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The defining and uncompromising Memoir from Super Bowl quarterback and renowned Civil Right Activist, Colin Kaepernick. On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, but the world has never fully understood the whole story.

The son of Weather Underground radicals tells the story of a childhood on the run and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America. Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list...

This instant #1 internationally bestselling “explosive tell-all” (Daily Express, London) reveals the inside story about Meghan Markle’s journey from minor actress and attempted activist to the woman powerful enough to fracture the British Royal Family. After a childhood spent on Hollywood...

Here Where Live Is Our Country is the story of a revolutionary movement – the Jewish Bund – which played a part in nearly every major conflict in Eastern Europe from 1900-1945, but still remains an almost unknown part of 20th century history. The movement’s central philosophy of “herenes” –the belief that Jews had a right to freedom and dignity in the countries where they lived – led them to fight the Tsar, reject Zionism, resist the Nazis, and ultimately help lead the Warsaw ghetto revolt. It is also a philosophy that immediately resonates with the political situation all over the world today

Gloria Steinem offers an inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and the journey that made her one of the world’s most influential activists and storytellers, alongside a clear-eyed, urgent message for new generations about what the next chapters of the fight for equality will demand...

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell survivor Sarah Ransome shares the shocking inside story of her time trapped in the horrific sex trafficking ring. How could Jeffrey and Ghislaine operate a rape pyramid scheme for twenty-plus years, all as the powerful leaders they hobnobbed with didn’t...

The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post).Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an...

***WINNER OF THE 2024 AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR*** Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! | A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A remarkably intimate and insistently human chronicle of a moral authority’s coming of age.” —The New York Times This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell. Thrust onto...

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. Angela Davis: An Autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in these struggles. Read by Angela Davis herself, this autobiography, told with warmth, brilliance, humor, and conviction, is a classic account of a life in struggle, with echoes in our own time.

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.

History is generous to the irreverent — but usually only in retrospect. In their own time, they are more often ignored, ridiculed, or quietly pushed aside. Only later, once change becomes unavoidable, is the story rewritten to make their ideas seem obvious. The Irreverents profiles twenty-nine individuals who challenged the dominant thinking of their time. What they shared was not a rebellious temperament or a taste for conflict, but something more precise: a persistent discomfort with incomplete explanations, and an inability to accept answers that failed under honest scrutiny. Inside ...

Narrated by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro himself, this audiobook offers a grounded and intimate portrait of life in public service. Where We Keep the Light is the story of public service and personal faith. From an early age, Josh Shapiro learned and practiced the power of showing up...

Hamza Abu Howidy erzählt uns vom Aufwachsen im Gaza der 2000er-Jahre, von seiner Familie, besonders seinem Vater, der ihm beim Muschelsammeln die großen Lektionen des Lebens beigebracht hat, aber auch von den blutigen Kämpfen zwischen Fatah und Hamas, direkt vor seiner Haustür, und wie sehr das Leben in Gaza von Terror geprägt war. Jahre später protestiert er gegen die Hamas und wird festgenommen, gefoltert und muss fliehen.

Publicado em 1973, Diário da tristeza comum foi o primeiro livro em prosa de Mahmoud Darwish, um dos mais reconhecidos poetas palestinos. Em nove ensaios autobiográficos, o autor retoma momentos de sua vida na Palestina ocupada, enquanto reflete sobre a experiência do deslocamento, do exílio e da perda resultantes da Nakba.

Descubre la Vida de una Revolucionaria: Biografía de Simone de Beauvoir 📚✨ Explora el Legado de una Pensadora Inigualable 🌟 Sumérgete en "Biografía de Simone de Beauvoir", un viaje fascinante a través de la vida de una de las figuras más influyentes del siglo XX. Esta obra te llevará desde su infancia en París hasta su ascenso como ícono del feminismo y la filosofía existencialista. Un Viaje a Través del Tiempo ⏳ Con un análisis profundo y meticuloso, cada capítulo revela cómo Simone desafió las convencciones sociales, luchando por la igualdad de género en un mundo ...

Discover the Life of a Revolutionary: Biography of Simone de Beauvoir 📚✨ Explore the Legacy of an Incomparable Thinker 🌟 Immerse yourself in "Biography of Simone de Beauvoir," a fascinating journey through the life of one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. This work will take you from her childhood in Paris to her rise as an icon of feminism and existentialist philosophy. A Journey Through Time ⏳ With in-depth and meticulous analysis, each chapter reveals how Simone challenged social conventions, fighting for gender equality in a male-dominated world. Discover ...

An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.

A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history.