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A story about the sound and silence of survival, and the rhythms that carry us home. In Mixtape: A Memoir, therapist and storyteller Johnzelle Anderson weaves a raw, lyrical portrait of resilience, identity, and healing. Born to a disengaged West African father and a volatile white mother, Anderson grows up mixed race in 1990s Roanoke, Virginia—feeling like an outsider in every room. Amid childhood abuse, neglect, and racism, he clings to the safety of his grandmother’s love and his inner voice’s promise of a better future.

"A Life to Tell" is a profound and unvarnished memoir that chronicles a remarkable journey from the stark realities of a remote Albanian village to the vibrant opportunities of modern democracy. Through deeply personal recollections, the author. The author invites listeners into a world shaped by extreme deprivation, pervasive state control, and an unyielding quest for knowledge and self-determination.

Fresh out of the University of Colorado with a degree in geology, the author found himself embarking on an adventurous first job as an exploration geologist for Minas de San Luís, situated in the quaint pueblo of Tayoltita in Durango, Mexico. Nestled under Bolaños Peak and in the heart of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the mine was a remote gem accessible only by a solitary road winding 3,000 feet up the mountain.

Black North is set in the Northern California backdrop where you have to do anything you can to survive. Street gangs and affiliates are dictating anyone who has someone among their societal ranks. You are either taught to embrace or run away from the lifestyle many envy but can never attain. Drugs and guns are orchestrating what rules get followed and who falls and lies down under them. The structure is quite clear: you either put in everything you got, or you don't put anything in at all. With the murder rate so high, there's no room for slacking off when you have to put in work.

Ao expor uma visão integral da cultura, considera tanto suas dimensões antropológica e política quanto o potencial econômico desta que é uma de nossas principais riquezas. A autora se vale de sua atuação como parlamentar e de sua experiência como Secretária Municipal de Cultura na cidade do Rio de Janeiro para demonstrar que a gestão democrática e inclusiva da vida cultural pode se converter em um instrumento poderoso de transformação. Conduzidos por Jandira Feghali somos levados à importante compreensão de que Cultura é Poder!

As irreverent as it is insightful, MONA turns the repressed Muslim girl trope on its head as Azra, academic by day and stripper by night, navigates a double life and a political awakening. Azra Liaqat Khan’s ordinary Muslim American childhood in Charlotte, North Carolina transforms after her...

Dieses Buch lädt ein in ein Elsass, das im Herzen weiterlebt: zu einer Zeit, als der Alltag langsamer war, die Wege kürzer, aber die Geschichten dahinter nicht weniger tief. Es erzählt von Menschen, Landschaften und Momenten, die man nicht in Geschichtsbüchern findet, sondern in Erinnerungen, in alten Erzählungen am Küchentisch und in dem leisen Gefühl von Heimat.

A collection of moving, often funny vignettes about a childhood spent in the Soviet Union poignantly captures what life could be like behind the old Iron Curtain.

Join one man on his journey living a life alongside the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River. Inspired by his first book, Del Rio: A Memoir, the author takes the listener on a continuous path of the trials and tribulations associated with addiction while living in one of the most beautiful settings in our world: the Upper Snake River Valley in Idaho. Witness significant events of the last century which our ancestors experienced while settling the West as they attempted to tame the wild rivers that spring forth from the Rocky Mountains.

Depuis son enfance, Julien Sandrel est bercé par les récits de ses aïeux italiens du côté de son père. Pourtant, il n'a jamais mis les pieds à Naples, berceau de sa famille. Et si son paradis perdu était là-bas ? Accompagné de ses frères, il part en quête de la tombe de son arrière-grand-mère, qu'il n'a pas connue, et nous entraîne dans un voyage plein de complicité et de rebondissements inattendus, à la découverte des secrets de son histoire familiale.

This is a book about sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about life from a Nazi Concentration Camp to pleasure consciousness. It's about Morehouse: including, sex courses, boxing, French maids and hustling. It is about the love between a man and a woman and how to have a great relationship. Everything in this book happened. Some of the stories may seem wilder than fiction.

