Biography & Autobiography

“Black Woman Runner is an important and engaging book about Tiffany Chenault’s journey to redefine Black womanhood. She demythologizes the Strong Black Woman caricature that has served as a coping mechanism for Black women over generations but also presents a threat to Black women’s physical and mental well being.” —Lori L. Martin, author of White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs

In the wake of profound grief at the loss of her mother, this is one Black woman’s haunting and inspiring journey of becoming a runner and, to her own surprise, realizing her audacious goal of running a half-marathon in all fifty states.

After the loss of her mother, Tiffany Gayle Chenault decided, at age 40, to run a half-marathon in all 50 states. Black, Woman, Runner explores running as a space of survival, healing, joy, and connecting to the history and legacy of Black Americans and Women in the US. Shedding insight on the experiences of Black women who participate in the largely white-dominated world of recreational running, Chenault unpacks her own experience to think about the racial space of running: not just the physical neighborhoods where casual runners might run, but also where races are held, what the market for products for runners looks like, and how and to whom running is marketed. She also investigates the meaning of identity and the embodiment of being a runner, particularly a black woman runner.

The differences in locale, customs, and the varied racial legacies of various states, allow Chenault to offer compelling and vivid insights into current-day racial realities. Ultimately, this is a story about movement—through space, emotion, and identity. It’s about the culture of running, but more urgently, about who runs and why it matters.

A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who’d grown up in the heart of Israel’s elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis. His journey is mirrored in many ways the transformation his father, a much-decorated Israeli general, had undergone three decades earlier. Alice Walker contributed a foreword to the first edition in which she wrote, “There are few books on the Israel/Palestine issue that seem as hopeful to me as this one.” In the new Epilogue he takes readers to South Africa, East Asia, many European countries, and the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel itself.

The 10th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface in which he reflects on the growth of the Palestinian-rights movement since the original publication of this work in 2012.

Laila El-Haddad takes us into the intense life and world of a busy Palestinian journalist who is both covering the story of Gaza and living it, with her young son. She was in Gaza City in 2005, watching hopefully as the Israelis prepared their withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. She covered the January 2006 Palestinian elections—judged "free and fair" by international monitors. But then, she watched aghast as the Israeli government, backed by the Bush administration, moved in to punish Gaza’s 1.5 million people for the way they had voted by throwing a tough siege around the Strip.

The Abridged Edition of this earlier work focuses on El-Haddad's writings from within Gaza and on the angst she felt in late 2008, when she worried deeply about the fate of her parents and other relatives trapped inside Gaza during a fierce Israeli attack.

Laila El-Haddad takes us into the intense life and world of a busy Palestinian journalist who is both covering the story of Gaza and living it, with her young son. El-Haddad was in Gaza City in 2005, watching hopefully as the Israelis prepared a troop withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. She covered the January 2006 Palestinian elections—judged "free and fair" by international monitors. But then, she watched aghast as the Israeli government, backed by the Bush administration, moved in to punish Gaza’s 1.5 million people for the way they voted by throwing a tough siege around the Strip.

Gaza Mom provides a wealth of detail (and some charming photographs) that inform readers about the daily lives of Gaza's Palestinians, along with El-Haddad's reporting and political analysis.

For eight months in 2008, US Army Captain Matt Zeller served as an embedded combat adviser with Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Watches Without Time is a compilation of the emails he sent home to family and friends during that period—so that, as he writes in the Preface, "should anything have ever happened to me, they would know what I went through."

Watches Without Time gives a granular account of the challenges Zeller and his men encountered in Ghazni, and of the complex missions they undertook there. Written in clear and searingly intimate prose, it highlights the many emotion-laden experiences he underwent both during his tour and after his return to the United States.

What was it like to live in Beirut during the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006? Lebanese agronomy professor and social activist Rami Zurayk spent the whole war in Beirut with his family. War Diary: Lebanon 2006 is his intimate and vivid record of the 33-day onslaught. Throughout those 33 days, Israel's high-tech, lethal (and US-supported) military was trying to inflict such suffering on Lebanon's people that they would turn against Hizbullah, which was both a resistance movement and a political party with members in the national parliament. Zurayk was one of many Lebanese leftists who saw Israel's attack as yet another episode in the West's decades-long project to subjugate the Arab world. This book explains why.

«Lo que se puede aprender sobre el ser humano y sobre la historia de Europa en el siglo XX en los tres volúmenes de la gran trilogía memorial de Primo Levi es terrible y también aleccionador, y honradamente no creo que sea posible tener una conciencia política cabal sin haberlos leído, ni una idea de la literatura que no incluya el ejemplo de esa manera de escribir». Antonio Muñoz Molina

Si esto es un hombre, libro que inaugura la trilogía que Primo Levi dedicó a los campos de exterminio nazis, surgió en la imaginación de su autor durante los días de horror en Auschwitz, cuando la principal preocupación de los prisioneros era que, de sobrevivir, nadie creería la atrocidad de la historia vivida.

Los campos de concentración y exterminio, más que resguardados por las alambradas y los guardias, lo estuvieron por su propia monstruosidad, que los hacía inconcebibles.

Es la sobriedad del testimonio de Primo Levi, una víctima que no grita pero que arranca el grito de la garganta de su lector, lo que devuelve al horror su realidad y lo hace inteligible como una siniestra señal de peligro. Un libro conmovedor de un hombre con una indestructible fe en la razón.

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“What can be learned about humanity and about the history of Europe in the 20th century from Primo Levi’s great memorial trilogy is both terrible and instructive, and I honestly don’t believe it is possible to have a complete political conscience without having read them, nor an idea of literature that does not include the example of that way of writing.” Antonio Muñoz Molina

Survival in Auschwitz, the book that opens the trilogy Primo Levi dedicated to the Nazi extermination camps, was conceived during his days of horror in Auschwitz, when the prisoners’ greatest fear was that, if they survived, no one would believe the atrocity they had lived through.

