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"His story seemed like a novel, and mine just a haiku." This doctor's tale of house calls is woven into the experience of watching his own parents decline. Disillusioned with medicine and the pressures of clinic-based healthcare, the physician instead recognizes his role in palliative care, and basks in the privilege of visiting the elderly without trying to fix the natural ailments of aging. We meet rich characters: a rifle maker who can no longer walk straight let alone shoot, a buoyant would-be mermaid with a frail heart, a senile matriarch torn by unsettled caregivers.

Because even when the journey is difficult, grace has a way of showing up. When health challenges arise, they touch every part of life-body, mind, and spirit. The Lumberjack Song • Grace Through Hardship is a heartfelt memoir of one family's journey through the unexpected twists of illness, faith, and emotional resilience. With honesty and grace, the author shares powerful moments of love, struggle, and spiritual growth that reveal how faith can anchor us when life shifts beyond our control.

BELONGING is not merely a modern-day Book of Genesis listing “so-and-so begat so-and-so.” Instead, it delves deeply into what it means, from a profoundly human perspective, to belong. The author reflects on the famous words: “No man is an island, entire unto himself.” He likens his emotions to those of visitors to the great monuments of Washington, D.C., who caress the names of individuals who gave their lives as the ultimate price for freedom. Through genealogical tracing, the author finds the greatest testimony to his humble background.

Written to entertain listeners from all backgrounds, this book offers a glimpse into the joys and challenges of growing up in a large family—or, for those who did not, an opportunity to compare experiences. It also serves as a cherished record of our family's history, preserving stories and memories for generations to come.

This extraordinary true story is about an ordinary man who defied death through unshakeable faith, the power of prayer, and first-class medical care. Bill is a retiree who survives a major heart attack just a few months after his retirement. After twelve days in the hospital, four stents, and several serious complications, he is released and, for six years, works hard to regain most of his former heart function. However, after a long bout with the RSV virus, he begins to suffer congestive heart failure.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Geneva, 1553. John Calvin rules the city as absolute theocrat. When the scholar Michael Servetus arrives, fleeing the Catholic Inquisition, Calvin has him arrested, tried for heresy, and burned alive—slowly, over green wood, taking half an hour to die...

La vita di Stefania del Belgio avrebbe dovuto essere diversa: invece di una vita agiata in una famiglia reale, avrebbe dovuto diventare l'imperatrice consorte d'Austria. Ma il destino ha voluto diversamente, e Stefania si è trovata a vivere una vita fatta di dolore, solitudine e delusioni. In...

Rompiendo mitos y revelando estafas que has creído toda tu vida. Prepárate para sorprenderte y cuestionarlo todo. Porque después de esto, ya no vas a ver el mundo igual.

"Waiting for Roxana" by Ligia Giovannoni is a powerful memoir set during Argentina's "Dirty War," capturing the story of two sisters bound by love and torn by political violence. Ligia admires her older sister, Roxana, a brilliant student who becomes a fervent activist. As Roxana joins the underground Montoneros, risking her life against the oppressive regime, Ligia watches with admiration and concern. A military raid on their family home marks the beginning of relentless danger, with Roxana forced into hiding.

After her husband’s death in 2007, Julie Fergus’ life suddenly feels unrecognizable. Raising two boys on her own, she moves through the disorientation of grief while trying to hold together what remains of their family. Running becomes a way forward. Not to escape the pain, but to move with it. Through miles and memory, she begins to find moments of steadiness—small returns to herself in the midst of what feels broken.

When Survival Wasn’t Enough is a raw and courageous memoir about living inside a marriage built on control, fear, and manipulation—and the moment when love for children finally outweighed loyalty to an abuser. Written under a pen name to protect privacy, this book traces the author’s journey through more than a decade of narcissistic abuse. What began as safety and devotion slowly became isolation, panic, and the erosion of self-trust. As the author struggled to keep her family intact, she believed that enduring abuse was the price she had to pay to protect her children. She was wrong.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING A poignant personal narrative about family, cultural history and ecology, and a quest to understand what we owe our ancestors and our descendants from an unforgettable new voice. Every spring during the Qingming Festival, people...

*AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *ONE OF INDIGO'S TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR* A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found. By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have...

'This house is freaking me out. It's bad for me. But I'm finishing this.' Discovering Kanye West is endorsing Adolf Hitler, John Safran heads to America to find out what's up. Kanye proves elusive, one thing leads to another, and John packs his duffle bags and moves in, squatting at one of...

WINNER OF THE 2024 BMO WINTERSET AWARD WINNER OF THE 2025 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE 2024 HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2024 CBC Books’ Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 Riveting...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. En el invierno de 754 un papa cruzó los Alpes por primera vez en la historia para arrodillarse ante un rey franco. Casi cincuenta años después, el hijo de aquel rey se dejaba poner una corona imperial en San Pedro y rompía con ello el orden...

House of String takes an autobiographical look at childhood before television, Internet and Smart phones. It describes inventive games such as billycart escapades, creating a backyard circus and covering bedrooms in a network of elasticised string. It embraces the sense of freedom where nobody...

Born in rural Jamaica in 1967 and retired as a Vice President overseeing a $4 billion infrastructure portfolio in America. This is the story of everything that happened in between as told in the author's own voice—a listening experience as personal as the story itself. Eric Jones left Jamaica for the United States in 1987, carrying the heartbeat of his island home into a country that offered opportunities, yet was strewn with challenges.

This book is a memoir about the happy childhood of a Catholic boy who grew up in the 1950s in Pittsburgh. It presents the memories of "Buddy" Maloney of his family and the North Point Breeze neighborhood, his friends and what they did together. It describes going to school, with episodes from Kindergarten to Eighth Grade, and remembers the nuns who taught at Holy Rosary School. It presents the centrality of "Church" in the family's life, with episodes about parish life and worship including the priests, their spiritual leaders.

What does “privilege” mean when you grow up in a coal camp at the edge of a river that floods, in a county the rest of the country only remembers during disaster? In Appalachian Privilege: The Story of Nobody, W. D. Marcum tells the deeply personal story of a coal miner’s son from Logan County, West Virginia, who leaves home in search of something larger—only to discover that leaving is never simple. From a 934-square-foot company house to the deck of a U.S. Navy frigate sailing foreign waters… From blocking roads during coal strikes to dining in the Inns of Court in London…