008
The Color Purple: A Novel
Author: Alice Walker
Print length: 304 pages
Publication date: December 10, 2019
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
Author: Laura Kaplan
Print length: 334 pages
Publication date: June 9, 1997
VLT Book Club‘s Environmental Reading List
“Join our community of environmentally-focused readers like you with the Ventura Land Trust Book Club.”
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
Author: Jennifer Ackerman
Print length: 351 pages
Publication date: June 13, 2023
Women on Nature
Author: Katharine Norbury
Print length: 432 pages
Publication date: October 12, 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Author: Suzanne Simard
Print length: 368 pages
Publication date: May 4, 2021
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Print length: 408 pages
Publication date: August 11, 2015