Memorias

COMING CLEAN (OTTONE, LEONARD)

Coming Clean is one man?s remarkable story of redemption as he struggles to recover from a life-long addiction to heroin. Leonard Ottone?s raw and brutal account of growing up in a large migrant family, his introduction to drugs and crime while still a child, and his descent into addiction, reveals the desperation of a life spiralling out of control.?Institutionalised from the age of 14 ? from juvenile detention to prison and eventually rehab - Leonard gains a unique insight into Melbourne?s criminal underworld and, after many setbacks, finds the courage to turn his life around.

SHARING MY STONES (ANGELILLO, MARIANNE)

?Marianne captures the feelings of a parent going through the unimaginable outliving their child. She puts into words what my wife, Reve, and I call trying to describe a color one has never seen before. It is a must-read for people finding themselves walking in those shoes. It is unnatural and every parent's worst nightmare. But you do survive, as Marianne so eloquently conveys in her book, Sharing My Stones? -John Walsh, Creator of America's Most WantedSharing My Stones is about the untimely death of her seventeen-year-old son in a drunk-driving crash and the excruciating trudge to go on. Meet Matt, delight in his one of a kind personality and in his ability to pack a lifetime of adventure into his short existence. With courage, strength, and grace, Angelillo takes us on her family's difficult journey and ultimately shows us the transforming power of grief, love and faith.?

ALL THE NOISE OF IT (WARREN, CHRISTOPHER H)

Christopher H. Warren arrived in Sorano in 1988. Enticed by the exotic and ageless town in its lovely state of ruin, and the promise of a good quality of life, he soon learned to speak even the local Italian dialect, and became deeply involved in traditional town activities?including making his own wine. In this book which derives its name from ?The Infinite,? a poem by Italian philosopher and writer, Giacomo Leopardi, he relates what brought him to the Tuscan hilltown, what has kept him there, and what living there has taught him about life. Drawing on his education in anthropology and his expertise as a photographer, he shares a visually stunning and thoughtfully considered study of the life of a Tuscan community that has been his home for the past thirty years. From renovating a home, creating a garden, interviewing old inhabitants, investigating traditional life, and photographing the abandoned far side of town, he offers a genuine account of the past and present of a world that is seldom revealed.

MAN UP (TAYLOR, DERRICK)

This book is an intimate look into the life of the author Derrick Taylor and his unfortunate sequence of regrettable decisions made throughout his adolescence, teen, and young adult years. As he looks back on his life as it relates to him maturing and becoming a man he had to reflect and ask some powerful and painful questions in order to learn and leap forward. If you do not have a plan, a vision and value placed on your own life you can never see and honor a future within the union of relationship with another. Similarly to the struggle in the battle of good and evil, Derrick recognized he was fighting himself. He blocked positive energy and continuously fell short of the expectations placed on him. Today he recognizes that he should be further along in all areas of life and is committed to walking the road of redemption. He encourages readers to reflect on their own issues and become better people, specifically he wants men to MAN-UP and be the best they can be.

UN CEL DE PLOM – ED.ESPECIAL – CAT (MARTI CANTI CARME)

Aquesta edició especial inclou les cartes dels lectors més emotives que ha rebut Neus Català, així com una especial nota d'agraïment als lectors de la mateixa Neus. A més del nou format amb tapa dura també hi trobareu imatges inèdites a l'interior. La infància a pagès a Els Guiamets, un petit poble del Priorat. La joventut interrompuda per la Guerra Civil i la ràpida presa de consciència social. Barcelona, Premià de Mar i, finalment, la retirada a peu per la frontera fins arribar al sud de França. La resistència, els maquis i el primer gran amor. Passió i rebel·lió, fins al dia que els SS truquen a la porta. Presó. Un llarg viatge de tren fins Ravensbruck, Hollschein... i el començament de l?infern.