From Tears to Triumph
Multi-Award-Winning Memoir by author Linda Bello-Ruiz
NCPA 2014 1st place in the Memoir division
and 1st Place for Cover/Design
and 1st Place for Cover/Design
During the summer of 1970, nineteen-year-old Linda stops on the way home from work to talk to a handsome stranger. That chance meeting on a San Francisco street corner changes the course of her life. Linda’s compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of her remarkable journey from the darkness of despair and crushed dreams to the creation of a house of hope.
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About Linda Bello-RuizLinda Caridad Cassells (Bello-Ruiz) co-founded and directed the House of Hope—the first safe-haven for street girls, runaways, and underage prostitutes in Costa Rica. She was a twenty-three-years-old college dropout when she took on the project, and relied on her faith and determination which was much bigger than her curriculum vitae.
After her return to the United States in 1976, she went back to college and earned her Master’s Degree in Psychology from Sonoma State University.
