New Arrivals: True Stories
Friday, July 30, 2010
Never Say Die by Melanie Davies & Lynne Barrett RRP: RM44.90 Price: RM17.90
On a Saturday morning in May 1980, Melanie Bowen, a pretty fifteen year old, ran down the stairs of her parents’ home in Port Talbot, grabbed her leather jacket and crash helmet, yelled a goodbye, and then walked out of the front door into the sunshine for what was to be the last time in her life. “Never Say Die” is the true story of what followed. Since the motorcycle crash that left her paralyzed from the chest down, Melanie’s life has been one of extremes. However, she’s won medals in athletics for Wales, been humbled and inspired by Falklands veterans at RAF Chessington, raised thousands for charity, become a major disability poster girl in America, dabbled with the film world and been screen tested for a movie, met the Queen, and set up her own rehabilitation charity, whose patrons include the acclaimed actor Michael Sheen, Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, and former Welsh Rugby captain, Gwyn Jones. She has also, against all the odds, found lasting happiness, fallen in love, and married the surgeon who 25 years earlier told her she would never walk again.
Daddy’s Little Earner: A Heartbreaking True Story of a Brave Little Girl’s Escape from Violence by Maria Landon RRP: RM39.90 Price: RM17.90
The shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, & her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood & build a new life for herself and her sons. Maria’s dad was a pimp, living in a world of thieves & street-walkers. By the age of nine, Maria’s father was abusing her & getting a prostitute friend to dress her up in stockings & make-up. By the time she was 14 he was selling her on the streets of the red light district in Norwich. At 15 she ran away to King’s Cross with an older lover who turned out to be just another pimp. Furious at losing a nice little earner her father involved the police & both he & the other man were jailed for living off Maria’s immoral earnings. Only then could Maria escape her traumatic childhood and follow her dream of becoming a mother.
Escaping Daddy by Maria Landon RRP: RM39.90 Price: RM17.90
The sequel to Daddy’s Little Earner tells Maria’s story as she tries to rebuild her life. Determined to escape from her past & be the best wife & mother she could possibly be, Maria throws herself into her marriage. But it is never that easy to escape from such a traumatic start in life. Maria tells the story of her marriage into the gypsy community & the emotional demons that rise up from her childhood to haunt her as she becomes the victim of violence once more. She leads the reader through her own personal & inspiring journey out of a nervous breakdown & through two marriages, on to becoming a personal development teacher who helps many others to overcome their pasts, & a strong, empowered single mother of two boys.
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