The concentration and extermination camps, more than being guarded by fences and soldiers, were protected by their own monstrosity, which made them inconceivable.

It is the sobriety of Primo Levi’s testimony—a victim who does not shout but forces a cry from the reader’s throat—that restores horror to its reality and makes it intelligible as a sinister warning. A moving book by a man with an indestructible faith in reason.

«La cercanía con Andrés Manuel implicaba también asumir riesgos, exponerse al fuego cruzado de enemigos visibles e invisibles. El poder, en México, siempre vigila, siempre castiga, y quienes se acercan demasiado a su círculo de fuego terminan marcados». JULIO SCHERER IBARRA

Pocos como Julio Scherer Ibarra han conocido de manera tan profunda al verdadero Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Durante más de tres décadas, acompañó de cerca sus aspiraciones de transformar la política y la vida pública en México. De ese modo, atestiguó en primera fila su faceta personal y familiar, así como el andamiaje político, institucional y personal que forjó su trayectoria hasta llevarlo, en su tercer intento, a la presidencia del país.

A través de una conversación íntima y reflexiva con el periodista Jorge Fernández Menéndez, se registra la historia de ese vínculo moldeado en la lucha. Asimismo, se develan los entretelones de nuestra historia reciente y de la injerencia de figuras centrales de la democracia, como Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Marcelo Ebrard, Alejandro Gertz Manero y los expresidentes Enrique Peña Nieto y Felipe Calderón, entre otros. También se describen los avatares del primer trienio de AMLO en el poder, un periodo en el que Scherer, además de haber sido consejero jurídico de la presidencia, fue uno de los hombres más influyentes del Gobierno, el responsable de implementar cambios profundos y plasmar en leyes las convicciones del mandatario.

He aquí una respuesta frontal a quienes han señalado a Scherer. Este es un ejercicio de honestidad y un testimonio indispensable sobre el ejercicio del poder y las cicatrices que la polarización ya dejó en la historia mexicana.

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“Closeness to Andrés Manuel also meant taking risks, exposing oneself to the crossfire of visible and invisible enemies. Power in Mexico always watches, always punishes, and those who get too close to its circle of fire end up marked.” JULIO SCHERER IBARRA

Few have known Andrés Manuel López Obrador as profoundly as Julio Scherer Ibarra. For more than three decades, he closely accompanied his aspirations to transform politics and public life in Mexico. In doing so, he witnessed firsthand his personal and family side, as well as the political, institutional, and personal framework that shaped his trajectory until, on his third attempt, he reached the presidency of the country.

Through an intimate and reflective conversation with journalist Jorge Fernández Menéndez, the story of that bond forged in struggle is recorded. It also reveals the behind-the-scenes of recent Mexican history and the influence of key figures of democracy, such as Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Marcelo Ebrard, Alejandro Gertz Manero, and former presidents Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón, among others. The book also describes the challenges of AMLO’s first three years in power, a period in which Scherer, in addition to serving as legal advisor to the presidency, was one of the most influential men in government, responsible for implementing profound changes and enshrining the president’s convictions into law.

This is a direct response to those who have criticized Scherer. It is an exercise in honesty and an indispensable testimony about the exercise of power and the scars that polarization has already left in Mexican history.

La historia de Lorenzo no es solo la biografía del hombre que ayudó a Primo Levi: es el relato de una humanidad deshumanizada en la que es necesario hacer una elección moral.

Y yo le dije: «Mira, te estás arriesgando al hablar conmigo».

Y él respondió: «No me importa».

En Si esto es un hombre, Primo Levi escribió: «Creo que es a Lorenzo a quien debo estar vivo hoy». Pero, ¿quién era Lorenzo? Lorenzo Perrone, que así se llamaba, es la pieza del puzzle de la biografía de Primo que nos faltaba por conocer: un albañil piamontés que vivía frente a la valla de Auschwitz III-Monowitz. Un hombre pobre, casi analfabeto que durante seis meses llevó a Levi un plato de sopa cada día para ayudarle a compensar su desnutrición en el Lager. Y no se limitó a ayudarle en sus necesidades más concretas: fue mucho más allá, arriesgando incluso su vida para permitirle comunicarse con su familia. Cuidó de su joven amigo como sólo un padre podría haberlo hecho. La suya fue una amistad extraordinaria que, nacida en el infierno, sobrevivió a la guerra y continuó en Italia hasta la agónica muerte de Lorenzo en 1952, doblegado por el alcohol y la tuberculosis. Primo nunca le olvidó: hablaba a menudo de él y puso a sus hijos nombres en recuerdo de su amigo.

Este libro es la biografía de una de una de esas personas que viven sin dejar, aparentemente, huella ni recuerdo de sí mismas. Pero que, bien mirado, son la verdadera piedra angular de la humanidad.

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Lorenzo's story is not only the biography of the man who helped Primo Levi: it is the tale of a dehumanized humanity in which it is necessary to make a moral choice.

And I said, "Look, you're taking a risk by talking to me."

And he said, "I don't care."

In If This Is a Man, Primo Levi wrote, "I believe it is Lorenzo that I must be alive today." But who was Lorenzo? Lorenzo Perrone, as he was called, is the piece of the puzzle of Primo's biography that we have yet to know: a Piedmontese bricklayer who lived in front of the fence of Auschwitz III-Monowitz. A poor, almost illiterate man who for six months brought Levi a bowl of soup every day to help him compensate for his malnutrition in the Lager. And he did not limit himself to helping him with his most concrete needs: he went much further, even risking his life to allow him to communicate with his family. He cared for his young friend as only a father could have. Theirs was an extraordinary friendship that, born in hell, survived the war and continued in Italy until Lorenzo's agonizing death in 1952, bent by alcohol and tuberculosis. Primo never forgot him: he often spoke of him and named his children in memory of his friend.

This book is the biography of one of those people who live without, apparently, leaving a trace or memory of themselves. But that, on closer inspection,are the true cornerstone of humanity.

