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Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother’s opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father’s self-made success, it was a girl’s storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother’s terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle’s fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined.

In The Tapestry of My Ancestry, Susan Lorraine Kadera weaves together threads of Cherokee, Lumbee, African, European, and countless other lineages into a poetic journey of remembrance and gratitude. Through DNA revelations and quiet reflection, she uncovers the silent stories of her ancestors—those whose names may be lost but whose presence endures.

Överstelöjtnant Kim Yong har oerhörda privilegier med nordkoreanska mått mätt. Han äger en importerad bil och kan åka var han vill i landet. Men förräderianklagelser raserar hela Yongs tillvaro. Han döms till Nordkoreas mest ökända arbetsläger, nr 14 i Hamgyong-provinsen–en värld av våld och tortyr. Medan han tvångsarbetar i en gruva två kilometer under marken blir dagsljus Kims enda lyx. Allt eftersom månaderna går blir han bekant med politiska fångar, omänskliga lägervakter och en apokalyptisk hungersnöd.

Lange Jahre hat die Bestsellerautorin Sabine Thiesler den italienischen Wahnsinn in der Toskana live erlebt – nun berichtet sie urkomisch und frappierend zugleich über die Absurditäten im deutschen Sehnsuchtsland Nummer 1.

In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town of Tombstone to face the history he was raised on as a boy—gunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboys—for a new, personal confrontation with the West’s foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, whiteness, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and “slathered in murder.”

"Unbound" is an inspirational memoir that traces the author’s journey from being a mixed-race immigrant daughter navigating the challenges of cultural dissonance to her becoming a mature woman who has embodied her worth with compelling honesty and grace. Serena Arora offers a deeply personal lens on the unique struggles of daughters of immigrants, exploring the impact of cultural conditioning on relationships, intimacy, and identity, from the longing for validation to the pain of playing small.

In early 1983, electrical engineer Barry Norris travelled from Sheffield to Japan to help build an oil rig in Yokohama. Each week he recorded his thoughts on cassette tapes, describing daily life in Japan during its industrial boom, from shipyards and sushi bars to earthquakes and karaoke nights. More than forty years later, his son David Norris introduces and shares those recordings in full, preserving the unfiltered voice of a Geordie abroad.

Após o sucesso da edição de 2017, a coletânea de crônicas, que marcou a estreia do autor nas publicações e se tornou um cult, volta a navegar pelos "intervalos" da vida entre o trabalho precarizado, a periferia e as andanças pela cidade de São Paulo. Nessas viagens, o narrador-autor, que se descreve como um "nerdão, lerdão de briga, bicho acuado", mostra uma perspectiva crua e bem-humorada do cotidiano e das experiências humanas.

A Universityのテーマは「複雑な世界で、より善く生きる」タイパ・コスパと言った、いかに効率よく生きるかを競うことばかりに注目が集まる時代。

С неизменной любовью, безупречной точностью и неподражаемым юмором Даррелл рассказывает о пятилетнем пребывании своей семьи (в том числе старшего брата Ларри, то есть Лоуренса Даррелла — будущего автора знаменитого Александрийского квартета) на греческом острове Корфу. И сам этот роман, и его продолжения разошлись по миру многомиллионными тиражами, стали настольными книгами уже у нескольких поколений читателей, а в Англии даже вошли в школьную программу.

In her luminous debut, Emilee Hackney offers both a love letter to and a reckoning of the place that made her—a story of losing her faith, finding her way back to her Appalachian home, and discovering what endures Born and raised deep in the hollers of the Appalachian Mountains, Emilee Hackney...

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a “startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry’s abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers” (The New York Times Book Review) and those who had the courage to fight back. On June 27, 2011, a...

Khadija’s Journey: What Love Is isn’t just a memoir—it’s a soul awakening. Through her story, Khadija invites you to walk beside her from the olive groves of Morocco to the quiet roads of South Carolina, where faith, pain, and transformation meet. This is a journey of healing from childhood wounds, cultural expectations, and the search for belonging—only to find that love and wholeness were within her all along.

There is No Such Thing as a Typical Librarian pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day operation of working in both an academic and public library. It is a love letter to the library profession based on the personal experiences of Steve Antonuccio, who worked in libraries for over 30 years. He spent 20 years at Colorado Springs’ Pikes Peak Library District creating and operating the Library Channel as the manager of the educational cable access studio.

She Who Tastes, Knows is an expansive history of Durkhanai's homeland and a vivid, moving story about what it truly means to understand another's culture. Through stories of food, family, belonging and migration, the book traverses cultural boundaries, weaving a tapestry of dignity, empathy and understanding.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “There’s such warmth to Dumas’ writing that it invites the reader to pull up a seat at her table and smile right along with her at the quirks of her family and Iranians and Americans in general.”—Booklist In the New York Times bestselling memoir Funny in...

My parents were born about 56 and 54 years before me. They were born and raised in a much different world, an entirely separate cultural and technological time period. Their 1950’s childhood differs immensely from my early 2000’s childhood.

Early in the morning of 6th October 1957, a five-year-old boy looked up to the skies over the Tunisian Sahel region to get a glimpse of the very first satellite in orbit around Earth, the famous Sputnik. Despite not spotting it, he started dreaming of a future high up in the skies. Little did the young boy know then about his future, and that his life would eventually fulfill and even exceed his wildest dreams.

A powerful diary-style narrative that gives voice to a 12-year-old girl navigating grief, survival, and hope in the shadow of war. Inspired by the power of first-person accounts like The Diary of Anne Frank, Diana Castro brings to light the heartbreak and resilience of a child caught in the devastation of conflict.

Between the Sauce, Stars and Heaven is a memoir flavored with faith, love, laughter, and loss—told by a man who survived 12 minutes of death and came back with a deeper purpose. Raised in the tight-knit Italian-American town of Netcong, NJ, Lou Basenese shares unforgettable stories of his family—especially the wild uncles, devoted parents, and the son he lost too soon. Through meals, miracles, and moments of mischief, Lou paints a portrait of a community rooted in tradition but forever reaching toward grace.