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“Are you craving a better path to the good life than safety and comfort? Free Range Girl is the delightful story of Meghan Cox Gurdon’s countercultural off-the-grid childhood in rural Maine. This memoir is as inspirational as it is entertaining.” —Arthur C. Brooks, #1 New York Times...

Read by the author. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Town & Country’s Best Books of the Fall "A sunny celebration of a life well lived in the South of France—except for the bloody plumbing." —KIRKUS REVIEWS In 1971, at the beginning of Monty Python mania, Eric Idle bought a...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD This is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. But he was a passionate collector, an early...

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, acclaimed novelist David Chariandy's latest is an intimate and profoundly beautiful meditation on the politics of race today. When a...

Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected...

Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng'ete saw the young girls she grew up with receive the cut, the rite of passage into female adulthood in Masai culture. Every girl got the cut, and once you did, you'd be married off to a man triple your age. You might be his second or third wife. You'd have children in your teens. This is exactly what happened to Nice's sister. To resist the cut meant becoming an outcast in Masai culture.

At the age of twenty-three, Ayesha removed her face veil to begin her studies in New York City. Braiding together Western, South Asian and Qur’anic storytelling styles, the author illuminates what it means to exist in a world that demands something different from each of her identities. With...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo...

Live life forwards but understand it by looking backwards. In the book, the author’s 21st-century daily experiences are mirrored in his village days. From the comfort of a ZOOM class, jog around the estate and make rare encounters. Walk with him through libraries, hit golf balls, visit the beach and learn a thing or two about hyenas, lions and leopards.

Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu’s equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her 50s and becoming a professor and a writer.

Has anyone ever tried to throw a cash register at you? Have so many irritating and inane questions caused you to develop a poker face so strong that a sledge hammer wouldn’t break it? Have you seen every dark impulse man possesses? Do you know every demon by name? Yes? Then you’ve probably worked retail, and this book is for you. No? Then you’ve probably never worked retail, and this book is for you.

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.

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.

Brandon Smith built the kind of life most people aspire to—seven-figure income, career success, family, status, and access. He was the guy who could handle pressure, read the room, close the deal, and keep everything moving. From the outside, nothing looked broken. In Nothing Was Broken, Smith shares the story of a high-performing man who never hit rock bottom, never lost everything, and never fit the traditional narrative of addiction or recovery.