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"This is a slim and modest book, a volume of oral histories in the vein of Studs Terkel’s Working (1974), but everyone who eats out regularly should know about it...Voices From the Kitchen is an optimistic book — it reminds you that if many restaurant careers begin that way, they don’t...

Award-winning comedian Zarna Garg turns her astonishing life story into a hilarious memoir, spilling all the chai on her wild ride from escaping an arranged marriage and homelessness in India to carving her own path in America and launching a dazzling second act in midlife. “A deeply honest...

Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, a journey that took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.

A blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist “At thirty-seven years old I can say Shenequa is a big name and I’m a big, bold woman.” Shenequa Golding doesn’t aim to speak for...

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.

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.

Um belo e comovente retrato de uma das ativistas mais brilhantes do século XX, que inspirou gerações de mulheres negras a trilhar o caminho da liberdade e da militância. Inclui uma carta inédita de Lélia Gonzalez escrita aos 18 anos e um epílogo sobre a atualidade de seu pensamento. Cada...

He had been, in all the important ways, an impeccable father. And he had been, in all the important ways, a terrible son. James Wood grew up in a household shaped by evangelical fervour, social ambition and the peculiar faultlines of English class. His mother, Sheila, was anxious, aspirational...

Hell Street was located on an inner-city street in Houston, Texas. For over twenty years while being the Pastor of the Church, conducting a Christian school, and conducting a skid-row mission, we were able to tell many fallen and lifeless addicted men and women that sweet old story that Jesus Christ saves sinners. It is and was such a thrilling experience to see hope come back into their lives and see their joy because their sins and their old life had been forgiven forever.

What does it really mean to become the man you respect? For most of us, the answer isn't found in a single moment. It is discovered over a lifetime. In Becoming the Man You Respect, Joe Negron shares the deeply personal stories that shaped his life, from growing up in New York City and learning from his grandfather, to building a career in corporate America, flying airplanes, sailing oceans, serving others, raising a family, losing his wife, and ultimately discovering that life's greatest lessons often arrive through change, loss, and unexpected conversations.

En este paseo, Dolores Reyes responde abriéndonos todas las puertas. Las de su escritura, que va y viene en los colectivos, en las madrugadas cuando sólo ella está despierta o en lo que sus siete hijos van dejando, como los juguetes en el suelo, en ella. Las de sus libros, desde que aparece el deseo de que existan, hasta el trabajo que se requiere para lograrlo. Así como las de los misterios que sostienen la escritura y que piden, solamente, insistir en ella.

Mariam Ibraheem was born in a refugee camp in Sudan. Her Muslim father died when she was six, and her mother raised her in the Christian faith. After a traumatic childhood, Mariam became a successful businessperson, married the man she loved, and had a beautiful baby boy. But one day in 2013, her world was shattered when Sudan authorities insisted she was Muslim because of her father’s background. She had broken the law by marrying a Christian man, and she must abandon both her marriage and her son and adopt Islam.

Ervarings wat hulself met woorde begin vorm en dan in sinne begin stap met die skrywer se hartsnare wat die leisels hou, gun ongetwyfeld 'n storie die lewe. Hierdie bundel bevat stories en vertellings oor die skrywer se liefde, ervarings en verhoudings in die Boesmanland, die Karoo en Namibië. Dis vars skryfsels vol energie wat die prag van die omgewing waarbinne sy haar bevind eerlik en op so 'n wyse beskryf, dat luisteraars 'n dieper sielsheid ervaar. Daar's sand in my are, kom uit die murg en dis stories wat jou sal laat lag, soms sal laat huil en dalk sal laat dink.

“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...

Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng'ete saw the young girls she grew up with receive the cut, the rite of passage into female adulthood in Masai culture. Every girl got the cut, and once you did, you'd be married off to a man triple your age. You might be his second or third wife. You'd have children in your teens. This is exactly what happened to Nice's sister. To resist the cut meant becoming an outcast in Masai culture.

At the age of twenty-three, Ayesha removed her face veil to begin her studies in New York City. Braiding together Western, South Asian and Qur’anic storytelling styles, the author illuminates what it means to exist in a world that demands something different from each of her identities. With...

A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the American civil rights movement and played a deeply influential role in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to mold him into an international symbol of nonviolence.