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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...

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.

Roosevelt: A Giant Among Leaders Theodore Roosevelt stands out as one of the most exceptional leaders in American history. He was a devoted husband and father, a politician, a soldier, a war journalist, an editor, a cattle rancher, a scientist, a writer, an athlete, a hunter, and a diplomat...

Este no es solo un audiolibro. Es una activación profunda para recordar quién eres, reconectar con tu poder interior y comenzar a vivir desde una versión más consciente, segura y alineada contigo. Tu Poder Endógeno te guía paso a paso a través de un proceso transformacional diseñado para...

John W. Butler is an award-winning author and broadcaster. An authentic voice with stories from the roads less traveled." He invites you to trade screens for scenes. Put your phone down. Turn off the noise. Take a road trip. Talk to real people. The audiobook opens in a roadside diner when a farmer asks him, “Road trip or running away?”

A tender and quietly powerful memoir tracing one man’s life through changing times, from rural Ireland to Apartheid-era South Africa, love, loss, and resilience.

It's 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive. Damian, his sister and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks.

"The Blunder Years" — A hilarious boyhood memoir narrated by the guy who caused all the trouble. Before ADHD had a name, it had a kid named Phil. Growing up on Long Island in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, he stumbled through boyhood, leaving a trail of mishaps, misunderstandings, and accidental comedy. In this laugh-out-loud memoir, Phil revisits the true stories of his chaotic youth — from altar boy misadventures and Boy Scout fiascos to a Wyatt Earp getup that turned him into the self-appointed sheriff of the “lawless Long Island Territory.

Kiki is moulded and shaped by her employers' demands and those of her clients until she is forced to change who she is. At last, she gets her British passport and is able to initiate divorce proceedings. She enters survival mode, allowing herself to be receptive to new experiences and starting the healing process.

In his most personal and powerful release to date, Edward A. Julian, Sr., shares a gripping account of his journey from incarceration to transformation. With unflinching honesty, he exposes the raw realities of prison life, challenges the myths surrounding reentry, and unveils the mindset required to break destructive cycles and step boldly into purpose.

In A Story Rewritten, Nkechi Ezeani’s journey unfolds as a poignant tale of loss, survival, and rediscovery. Fleeing a life torn apart by war, she seeks refuge in 1970s New York, where reinvention becomes both her salvation and her burden. Amid the grit and vibrancy of the city, Nkechi builds a new life, finding unexpected connections and a love that offers her hope for the future. But the past is never truly left behind.

My Whole Childhood Was a Side Quest By Mike “PayDay” Danielson. What if the hardest part of your life wasn’t the main story… but the training ground? My Whole Childhood Was a Side Quest is a raw, gripping memoir about survival, identity, and becoming a man when the odds were stacked against you long before you knew what odds were. From a loving, stable childhood with grandparents in small-town Michigan…

In the early 1980's, Greg Wier faced the same brutal crossroads every teenager does. Straight out of the trailer park, he had to choose between poverty or success. Adulthood did not arrive gently. It came with repossessions, utility shut-offs, trailer-lot rent, and stealing food just to eat. Crime, drugs, and drinking surrounded him, constantly pulling him away from responsibility and toward self-destruction, forcing a daily choice between going down the wrong path or stepping up to take care of his family. He chose marriage and family over carefree nights with friends.

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Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

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.

In Raised in Silence, Maria Gallucci invites you into the vivid, rarely seen world of growing up as a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). With humor, heart, and unflinching honesty, she shares what it's like to bridge two cultures from the moment you can walk: the Deaf world of her parents and the hearing world outside their door.

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.