A best-selling novelist turns to memoir in this compelling story of a son’s love, a mother’s obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past. Indian-American author Manil Suri grew up in a large, crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai), which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three...

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.

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.

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.

This book begins with my hard-won freedom, as a divorced woman, by starting my new life in the Highlands area of Louisville – the neighborhood of my dreams. Many women were striking out on their own, at this time. I was eager to join them. As the generation that took women out of the home and into the workplace, our Silent Generation needed more skills in setting boundaries, and taking up for ourselves.

Tainted by miles of hallucinogenic inspiration and sprinkled with poetic interludes, this audiobook seeks to bind reality with vision, discovering the truth that lies somewhere between what happened and what should have happened. Part memoir, part novel, part collection, All I Want is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of Nazis' Screams is more than a book, it's a way of life.

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.

عملٌ دسمٌ يتناول سيرة وحياة مجموعة من المفكرين الإسلاميين الذين تركوا بصمة واضحة في الفكر الإسلامي المعاصر. يهدف الكتاب إلى تسليط الضوء على إسهامات هؤلاء العلماء والمفكرين في تطوير الفكر الإسلامي وتجديده، وتقديم رؤى جديدة حول القضايا المعاصرة من منظور إسلامي.

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?

The book Daughter of an Assassin: Turning Pain into Power is a compelling memoir by Rhoda Banks. It chronicles her tumultuous childhood, shaped by a traumatic environment marked by violence, poverty, and fractured family dynamics. The story begins with the dramatic and life-altering event of witnessing a murder at the age of five, setting the tone for the struggles and resilience that define her journey.

Trauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich is the compelling first-person account of Elisabeth Haggblade, who was orphaned at birth at the height of World War II and spent the first eleven years of her life under the care of a former S.S. officer and his family. Like many she knew and met during her formative years, Elisabeth was marked both physically and psychologically by the traumatic events of the war and its aftermath, where negotiating daily life during the most tenuous time in Germany's history often felt like a balancing act. Yet through it all, faith and the help of others prevailed.

The true story and odyssey of a man who wanted to attain his freedom at all costs. It takes him through a perilous voyage at sea, during which he would rather face the possibility of death than remain enslaved by a totalitarian regime. In the course of this book, his liberty will be challenged and will cost the teller of this passionate story, Ramon Garcia, to have to recuperate not only his independence but also something much more important, his spiritual freedom, conquered minute by minute behind the bars of several prisons.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A collection of one hundred deeply personal stories—covering love and heartbreak, growth and resilience—brought to life by the creator of the wildly popular TikTok account @HunterProsper. Every person has a story. Dick knew that it was love at first sight...

La condizione delle donne negli anni del femminismo, e quella degli ebrei e dello Stato di Israele; la bellezza e l’orrore di Roma, e la fragilità di una democrazia (la nostra) sempre sotto minaccia; alcuni scrittori da amare; alcuni film visti con l’occhio di scrittrice; le biografie di alcuni amici (Cesare Pavese, Felice Balbo); e poi, ancora, la nostra incertezza e la nostra necessità di scegliere; la memoria dell’infanzia, da decifrare, e la vita dei figli adulti, che suscita meraviglia e insicurezza. Questi trenta testi costituiscono il più multiforme e battagliero libro di Natalia Ginzburg.

Writing Black Panther demonstrates key aspects of Coates's comics narratives that overlap with major themes and topics in African American literature. These include the depiction of multiple Black characters, exploration of intra-racial and interracial conflicts, excavations of Black histories, displays of Afrofuturist aesthetics, and attention to cultural geography.

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.

In an Afghan village, a boy learns his letters under a mullah’s stick and dreams of a life free of the Taliban; in Virginia, a cadet learns to read a map and lead a platoon into combat. Years later, on a wind-scoured ridgeline overlooking Zabul Province, helicopters roaring overhead, Afghan interpreter Abdulhaq Sodais and US Army Lieutenant Spencer Sullivan must learn to trust each other if they hope to survive. In 2021, when the US withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban reassert their rule, disappearing, torturing, and killing US collaborators, including Abdulhaq’s fellow interpreters.

