Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War.
My Experiments with Truth' recounts Gandhiji's journey from being Mohandas to becoming the Mahatma and also recollects the various incidents that lead him to develop the ideology of Ahimsa.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' is a powerful and compelling story of Harriet Jacobs whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North.
'The history of women is left to us in folklore and tradition, in faintly-remembered lullabies and the half-forgotten touch of a grandmother's hand, in recipes, ancestral jewellery, and cautionary tales about the limits of a woman's empowerment.
Caught by the Police is the story of a talented, public-spirited and erudite man, with a multidimensional personality, a republican bent of mind, Indian values and English sensibilities.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONTHEGLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023THEGLOBE AND MAILBEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION OF 2023Martha Baillies richly layered response to her mothers passing, her father's life, and her sisters suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time.
A refreshed edition of Jambalaya: The Natural Womans Book of Personal Charms and Practical Ritualsupdated with a note from the author sharing the changes that have occurred in the 30 years since its original publication.
Gerade hat Anja Kleemann zusammen mit ihrem Mann, den zwei Kindern, Schwiegereltern und Oma ein sanierungsbedürftiges Mehrfamilienhaus bezogen, das als Generationenhaus dienen soll.
For the first time ever, a survivor tells the shocking inside story of her time trapped in Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwells sex trafficking ring.
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'An inspiring and necessary book that challenges the narratives we set for our lives and reveals the beauty beyond them' CLEMENTINE FORDAlexandra Collier was a writer living in a light-filled Brooklyn brownstone in New York with the man she loved.
Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023Nooruddean Choudry was born in 1979 - the year Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose, Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the last Shah of Iran, and Tim Martin opened his first Wetherspoons.
In the late 1990s, culture writer Lydia Perovic immigrated from Montenegro to the open, optimistic country of Canada and threw herself into its vibrant artistic and cultural communities.
Former NFL wife Cyndy Feasel tells the tragic story of her family's journey into chaos and darkness resulting from the damage her husband suffered due to football-related concussions and head traumaand the faith that saved her.
'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerina, the dancing earth.
Bis zum allerletzten Tag ist sie gerne hingefahren, ins Gymnasium, um junge Menschen mit ihrer Liebe für die deutsche Sprache und Literatur anzustecken.
Der aus einer kinderreichen Familie stammende und im Westen Mecklenburgs aufgewachsene deutsche Elektroingenieur Werner von Siemens schrieb kurz vor dem Ende seines Lebens seine Erinnerungen an sein abwechslungsreiches Leben als preußischer Offizier, Erfinder und Unternehmer auf, die in diesem Buch zusammen mit seiner Biographie und mit vielen Bildern und Zusatzinformationen neu veröffentlicht werden.
A powerful and urgent memoir of loss, exile and hope by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja'This gripping memoir conveys the courage and cost of telling a truer story' Guardian Book of the Day'Revelatory .
From #1 international bestselling author, speaker, and humanitarian Dave Pelzer comes the next chapter in his lifehow, after spending decades saving others in the military, as a fire captain, and an internationally acclaimed advocate, he needs to confront a way to save himself.