Valerio del Bierzo

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

Una historia de ablación de toda niña que vive en una comunidad en la que ser querida, casarse y disfrutar de alta estima implica estar genitalmente mutilada.

Este libro es una recopilación de las publicaciones dominicales en Facebook durante el periodo diciembre 2020 a junio 2021 con el título EL BLOG DE ASKAN y el hashtag #askandogblog, donde se relatan las peripecias de Askan, un pastor alemán adoptado de la protectora tras ser abandonado con aproximadamente seis meses de edad. Se trata de capítulos semanales independientes, sin una conexión lineal, escritos por el protagonista en primera persona, expresando sus pensamientos y sentimientos. Es un relato de sus aventuras desde que rescató a su nueva familia, hasta el inesperado desenlace...

An account of the life and achievements, and ultimate political downfall, of Simon Bolivar, the great Liberator of Spanish America, noting important events and influences from his Caracas childhood to his exile and death