When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen.
In her bestselling memoir As I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Eileen Munro vividly documented the abuse she experienced at the hands of her adoptive parents and, later, within the care system.
In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history, Louise Monaghan crossed a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus.
The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's last true wildernesses.
Black Beach, located on Bioko island off the mainland of Equatorial Guinea, is one of the worlds most feared prisons, notorious for its brutality and inhumane conditions.
In the 1980s, Erika Bornmans family join, and ultimately move, to KwaSizabantu, a Christian mission based in KwaZulu-Natal, which is touted as a nirvana, founded on egalitarian values.
Wasyl Andreievych Kushnir was born in Ukraine in 1923, and was witness to the tragedies and horrors of the early years of collectivization under the Soviet regime in his homeland.
A NYTBR Editors ChoiceThis is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility.
Bowen is a coming-of-age story from a unique city block on Staten Island, New York, filled with many gripping moments of drama, misfortune, and triumph of a young man trying to make the best out of the cards he was dealt in life.
2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Autobiography & Memoir;2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist; anda 2022 WNBA Great Group Reads SelectionLike a Drop of Ink in a Downpouris more ambitious than the average memoir.
2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Autobiography & Memoir;2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist; anda 2022 WNBA Great Group Reads SelectionLike a Drop of Ink in a Downpouris more ambitious than the average memoir.
Wasyl Andreievych Kushnir was born in Ukraine in 1923, and was witness to the tragedies and horrors of the early years of collectivization under the Soviet regime in his homeland.
Wheat Songsis a memoir of two interconnected Greek-American journeysan actual physical journey for the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, and a philosophical quest by the author, Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos.
Wasyl Andreievych Kushnir was born in Ukraine in 1923, and was witness to the tragedies and horrors of the early years of collectivization under the Soviet regime in his homeland.
This is the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concentration camps.
