Author: Somaly Mam
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385526229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery at the age of twelve describes the horrors she experienced until she managed to escape and discusses her role as an activist for the young women whom she has rescued from the region's brothels.
The Road of Lost Innocence
Author: Somaly Mam
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385526229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery at the age of twelve describes the horrors she experienced until she managed to escape and discusses her role as an activist for the young women whom she has rescued from the region's brothels.
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385526229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery at the age of twelve describes the horrors she experienced until she managed to escape and discusses her role as an activist for the young women whom she has rescued from the region's brothels.
The Road of Lost Innocence
Author: Somaly Mam
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 038552854X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation. A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking—rape, torture, deprivation—until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but remained haunted by the girls in the brothels she left behind. Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life and tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. She has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, some as young as five and six; she has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change. To learn more about how you can help fight human trafficking, visit the foundation’s website: www.somaly.org.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 038552854X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation. A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking—rape, torture, deprivation—until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but remained haunted by the girls in the brothels she left behind. Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life and tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. She has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, some as young as five and six; she has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change. To learn more about how you can help fight human trafficking, visit the foundation’s website: www.somaly.org.
My Innocence Lost
Author: Daisy Ann Rhodes
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 145257099X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
For all those still searching, looking for themselves, I have written this book to help those who may need to deal with issues in their lives and have not found the help or answers they have searched for. Its about finding peace within ourselves ,to be happy, caring, and loving.
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 145257099X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
For all those still searching, looking for themselves, I have written this book to help those who may need to deal with issues in their lives and have not found the help or answers they have searched for. Its about finding peace within ourselves ,to be happy, caring, and loving.
Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street
Author: Heda Margolius Kovály
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616954973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one’s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one’s supposed friend will say to a State Security agent under pressure. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema’s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616954973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one’s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one’s supposed friend will say to a State Security agent under pressure. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema’s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own.
Lost Innocence
Author: Susan Lewis
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409064913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
When Alicia Carlyle returns to the home of her childhood after the tragic death of her husband, she is hoping to put the past behind her. But first she must come face to face with the woman who nearly destroyed her marriage and tore her family in two - her sister-in-law, Sabrina. Their enmity runs deep, but Alicia is determined to make a fresh start for herself and her two children, Nathan and Darcie, and to heal her fractured relationship with her beloved brother. However, just when it looks as if they might have a chance at a brighter future, Sabrina's fifteen-year-old daughter, Annabelle, accuses seventeen-year-old Nathan of a crime he insists he didn't commit. And once more the two families are locked in a battle that is fraught with mistrust, betrayal and lies - a battle that threatens to destroy them all...
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409064913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
When Alicia Carlyle returns to the home of her childhood after the tragic death of her husband, she is hoping to put the past behind her. But first she must come face to face with the woman who nearly destroyed her marriage and tore her family in two - her sister-in-law, Sabrina. Their enmity runs deep, but Alicia is determined to make a fresh start for herself and her two children, Nathan and Darcie, and to heal her fractured relationship with her beloved brother. However, just when it looks as if they might have a chance at a brighter future, Sabrina's fifteen-year-old daughter, Annabelle, accuses seventeen-year-old Nathan of a crime he insists he didn't commit. And once more the two families are locked in a battle that is fraught with mistrust, betrayal and lies - a battle that threatens to destroy them all...
The Book of Lost Things
Author: John Connolly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743298853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743298853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.
Lost Innocence
Author: Merrit Hartblay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
This book describes in detail the dark places where my addiction took me and how, with the willingness and desire to change, I was able to rise from the ashes and find that somewhat and every elusive peace of mind. It tells the story of addiction and just how cunning and powerful the disease is, and the path of destruction that follows. It tells the story of how addiction is a family disease and how so many lives are affected, not just the life of the addict. It is my hope that people reading this book will come to see that anything is possible in life, once you stop living your life based on others expectations for you - nothing good ever comes from this.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
This book describes in detail the dark places where my addiction took me and how, with the willingness and desire to change, I was able to rise from the ashes and find that somewhat and every elusive peace of mind. It tells the story of addiction and just how cunning and powerful the disease is, and the path of destruction that follows. It tells the story of how addiction is a family disease and how so many lives are affected, not just the life of the addict. It is my hope that people reading this book will come to see that anything is possible in life, once you stop living your life based on others expectations for you - nothing good ever comes from this.
The Ogallala Road
Author: Julene Bair
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143127071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A memoir of love and reckoning. A story of love, family, and the fight to keep the great plains from running dry. Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father's wish and commandment, 'Hang on to your land!' But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm has done: each growing season her family--like other irrigators--pumps over two hundred million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The rapidly disappearing aquifer is the sole source of water on the vast western plains, and her family's role in its depletion haunts her. As traditional ways of life collide with industrial realities, Bair must dramatically change course.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143127071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A memoir of love and reckoning. A story of love, family, and the fight to keep the great plains from running dry. Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father's wish and commandment, 'Hang on to your land!' But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm has done: each growing season her family--like other irrigators--pumps over two hundred million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The rapidly disappearing aquifer is the sole source of water on the vast western plains, and her family's role in its depletion haunts her. As traditional ways of life collide with industrial realities, Bair must dramatically change course.
The Innocent
Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307761029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this "wholly entertaining" work (The Wall Street Journal) from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham’s intelligence work—tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow—offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. His relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening—a night when Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307761029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this "wholly entertaining" work (The Wall Street Journal) from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham’s intelligence work—tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow—offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. His relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening—a night when Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.
Loss of Innocence
Author: Eric J. Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380759873
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380759873
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description