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Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine...

The true story behind Season 3 of the TV series Tough Rides. After riding all the way around China and India, Ryan Pyle set out to explore the complexity and diversity of Brazil on a 14,000-kilometre, 60-day motorcycle circumnavigation of the country. The journey takes him from the beaches of...

"You'll help me kill Papa."Angel Cordero was ten years old when his brother asked. The pipe was already under the bed.Their father was a convicted murderer who drank and turned on the family. He beat their mother. He killed the animals his sons loved. He made fear so ordinary that two children...

A true story of a precious dog named Orelha, loved deeply into his last breath. As you read into this story, you will follow me and watch those who did such a horrible crime, abuse, murder, unimaginable things to a defenseless innocent animal of God. You will see Orelha stand and walk and try so...

En memoria de Rocky — un perrito inocente cuya vida fue arrebatada de la manera más cruel, justo frente a su dueña, sus pequeños hijos y todo un vecindario que miró, grabó y nunca olvidará. Este libro revela la verdad que muchos intentaron ocultar: la captura de Rocky, su tortura, su...

After three decades building a successful career in the music industry, Michael Rucker stepped away at sixty and began walking the Camino de Santiago.Under a Canopy of Grapes follows two pilgrimages across Spain and Portugal — and a longer journey through identity, recovery, grief, ambition...

Discover a life lived by instinct, curiosity, grit, and joy in Go Big: The Earnest Pursuit of Personal Growth by Kevin Ladd—a reflective, funny, and deeply human story about building a meaningful life one imperfect, audacious yes at a time. From a childhood in small-town Maine with a...

After having a heart attack at sixty-five, I decided to get fit because apparently my response to nearly dying was to make exhaustion a competitive sport. Eventually, I became fit enough—or mentally unstable enough—to compete in duathlons, bike fondos, and time-trial events.When I turned...

Life isn’t like a superhero movie. There isn’t a script, and while you don’t plan for bad things to happen, they happen anyway. Sometimes, they keep on happening without a break in the action, and if you look up in the sky, you may see a bird or a plane, but that’s it. In these times of...

On January 4th, 2004, the Mars rover Spirit landed on Mars. The first pictures sent back included the logo of a small company in Boulder, Colorado—Starsys Research—which had built 27 motors powering the rover and its instruments. Starsys was founded by Scott Tibbitts, an ex-ski bum/nuclear...

In The Exotic, Hampton Sides leads us on a grand adventure that is so strange and epic, it rivals the greatest tales of myth. Moving between a London high society newly infatuated with the Romantics and the perfumed archipelago of the Society Islands, Sides turns a riveting narrative into a...

Harry Houdini – der größte Magier und Entfesselungskünstler der Welt – wird in Ein Zauberkünstler unter den Geistern zum Detektiv des Übersinnlichen. Als Houdini seine geliebte Mutter verlor, wandte er sich dem Spiritismus zu. Er suchte nach einem Beweis dafür, dass die Toten weiterleben, und wollte herausfinden, ob Séancen tatsächlich eine Brücke zwischen den Welten bilden könnten. Stattdessen stieß er auf Täuschung in großem Stil.

Sie war Krankenschwester. In Deutschland nannten sie sie nur die Putzpolin. Als Ana mit einundvierzig in den Bus nach Westen steigt, hat sie einen Vertrag in der Tasche, ein Wörterbuch, das sie nicht brauchen wird, und eine Zahl im Kopf: wie viel sie schicken muss, damit das Dach hält, der...

OFF MY CHEST is a memoir about what happens when ordinary life falls out of orbit—and how to find your footing in a body with new gravity. When Jill Wilson was diagnosed with breast cancer—twice—she quickly learned the “warrior” narrative didn’t fit. The expectation to be brave, smiling, and “inspirational” felt like a second job she didn’t apply for. So she quit. Part survival story, part systems exposé, Jill takes listeners through the medical hellscape—appointments, side effects, bureaucracy, and the strange emotional labor of managing everyone else’s feelings while trying to stay alive.

Broken Roads Lead Me Here tells the true-life story of a boy born into unimaginable abuse in Glasgow in the sixties. By the age of eight, Colin had been abandoned by his mother and continued to be sexually, physically, emotionally, and spiritually traumatised by the man she left him with...

This book is a deeply personal memoir that chronicles Abby's traumatic experiences with domestic violence, the loss of her ex-husband, and her complex journey through grief, healing, and self-discovery. Structured through chapters, letters, reflections, and milestones, the memoir reveals the...

Unwritten Truths is a raw, honest, and unforgettable memoir about a little girl who learned too early what hunger, fear, and silence felt like—and the people who refused to let those things define her.

What happens when a confident, successful American attorney—a former prosecutor, judge, and law professor—lands an internship with a British barrister and moves his family to England? He meets his match in the person of Barrister Giles Adams-Smyth. With the wry humor reminiscent of Bill Bryson, our narrator recounts his initial impression that “I was about to become a small planet, captured by the gravitational pull of a much larger planet, and soon I would become a satellite circling planet Giles.

Toss your world into the air, throw caution to the wind, and step outside your comfort zone for an extended period of time. Completing the nearly 2,200-mile-long hike of the Appalachian Trail was not on Kevin Newsome's radar, much less his bucket list, but at age 65, he put his business on hold...

Over half a million copies sold in Japan In this enduring classic, Michio Hoshino shares his reflections on the natural world, and our place within it. Beautifully written, this book is a collection of Hoshino's writing published at the peak of his artistic prowess as a writer and photographer...