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Accepting Me: Growing from Promise to Purpose is a powerful and deeply personal journey of resilience, faith, and self-discovery. Through a collection of heartfelt reflections and life experiences, Dr. Marilyn Bailey invites listeners to walk alongside her as she navigates childhood hardships, family bonds, loss, perseverance, and spiritual growth. From being the first in her family to graduate and pursue higher education, to surviving homelessness, emotional wounds, and societal challenges, this book reveals how purpose can emerge from pain.

What did growing up really feel like before screens, schedules, and constant supervision? A Little Dirt Never Hurt is a collection of true, humorous stories from a boyhood spent in rural America--where fun was homemade, trouble was easy to find, and lessons were usually learned the hard way.

From the acclaimed author of What She Ate, the story of five couples whose dreams, experiments, and triumphs fueled a revolution at the kitchen table. In Big Appetites, the journalist and culinary historian Laura Shapiro introduces readers to some of the cooks and activists who turned their...

A lo largo de nuestras vidas siempre van quedando momentos marcados. Son recuerdos que nos acompañarán por el resto de nuestras vidas. Pueden ser momentos bonitos, tiernos o logros motivo de celebración, pero también los momentos difíciles y dolorosos pasan a ser parte de ese baúl de los recuerdos.

THE DOOR, With Every Tear... A Little Wisdom... From the moment she was left at the doorstep of an orphanage, Miriam Fernandes faced a life filled with uncertainty, loss, and longing. Yet through every hardship, she discovered an inner strength that refused to be broken. In this deeply moving memoir, Miriam shares her journey from abandonment and adversity to hope, healing, and self-discovery. Guided by the love of an extraordinary woman who became her family, she learns that even the deepest wounds can give way to wisdom, courage, and grace.

A book about my time in the boys brigade and some of the things I got up too. From a young boy to an adult. Maybe this book might help boys who are a bit nervous about moving up to another section of the Boys Brigade. And maybe you might be interested in what I got up to.

This book is about my life—from under my mother’s desk as a child in Ghana to the hills of Vermont as a PhD holder now. As a bubbly child who had her whole future ahead of her, I never dreamt of waking up one day and losing my legs to polio. But that is what happened. From then on my...

I’ve spent plenty of time in football parking lots, concert fields, dive bars, bluegrass festivals, and places that probably shouldn’t have existed in the first place. Tailgating in America is a collection of stories from those gatherings and the characters who bring them to life. From Ball State football to Dead & Company, hometown bars to hidden festivals in the hills of Indiana, this essay explores the freedom, community, and controlled chaos that still make America worth showing up for.

For years, the Tank Story was an easy answer to the question, 'Why is your dad like this?' It portrayed him as a wounded soldier, a hero whose injuries never healed. But the truth was much more complicated than that.

The legal marijuana industry wasn't quite what I expected. Down and Out in Denver follows my years working inside Colorado's cannabis boom, rolling joints, trimming flower, chasing bonuses, and watching an emerging industry grow up in real time. Along the way are stories of the people, absurdities, successes, and disappointments that rarely make it into the headlines. Part memoir, part field report, this is a look behind the curtain of America's green rush from someone who lived it.

A Fight for a Cup of Chai is a short, accessible nonfiction audiobook about labor, migration, and resilience—told through lived experience. Set in Nepal, the story follows a young factory worker navigating poverty, work, and identity while revealing the human cost behind global supply chains. What begins as a personal journey opens into larger questions of dignity, sacrifice, and belonging.

COMO NALGA DE MONJA es una reflexión ingeniosa, sincera y profundamente humana sobre la vida, la muerte, la fe y la extraña aventura de estar vivo. Con humor, ironía e historias personales, Nicolò Luca explora las preguntas que muchos se hacen en silencio: ¿Qué sucede después de la muerte? ¿Qué es lo que realmente importa en la vida? ¿Y por qué los seres humanos somos tan maravillosamente contradictorios?

Michael seemed like a typical New Yorker and in a lot of ways he was. He had a swagger and an accent that was unmistakable. That's what he wanted people to think about him. And he risked his life on 9/11 to come to the aid of his city. He was a hero-but that was not always the case throughout much of his life. Rescued from a life that was heading into crime and prostitution, Michael was reset on a road to become a responsible citizen.

On May 8, 2006, Congolese finance graduate Guy Goma turns up for a job interview at the BBC when his world suddenly explodes. Mistaken for a technology expert whose name was also Guy (and who was waiting in a different reception area), he’s ushered into a TV studio and interviewed live on air.

Welcome to the wild, wacky and wonderful world of outback Aussie festivals! Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled far and wide to capture the true stories behind Australia's most unconventional festivals. You'll meet the larrikin locals, dedicated organisers and competitive spirits who turn cockroaches into champions, guinea pigs into thoroughbreds and dunnies into racing machines.

Always Something To Do is a novel built from primary sources — the handwritten memoir of Naomi Roberts Ledbetter, an interview recorded in her own words at the age of eighty, and historic documents spanning her lifetime. Travel along with her and her story. A girl from a rural farm in Alabama...

Fishing in the Farther Streams continues the story of the author's becoming a husband, father, and teacher begun in Eden across the Street and Other Formative Places (Palmetto 2020). The most important places in this second memoir are Jefferson, Maine; 508 Beau Street; Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania; and Cambridge, England. The author invites you to watch him stride, stumble, and maybe catch his balance.

Deep in the American South, poverty was rarely temporary. For many families, it was inherited. In the cotton mill towns of the American South, generations of families lived in a world defined by lint dust, mill whistles, and long days of exhausting labor. Poverty was not simply a hardship. It was a system that shaped communities, reputations, and the expectations placed on entire bloodlines. Families like these were often labeled with a single dismissive word: lintheads.

Retratos de Mim não é apenas uma autobiografia. É a história de um homem comum confrontado com circunstâncias pouco comuns — e da forma como decidiu construir-se por dentro enquanto construía o mundo à sua volta. Entre Portugal e Londres, entre a obra e o estudo, entre quedas e recomeços, este livro acompanha um percurso de transformação: da sobrevivência à consciência.

Mandi Fugate Sheffel was born in the heart of rural small-town America, in a place where "wild teaberry grows," with creeks "as clear and cold as nature would allow." As a curious, sensitive child raised in a challenging environment, she formed a deep bond with her cousin Eric. As the pair grew up together, they sought a sense of belonging, and drugs and alcohol provided a temporary escape from the harsh realities of their lives. Everything shifted when Purdue Pharma launched aggressive marketing campaigns for OxyContin in central Appalachia.