True and harrowing accounts of adventurers who never came home

Some adventures end in glory, others in obituaries. Instead of receiving laurels and a parade, the adventurers in Vanished! met infamy on a road with no return. Immerse yourself in these gripping accounts of explorers who ventured forth—then simply disappeared. Their fates? We’ll never know. Vanished! draws you into seven page-turning accounts, including one that contains new details of Amelia Earhart’s unsolved disappearance over the vast Pacific. Head to Mexico with Ambrose Bierce, forever lost but not forgotten. Ride the wild Colorado with honeymooners Glen and Bessie Hyde, presumably drowned but whose bodies have never been found. Author Evan Balkan brings these stories to life, and death, in spine-tingling descriptions. Whether murder, sabotage, or just plain bad luck, these are true tales of adventure gone bad, of explorers vanished, forever lost.

In her debut memoir, award-winning novelist and journalist Kristen Millares Young seeks possibilities for women’s liberation amid the ongoing erosion of our human rights. Desire Lines excavates submerged truths about motherhood, the body and the sacred.

Desire Lines takes its title from footpaths—of necessity, defiance and longing—that emerge next to the routes that were planned for us. Challenging herself to be a mother unlike what she has known, Millares Young centers her own body as a site of resistance and making.

Tracing her matrilineage from Cuba to Spain, Millares Young uncovers the remnants of a pagan cult whose mother goddess, Cybele, was erased to make way for the Virgin Mary. But Cybele was no virgin.

On the edge of an impasse, written as both invitation and veil, Desire Lines reclaims the power siphoned from women’s stories, wielding the lyric essay for awakening consciousness.

“This is more than a memoir; it is a testament to the departure from trauma's clutches. McCloy shows us the way by magnifying her working-class queerness with brilliant writing. ” ––CAConrad, Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

Nine Grudges by Molly McCloy is a raw, defiant, and darkly hilarious queer memoir that traces nine pivotal moments of childhood trauma, blending humor, heartbreak, and resilience to illuminate the power of forgiveness, identity, and queer joy amid family dysfunction.

On the cusp of her 1993 college graduation in Olympia, Molly McCloy spends her time drunk and high, pulling dykey pranks, and thrashing in mosh pits—anything to avoid the troubled, working-class family she left behind in Arizona. But after a vivid nightmare involving her dad, Molly writes him a letter, asking him to apologize for nine instances of mental, verbal, and physical abuse. To her surprise, her dad writes back. Nine Grudges is the story of Molly’s nine heartbreaking moments, her humor as a coping strategy, and her queerness as a source of joy. Celebrating dark victories snatched from the jaws of trauma, this book asks whether grudge wielding is an act more powerful than forgiveness itself.

 ". . . a beautiful story of a daughter in the act of knowing her father. . . . stitching and restitching memories, records, artifacts, history, mystery, and fiction.”–-Ananda Lima, author of Mother/land

Mud on the Moon by Nita Noveno is a hybrid memoir that weaves a daughter’s journey of discovering her Filipino immigrant father’s hidden past with imaginative storytelling, offering a look into migration, identity, and the intergenerational legacies that shape who we are. 

Mud on the Moon is a hybrid memoir that intertwines a daughter's exploration of her Filipino immigrant father's obscured past with a reimagined version of his untold story.

Born in Southeast Alaska, Nita Noveno traces the legacy of her father, who arrived in the US in 1928 as part of a wave of Filipino men seeking better opportunities through manual labor in agriculture and other industries. The book alternates between Nita's coming-of-age story and imagined chapters of her father's life, revealing the gaps and silences that lie between their experiences. With a blend of personal and historical imagery, Mud on the Moon offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Filipino immigrants in America. It is a meditation on how family, memory, and identity are shaped by the stories we inherit, both spoken and unspoken, across generations.

Read more than 80 of the most compelling true stories of canoeing, kayaking, and rafting rescues ever submitted to the American Whitewater Accident Database.

Risk is a part of everyday life, but it takes a special person to grab a paddle and choose to navigate a canoe, kayak, or raft over whitewater. After all, when you mix people and moving water, accidents are bound to occur. Sometimes, inexperienced paddlers make terrible mistakes; other times, expert paddlers get caught in dangerous conditions. Regardless of the circumstances, these life-or-death moments can end in tragedy—or can become the setting for heroic rescues.

Charlie Walbridge has been a river guide, a paddling-related business owner, and a member of the American Whitewater Board. That’s where he began some of his most important work: maintaining their accident database and producing biannual reports of US whitewater fatalities. Over the years, the lessons learned and the practices developed from this information have saved countless lives.

In Whitewater Rescues, Charlie shares more than 80 of the most thrilling true stories of survival, bravery, and quick thinking ever submitted to the American Whitewater Accident Database. The narratives are uplifting and inspiring, and they spotlight the courage and ingenuity of whitewater paddlers.

Read rescue stories about:

• Near drownings
• Pins and entrapments
• Injuries and resuscitations
• Evacuations
• Bonus: strategies for avoiding and managing risk

Charlie’s goal is to help paddlers stay safe by sharing what has worked for others. There is much to admire and learn from each of these stories. Perhaps they will also be useful to you.

“This book is important.” —Ronald Reagan

“A landmark book and a human document that remains vital.” —Tom Stoppard

“If human bravery were a book, it would be To Build a Castle.”—Garry Kasparov

A major document in the literature of human rights, Vladimir Bukovksy’s To Build a Castle is a legendary memoir that has been hailed as a vital classic by figures ranging from Ronald Reagan to Tom Stoppard to Garry Kasparov.

At the age of twenty, Vladimir Bukovsky was falsely declared insane and committed to a psychiatric hospital—standard practice for communism's critics in 1963. But the quack doctors and brutal guards who kept him captive didn't realize: Bukovsky wasn't locked up with them. They were locked up with Bukovsky.

In this haunting work, Bukovsky details with equal parts burning outrage and bitter humor the cruelties imposed upon Soviet prisoners of conscience. But he also recounts how he found his inner strength and built a fortress around it—the imaginary castle of the title—in which he could remain safe from the daily assaults on his body and mind.

