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The first African American Rockette charts her journey to one of the world's most celebrated dance troupes in this gripping memoir that, for the first time, goes behind the velvet curtains at Radio City's legendary holiday show. “Smashing through glass windows and paving the way for others...

Experience personal growth, as you explore the discoveries of a decade-long missional journey. Learn how to live out biblical principles by examining life and death, faith and fear, learning and unlearning, joy and sorrow. Join the author in taking a candid look at personal transformation.

Pero más allá del éxito empresarial, MIGRANTE es la historia de cómo superar límites que parecían insuperables transformó no solo mi vida, sino también la de mi familia y mi comunidad. MIGRANTE no es solo mi historia; es el eco de millones de voces que, como la mía, han dejado su tierra para construir un mejor porvenir. Es un homenaje a la resiliencia, al espíritu indomable de quienes nunca dejan de soñar y al sacrificio de aquellos que, lejos de su hogar, siguen siendo el pilar económico y emocional de sus familias.

Legacies of Famous Newfoundlanders explores the lives and contributions of notable individuals from Newfoundland who have left a significant mark on history, culture, and society. The book highlights a diverse array of figures, each recognized for their unique achievements and enduring influence.

عند استقلال سنغافورة، كانت عائدات القاعدة العسكرية البريطانية تمثل ثلاثة أرباع دخلها القومي، مما عزز بعض التشاؤم حول قدرة الدولة الصغيرة على النمو بمفردها. لكن...

Award-winning American writer Laura Plummer's debut chapbook is a collection of poetry and prose inspired by and dedicated to Gloucester, Massachusetts, the city she calls home.

A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past. “A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn’t stop reading.”...

Based on diary entries, news articles, published sources, interviews, and personal memories from the author and other family members, Crossing the Yellowstone: The Saga of a Montana Ranch Family is a classic American drama of challenges met and legacies left. In 1894, Andy Mercer journeyed on horseback from Missouri to the Great Plains, with plans to homestead in the West.

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. This represents a shameful sweeping together of a diverse heritage and experience. East and South East Asian people have...

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.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a “remarkably vivid...deeply empathetic” (Los Angeles Times) story that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her family together and her children in...

From acclaimed author and playwright Hanif Kureishi comes an urgent and stunning memoir about rebuilding a new life in the wake of devastating physical loss. 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...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The TODAY Show, Vanity Fair, Financial Times, W Magazine, Oprah Daily, LibraryReads Praised as “funny and witty” by Kwame Alexander on the TODAY show, now published in the US for the first time, Fearless and Free is the memoir of the “trailblazing”...

The inspiring and resilient story of George E. Johnson, creator of the iconic Afro Sheen and the first Black-owned company to be traded on Wall Street You might already be familiar with Afro Sheen and Ultra Sheen, but have you heard of the man behind the company that produced these products? In...

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.

Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman...

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...