The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men across the African continent who dream of following - literally and figuratively - in their footsteps.
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.
After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie.
Esta memoria es la historia autentica de una madre trabajadora inmigrante cuyo exodo la condujo a unas vacaciones involuntarias a largo plazo a los Estados Unidos de America.
A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how we arrived at our current moment.
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.
Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy.
Susie is the story of a girl born into an alcoholic family with a strong will to live and overcome the neglect and abuse of parents who had no idea of how to be parents.
By Degrees is a report from a five-year study following three successive groups of young people entering higher education from a background in local authority care.
Griot: The Evolution of Edgecombe is the true story that chronicles the journey of three African captives from their homelands of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Angola into the hands of European slave traders.
En la inmensidad del universo y de todo lo que habita en este espacio, he encontrado poesia, inspiracion para escribir lo que en mi percepcion es la belleza de una realidad y de una utopia al mismo tiempo.
Eva Doherty Gremmert has written a loving, poignant book about the deep joys andprofound challenges of raising a son with complex physical and mental disabilities.
What is it like to parent an adopted child, gifted with strong attributes and talents who, nonetheless, is burdened with abusive programming from an early age?
In her memoir, Jeannie recalls her childhood years in Hong Kong and how it shaped her view as a mom, wife, and professional in America in her later years.
Based on a study of over 100 9- to 11-year-old pupils from schools in deprived inner city areas in London and the North of England, this book explores children's views of religiously diverse schools and local communities.
In the book A Family in Fear a Story of Domestic Violence, Penny Everhart invites you to take a walk in her shoes in this compelling, oftentimes sad look into her twenty-eight years of living with a violent, abusive husband while raising four children.
