Trauma and abuse can lead one down a path toward eternal destruction; but when excessive alcohol and drug abuse can't ease the pain or depression, and car wrecks, freak accidents, alcohol poisoning, blackout drunk driving, or overdosing can't kill you, suicide looks like the only option for escape.
Willie describes the events of her growing up with various family members and being a firsthand eyewitness of segregation in the South during the 1950s, as she recalls.
A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American Southwest trailer park named Cloud 9.
En estas paginas se relata la historia de una adolescente con muchas ganas de vivir, pero tiene que luchar dia a dia con los pensamientos y sentimientos ocasionados por una enfermedad mental que amenaza con su vida.
The Day Before I Died is a memoir of an innocent Irish Catholic boy on his journey from the quiet New England coast and the apple orchards of Pennsylvania to Vietnam and, ultimately, to the brink of suicide.
National Outdoor Book Award Winner: "e;Superbly researched portraits of the first five women to summit K2"e;-and the stories of their tragic fates (SF Gate).
A Glimpse Back is a true story about a couple living in a rural southern town on a plantation with a wife who had no more than a seventh-grade education and a husband that has never seen the inside of a schoolhouse.
It's hard to believe Mozambique is a country which rarely has stories written about it, when truly extraordinary things happen to the people who live there.
An inspirational read that will take you to one of the last great frontiers, the mighty Mt McKinley, and an expedition that not only challenged a team of British Mountaineers both physically, mentally and morally, but a trip that nearly cost them their lives.
A young Cambodian boy struggled among the strife, fears, and gunfire of the Vietnam War era to find a possible route to academic success, yet that was one thing that could lead to his execution later in his life.
