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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...

How do we heal from colonialism? What does healing from colonialism look like for First Nations? What about non-Indigenous people? What are the barriers to this healing, and what can we do to move past them? These are questions that lie at the heart of Tough Lies, the highly anticipated...

Some homes are more than an address. They become the place where family, faith, character, and memory take root. In Party of Four: 14403 Fairway, Raine J. Campeau looks back on the family that raised him and the Faith that sustained him through childhood, profound loss, friendship, education...

Read by the Author A deeply reported and personal exploration of identity, resilience, and belonging from one of the most influential Spanish-language journalists in the world, Essential offers a nuanced, urgent portrait of what it means to be Latino in today’s America and the contradictions...

“A little peep behind the net curtain of swinging London. Meet the people that made the 60s tick.” Noel Gallagher ‘This is an extraordinary book…An amazing work of cultural and social history.’ Tom Holland 'This is granular Beatles. 1967 the year mop-topperies optimism gave way to...

A funny, honest and moving account of life as an older woman in today's Ireland. At 87, with failing eyesight and limited mobility, Ann Ingle is rejoicing in the unexpected freedom of being older, while remaining realistic about the challenges it brings. Still Here is her candid and uplifting reflection on ageing for anybody wondering what lies ahead. Ingle explores friendship, family and keeping fit, and tackles the big questions we all have around getting older.

Most of us have done it.At some point, a new school, a new country, a new job, we built a version of ourselves designed to fit in. We got so good at being that person that we forgot who was underneath.The Boy Who Lost His Name is the story of what happens when you finally go back for them.José...

A deeply moving memoir of healing and ancestral reconnection, weaving an intimate personal story with the epic history of Ireland. In 2013, exactly a century after her grandparents emigrated from Ireland to America, Carolyn Brigit Flynn returned to her ancestral homeland in the wake of a family...

What happens when “just friends” becomes a marriage—and one spontaneous decision changes the course of your entire life?In Just Friends: Love, Lessons, and a New Life Under the Spanish Sun, J.R. Hutt shares a warm, candid, and deeply personal account of love, cultural discovery, family...

'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...

ربما لا توجد فاكهة في تجربة الطهو في العالم الغربيّ تثير شغفاً مشتركاً أو ارتباطاً عاطفيّاً مثل المانغو. يستعرض هذا الكتاب العالم الغنيّ لهذه الفاكهة، ويسلّط الضوء على أصنافها المتنوّعة وخصائصها، ويسبر الجوانب التاريخيّة والاجتماعيّة والثقافيّة لها. ترسم مؤلّفتا الكتاب صوراً حية للموروثات التاريخيّة والثقافيّة للمانغو عبر سرد مجموعة من القصص والحكايات الساحرة من جميع القارات، وتعرضان ببراعة رحلة المانغو من جذورها الأصليّة إلى حضورها المميّز في المطابخ العالميّة والمناسبات الدينيّة والاجتماعيّة.

“I often wondered how Kandaya felt as we closed in on him. We had the helicopters, the radios, the firepower. But he had stealth on his side.” Angus Shaw was there when Rhodesia slid into war. Born in the country he would later fight for, Shaw records, first as a civilian newspaper...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In colonial Quito, a young girl observing the world from a narrow window will become Manuela Espejo, guardian of the memory of her brother Eugenio, the enlightened physician who dreamed of a continent's freedom. Many years later, across the ocean in...

Digging Up Bones is a nonfiction true-crime/investigative book centered on the controversial funeral and burial of Bobby Wilks in Robertson County, Tennessee. The book investigates the circumstances surrounding Wilks’ death, funeral, and burial, drawing on historical records, interviews, newspaper reports, and other documented sources. It examines conflicting accounts and unanswered questions surrounding the case while presenting the author’s research and findings.

This book is a selected collection of the memories I have gathered throughout my life. Every moment helped me grow, learn, and become the person I am today. Each experience taught me something important. Sometimes I wonder if everything happened because of fate or because of the choices we make that affect our future. We may never know the real answer. What I do know is that every memory matters and becomes a part of who we are.

In 1953, the Greek island of Zakynthos suffered a series of earthquakes, later known as the Great Ionian Earthquake. Villages were decimated, many people lost their homes, their loved ones, and their ways of life. Seven years old at the time, Eleni Marinos grew up in the rubble.

In PILGRIMAGE OF THE SPIRIT, Puja A. J. Thomson questions her beliefs and finds the courage to follow her inner guidance as it sweeps her across continents, cultures and faiths. Not merely a tourist seeking entertainment, she grows beyond the limitations of her upbringing in Scotland. In her teens, she connects with Christians behind the Iron Curtain in Communist East Germany; as a young woman, she meets her spiritual teacher in India, becomes a follower, and is given a new name.

Du kannst ich sein. Und ich kann du sein.Dieses Buch erklärt dir nicht, wie du leben sollst. Es ist kein Ratgeber, keine Anleitung und keine Methode.Es richtet sich an Menschen, die im Alltag, im Team oder in der Zusammenarbeit echte Veränderung wollen, nicht durch Regeln, sondern durch...

A gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrating how radical changes in American politics impact our psyches and divide our communities. “A timely and engagingly written account by an...