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Debbie Chinn begins this colorful memoir by tracing her roots back to China. In the 19th Century a Southern Baptist missionary by happenstance started her family. Horrors of war, the Japanese occupation of China, the brutalities of starvation and poverty, and the Communist takeover of China in 1949 forced her family to flee their homeland, becoming immigrants in the United States.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD This is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. But he was a passionate collector, an early...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo...

For years, Darius Marquis Kendrick served behind the keys, believing his gift would open doors, strengthen churches, and glorify God. But being chosen did not protect him from struggle. In many ways, it made him a target. Behind the music, he encountered power struggles, church politics, betrayal, spiritual warfare, broken relationships, unanswered prayers, and seasons that tested his identity, discernment, and faith more deeply than any sermon ever could.

The morning when Ann Ingle's grandson asked her that question led to musings on ageing and a life well lived. Told with warmth and humour, Ann Ingle grapples with how ageing has thrown all sorts her way, from losing eyesight and mobility to growing a beard and becoming invisible. But she also celebrates family, loved ones, staying connected, her life's passions and the woman she has become as she finds ways to greet each day and treasure precious moments and memories.

The summer of 1957 pressed down on the Choctaw communities like a hand over a mouth, suffocating and relentless. In the pine-shadowed hollows of Neshoba County, Mississippi, the heat rose from red clay roads in shimmering waves, distorting the view of weathered houses that leaned like tired...

A Chip Off the Old Block is the true story of a little boy who grew up in poverty, without a father's love and with few advantages, yet discovered that God was quietly shaping every chapter of his life. Through hardship, mistakes, family, faith, and unexpected opportunities, he learned that our past does not determine our future. With honesty, humor, and humility, Chip Clay shares how ordinary people—and an extraordinary God—transformed a frightened child into a husband, father, mine rescue instructor, preacher, and servant of Christ.

Dusty Springfield Beyond the Grave and Me is a deeply personal account of one woman’s extraordinary spiritual journey, shaped by fascination, discovery, and a continuing emotional connection with the legendary Dusty Springfield. In this heartfelt book, the author shares experiences that opened a new understanding of love, loss, memory, and life beyond death. What began as a private journey grew into a story larger than herself, written for Dusty’s fans, for believers in the unseen, and for anyone who has ever wondered whether death is truly the end.

Swap burnout for slow living through an immersive travel memoir exploring the beautiful, bureaucratic reality of Italy. Perfect for your daily commute, this journey transports you from a medieval hill town to a sun-drenched southern fishing village. Leave the tourist fantasies behind and step...

Millicent Rogers, though born into opulence and followed by the paparazzi, kept private many of her unique talents and skills. She loved books, she was a multi-linguist, and was involved in espionage during WWII, saving lives from the talons of Hitler. She created beautiful surroundings filling them with books, art, and fine furniture. She was well-known for her own sense of style and beauty, and loved many men though she kept her deepest love for her sons as far away from the public eye as possible.

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...

'This house is freaking me out. It's bad for me. But I'm finishing this.' Discovering Kanye West is endorsing Adolf Hitler, John Safran heads to America to find out what's up. Kanye proves elusive, one thing leads to another, and John packs his duffle bags and moves in, squatting at one of...

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, acclaimed novelist David Chariandy's latest is an intimate and profoundly beautiful meditation on the politics of race today. When a...

Stolen from his mother and placed into institutional care when he was only a few months old, Uncle Jack was raised under the government's White Australia Policy. The loneliness and isolation he experienced during those years had a devastating impact on him that endured long after he reconnected...

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.

A New York City Book Awards winner From an award-winning artist who was featured in Humans of New York comes a bold personal narrative about overcoming family trauma, addiction, poverty—and forging a creative life in the greatest city in the world. Born in Brooklyn in 1963, Patrick Dougher...

Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black Power movement. Here is the remarkable story of one of the men behind the salute, lifelong activist, John Carlos.

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.