The Day We Forgot to Smile is a powerful collection of true-to-life stories capturing the quiet battles, hidden heartbreaks, and small triumphs that shape a family growing up in 1970s Bushwick. Through vivid scenes of brotherhood, survival, faith, and the search for joy in hard places, Anthony Owens takes listeners back to a childhood lived between danger and hope.

Currents of Being – Volume I: The River of Life is a memoir and historical journey through Iran’s ancient civilization, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and one man’s passage from Iran to the United States. In this first volume, Shahin Samadi reflects on his formative years in Iran and his journey to the United States, weaving a personal narrative into the broader story of Persian civilization and the profound upheaval caused by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

In Take It Where You Find It: The American Dream, Earned and Stolen, Heinz H. Bartesch takes listeners on a deeply personal journey through the turbulence of 20th-century history. Born in a refugee camp in Austria, Heinz’s story begins with his family’s escape from the ravages of war-torn Transylvania, where they were caught in the chaos of World War II. The Bartesch family, rooted in the resilient community of the Siebenbürger Saxons, faced unimaginable hardships as they navigated displacement, survival, and the weight of historical trauma.

In The Tapestry of My Ancestry, Susan Lorraine Kadera weaves together threads of Cherokee, Lumbee, African, European, and countless other lineages into a poetic journey of remembrance and gratitude. Through DNA revelations and quiet reflection, she uncovers the silent stories of her ancestors—those whose names may be lost but whose presence endures.

A feat of narrative reporting that grapples with familial understanding and conflict, and a parable for understanding the country’s current division, and how we got here—a gripping and powerfully relevant story for our moment. Meet the Joyners: a Southern family that reflects the schism at...

Överstelöjtnant Kim Yong har oerhörda privilegier med nordkoreanska mått mätt. Han äger en importerad bil och kan åka var han vill i landet. Men förräderianklagelser raserar hela Yongs tillvaro. Han döms till Nordkoreas mest ökända arbetsläger, nr 14 i Hamgyong-provinsen–en värld av våld och tortyr. Medan han tvångsarbetar i en gruva två kilometer under marken blir dagsljus Kims enda lyx. Allt eftersom månaderna går blir han bekant med politiska fångar, omänskliga lägervakter och en apokalyptisk hungersnöd.

Lange Jahre hat die Bestsellerautorin Sabine Thiesler den italienischen Wahnsinn in der Toskana live erlebt – nun berichtet sie urkomisch und frappierend zugleich über die Absurditäten im deutschen Sehnsuchtsland Nummer 1.

While visiting his ailing father in Sydney, the author discovers an old suitcase thrown out on the street. Curiosity gets the better of him and he opens it. Inside are hundreds of photographs, newspaper clippings and letters, all addressed to Mr Blank. And so the process of discovery begins: Who is Mr Blank? A maverick entrepreneur with the Midas touch, a convicted criminal with impeccable tastes, a publican and theatre impresario, a gap-toothed lover of beautiful women from all over the world. Mr Blank flew above the law and mainly below the radar of twentieth century Australia.

In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town of Tombstone to face the history he was raised on as a boy—gunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboys—for a new, personal confrontation with the West’s foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, whiteness, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and “slathered in murder.”

"Unbound" is an inspirational memoir that traces the author’s journey from being a mixed-race immigrant daughter navigating the challenges of cultural dissonance to her becoming a mature woman who has embodied her worth with compelling honesty and grace. Serena Arora offers a deeply personal lens on the unique struggles of daughters of immigrants, exploring the impact of cultural conditioning on relationships, intimacy, and identity, from the longing for validation to the pain of playing small.

The story of this Bushman's youngest son starts in 1960s' small town New Zealand where life didn't come without its challenges. This true story begins with a lot of rugby, beer, pig hunting and the socialising that was all part of our basic Kiwi lifestyle. However there was me, Terry, different from the rest of my siblings, separated by design and confusing to my parents...