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In Raised in Silence, Maria Gallucci invites you into the vivid, rarely seen world of growing up as a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). With humor, heart, and unflinching honesty, she shares what it's like to bridge two cultures from the moment you can walk: the Deaf world of her parents and the hearing world outside their door.

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Autobiography/Memoir From Taraji P. Henson, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe winner, and star of the award-winning film Hidden Figures and the 2023 film The Color Purple, comes an inspiring and funny memoir—“a bona fide hit” (Essence)—about family...

This is a book about sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about life from a Nazi Concentration Camp to pleasure consciousness. It's about Morehouse: including, sex courses, boxing, French maids and hustling. It is about the love between a man and a woman and how to have a great relationship. Everything in this book happened. Some of the stories may seem wilder than fiction.

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and...

Edmond Biré retrace la destinée d’Armand de Pontmartin (1811-1890) et la place de ses écrits dans les lettres françaises. Entre biographie et étude critique, il suit le parcours d’un homme de plume au cœur du XIXe siècle, éclaire ses choix, son style et les idées qui traversent son œuvre, et interroge leur résonance.

Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In The Irish Americans, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the 1960s. Dolan draws on his own original research and much other recent scholarship to weave an insightful, colorful narrative.

In 1985, Elliott and Mary Tepper moved their four young sons into San Blas, Madrid’s most notorious heroin slum, ground zero of Europe’s drug epidemic. While other children played soccer, seven-year-old Jonathan was handing out tracts to addicts in syringe-littered parks and befriending bank robbers, former prostitutes, and recovering junkies twice his age.

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...

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told, 'the best on the planet'?

The New York Times bestselling story from the author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride...

In the early 1980's, Greg Wier faced the same brutal crossroads every teenager does. Straight out of the trailer park, he had to choose between poverty or success. Adulthood did not arrive gently. It came with repossessions, utility shut-offs, trailer-lot rent, and stealing food just to eat. Crime, drugs, and drinking surrounded him, constantly pulling him away from responsibility and toward self-destruction, forcing a daily choice between going down the wrong path or stepping up to take care of his family. He chose marriage and family over carefree nights with friends.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the Audie Award in Biography/Memoir “Remarkable . . . told with wry humor shorn of sentimentality . . . In the end, what sticks with the reader is an exuberant...

Helene Hadsell was "the woman who won every contest prize she desired". In Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game, she shares her winning secrets in the vibrant, warm, and folksy manner that was uniquely her.

An exuberant, hilarious, and profound memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, and educated him deeply about a country he loves but had lost touch with. Steve Grant was laid...

En su debut, Miriam Casco Benard y sus hermanos emergen como sobrevivientes, relatando sus extraordinarias experiencias en sus recuerdos Tender Memories of Fire and Dust: Earthquakes, Revolution, and Family. Esta no es solo una historia de supervivencia, es una narrativa que palpita con la intensidad de superar el catastrófico terremoto de 1972 que asoló Nicaragua, navegar por el peligroso derrocamiento del gobierno por parte de los sandinistas y el arduo proceso de reconstruir una nueva vida en Estados Unidos.

The definitive biography of a legendary athlete. The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is responsible for sublime moments so ingrained in sports history that they have their own names. When most people think of him, they think of his beautiful shots with the game on the line, his...

In a career that has seen him face coup leaders in his native Ivory Coast and lead some of the most prestigious Western financial institutions, Tidjane Thiam has blazed a trail through African and European politics and business. After a childhood in tumultuous west and north Africa, Thiam broke...

"[These contributions] touch on so many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will find much to ponder... [and] experience how creative writing enriches our understanding of each other and our lives." –Booklist Introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh...

In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him, Tahira remained estranged from her children for nearly two decades. Who was she in those years when she was no longer a wife or mother?