In To Build a Castle, Bukovsky offers powerful firsthand testimony to the importance of personal integrity and perseverance under seemingly boundless oppression and abuse. For nearly fifty years, Bukovsky's story has inspired dissidents, prisoners, and others trapped by circumstance with a profound truth: Even in chains, you can be free.

A worldwide bestseller when first published in 1978, this new edition, masterfully translated from the Russian by Michael Scammell, includes a major introduction by acclaimed political philosopher Daniel J. Mahoney.

“There are scenes in this book that the reader will never forget.”—Mircea Eliade

With a new Afterword by the author and a new Introduction by bestselling historian Wilfred M. McClay

In Notes from the Other Side of Night, Juliana Geran Pilon provides a beautiful memoir of a return to her native Romania in 1975, which she left with her family when she was just fourteen. Poetically weaving together hard-won adult insights with her childhood perceptions, Pilon tells the haunting stories of her parents, grandparents, neighbors, and friends. She recounts the chilling realities of anti-Semitism, political imprisonment, and judicial execution under Romania’s ruthless communist authorities. And she remembers those few who managed to retain their humanity despite the horrors that surrounded them.

Told with detached melancholy, the result is a book full of political and spiritual wisdom. At a time when the totalitarian crimes of the last century are being minimized, if not entirely ignored, Pilon’s meditation on evil, hope, and love is profoundly moving.

"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham.

Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be "the rare bird, the oddity.”

By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today.

In 1980s East London, families lived by an unspoken code. You can throw a punch to make a point, stolen goods make financial sense, and a few too many beers were par for the course. But you never abandon your family.

That was Emma Fowle's father's greatest mistake.

A champion powerlifter with a dangerous appetite for risk, he dragged his family into a world of steroids, cocaine, illegal raves, debt collecting, fraud and infidelity. Then, one day, he simply walked out - leaving behind a trail of chaos and questions that would take decades to untangle.

Set against the gritty backdrop of London's East End, All the Times You Were Not There is a raw and redemptive memoir about the cost of broken promises and the unexpected grace that can transform even the most fractured family story.

Through her Christian faith, Emma learns to reframe her past: not as a story of failure, but of survival, forgiveness and hope. With unflinching honesty and tender insight, she writes about what it means to grow up searching for love in the ruins and to find redemption where you least expect it.

For readers of Cathy Rentzenbrink, Dani Shapiro, and Lemn Sissay, this is a story about addiction, absence, and the long road home, told with warmth, courage and astonishing grace.

La historia les pertenece y sin ellas el relato está incompleto.

Descubrieron reinas cubiertas de rojo; desafiaron imperios y dieron origen al mestizaje; se atrevieron a creer en la insurgencia y sostuvieron la República con dignidad; vivieron un imperio fallido y también lo derrumbaron desde la intimidad; fueron señaladas por la Inquisición y juzgadas por amar demasiado; acompañaron a presidentes, cambiaron la historia desde la sombra y abrieron portales hacia universos infinitos con el arte.

En este nuevo volumen, Isabel Revuelta Poo, historiadora, académica y conductora de El ADN de la historia, convoca a ocho protagonistas que transformaron a nuestro país desde la época prehispánica hasta la actualidad: la Reina Roja, Tecuelhuétzin, Francisca Núñez de Carvajal, Leona Vicario, Margarita Maza, Carlota de Bélgica, Juana Cata Romero y Leonora Carrington. Esta es una invitación a recorrer los pasajes más emblemáticos de nuestra memoria a través de los ojos de aquellas que, con valor y visión, transformaron el destino de México.

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History belongs to them, and without them the story is incomplete.

They discovered queens covered in red; defied empires and gave rise to mestizaje; dared to believe in insurgency and upheld the Republic with dignity; lived through a failed empire and also brought it down from within; they were marked by the Inquisition and judged for loving too much; they accompanied presidents, changed history from the shadows, and opened portals to infinite universes through art.

In this new volume, Isabel Revuelta Poo, historian, academic, and host of El ADN de la historia, brings together eight protagonists who transformed Mexico from pre-Hispanic times to the present: the Red Queen, Tecuelhuétzin, Francisca Núñez de Carvajal, Leona Vicario, Margarita Maza, Carlota of Belgium, Juana Cata Romero, and Leonora Carrington. This is an invitation to revisit the most emblematic passages of our memory through the eyes of those women who, with courage and vision, transformed the destiny of Mexico.

In The Confessions of Saint Augustine (c. 400 CE), Saint Augustine reveals in brutally honest details the agonizing process of maturation from a worldly and sinful young man to the great advocate for Christianity and virtue he would become.

Saint Augustine of Hippo is now remembered as one of the great Christian philosophers of history, with his many works contributing significantly to concepts like theological anthropology, eschatology, and original sin. He was not, however, always such a pious and introspective man. Moving beyond his personal faults, Augustine also delves into what he sees as the central pitfalls of the Christian doctrine of his time, especially the reliance on institutional guidance over introspective reflection.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Journey Back Into the Vault invites people to travel with author Mario Cartaya back to the land of his birth for the first time in fifty-six years as he seeks to reclaim his forgotten childhood memories, original identity, and once-promised destiny.

Join Mario as he searches for the now faded footprints he once left behind in the homes, school, and playgrounds of the first nine years of his life in 1950s Cuba before Fidel Castro came into power and his family became political exiles. Help him honor the grandparents, uncles, and aunts he never saw again at their final resting place, and meet family members he never knew existed.

Laugh, sigh, and cry during the many unforeseen experiences, astonishing events, and serendipitous moments that would forever change his life. Enjoy the improbable story of a courageous journey aimed at breaching a subconscious vault once built to store the difficult memories of a childhood usurped, destiny denied, and loving family forever separated by geopolitical events.

