検索キーワード： 文化・地域

Nirenberg: The Education of a Texas Public Servant offers a compelling portrait of Ron Nirenberg’s eight-year tenure as mayor of San Antonio, the seventh largest city in the United States. From 2017 to 2025, Nirenberg guided the city through times of crisis and opportunity with a compassionate, pragmatic approach that defied partisan expectations and earned broad popular support. Winning six elections and numerous referenda, he became San Antonio’s longest-serving mayor since Henry Cisneros.

Dans Les Moissons funèbres, livre devenu instantanément un classique de la littérature américaine, Jesmyn Ward raconte les difficultés rencontrées par la population rurale du Sud des États-Unis à laquelle elle appartient et porte tant d'affection. En l'espace de quatre ans, cinq jeunes hommes noirs avec lesquels Jesmyn Ward a grandi sont morts dans des circonstances violentes. Ces décès n'avaient aucun lien entre eux si ce n'est le spectre puissant de la pauvreté et du racisme qui balise l'entrée dans l'âge adulte des jeunes hommes issus de la communauté africaine-américaine.

What lies behind London’s youth violence crisis? What is its impact on the mental health of its victims? How are their families and the wider community affected? Mental health nurse Dorcas Gwata has worked closely with vulnerable young people involved in the knife crime, sexual exploitation...

Karpoori Thakur, often called Jannayak, was a legendary leader from Bihar who had a significant impact on India’s politics. In early 2024, he was posthumously honoured with the Bharat Ratna in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to society. Commemorating his birth centenary, this...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New Yorker The Globe and Mail The Guardian Winnipeg Free Press NPR Slate ...

FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST FOR THE VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 EVERGREEN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE AN AUDIBLE BEST BOOK OF 2024 "A vital addition to queer Arab lit." —Kirkus Reviews “Writing...

“A vital, inspiring book” (O, The Oprah Magazine)—a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that won Saudi women the right to drive. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter...

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An...

Kim Sunéewas three years oldwhen her mother took her to a crowded marketplace and left her on a bench with only a fistful of food. Three terrifying days and nights later a policeman discovered Kim, who was clutching what was now only a handful of crumbs. Nearly twenty years later, Kim’s life...

Maria ZEF "Ella l'afferrò e l'alzo quanto più alto poté. La lama lampeggiò nell'ombra. Mirò al collo, e vibrò il colpo. Non un grido: solo un fiotto di sangue".Con queste parole, l'autrice, descrive il culmine della tragedia vissuta dalla protagonista. Ambientato nei primi anni del...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. There is no one here whom I will be dying to see again. Peter O'Neil wrote that home the week he left Cameroon. This is the story of how wrong he was. In 1988 he landed in Bangem, a mountain village in the anglophone region of Cameroon, an engineer with...

The New York Times bestselling author of Korean American traces his twisted path to adulthood in New York City at the dawn of the digital era—from ASMR YouTube fame and pop star dreams to internet friends and the love of a good dog. In Spaghetti Junction, Eric Kim—New York Times food...

THE COLOR OF MAGIC Embark on a mesmerizing journey where spirituality, interior design, and serendipity converge in The Color of Magic, an intimate autobiography from Ellen Kennon that unveils the profound connections between the metaphysical world and the art of interior design and color consulting.

Este audiolibro contiene elementos de la bitácora de viajes realizados a Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Perú y Brasil en los años 2004 y 2005 por el autor. El texto original fue escrito en Agosto del 2004 en Puerto Maldonado, Peru...

Born in Rhodesia, raised on rebellion and rock ’n roll — Angus Shaw came of age as his country tore itself apart. Drafted into a brutal bush war, he and his friends — the “Mutoko boys” — faced madness, death, and disillusionment in a land slipping into chaos. From the smoky bars and marijuana fields of rural Rhodesia to the front lines of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts, Shaw lived and reported it all — Idi Amin’s Uganda, Somalia’s warlords, Liberia’s anarchy, and Rwanda’s unspeakable genocide.

A Holocaust survivor raised in the Jewish Orthodox tradition wondered why the God of the Hebrews required the ancient Israelites to exterminate all Canaanites. This book includes Infeld’s original comments on each chapter of the Five Books of Moses. He calls attention to the absurd, the humorous, the cruel, the contradictions, the inconsistencies, but also the sublime and inspirational, in the Bible.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. “You don’t just leave a country. You leave a version of yourself behind.”The Weight of Leaving presents powerful, honest, and deeply personal stories of African migrants who left their homelands in search of survival, dignity, and opportunity...

Paradise of Thorns, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

It Ain't Perfume You Smell: Short Stories of Rural Life: a collection of short stories written while living in rural America. Being a city--boy every day was a new adventure. Now, in one audiobook, my favorite stories for your enjoyment. Sit back, listen, and dream of what is outside the city limits.

Childhood at the Northern ShorePart 1 of the Northern Shore TrilogyOne shore. One childhood. And questions no one ever answered. She was eleven when her mother didn't come home. No goodbye. No reason. Just a silence that split her world in two. In West Berlin, between concrete and water a child learns to carry whatno child should : responsibility, loneliness, and a life that starts too soon. These early years leave a mark, because they were never what they shouldhave been. This is where my trilogy begins.