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Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university.

"Narrating her own work, Patrisse Khan-Cullors shares the salient moments of her life that led her to become a founder of Black Lives Matter...pain, frustration, and joy [emblazon] each word she utters." — AudioFile Magazine This program is read by Patrisse Cullors and includes a bonus...

 Dear Diary Boy is an intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child's experience in a prestigious private Tokyo school. It's a tale that will resonate with all parents as we try to answer the age-old questions of how best to educate our children and what, truly, is in their best interests versus what is in our own. 

Brought to you by Penguin. THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT CHANNEL 5 DOCUMENTARY A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer. In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the...

This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the...

In a sharp, witty memoir, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung pulls no punches in detailing her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry—"an absorbing look at a pioneering news figure" (TIME)...

Helene Hadsell was "the woman who won every contest prize she desired". In Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game, she shares her winning secrets in the vibrant, warm, and folksy manner that was uniquely her.

Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011 her life was upended. Inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Syrians began to stand up against their own oppressive regime. When the army was sent to take control of Doaa's hometown, strict curfews, power outages, water shortages, air raids, and violence disrupted everyday life.

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.

From the acclaimed author of What She Ate, the story of five couples whose dreams, experiments, and triumphs fueled a revolution at the kitchen table. In Big Appetites, the journalist and culinary historian Laura Shapiro introduces readers to some of the cooks and activists who turned their...

A lo largo de nuestras vidas siempre van quedando momentos marcados. Son recuerdos que nos acompañarán por el resto de nuestras vidas. Pueden ser momentos bonitos, tiernos o logros motivo de celebración, pero también los momentos difíciles y dolorosos pasan a ser parte de ese baúl de los recuerdos.

THE DOOR, With Every Tear... A Little Wisdom... From the moment she was left at the doorstep of an orphanage, Miriam Fernandes faced a life filled with uncertainty, loss, and longing. Yet through every hardship, she discovered an inner strength that refused to be broken. In this deeply moving memoir, Miriam shares her journey from abandonment and adversity to hope, healing, and self-discovery. Guided by the love of an extraordinary woman who became her family, she learns that even the deepest wounds can give way to wisdom, courage, and grace.

A book about my time in the boys brigade and some of the things I got up too. From a young boy to an adult. Maybe this book might help boys who are a bit nervous about moving up to another section of the Boys Brigade. And maybe you might be interested in what I got up to.

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb...

This book is about my life—from under my mother’s desk as a child in Ghana to the hills of Vermont as a PhD holder now. As a bubbly child who had her whole future ahead of her, I never dreamt of waking up one day and losing my legs to polio. But that is what happened. From then on my...

I’ve spent plenty of time in football parking lots, concert fields, dive bars, bluegrass festivals, and places that probably shouldn’t have existed in the first place. Tailgating in America is a collection of stories from those gatherings and the characters who bring them to life. From Ball State football to Dead & Company, hometown bars to hidden festivals in the hills of Indiana, this essay explores the freedom, community, and controlled chaos that still make America worth showing up for.

For years, the Tank Story was an easy answer to the question, 'Why is your dad like this?' It portrayed him as a wounded soldier, a hero whose injuries never healed. But the truth was much more complicated than that.

The legal marijuana industry wasn't quite what I expected. Down and Out in Denver follows my years working inside Colorado's cannabis boom, rolling joints, trimming flower, chasing bonuses, and watching an emerging industry grow up in real time. Along the way are stories of the people, absurdities, successes, and disappointments that rarely make it into the headlines. Part memoir, part field report, this is a look behind the curtain of America's green rush from someone who lived it.

A Fight for a Cup of Chai is a short, accessible nonfiction audiobook about labor, migration, and resilience—told through lived experience. Set in Nepal, the story follows a young factory worker navigating poverty, work, and identity while revealing the human cost behind global supply chains. What begins as a personal journey opens into larger questions of dignity, sacrifice, and belonging.

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...