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"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.

In the spring of 1992, Los Angeles exploded into chaos. As the city burned in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Korean-American neighborhoods came under siege. While many fled, a group of residents climbed onto rooftops with rifles in hand — ready to defend their homes and businesses when the police could not, or would not. Tony Moon was one of them.

Edmond Biré retrace la destinée d’Armand de Pontmartin (1811-1890) et la place de ses écrits dans les lettres françaises. Entre biographie et étude critique, il suit le parcours d’un homme de plume au cœur du XIXe siècle, éclaire ses choix, son style et les idées qui traversent son œuvre, et interroge leur résonance.

'An unforgettable and moving portrait of working-class alienation ... I read it in one sitting' JAMES REBANKS 'Utterly compelling. I couldn't put this down! It picks you up and takes you on a journey that will leave you changed' REBECCA SMITH A BOOKSELLER BOOK OF THE MONTH --- I'm England till I...

In 1971, two years after the launch of Monty Python’s Flying Circus made his comedy troupe global superstars - and made all their lives a little more complicated - Eric Idle decided to buy a ramshackle property in the south of France. In search of a simpler, quieter life, what followed was a...

Read by the author. In 1971, at the beginning of Monty Python mania, Eric Idle bought a crumbling ruin in the hills of Provence. With no electricity, no water, no road, and no plan, he set out to transform the neglected stone shack into what he lovingly calls a shackeau. Idle in Provence is the...

Este audiolibro contiene elementos de la bitácora de viajes realizados a Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Perú y Brasil en los años 2004 y 2005 por el autor. El texto original fue escrito en Agosto del 2004 en Puerto Maldonado, Peru...

A Holocaust survivor raised in the Jewish Orthodox tradition wondered why the God of the Hebrews required the ancient Israelites to exterminate all Canaanites. This book includes Infeld’s original comments on each chapter of the Five Books of Moses. He calls attention to the absurd, the humorous, the cruel, the contradictions, the inconsistencies, but also the sublime and inspirational, in the Bible.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. “You don’t just leave a country. You leave a version of yourself behind.”The Weight of Leaving presents powerful, honest, and deeply personal stories of African migrants who left their homelands in search of survival, dignity, and opportunity...

Childhood at the Northern ShorePart 1 of the Northern Shore TrilogyOne shore. One childhood. And questions no one ever answered. She was eleven when her mother didn't come home. No goodbye. No reason. Just a silence that split her world in two. In West Berlin, between concrete and water a child learns to carry whatno child should : responsibility, loneliness, and a life that starts too soon. These early years leave a mark, because they were never what they shouldhave been. This is where my trilogy begins.

It Ain't Perfume You Smell: Short Stories of Rural Life: a collection of short stories written while living in rural America. Being a city--boy every day was a new adventure. Now, in one audiobook, my favorite stories for your enjoyment. Sit back, listen, and dream of what is outside the city limits.

We are outside Ramadi, clearing a route none of us has driven before, and that alone is enough to put everyone on edge. The usual roads are paved; you learn how to read them over time, learn the language of fresh asphalt and disturbed dirt, the subtle signs that something has been opened and closed again. But this road offers no such cues. It's unpaved, a supply line cutting through open terrain, stripped of landmarks or patterns, giving us nothing familiar to anchor to.

Everyone is your friend now. The word that once required an altar can be had for a thumb. For fifty years, David Boles ran his life on one blanket rule: if I know you, you are my friend. Then an actor he calls Curtis said six words in a rehearsal room, and a laugh came out where a sentence should have been, a sentence thirty years in the carrying. This book opens that ledger and refuses to close it politely.

The Gifted Jamaican Part 1: A Windrush Generation Success Story is an inspiring Windrush generation biography tracing the life of Michael Adolphus Hylton from rural Jamaica to his journey to Britain in 1960. Born in Manchester Parish, Jamaica, in 1933, Michael grew up amid hardship, strict discipline, social inequality, and limited opportunity. Yet he possessed remarkable gifts. He became a highly skilled carpenter and joiner, an accomplished singer, poet, storyteller, entertainer, and man of faith.

The surgeon left a 3mm needle tip inside him. Under oath, he called it "nothing but a "blur" on an MRI" You've trusted a doctor before. You'll trust one again. Andy Hageman did too right up until an operating table at the University of New Mexico Hospital changed his life forever.

What the Iron Holds follows four generations of the Francom family across three continents and eight decades—from the red dust of Uitenhage in the Cape Colony to the Atlantic crossings, the thousand miles on foot across the American plains, the Black Hawk raids, the polygamy underground, the Colorado River in January, and the quiet Utah bench-land where a family finally stopped moving and started building something that would last.

¿Qué tan diferente sería tu vida si fueras capaz de recordar información y aprender cosas nuevas sin mucho esfuerzo? A lo largo de tu vida, probablemente hayas notado que había unos pocos grupos selectos de personas que probablemente pensabas que eran muy seguros de sí mismos, inteligentes y exitosos. Nos han hecho creer que lo que distingue a la mayoría de estas personas es su coeficiente intelectual y que poco podemos hacer para desarrollar esos atributos.

I grew up in a big polygamist family, the 23rd of 46 children. My father had six wives and our very existence was a secret. We lived in the middle of Salt Lake City in a big white house on Fifth East, with neighbors to the north and south of us and yet we remained utterly hidden. Homeschooled and cut off rom the world, that secrecy was a breeding ground for abuse. While my father was gone to work during the day, his third wife, Mother Kay, sat at the head of the family, controlling the other mothers and abusing the children.

前作『大河の一滴』の出版から30年。『大河の一滴 最終章』の書籍刊行後、読者から届いた数多くの手紙、そしてそこから生まれた心境の変化を、93歳になった五木さんご本人に語り下ろしていただきました。

Are you one of the millions of adults who got bullied as a child? The kind of everyday bullying that started in first grade and continued all the way through high school? For years I never told anyone I had been bullied. It was a shameful secret I carried with me most of my life. Then something happened in my early 30's which opened my awareness to the possibility that those experiences were impacting major life decisions. When I googled "long-term consequences of bullying" and didn't find much I knew I would have to chart my own course of recovery.