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Taban overcame extreme poverty, racism and xenophobia to become the man he is today. Heart-warming and inspiring, his life story is one of survival against all odds.

The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin. Born an "unfortunate" onto the rough streets of 1950s Dublin, this is the incredible true story of a young boy, a secret child born into a home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin and a mother determined to keep her child, even if it meant hiding him from her own family and the rest of the world. Despite the poverty, hardship and isolation, the pride and hope of a community of women who banded together to raise their children would give this boy his chance to find his real family. A wonderfully heartwarming and evocative tale of working class life in 1950s Dublin and 1960s London.

Nel piccolo villaggio pakistano, frotte di bambini giocano a rincorrersi, spensierati come è giusto che siano i bambini. Iqbal li vede dal finestrino del furgone che lo sta riportando a casa, al tramonto. Un tempo quei giochi erano anche i suoi, prima che la sua famiglia lo cedesse a un fabbricante di tappeti per saldare un debito di dodici dollari contratto dal fratello maggiore per sposarsi. Sono trascorsi sei anni da quel giorno e da allora è uno schiavo, costretto a trascorrere le giornate in una stanza afosa, incatenato a un telaio senza staccare gli occhi dal lavoro, sottomesso a padroni violenti e senza scrupoli. Insieme a tanti bambini come lui. Ma Iqbal è diverso, in lui c'è una scintilla che niente riesce a spegnere. Ha solo dieci anni ma la sua mente è attenta e vigile, il suo senso di giustizia innato.Così, dopo un tentativo fallito e pagato a caro prezzo, riesce finalmente a fuggire. Ha un solo obiettivo in testa, un sogno: far sapere al mondo cosa succede in Pakistan, liberare tutti i bambini dalla schiavitù. E ridare loro quell’infanzia che hanno provato a rubargli.Una storia intensa, commovente, impossibile da dimenticare.

"I crept out the house. I would never live in fear of mum and her friends again. The shameful things they made me do, the the terrible things they did. At last I was free."The heart-breaking true story of an abused little boy who grew up into a remarkable man.Little Joe was only five when he was first beaten by his mother and brutally raped by her boyfriend, and only nine when they sold him to a paedophile ring. For years he was beaten, raped, photographed and abused, fed only on meagre scraps that he had to lick off the cellar floor.Then, when he was 16, Joe finally found the courage to escape. Joe ran away to London to start a new life but his nightmare was far from over. Penniless, friendless and utterly desperate, Joe was drawn into the dark world of crime. He was bent on self-destruction until the love of a good woman finally set him free...

Autobiografisch verhaal van Maria Landon, een Engels meisje dat van jongs af aan door haar vader misbruikt werd. Ze groeit op tussen dieven en pooiers. Vanaf haar dertiende moet ze voor haar vader als prostituee werken. Hij is een gewelddadige, geestelijk zieke dronkenlap. Hij laat zijn vrouw tippelen, verwaarloost en mishandelt zijn vier kinderen. Maria's moeder loopt weg en laat haar kinderen achter. Die worden uit huis geplaatst. Maria gaat van het ene tijdelijke pleeggezin naar tehuizen en internaten en soms is ze periodes bij haar vader naar wie ze ondanks alles altijd weer terugkeert. Ze raakt aan de drugs en de drank, doet aan zelfmutilatie. Als ze vijftien jaar oud is loopt ze weg met een vriendje die haar voor hem laat tippelen. Op haar zeventiende wordt e moeder van een zoontje. Dat is het begin van de lange weg naar een normaal leven en het verwerken van haar ervaringen.

Joe knew his mother was cruel and violent, but he trusted his beloved father to protect him from her. When a freak accident saw his father burn to death in front of him, Joe was left at the mercy of his mother. Without the love of his friend and brother, he wouldn't have survived. With them, he went on to spend his life fighting child abuse.

A man wrongly imprisoned in a foreign country for drug smuggling and the girlfriend who led the fight to free him tell this extraordinary account of prison horror and endurance, laced with romance and adventure. John Packwood and Jane Amestoy alternate chapters as they recount John's Spanish imprisonment and extradition to Morocco, as Jane's case eventually catches the attention of politicians, human rights campaigners, and celebrities such as George Clooney, Hugh Grant, Joseph Fiennes, Damien Hirst, and Annie Lennox. With the combined efforts of Jane's hard work and the snowballing power behind them, John was eventually freed after 13 uncertain months in an unforgiving foreign system. 

For the first few years of her life, Sarah Harris was a normal, happy, popular little girl. But from the age of six she was targeted by a vicious, manipulative but invisible enemy — and her life became a living hell.Before long she was suspended from school, alienated from her friends, completely bewildered and utterly terrified. Her happy childhood had been destroyed forever.For her mother, Lyndsey, it was a life beyond her worst nightmares.Her little girl, the daughter she loved so much, seemed to have transformed overnight — into a child she hardly recognized. A child she almost feared. Suddenly, Lyndsey was fighting to keep her family together — and to save her daughter’s sanity.But then the horrific truth started to become clear. And both Lyndsey and Sarah discovered they had been the innocent victims of the most horrifying betrayal imaginable…

Mladičká Gina si nepřála nic víc než finančně podporovat své chudé rodiče a tím je odškodnit za problémy, které působila celé rodině jako nezvladatelné dítě. S tímto cílem se vydá z filipínských hor pracovat do barů v Manile. Postupně se seznamuje s bohatými muži a za jednoho, který ji oslnil, se provdá. Je ochotna s ním jít třeba na kraj světa. Rodina se usadí v nehostinných, pro Ginu úplně cizích končinách severní Anglie. Ještě nedávno krásný a vášnivý vztah se tu změnil v nekonečné utrpení. Gina i s malým synkem je zcela vydána napospas surovému manželovi, který je oba nelítostně tyranizuje. Ginin osud je příběhem o lásce, zklamání, utrpení, o přežití a naději