Journey Back Into the Vault is the story of those psychological forces that help define humans, the power of enduring hope, and how by achieving purity of heart, reconciliation, and a soul at rest, people can evolve into better versions of themselves—a universal message of love and enlightenment that can only begin with each individual’s search for self-actualization and inner peace.

Puncturing the heart of Apartheid South Africa — the story of an extraordinary woman, mother, and activist. 

In 1959, a South African Native Commissioner under police escort travelled to Paarl, a small, multi-racial community outside Cape Town to present banning orders to Elizabeth Mafeking—a recognized African women’s leader and trade union president. The directive instructed the married mother of eleven to leave all but one of her children—a nursing infant—behind in Paarl and submit to a banning order that would send her more than 600 miles away from her home of 22 years. In the ultimate act of defiance, Mafeking escaped her escort on the day her banning went into effect and fled the country for a life in exile, and One Day We Are Going Home is the story of one woman's struggle to redeem her cause, her family, and herself in a long-awaited triumph over Apartheid.

After being released from prison in 1901 at the age of 57, Younger took it upon himself to record the deeds of his life, starting with his humble upbringings on the Younger Family Farm and the tragic loss of his father at the hands of a Union soldier (despite his father being a Union supporter himself). The increasing violence of the Civil War combined with young Cole's desire for revenge lead him to leave home and join up with a guerilla band marshalled by William Clark Quintrell. Quintrell's band, along with many of the other "bushwhackers" of the era, operate in relative freedom to raid and retaliate in the chaos that defined the Civil War in the southern states. With the end of the war, Younger and his brothers seamlessly shift from a soldier's life to an outlaw's, specializing in train, bank, and stagecoach robbery. The gang gains notoriety with each crime committed, although Younger is careful to frame these acts not as born of wanton violence or greed, but from a drive to deliver justice for the Union's destruction of Missouri and the suffering of Confederate loyalists. The gang's deeds would culminate in their attempted robbery of The First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, which is thwarted thanks to resistance from the local population. In the violence that ensued, many gang members were killed while Younger and his brother were wounded and sentenced to life in prison. Life on the inside softens Younger, who writes of himself as a model inmate and uses the time to reflect and eventually decide to write his story down, "to clear up the record." Following his release from prison, Younger capitalized on his reputation by joining Wild West shows and speaking publicly about his experience as a soldier and, to a lesser extent, as an outlaw. Despite repenting his deeds and converting to Christianity at the end of his life, Younger's deeds live on as a central building block of the Wild West and post-Civil War mythos.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

The dramatic personal story of Anthony Field, founder and costar of the world's most popular children's musical group, The Wiggles

With their distinctive look, catchy music, and upbeat message, the Wiggles have performed their way into the hearts and homes of millions of kids and their parents around the world. Their extraordinary success over the last twenty years includes TV shows, the sale of tens of millions of CDs and DVDs, and sell-out live performances for a million people annually as well as honors including being named UNICEF goodwill ambassadors. Now, for the first time, Anthony Field, the "blue" Wiggle, tells his inspiring, behind-the-scenes story of how he overcame depression, life-threatening illness, and chronic pain to get his life back.

• Takes you inside the life of the Wiggles' co-founder Anthony Field and the story of his successful struggle to overcome debilitating emotional and physical health challenges
• Shares practical action steps to help relieve pain, prevent and heal disease, and achieve peak fitness regardless of age
• Reveals groundbreaking approaches to wellness developed by two acclaimed chiropractors
• Includes more than seventy photographs from Anthony Field's personal collection

The fourth and final volume of the highly-acclaimed autobiographical cycle of Jewish memoir and history.

Bridge Builder: My Life Since the Holocaust is the fourth and final volume of Shimon Redlich’s autobiographical cycle, which began with Together and Apart in Brezany (2002), a description of relations among Poles, Ukrainians and Jews in his native town and his survival during the Holocaust. It continued with Life in Transit (2010), an account of his family’s resettlement in postwar Lodz and a new life in Israel. A New Life in Israel (2018) portrayed his adjustment to life on a kibbutz and service in the Israel Defense Forces. In Bridge Builder, Redlich recounts his life since the late fifties. It features his academic journey from student in Jerusalem and the US to professor at Ben-Gurion University, his friendships, his encounters with Jews and non-Jews in Eastern Europe, and his unconventional approach to controversial topics. As in previous volumes, in Bridge Builder Redlich’s own memories are supported and enriched by meticulous historical research.

WHEN 45-YEAR-OLD MARI SARKISIAN WYATT, A FREELANCE COPY EDITOR, DECIDED TO HAVE A THIRD CHILD, SHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT SHE WAS GETTING INTO, EXCEPT THAT A WOMAN HER AGE HAD A SUCCESS RATE OF LESS THAN 5% WITHOUT HELP. 

MARI wanted to take advantage of her state’s insurance mandate requiring HMO plans offered by large companies to cover infertility treatments (including three cycles of in vitro fertilization). With an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a master’s degree from Stanford, she worked for two years as a grocery bagger for a large supermarket chain in order to receive this coverage. Meanwhile, she interviewed dozens of younger, sometimes desperate women who were willing to sell their eggs in order to their rent. Pregnant at last, she endured months, then years, of ill effects, risking her health and even her life. Along the way, she met other couples who had suffered even worse setbacks and unimaginable tragedies. 

MARI SARKISIAN WYATT is a pseudonym for an Armenian-American who received her B.A. from Princeton and her M.A. from Stanford, both in English. After being deemed unemployable by multiple job agencies in her Midwestern hometown, she moved to New York City, where she worked in publishing for over a decade. Deciding that it would be too difficult to raise a family in Manhattan, she and her husband, Wesley, moved back to the Midwest, and she became a freelance copy editor to work from home, not imagining that her first child would be diagnosed with autism, which at the time, the early 1990s, was rare and considered untreatable. She and Wesley spent the first six years of their son’s life inventing therapies for him, then despite being in her forties, Mari decided that he needed a brother to teach him how to be a guy. What began as a nice idea—to have a child using assisted reproductive technology—quickly turned into an all-consuming obsession, and she spent six more years trying to fulfill that goal. Writing under a different name, Mari is the author of four romances and the co-author (with her now adult son) of two self-help guides for the parents of special-needs children.

