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After being born into an evangelical religious cult that evolved into an abusive communal life, Deborah and her twin sister Esther experienced vastly different outcomes. Control issues for one, impulsivity for the other. Both attempted to self-heal by healing others. Deb spent thirty-four years in emergency nursing, Esther, sixteen years as an ER Tech. Esther's subsequent death in 2013, led Deb to write The Serpent's Tail, a memoir-in-verse detailing their first fourteen years in the cult and the devastating aftermath. She left the emergency to work with veterans in recovery.

'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the UK. For the first time, author Anna Sulan Masing addresses these issues in a comprehensive way. She explores what it means to be East and South East Asian in Britain today, and celebrates the multiple elements and varied experiences that make up ESEA identity. Powerful, moving and illuminating, this will be a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the make-up of our multicultural society.

Bruce and Karen Gowen are facing a retirement that neither one wants. Bruce can’t imagine life without employment. Karen wants change, adventure, a chance to spread her wings and fly away after thirty years of raising their large family. Their opportunity comes in a way they can both support: helping their daughter and son-in-law with a hotel project in Panajachel, Guatemala. Never ones to do anything halfway, the Gowens sell everything, including one of their businesses. What they can’t sell, they give away.

Tess Chakkalakal gives listeners the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, Chesnutt was born in 1858 in Cleveland to parents who were considered "mixed race." Though light-skinned, Chesnutt remained a member of the black community throughout his life. He studied among students at the State Colored Normal School who were formerly enslaved. He became a teacher in rural North Carolina during Reconstruction. His life in the South of those years, the issue of race, and how he himself identified as Black informed much of his later writing.

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a former slave who became a social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. One of the most prominent figures in the anti-slavery movement, Douglass emerged as a national leader of the abolitionist movement, speaking and writing widely on behalf of the cause. In this classic work, Douglass gives a firsthand account of his life from birth through his time spent in slavery, his escape to freedom in 1838, and his transition from bondage to liberty.

In 2018, poverty and domestic violence cast Evelyn and her children into the urban wilderness of Los Angeles, where she avoids the family crisis network that offers no clear pathway for her children to remain together and in a decent school. For the next five years, Evelyn works full time as a waitress yet remains unable to afford legitimate housing or qualify for government aid. All the while she strives to provide stability, education, loving memories, and college aspirations for her children even as they sleep in motels and in her car.

In late 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, he realized he could no longer walk. He could do nothing without the help of others and required constant care in a hospital. So began a yearlong odyssey through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home to his house in London.

10 women social reformers who fought to bring change in India

لولا تجاربنا لما تعلمنا! تجعلنا تجارب حياتنا نرى الدنيا من زوايا مختلفة، فنكتشف ما لم نكن نراه في السابق، وأحيانًا نرغب في إعادة ما مررنا به لنصحح الأوضاع ونطبق ما تعلمناه. لكننا قد لا نكون مضطرين إلى أن نعيش مرتين إذا تعرفنا وعايشنا تجارب الآخرين!

Told with humor and heart through a fairy tale lens, with flashbacks into the author’s not-always-happy childhood, Sit, Cinderella, Sit is a story about what can happen when you take a leap of faith, look and hear beyond people’s differences, and dare to believe in yourself.

Being a nerd is hard. Being Black is harder. Being a Black nerd can make you want to give up. But if I can get through it, so can you. This is for anyone who feels, or ever felt, like an outsider- even among the outsiders. There isn't a right or wrong way to cope really, this is just how I did it. All it took was a little patience, a lot of perseverance, and a near lifelong obsession with a long-running, British show, about the adventures of a time-traveling alien.

După o şedere de mai bine de douăzeci de ani în Marea Britanie şi înainte de a se întoarce în Statele Unite împreună cu familia, Bill Bryson porneşte într-o călătorie de rămas-bun, un fel de tur al insulei care i-a fost atîta vreme cămin. Folosind mijloacele de transport în comun şi făcînd drumeţii ori de cîte ori i se iveşte ocazia, autorul parcurge un lung şi întortocheat traseu ce începe în Dover, locul în care a pus pentru prima dată piciorul în Marea Britanie, şi ajunge pînă la John O'Groats, capul cel mai nordic al insulei.

This is a book about legacy—the legacy of a special group of women who have earned the title of “Grandma.” It is a collection of memories and stories about grandmothers from all around the world to honor the gifts they have given and the legacies they share down the generations. Grandmothers give us a sense of peace, safety, strength, and unconditional love. They allow us to be whoever we want to be when we are living in the safety of their world. Grandmothers teach us through love and through example how to draw on our own resources and strengths to live our best lives.

Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice. This book is at once a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational family memoir, an epic father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience, and a work that powerfully revives Rev. Moses’s demand for liberation.

Shetland is a place bound together by community, history and culture. But when a huge windfarm is greenlit to export energy to mainland Scotland, it creates rifts between neighbours, friends and even families. One side supports the benefit to a planet spiralling into climate disaster; the other challenges the impact on an environment with an already struggling wildlife population. As an environmental journalist, Marianne is drawn to investigate this story of sustainable energy that is irrevocably tied to her grief. But nothing is ever straightforward.

The story of a girl's struggle to accept her disabilities and how she came to understand God's Word and to live her life for Him.

Set in the Upper Snake River Valley in rural Idaho, this story is about relationships. Beginning in the 1970’s and spanning four generations of life on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, it is a study of friendship, fatherhood, and a dog named Bradley. It is a tale of love and loss through the eyes of the author.

Cairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age twenty-seven. For the next three decades, it's as if Enayat never existed at all. Years later, when celebrated Egyptian poet Iman Mersal stumbles upon Enayat's long-forgotten Love and Silence in a Cairo book stall, she embarks on a journey of reflection and rediscovery that leads her ever closer to the world and work of Enayat al-Zayyat.

Ten years ago, Liyana Dhamirah was in a precarious situation: at 22, she was heavily pregnant and had no place to call home. For Liyana, home was often unstable. Once a bright teenager full of optimism, she faced uncertainty and found no support from family, government agencies and welfare groups. She had nowhere to go, no one to turn to. When she started living on a beach in Sembawang, she discovered a community of people—families—who were homeless just like her.

تناول الكاتب في كتابه هروبي إلى الحرية ماحل به في الفترة التي كان يقبع فيها في سجن فوتشا في الفترة ما بين (1983 - 1988)، وما تعرض له في عهد جوزيف بروز تيتو، حيث مكث في سجنه أعوام طويلة، وكان فيها يخلد إلى أفكاره ويناجي خواطره ويسجلها في ظروف صعبة، ثم جمعها في كتابه هروبي إلى الحرية، الذي يعبر فيه عن طموحاته وآماله بطريقة لا تدخل في عمق الأحداث الجارية، ويفصح فيها عن تطلعات شعب البوشناق المسلم وشعوب البوسنة الأخرى، جمع علي عزت في كتابه خلاصة الخلاصات لكل ما يجب التفكير فيه أو يستحيل أن يفكر فيه، يتضمن الكتاب حشد كبير من الأفكار والتأملات والاعتقادات في موضوعات منفصلة، تحدث عن أن