Violence Memoir

Guns from America reach more than 130 countries, and inundate Mexico, with over 200,000 guns every year crossing the border and arming the drug cartels. In this groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, master of reportage Ioan Grillo delves into the enormous black market for firearms in the Americas. Along the way, Grillo lays bare the many ways that guns slip through the legal cracks and into the hands of criminals, fuelling violence among Mexico’s powerful cartels and beyond.

Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mother in a brutal act of domestic violence perpetrated by her father. Five months pregnant at the time, her own perception of how she wanted to mother (and how she had been mothered) was shaped by this devastating murder. After her mother's death, Amani began reassessing everything she knew of her parents' relationship. They had been unhappy for so long - should she have known that it would end like this?

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From a scrawny, overlooked military graduate to the youngest general in Europe, Francisco Franco was known for his ambition, talent and calculated risk-taking. Yet his reputation remains a topic of fierce debate. Did he destroy Spain and stifle its democracy or rescue the nation from left-wing tumult? This book will delve into the complexities of Franco's character, exploring his volatile relationship with a domineering father, his traumatic experiences fighting in Morocco and the formation of his authoritarian ideology.

The Names of All the Flowers connects one tragic death to a collective grief for all Black people who die too young. A lyrical recounting of a life lost, Melissa Valentine’s debut memoir is an intimate portrait of a family fractured by the school-to-prison pipeline and an enduring love letter to an adored older brother. It is a call for justice amid endless cycles of violence, grief, and trauma, declaring: “We are all witness and therefore no one is spared from this loss.”

A Journey to Forgiveness is about pain, violence, love, and forgiveness. This audiobook was an endeavor of love orchestrated by the untimely murder of her mama, Dr. Vergie Rasheedah Muhammad.

In sensual, clear-sighted prose, Catherine Taylor writes about coming of age against the backdrop of the miners' strike, the rise of the CND movement, the long years in which the Yorkshire Ripper stalked Yorkshire. While the outside world is changing, so too is Catherine's internal world.

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In these captivating pages of "Listen Linda presents: The Women of the Waiting Room Surgery For Your Soul Devotional Volume 2" , author Jacquiline Cox, known as Listen Linda, takes readers on an extraordinary journey of faith, resilience, and divine inspiration. This is the second volume to the #1 Amazon International Best-Seller, Listen Linda presents... The Women of the Waiting Room Devotional.

An unflinching memoir of survival, redemption, and the unstoppable human spirit. Born into violence, poverty, and chaos on the unforgiving streets of Southeast London, Mark Anthony seemed destined for a life of destruction. Abandoned by his father, battered by abuse, entangled in crime, drugs, and despair, his early years read like a grim checklist of everything that could go wrong. Expelled from schools, locked in children’s homes, betrayed, imprisoned — even battling cancer, bankruptcy, and false accusations — Mark’s life spiraled again and again to the brink of ruin. But in his ...

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.

Book list: The story of Arnold Rothstein, the story of Bonnie and Clyde, the story of Frank Costello, the story of Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, the story of Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, and the story of Pablo Escobar.

Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings and listens as the men and women he works with explore new ways to think about their situation. Could we ever be good if we never felt shame? What makes a person worthy of forgiveness? Could someone in prison ever be more free than someone outside? These questions about how to live are ones we all need to ask, but in this setting they are even more urgent.

This book is an autobiography about my son, Kerron Rasheem Hunt. How he was seduced into the Street life and drawn away by his own passions from seeing this street life demonstrated and portrayed before him his whole life. How selling drugs, ditching school, toting pistols, being violent towards others, smoking weed, etc. became his way of life and how he refused to stop.

Un jour, dans un train parcourant l'Afrique du Sud, le jeune avocat indien Gandhi est jeté hors d'un wagon de première classe. Considéré comme un homme de couleur, il devra voyager dans le fourgon. C'est alors que l'urgence fulgurante d'un nécessaire combat pour l'indépendance de l'Inde s'impose à lui. Et ce combat, se jure-t-il, sera non violent.

The Sky Was My Cathedral is a memoir of Dawn's childhood, told in alternating voices, detailing her lifelong struggle with coming out. You get to know her younger brother Devon, cousins Patricia and Tony with whom she spent Summers, her religious mother Margarita who expected life to be a fairytale, and her alcoholic and abusive father Reggie who chased them down with a shotgun. But the stars of the show are her maternal grandparents, Ruth and Leon, who were the glue and safety net for the entire "river rat" group. Bingham gives voice to over 50 years of existence which begins in California...

معظم ما في هذا الكتاب يركز على الأحداث التي شهدتها بنفسي عام 2001م، وما تعلمته من دوري بصفتي واحدًا من موظفي منظمة (هيومان رايتس ووتش) في الدرب الطويل والرهيب والمستمر الذي قطعته في أعقاب هجمات 11 سبتمبر/ أيلول"

Mental health nurse Dorcas Gwata has worked closely with vulnerable young people involved in the knife crime, sexual exploitation, drug use and poor mental health that are associated with gangs. In The Street Clinic, she invites us to accompany her in her work with those exposed to gang violence by virtue of where they live. By meeting young people on the street and on their terms, Dorcas demonstrates that with care and support it is possible for young people to work through trauma, depression and anxiety and towards recovery and a better future.

يعتبر هذا الكتاب رحلة تحليلية للشاعر أدونيس وأفكاره عن الإبداع والشعر والكتابة واللغة، فيتناولها بنصوص من فكره وعقله وتحليله وغالباً ما يطرح تساؤلات كثيرة في نهاية كل نص تنتظر الإجابة والتفكير.