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A personal meditation on, examination of, and tribute to Black single motherhood, unapologetically told through poignant essays and candid interviews by a celebrated cultural critic “Jamilah Lemieux is one of the most important feminist writers of the twenty-first century.”—Brittney Cooper...

She Who Tastes, Knows is an expansive history of Durkhanai's homeland and a vivid, moving story about what it truly means to understand another's culture. Through stories of food, family, belonging and migration, the book traverses cultural boundaries, weaving a tapestry of dignity, empathy and understanding.

Brought to you by Penguin. No sex. No kids. No future? When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty-four years later...

Birgit Maria Kemphues turns expat life in the UAE into a rapid-fire comedy of wrong guesses, identity quizzes, and strangers who treat your face like public property. One day it’s Arabic coffee in a majlis. Next day it’s Germans aggressively sorting recycling into 17 bins while debating pretzel temperature. Airports? Full theatre: “Where are you REALLY from?” “Speak German.” Maybe sing the anthem. (Most Germans can’t.)

Diary Writer beschreibt in ihrem Buch „Raum“ zuerst, wie sie ihre Kindheit als türkisches Mädchen in Deutschland erlebt hat. Die kulturellen Unterschiede, die unbegreiflich sind, aber stets präsent, führen immer wieder zu Konflikten – innerlich und auch äußerlich – ob das in Deutschland ist oder in der Türkei im Urlaub. Die Autorin nimmt den Leser mit und erzählt von über ihre Kindergartenzeit, über ihre die Zeit mit ihren Eltern und ihren beiden Schwestern in der kleinen Zwei-Zimmer-Wohnung in Köln, bis hin zu ihrem Leben als junge Mutter und Ehefrau.

In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him, Tahira remained estranged from her children for nearly two decades. Who was she in those years when she was no longer a wife or mother?

“Defiance takes my breath away. A nail-biting tale of astonishing courage.” —Jeannette Walls #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle “A heartbreaking account of a young woman’s struggle for freedom against the rampaging forces of fanaticism and tyranny...

Wir waren Kinder einer besonderen Zeit, zwischen Schrankwand, Milch im Kännchen und zwei Fernsehprogrammen. Unsere Eltern kamen aus dem Krieg, wir aus den Ruinen ins Wirtschaftswunder. Wir gingen zu Fuß zur Schule, spielten draußen, bis es dunkel wurde, und lernten früh den Respekt vor Erwachsenen.

Tupoka Ogette erzählt von der Suche nach Zugehörigkeit, vom Leben in der Gleichzeitigkeit, im Widerspruch, im Dazwischen. Vom Aufwachsen als Schwarzes Kind in der DDR, von Flucht, Verlust, Sexismus und Gewalt – aber auch von Liebe, Mutterschaft, Resilienz und Selbstermächtigung. Von Freundschaften, die sie schließt, und solchen, die sie verliert. Vom Neuanfang in der BRD. Und davon, die Ruhe im Sturm zu finden.

Desde la esclavitud (Up from Slavery) Por Booker T. Washington · Traducción de Mateo Calderón. La inspiradora autobiografía de uno de los grandes educadores y líderes afroamericanos de la historia.

A Universityのテーマは「複雑な世界で、より善く生きる」タイパ・コスパと言った、いかに効率よく生きるかを競うことばかりに注目が集まる時代。これまでの幸せや成功の価値観で生きていくにはあまりにも不確定で困難な時代に「要領よく生きる」だけではない別の選択肢を考えたい。

This audiobook features an exclusive Q&A between reader Chipo Chung and author, Dorcas Gwata 'Fascinating . . . While the rest of us are worrying about it, Dorcas Gwata is doing something about it' - Wendy Joseph, author of Unlawful Killings Through the lives of ten young people an award-winning...

When Hurricane Betsy hit Louisiana in 1965, the first year that Nelda Stidham-Woodruff had moved back to the South from California, was an experience she'll never forget. Betsy was only the first in a chain of hurricanes and hot, humid climate in the bayou. Follow Nelda as she recounts some of the unbelievably dangerous encounters she's been through while living her best life in the Louisiana bayou. Filled with her passion for the bayou and the culture of the area, Nelda's stories will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you craving Cajun cuisine and hot summers.

A Universityのテーマは「複雑な世界で、より善く生きる」タイパ・コスパと言った、いかに効率よく生きるかを競うことばかりに注目が集まる時代。これまでの幸せや成功の価値観で生きていくにはあまりにも不確定で困難な時代に「要領よく生きる」だけではない別の選択肢を考えたい。

Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza. In early 2024, writer and activist susan abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at the...

A heartfelt, one-of-a-kind memoir chronicling the hilarious, absurd, and thought-provoking experiences of an American pursuing comedy in China, learning first-hand how humor does and doesn’t translate—and whether laughter transcends borders. I marched onstage in a long robe beside my Shifu...

The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as “an engrossing masterpiece.” In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois’s charged and...

Told in fast-moving vignettes, Chronicles of a Miami REELtor is part memoir, part social commentary, and part love letter to a city where nothing is ever what it seems. From whisper-network off-market deals to Russian money parked in penthouses, from Brazilian crypto cowboys to buyers who “need to sell ahora,” Max captures the madness with razor-sharp humor and unsettling honesty.

This true, inspiring story follows a young girl forced to flee her home in Wonsan, North Korea, embarking on a dangerous journey of nearly 350 miles toward the DMZ border in search of freedom. Through years of hardship, fear, and relentless struggle, she survives unimaginable circumstances—driven not only by the desire to free herself, but to secure a better future for the generations to come.

كتابًا شيقًا يقدم للعديد من المؤرخين المسلمين ومساهماتهم القيمة في علم التاريخ. الكتاب يعرض تراثنا العربي الإسلامي العميق والمتنوع ويضم كنوزًا فكرية ثرية، ويُمكن وصفه بأنه عمل قيم يهدف إلى التعريف بالمؤرخين المسلمين وأعمالهم الهامة.