A Stanford University Press classic.

Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964. McLuhan published several breakthrough books and coined terms like "hot" and "cool" media, "the global village," and "the medium is the message."

John Pizzarelli, the son of jazz guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli, is a connoisseur of American song who grew up among the legends of jazz. From teenage explorations of rock music to life on the road with his father, he worked his way from gigs in tiny clubs to opening for Frank Sinatra during his final international tour. Now Pizzarelli performs in festivals and top venues across the United States and the world, and he shares his unique journey in this revealing, charming, and heartwarming memoir.

• Includes firsthand stories of famous jazz greats and popular music icons including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Benny Goodman, Joe Pass, James Taylor, and Paul McCartney
• Reveals what it was like to grow up among great musicians and storytellers and shares the day-to-day experiences of a touring musician's life
• Includes thirty-five terrific photographs that take you inside John Pizzarelli's life and music
• Part of the Wiley-Lincoln Center alliance

Absorbing, upbeat, funny, and down to earth, World on a String is an irresistible celebration of music and life that will appeal to John Pizzarelli's large and growing following.

One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world’s greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is the story of an Australian man’s hunt for those fragments and his family’s debt to an act of literary vandalism..

In 1921, Wells’ audacity scandalized the rare-book world. The Gutenberg was the first substantial book in Europe to have been printed on a printing press. It represented the democratization of knowledge and was the Holy Grail of rare books.

Was the break-up a sacrilege or a canny deal? New Yorkers were divided. For every frown of disapproval, there was a lick of the lips. It was the Roaring Twenties, the Gatsby era of fabulous wealth. Tycoons were in a feeding frenzy to acquire items that would demonstrate their refinement. Wells marketed the pages as ‘Noble Fragments’, they sold like hot cakes, and he died a rich man.

Half a century later, Sydney journalist Michael Visontay stumbled upon a mysterious legal document that linked Wells to his own family. He became obsessed by the Gutenberg’s invisible imprint on his life, and set out to track down the pages of the broken bible.

Part detective story and part memoir, Noble Fragments is an expedition into the arcane world of book collectors and their eccentric passions, and a journey of discovery about how Wells’s gamble set off a chain of events that changed a family’s destiny.

A gripping, real-life thriller following the authors’ attempt to uncover the truth about one of the world’s most wanted men.

Karl Lee, alias Li Fangwei, plays a key role in the secret struggle between the world powers, bypassing Western sanctions to supply dictators with the weapons they need to wipe out their neighboring countries—or even to trigger a third world war.

For almost two decades, intelligence agencies have been hunting for Karl Lee. The FBI has put a $5 million dollar bounty on his head, but nobody has been able to catch him. Now, four award-winning investigative journalists set out to find him. Following the routes of his deliveries and his money, the authors track down Karl Lee’s businesses in China and uncover his network of shell companies. During their investigation, they get embroiled deeper and deeper in the shady world of the Chinese phantom, and realize that Karl Lee is just a pawn in a much bigger game of modern warfare and international espionage.

A fascinating history of physicist Ernest Rutherford, who developed the key concepts underlying modern physics today.

By the mid-nineteenth century, physicists believed they had discovered the last secrets of the universe. Then a new world opened up: one of waves, particles, and new, fundamental forces. This mysterious world swiftly captured the public imagination, not least because of the technical revolution that emerged from it, giving the world everything from radio to TV, X-ray machines, smoke detectors, and more.

One of the key movers of this new world was Ernest Rutherford, who became popularly known as the “father of the atom” in recognition of his pioneering role in particle physics. But he was far more than that. Through his roles at Manchester University and then the Cavendish Laboratory in England, he steered a new generation of highly influential physicists such as Niels Bohr, helping to shape much of the way we understand physics today—from quantum mechanics to the “standard model” of particles.

This immersive history explores the discovery of that science, using Rutherford’s life as a vehicle to steer the journey. It explains just why this science seized the public imagination of the day, and why Rutherford’s contribution was integral not just to the technical revolution of the twentieth century, but to the way we now understand the nature of the universe. And it explains how that science works, in engaging, accessible terms.

A monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century.

From 1999 to 2010, Jan Brokken explored life stories in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The result was his masterly Baltic Souls, available here for the first time in English. Brokken uncovered the stories of famous artists and writers such as Mark Rothko, Sergei Eisenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Lipchitz, who were all born in the regions bordering the Baltic Sea before leaving to build their work abroad, spreading a bit of the Baltic soul across Europe and America.

Less well known were the stories of people such as the Rozes and their family bookstore in Riga, or the von Wrangels, the ultimate descendants of the Baltic barons. Or the story of the titanic struggle that violist Gidon Kremer fought with his father in Riga, who was burdened by the death of thirty-five family members in concentration camps. Or the story of Loreta Asanavičiūtė, who was run over by a Russian tank in 1991.

It is this melancholy imbued with fatalism, this vitality forged by the upheavals of history, this appetite for reading, music, and art, that enriches the portraits painted by Jan Brokken.

Conducted in the style of a travel diary where chance encounters and biographical sketches mingle, Baltic Souls makes us feel the cruelty and violence of an era, but also the tenderness and solidarity of an entire people, united across borders.

Step Into the Life You Were Made to Lead

Made for This is a powerful reminder that leadership is not about a title—it’s about how you choose to live.

In this deeply inspiring memoir, DeAngela Burns-Wallace, EdD, shares a remarkable journey of purpose, discipline, and personal growth. From early lessons in service and self-worth to high-impact leadership roles in global diplomacy, education, and public administration, she unpacks the real work behind personal and professional transformation.

You’ll walk away with insight, clarity, and the motivation to lead with intention—wherever you are in life.

