Autobiography: general

My mother's name is Nexhmije Ibrahimi Nussbaumer, and I am a living testament to her philosophies.

A hypnotic, brutal, and unstoppable coming-of-age tale-told from inside the shockwaves set off by the Indian boarding schools, exacerbated by a decade and a half spent inside the Armed Forces-exposing a series of inescapable prisons and invisible scars of attempted erasureWhen he learns his father is dying, David Tromblay ponders what will become of the monster s legacy and picks up a pen to set the story straight.

At the time in my life when I decided to put my life together, from the years which had passed by, I would express to my friends the different situations I had been in and out of.

As Rev.

A parents love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.

Across the Blue Ridge Mountains stretches a world both charming and complicated.

Ash Exantus better known to the world as Ash Cash is one of the nation's top financial educators.

On a seemingly average December morning, Melissa's world is turned upside down by a text message that unveils a man's decade-long admiration for her.

Dad looked down at us and spoke slowly.

From author Bill Torrey comes Cutting Remarks - Forty Years in the Forest, sharing with readers first hand stories of life in the forest.

At 21, Belen left the U.

Master Sergeant Gordon L.

When a class-action lawsuit against the US government results in a billion dollar settlement for the aggrieved parties, you'd expect the story to be headline news .

This book is at once a love letter to Zen practice and a critique of late twentieth century American Zen.

A Temporary Affairis a collection of talks given at Sunday morning sittings at the Ithaca Zen Center by Yoshin David Radin, abbot and founder of the Ithaca Zen Center for the past 40 years.

International Book AwardsReligion: Eastern | Top AwardAmericanBookFest's Best Book Awards Winner | Religion: EasternNautilus Award | GoldBenjamin Franklin Award | SilverIndependent Book Publisher's Award | BronzeNamed One of the Best Books of 2021 Spirituality and Practice MagazineAn intriguing, challenging crash course in Zen Buddhism.

"e;Sruti Ram is a fearless adventurer-a believer in miracles, mysticism and magic.

Enlightened Contemporaries is the first book to compare the lives and teachings of three of the world's most admired spiritual masters: Francis of Assisi, the Christian saint; Dogen, the great Zen Buddhist teacher; and Rumi, the Islamic Sufi master.

"e;These two extraordinary Zen Teachers offer a cutting-edge immersion into the koans of our actual lives, issue by issue, urging us to plunge in, and be intimate with what actually is, in this very moment.

THE RENOWNED TEACHER AND AUTHOR'S SPIRITUAL MEMOIR, AS TOLD THROUGH HIS LIFELONG ENCOUNTERS WITH ANIMALS AND NATURE "e;I love this book.

In Reading Claudius, Caroline Heller does what Rilke called the "e;heart-work,"e; exploring moral accountability and the toll exacted by the fact of survival.

A physically disabled woman with Cerebral Palsy and limited speech writes memories from her childhood.

A father's account of the story that captivated America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his inspiring fight for commonsense gun laws in the aftermath.

History played a trick on McKinley.

Reality, as Eileen Robertson Hamra perceived it, instantaneously altered the moment authorities confirmed that the plane her husband was piloting had crashed, and he had not survived.

Equal parts nostalgic, witty, self-serving, and frank, Connecticut Yankee is an entertaining and informative memoir of the state and a scholar who shaped it.

Diversity is increasing within the U.

This is a story of my life.

When Linda Pierson first met Hazen at an amusement park, it was love at first sight.

Are you aware of the hour we are in?

When cancer walks through your front door, it changes your life forever.

This book features Ginsburg's best-known dissents in a format accessible to the non-lawyer, giving RBG's worldwide fans an approach to their hero's life's work.

Do you tend to think Prophets and Psychics are the same?

Readers familiar with Sallie Bingham's 1989 memoir, Passion and Prejudice, will remember her provocative chronicle of the Bingham family saga, cited by Gloria Steinem as "e;a major step toward feminist change and democracy.

LET THE FUTURE BEGIN is the autobiography of Dennis W.

For over twenty years, award-winning short story writer and novelist Peter Markus has made his living teaching creative writing in the Detroit Public Schools.

National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New Yorker Best Book of 2019A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019"e;Tumarkin presents a remarkable tour de force .

Disappeared artworks, effaced histories, abandoned futures: No Document is an exploration of loss in many forms.

As recently as 1940, contact lenses did not exist for Americans.

GenetBeckettBurroughsMillerIonesco, Oe, Duras.

Winner of the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for WritingA Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed and theTimes Literary SupplementIts a complex portrait of a young Oklahoma womans development of a rich and exacting interior life.

For Love of the Dollar is a young writer's tale of ambitions undermined by economic forces, racial divides and artistic hubris.

Dixie wanted just one thing in life: to be loved.

An autobiography about taking the smallest opportunities in living and making a life.

Norris Hodgkins, Jr.