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Comment je suis devenu turcophone retrace le parcours singulier d'un auteur francoalgérien qui décide un jour d'apprendre le turc. Ce choix inattendu devient le point de départ d'une exploration sensible des liens historiques, culturels et linguistiques qui relient l'Algérie, la France et la Turquie. Entre récit personnel, réflexion identitaire et éclairages historiques, Hakim Madi interroge les héritages ottomans, les circulations méditerranéennes et la manière dont les langues façonnent nos appartenances.

What happens when a man slows down long enough to notice his own life? In The Cowboy in the Park, Gregg Patten brings together humor, observation, and reflection in a warm and thoughtful collection drawn from ordinary moments on a park bench. With the voice of a man who has lived, lost, learned, and kept going, these pieces explore identity, healing, relationships, aging, regret, faith, and the quiet courage it takes to remain yourself in a noisy world. Part memoir, part meditation, and part gentle conversation, this book offers the kind of wisdom that does not shout. It sits beside you.

"Russian Silhouette" is the memoir of Daniel M. Jaffe, a Jewish Princeton student who spends two summers in the oppressive, antisemitic USSR of the late 1970s. While there, he befriends Soviet Jews, refuseniks (Soviet Jews denied government permission to emigrate), and political dissidents who are living under constant government threat. The KGB surveils and arrests Daniel, warning him never to return. He returns anyway.

'I hope this diary doesn’t offend anyone, but it almost certainly will. Apologies in advance' Shaun Bythell After a four-year absence, the Sunday Times bestselling and original bookshop diarist is back. The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm’s paradise: the largest second-hand bookshop in...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Returning Home is a deeply personal memoir about healing, identity, and the long journey back to oneself. Todd Michael shares his story with honesty and clarity, inviting listeners into the moments that shaped his life and the breath that carried him...

This coming-of-age story from Declan Henry captures life growing up on a farm in Derrykinlough, a rural village on the Sligo/Mayo border in the Irish Republic during the 1970s and early 1980s. This is an evocative account of an Irish childhood and tells of a now vanished world - settled, highly traditional and moulded at every point by Catholicism. It's an account of self-discovery while encapsulating the hopes and ideals reminiscent of the time.

He was never meant to rise—yet he did. From the riverbanks of Aguascalientes to the turbulence of the Texas foster care system, Anthony Gonzalez Harris’ journey is a raw, unflinching testament to survival, faith, and transformation. Orphaned, misdiagnosed, and nearly forgotten, he found an unshakable strength in silence, the unlikeliest of families, and the relentless whisper of God’s presence. The Many Me isn’t just a memoir—it’s a rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt invisible. In these pages, brokenness becomes blueprint, and pain is repurposed into purpose.

In 1947, India became independent, but was divided into two nations, forever changing the country and the lives of its inhabitants. The Indian Mate: Volume 1 charts the journey of one such family caught in the middle of the biggest migration in human history, along with around 14 million others...

The Indian Mate: Volume 2 uncovers a unique Australian experience through the eyes of an NRI (Non-Resident Indian) who later became an Australian citizen. With crushing expectations, $1000 and a bag full of dreams (his own and his family's), Divesh sets foot in Australia. Despite feelings of...

"After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage" is the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Italian family. Enlisting Calabrian folklore, epigenetics, and psychology, Monardo writes from both sides of the ocean, charting her grandfathers’ immigration to a Pittsburgh steel town; her father’s WWII as a medical student in Naples; the family’s marriages—including her own—that were tainted by an Old World curse; and an unlikely path toward international adoption.

On a quiet summer day in Bend, Oregon, a single phone call shattered a family’s world. Tiare — radiant, adventurous, and beloved — was gone. Named for the fragrant jasmine flower, she had been a bright presence wherever life took her: Hawaii, New England, the West Coast. She cheered, she laughed, she protected, she dreamed. She filled her room with posters and pink, and her family with joy.

This book isn't just another war story. It’s a raw, irreverent rollercoaster ride through addiction, absurdity, elite military service, and the relentless pursuit of something authentic in a world that rewards bullshit. With humor darker than a moonless night and a voice sharp enough to cut glass, the author takes you from childhood spelling bees in small-town North Carolina straight into the chaos of teenage rebellion, drugs, crime, and psych wards.

In famiglia si esprimono i sentimenti più profondi. Amore, gioia, serenità... ma anche frustrazione, senso di inadeguatezza, odio. La famiglia è il luogo dove si coltivano i valori, ma dove possono annidarsi comportamenti tossici. Il rifugio dagli orrori del mondo, o il covo della violenza.

Everything you wanted to know about France but were too afraid to ask... At eighteen Lucy Wadham abandoned England and fell into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married, had children, and divorced in France, Lucy is perfectly placed to explore the differences between our...

A multigenerational memoir of working-class womanhood in 20th century Britain, centring on the extraordinary family history of one of our greatest living novelists - Pat Barker Patricia Margaret Drake was not a wanted child. Born in 1943 in the working-class north-east of England, her arrival...

The story of a mother and son who reconcile after a lifetime of separation, only to find themselves facing separation once again. When Tom Wilson was fifty-three years old, he learned he was not who he thought he was. He discovered he'd been a victim of Canada's "sixties scoop"—a tragic period...

Con solo diecinueve años, David R. Carrillo se enfrentaba a una condena de cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional. Encarcelado en algunas de las prisiones más violentas de Colorado, sobrevivió a las políticas de las pandillas, al aislamiento y al peso aplastante de una sentencia que prometía que moriría entre rejas. Pero en los lugares más oscuros, descubrió un camino inesperado: la educación, la responsabilidad y la transformación.

It was the beginning of 1976 and life was good. White South Africans danced along to Queen and ABBA. There was huge anticipation of the pending All Black rugby tour in July–and at last South Africa had TV! And then came the Soweto student uprising in June. It was the end of normal, setting in motion a series of events that culminated in the negotiated settlement of 1994. MAX DU PREEZ, born and raised in a conservative Afrikaner Christian Nationalist family, witnessed the first stones thrown on 16 June–and the first shots fired–as a young newspaper reporter.

"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.