Key takeaways include:

• How to identify and honor the values that guide your leadership
• How to move through uncertainty with discipline and courage
• Why building legacy starts with living authentically
• What it means to lead without apology or permission
• Why empowering others is the highest mark of leadership

If you're seeking clarity in your calling, wisdom in your next step, or strength to walk your own path—Made for This will meet you there.

Cleveland Sellers Jr. was the scapegoat for one of the bloodiest civil rights events of the 1960s.

In 1968 state troopers gunned down black students protesting the segregation of a South Carolina bowling alley, killing three and injuring 28. The Orangeburg Massacre was one of the most violent moments of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and only one person served prison time in its aftermath: a young black man by the name of Cleveland Sellers Jr. Many years later, the state would recognize that Sellers was a scapegoat in that college campus tragedy and would issue a full pardon.

*Outside Agitator* is the story of a Sellers’ early activism: organizing a lunch counter sit-in as a 15-year-old in the tiny South Carolina town of Denmark, registering voters in Alabama and Mississippi, refusing the Vietnam War draft, serving as national program director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and working alongside 1960s civil rights icons Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., H. Rap Brown and Malcolm X. It's also the story of his lifelong struggle to overcome the Orangeburg incident and his slow crawl to justice. That journey takes him to Harvard University, then to a hard-fought position in civil service in Greensboro, North Carolina. And in a triumphant end to his career, a major Southern university elevates Sellers to chair its African-American Studies program, and the historically black college in his hometown respectfully calls him to be its president.

Adam Parker’s incisive biography is about a proud black man who refuses to be defeated, whose tumultuous life story personifies America’s continuing civil rights struggle.

Georgia Author of the Year, nominee
Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing, Finalist

In this powerful debut memoir, Neesha Powell-Ingabire chips away at coastal Georgia’s facade of beaches and golden marshes to recover undertold Black history alongside personal and family stories.

In May of 2020, Neesha Powell-Ingabire’s hometown became infamous after a viral video spread of white vigilantes killing a Black man named Ahmaud Arbery. The small coastal city of Brunswick, Georgia became synonymous with this tragedy, which, along with the police murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, spurred an international movement that summer to end white supremacy.

Neesha Powell-Ingabire, a millennial journalist, essayist, and organizer, grew up in Brunswick feeling alienated as a Black queer and disabled girl in a fraught racial and political environment. Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast traces the genealogy of systemic racial violence while paying homage to the area’s long history of Black resistance and culture keeping. Powell-Ingabire probes her personal connection to past and present: the victorious campaign to remove Brunswick’s Confederate monument out of a public park, modern echoes of ancestral practices such as farming, fishing, and basket weaving, the fight for Geechee land in Sapelo Island, and the mass suicide of the Igbo people, who drowned themselves in Dunbar Creek rather than be enslaved.

In Come By Here, Neesha Powell-Ingabire reckons with their home’s collective history and their own history as a truth-telling exercise in line with Audre Lorde’s advice: “It is better to speak.”

All Of Us Together In The End is a lyrical examination of transformation after loss, by a writer the New York Times calls "irresistible" and "utterly convincing."

Vollmer’s family memoir shimmers with wonder and enchantment and begins with the death of his mother from early-onset Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Soon after, flashing lights and floating orbs appear in the woods surrounding his family’s home in rural North Carolina, where his widowed father lives. Formative memories of having been raised in the Seventh-day Adventist church resurge in Vollmer’s mind, hastening self-reexamination and reckoning.

He corresponds with a retired geology professor about “ghost lights,” which supposedly occur more in North Carolina than any other American state. He scrolls TikTok. He contacts an eccentric shaman who lives in Spain to have transcendental psychotherapy administered over Zoom. And then Jolene emerges, a woman endeared for decades to Vollmer’s father, holding secrets to their family’s past.

Amidst the turmoil and loneliness of the pandemic, All of Us Together in the End is a poignant and often humorous investigation into belief set in a time where it seems people will believe anything. It is an elegiac affirmation of the awesome, strange, otherworldly ways our loved ones remain alive to us, even when they are out of reach.

In 130 ink-and-watercolor drawings, the story of one year on a family farm in Kentucky unfolds in captured moments of daily life: Donahue chopping wood, a cow sniffing her head, her daughter tending to goats after a hard day at school. Each visual is paired with a written reflection on the day’s doings, interwoven with the longer-arc history of her family, the farm, and their community. In telling the story of a farm family’s struggle to survive and thrive, Landings grapples with the legacy of our cultural divide between art and land, and celebrates the beauty discovered along the way.

La autobiografía de Isabel Preysler.

Como nunca lo había hecho, Isabel Preysler escribe sus memorias para romper de una vez por todas con los falsos mitos que desde hace años circulan sobre ella. En Mi verdadera historia, Isabel nos descubre no solo su mundo, también una época sorprendente de España de la que fue protagonista muchas veces de forma involuntaria.

Con la elegancia que le caracteriza, recorre con sinceridad los diferentes capítulos de su pasado, desde su infancia en Filipinas hasta los grandes amores que marcaron su destino.

Valiente, autocrítica, tolerante, divertida y, sobre todo, defensora a ultranza de la libertad individual, expone su manera de ser y de vivir, y relata los momentos decisivos de su vida que la han convertido en la mujer que es hoy.

A través de su propia voz, descubriremos a una mujer que siempre luchó por su independencia y que se siente en paz con su presente. Y conoceremos los hitos de su biografía desde un ángulo tan íntimo que impactará a los lectores.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The autobiography of Isabel Preysler.

Like never before, Isabel Preysler writes her memoirs to finally break the false myths that have circulated about her for years. In Mi verdadera historia (My True Story), Isabel reveals not only her world but also a surprising era of Spain of which she was often an involuntary protagonist.

With her characteristic elegance, she candidly revisits the different chapters of her past, from her childhood in the Philippines to the great loves that marked her destiny.

