Resultados para "girl lost" en Mujeres

Meet Rebecca Contreras. Born into poverty to a drug-addicted mother, Rebecca has to fight for survival from her very first breath. When she is five years old, her mother leaves for the store and doesn't return. This abandonment is one of many betrayals, defining her youth with uncertainty, neglect, and every imaginable type of abuse, including an attempt on her life. A lost girl for almost two decades, formed from dysfunction and stuck in a generational cycle of destruction, the track of Rebecca's life suddenly changes in a transformative moment.

The extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable … In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds of miles from their mother, news of the approaching army left them confronted with an impossible choice: to face invasion, or to flee on foot.Eva, aged nineteen, was determined to find her mother.

Sexual abuse, human trafficking, drug addiction, rape, prison, and domestic violence - Barbara Amaya experienced it all on first on the streets of Washington D.C., and then New York City, most of it before her 16th birthday. In Nobody's Girl she shares her journey from trafficking victim to human rights advocate, weaving together a story of loss, pain, courage, and transformation.

Why is a generation of women only now discovering they have ADHD? (Spoiler: misogyny.) A writer examines the cost of living with undiagnosed ADHD in this reported memoir about the girls medical science ignored. When Carla Ciccone is diagnosed with ADHD at thirty-nine—an evaluation prompted by...

Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different? “The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it’s the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged...