title: A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
author:  Dave Pelzer 
description: A monumental series of books about courage and triumph. Pelzer demonstrates, as few have, that it is in the darkest skies that the stars are best seen.<b>Richard Paul Evans,<i>New York Times</i>bestselling author of<i>The Christmas Box</i></b><br /><i></i><br />"Dave Pelzer is a living testament of resilience, personal responsibility, and the triumph of the human spirit."<b>John Bradshaw,#1<i>New York Times</i>bestselling author of<i>Homecoming</i>and<i>Family Secrets</i></b><br /><br />"A living example that all of us have the capability to better ourselves no matter what the odds... Dave Pelzer inspires us all."<b>Jack Canfield, #1<i>New York Times</i>bestselling coauthor of<i>Chicken Soup for the Soul</i></b>
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  **Dave Pelzer**
  
  
  **A Man Named**
  
  
  **Dave**
  
  
  
  
  
  Dave Pelzer's incredible and inspiring life story has already
  
  
  captured the interest of more than one million readers. A Man
  
  
  Named Dave is the long-awaited conclusion to his trilogy in
  
  
  which he describes how he triumphed over years of physical
  
  
  and emotional abuse from his parents to become a self-
  
  
  accepting and confident adult. Readers of Pelzer's previous two bestsellers
  await this book--the first of Pelzer's books to be available in hardcover--to
  learn how he finally confronts his
  
  
  pathologically abusive mother and his neglectful, alcoholic
  
  
  father in an effort to turn a childhood marked by rejection and emotional
  abuse into an adulthood filled with love and
  
  
  acceptance.
  
  
  
  
  
  **This book is not for sale!!!**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _To the lady who gave her all to make me the man I am today,_ _my lovely
  bride, my best friend, Mrs Marsha Pelzer. You make_ _me whole and will forever
  be my Princess._
  
  
  
  
  
  _To my son, Ste