The United States puts more people behind bars every year than any other nation, but what they experience inside our jails and prisons is almost entirely hidden from the view of the public.
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.
While the author was on a business trip in Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire) in September 2002, the military insurrection that partitioned the country into two with a de jure government in Abidjan and a de facto administration in Bouake took place.
En marzo de 1978, en la culminación de Operación Julie quince acusados, incluyendo doctores, químicos investigadores, un escritor y vendedores de drogas “profesionales” fueron sentenciados a un total combinado de ciento veinticuatro años de prisión.
Let's go back to the past 113 years or moreto a time in America where in a small community in Bradford, Pennsylvania, lived a young, beautiful woman named Rosie.
In the early morning of February 17, 1991, a nineteen-year-old Yale student on his way home from a party was shot through the heart on a New Haven street by a single bullet from a .
In one remote detonated explosive instant of murder, an act of National Service and family duty befalls the youngest sister of a killed-in-action soldier in the war in Iraq.
Based on true events, this is a riveting journey through a young woman's traumatic encounter with sexual violence during a college spring break trip - and an aftermath of remarkable coincidences that spiral out of control for the next three decades.
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.
O propósito deste livro é dar-te uma visão de um certo grau da realidade do mundo do narcotráfico, uma informação básica e essencial e a história de uma operação em território Paraguaio, na fronteira com o Brasil, das Forças Especiais Comandos Sombra.
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).
In February 1971, as Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell hurtled earthward through space, he was engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness.
Award-winning journalist Gary Nunn investigates psychics, mediums and astrologers to understand their uncanny power - and whether it's used for good or evil.
