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Thank God I Got Disfellowshipped is a raw and powerful autobiographical short story by Mai Elahi, a Black queer woman who navigates the complexities of escaping the Jehovah's Witness cult. Told in a……続きを見る

War is, of course, terrible. Any war. All the suffering, all the death, all the wounded, the destruction, homelessness, cruelty, hunger, fear, and panic. It may also bring out the best in some peopl……続きを見る

In Cross Cultural Doctoring you will read about my career as a successful obstetrician and gynecologist in academic medicine at a major university. You will read why I decided at age 55 to leave my ……続きを見る

Childhood Interrupted Shortly before wrapping up the section of his autobiography devoted to his happy, dreamy early childhood, Arthur Mittermaier notes that his life seems to have been "made up of ……続きを見る

This exciting anthology contains stories from twenty-five women from different parts of the world. Their ages differ, as do their backgrounds and locations, but one thing they all have in common is ……続きを見る

Rarely do we see inside the life and mind of a psychiatrist, but that’s exactly what we get in With Hope in My Heart: Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist. With candor and openness, author François Ma……続きを見る

Named a Michigan Notable Book for 2023! Gold Medal Winner in the Midwest Independent Publisher Awards! Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner! Eric Hoffer Book Award Winner! Society of Midland Auth……続きを見る

VIDSTE DU, AT ... • alle udrykningslys før 1963 var grønne eller gule? • der i 1936 var over 160 danske isfabrikanter i Danmark? • danskerne i første omgang slet ikke brød sig om Coca-Cola? • firmae……続きを見る

In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful a……続きを見る

If you were given the opportunity to live over ninety years old, what would you wish in the first place? For sure, lucidity to continue interacting with the world around you, right? The physical and……続きを見る

______________ 'Excellent ... a marvellous imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and a devastating exposure of the misogyny of the male biographers who have disparaged her' - Sunday Telegraph ……続きを見る

Se lhe fosse dada a oportunidade de viver até os seus noventa anos, o que você pediria, em primeiro lugar? Com certeza, lucidez para poder continuar se relacionando com o mundo ao seu redor, não? E ……続きを見る

PEN/West Award Finalist " Told with energy, perception and great charm. . . . For anyone who wants to . . . gain insight into the great cultural and political richness of Iran, past, present and fut……続きを見る

The true story of how I scrapped my way up the ranks of Cydcor/DS-Max, a notorious door-to-door sales organization, and gave it everything I had trying to make it rich. This story explains how the b……続きを見る

Accompany Daniel Freeman as he travels deep within the Underworld of drugs, crime and immorality. Witness Dan's struggle to make difficult choices. Feel the pressure as Dan becomes ensnared in the t……続きを見る

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the ……続きを見る

A comprehensive biography of author and broadcaster Breandán Ó hEithir. The uathor, Liam Mac Con Iomaire, discusses Breandán's background, his travels abroad and also the Ireland in which Breandán l……続きを見る

An extraordinary biography of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe (originally published in 1973) by Norman Mailer, one of America's most important writers of the second half of the Twentieth Ce……続きを見る

Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-k……続きを見る

The biography of legendary folk singer Seosamh Ó hÉanaí, or Joe Heaney. This is a fascinating book for anyone with an interest in music and includes extracts from interviews (in English and Irish) w……続きを見る

On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried fr……続きを見る

Known to fans as 'Micky O', Michael O'Loughlin is a legendary figure in AFL and one of the Sydney Swans' favourite sons. This is the candid and inspiring story of the boy who became one of AFL's gre……続きを見る

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and deat……続きを見る

After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the……続きを見る

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beg……続きを見る

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beg……続きを見る

This vivid, compulsively readable memoir of courage, grief and redemption illuminates the life of Mai, a young girl from Vietnam’s rice fields, who risks everything to escape poverty, abuse and war.……続きを見る

Vidste du at … Antabus blev opfundet af to danske forskere ved et tilfælde? Utroskab engang blev straffet med enten halshugning eller drukning? Danmarks første elektricitetsværk lå i en kælder i Køg……続きを見る

VIDSTE DU AT ... • Røde pølser oprindeligt blev farvet, så man kunne se, at de var fra dagen før? • Antabus blev opfundet af to danske forskere ved et tilfælde? • Utroskab engang blev straffet med e……続きを見る

When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride's family has done in raising a daug……続きを見る