Scars Behind the Wall I

2024-08-23 Fiction

Author : Gabriela Contartese Tulián
Release : 2024-08-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 722/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Scars Behind the Wall I written by Gabriela Contartese Tulián. This book was released on 2024-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vera decides to travel from Argentina on holidays with her best friend to Los Angeles, the city of glamour and beauty stereotypes, she is unaware of how her life will turn around as she bumps into a famous Hollywood star, whose life is under the scrutiny of the cameras of paparazzi, so different from hers. Vera has seen Theo on the big screen many times, but little does she know that an unforeseen event will bring the two of them together and so, unexpectedly, love, desire, and passion join their paths facing them with the unavoidable challenge of choosing a different destiny. Scars Behind the Wall is a novel that tells the story of a woman who at an early age is forced to endure a bilateral mastectomy due to breast cancer. This makes Vera radically change the way she sees her body, deciding to turn off her sexuality and sensuality completely and lead her life alone away from men. In addition to stating how we all have some kind of physical or emotional scar, the reader will bear witness to whether Theo will manage with his love to break through the wall Vera has built around her heart, and thus make her rediscover a more compassionate image of her body and everything she has been through. Scars behind the Wall will surprise you, move you, and make you fall in love.

Hell Is a Very Small Place

2014-11-11 Social Science

Author : Jean Casella
Release : 2014-11-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 380/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Hell Is a Very Small Place written by Jean Casella. This book was released on 2014-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews

Tears, Scars and the Wall in

1989 Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Author : Thomas Paul Frazier
Release : 1989
Genre : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Download or read book Tears, Scars and the Wall in written by Thomas Paul Frazier. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beautiful Scars

2017-11-21 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Tom Wilson
Release : 2017-11-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Beautiful Scars written by Tom Wilson. This book was released on 2017-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm scared and scarred but I’ve survived" Tom Wilson was raised in the rough-and-tumble world of Hamilton—Steeltown— in the company of World War II vets, factory workers, fall-guy wrestlers and the deeply guarded secrets kept by his parents, Bunny and George. For decades Tom carved out a life for himself in shadows. He built an international music career and became a father, he battled demons and addiction, and he waited, hoping for the lies to cease and the truth to emerge. It would. And when it did, it would sweep up the St. Lawrence River to the Mohawk reserves of Quebec, on to the heights of the Manhattan skyline. With a rare gift for storytelling and an astonishing story to tell, Tom writes with unflinching honesty and extraordinary compassion about his search for the truth. It's a story about scars, about the ones that hurt us, and the ones that make us who we are. From Beautiful Scars: Even as a kid my existence as the son of Bunny and George Wilson seemed far-fetched to me. When I went over it in my head, none of it added up. The other kids on East 36th Street in Hamilton used to tell me stories of their mothers being pregnant and their newborn siblings coming home from the hospital. Nobody ever talked about Bunny's and my return from the hospital. In my mind my birth was like the nativity, only with gnarly dogs and dirty snow and a chipped picket fence and old blind people with short tempers and dim lights, ashtrays full of Export Plain cigarette butts and bottles of rum. Once, when I was about four, I asked Bunny, "How come I don't look anything like you and George? How come you are old and the other moms are young?" "There are secrets I know about you that I’ll take to my grave," she responded. And that pretty well finished that. Bunny built up a wall to protect her secrets, and as a result I built a wall to protect myself.

Veil of Scars

2015

Author :
Release : 2015
Genre :
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Book Rating : 213/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Veil of Scars written by . This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven is tall, dark, and damaged. He doesn't let anyone close, comfortable on the outside of normal life where he can hide his scars behind a wall so high that nothing gets through...except them. Despite a childhood marred with black and blue, he's survived and moved in with his two best friends, Sam and Charlie.Life should get better, but it was Sam who held him when the dark threatened to swallow him whole, Sam who gave him a place that felt like home, and Sam who knew every scar and every broken place.And it's all been taken away with Charlie sharing Sam's bed.Without his former confront, Steven realizes what's been hiding in the deep corners of his heart, and the truth sinks him like a weight. He's in love with one or maybe both of his roommates. Navigating unrequited love tears Steven apart and brings him to the precipice, and he has to choose: his feelings or Sam's...and Charlie's?

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