Brave, self-critical, tolerant, witty, and above all a staunch defender of individual freedom, she exposes her way of being and living, and recounts the decisive moments of her life that made her the woman she is today.

Through her own voice we discover a woman who always fought for her independence and who feels at peace with her present. And we learn the milestones of her biography from such an intimate angle that it will move readers.

Una crónica familiar y personal, contada por el último heredero.

En el corazón del Renacimiento, los Medici forjaron un legado que transformó el arte, la ciencia y la política en Europa. Lorenzo de' Medici, su descendiente directo, nos abre las puertas a su historia, compartiendo secretos jamás contados y reflexiones sobre el peso de su herencia. Entre intrigas, alianzas y mecenazgo, este libro es un viaje fascinante por la dinastía que definió una era.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A family and personal chronicle, told by the last heir.

At the heart of the Renaissance, the Medici forged a legacy that transformed art, science, and politics in Europe. Lorenzo de' Medici, a direct descendant, opens the doors to his story, sharing never-before-told secrets and reflections on the weight of his inheritance. Amid intrigues, alliances, and patronage, this book is a fascinating journey through the dynasty that defined an era.

• Witnesses her father prepare and perform the ritual seppuku and her mother burn down the family home
• Bids an emotional farewell and sails across the ocean to marry a wealthy merchant in a new land
• Returns to Tokyo with her two daughters and mother-in-law, only to find her homeland just as alien as America, forcing her to reinvent herself again in order to provide for her family
• Returns to America with her children following the death of her mother-in-law

• Memories — An autobiographical tale in which Dazai relates episodes from his own childhood and adolescence, showing his relationship with his family and his tendency towards introspection and self-dramatization


• On the Question of Apparel — A comic tour-de-force in which Dazai examines the hold that fashion has over him and how it relates to his own pathetic self-image


• A Poor Man's Got His Pride — A retelling of a story by 18th-century master of burlesque fiction Ihara Saikaku, about a fallen samurai who lives in poverty


• The Sound of Hammering — A love story set against the backdrop of the rebuilding of Tokyo after the city was totally destroyed during World War Two


• And sixteen other stories!

• Witnesses her father prepare and perform ritual seppuku, and her mother burn down the ancestral home
• Bids an emotional farewell and sails across the ocean to marry a wealthy merchant in a new land
• Returns to Tokyo with her two daughters and mother-in-law, only to find her homeland as alien as America, forcing her to reinvent herself to provide for her family
• Eventually returns to America with her children after the death of her mother-in-law

• Chronology of the Life of Bruce Lee
• Early Years—why he began studying gung fu (kung fu) and took up wing chun, his first starring role, and his return to the US
• Hollywood—why he got the part in The Green Hornet, teaching Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Stirling Silliphant, filming Enter the Dragon, The Way of the Dragon, Fist of Fury and more, training and acting with Chuck Norris, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dean Martin and Sharon Tate, and the creation of Jeet Kune Do (JKD)
• Family—meeting Linda, having children and daily life

Todo lo que va a cambiar y todo lo que no va a cambiar en la Iglesia católica.

El 21 de abril de 2025 falleció el papa Francisco, dejando a la Iglesia en una encrucijada. Amado y cuestionado por sus reformas, su muerte dio lugar a un cónclave sin favoritos claros y con tensiones geopolíticas latentes.

En León XIV, Mario Escobar analiza el legado de Francisco y el desafío que enfrenta su sucesor: liderar una Iglesia sacudida por escándalos, fracturas internas y la necesidad urgente de renovación. Un ensayo sobre el poder, la fe y el futuro del papado en el siglo XXI. Este lúcido ensayo explora los desafíos a los que se enfrenta Robert Prevost, elegido en un contexto de crisis institucional, escándalos sin resolver y una creciente pugna entre renovación y conservadurismo.

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Everything that will change and everything that will remain the same in the Catholic Church.

On April 21, 2025, Pope Francis died, leaving the Church at a crossroads. Loved and contested for his reforms, his death led to a conclave with no clear favorites and underlying geopolitical tensions.

In León XIV (Leo XIV), Mario Escobar examines Francis’s legacy and the challenge facing his successor: to lead a Church shaken by scandals, internal fractures, and an urgent need for renewal. This essay on power, faith, and the future of the papacy in the twenty-first century lucidly explores the challenges confronting Robert Prevost, chosen amid institutional crisis, unresolved scandals, and a growing struggle between renewal and conservatism.

Gumption is a stirring invitation to rise.

Through intimate storytelling and spiritual insight, Sabine Kvenberg takes people on her transformative journey—one marked by joy, heartbreak, intuition, and bold acts of becoming. What begins as the story of an ordinary woman unfolds into a sacred path of listening deeply, choosing courage, and stepping into the extraordinary.

Guided by whispers from within and a deep faith in something greater, Sabine reveals how a life of meaning isn’t reserved for celebrities or the chosen few—it’s available to anyone brave enough to act on the quiet nudges of the soul.

Each chapter weaves personal narrative with timeless wisdom, offering moments of reflection, empowerment, and the kind of inspiration that sparks real change. Whether someone is seeking clarity, healing, or the courage to take their next bold move, Gumption will meet them where they are—and call them into who they were meant to become.

More than just a memoir, Gumption is a companion for one’s own sacred journey of transformation.

Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was Canada’s tenth and longest serving prime minister and an important figure on the international scene, especially during the Second World War. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Mackenzie King.

El libro que Mark Zuckerberg trató de silenciar... Y probablemente con buen criterio.

Sarah Wynn Williams, una joven diplomática neozelandesa, decidió en 2009 dar un giro a su carrera y postularse a un trabajo en Facebook, la empresa que por aquel entonces prometía cambiar el mundo… a mejor. Pero, al escalar en la jerarquía, se dio cuenta del tremendo error cometido. Este libro, una comedia disparatada con tintes trágicos, da cuenta de la vida en las más altas esferas y de la mentalidad despiadada que ha gobernado las grandes empresas tecnológicas. Escrita en forma de memorias, narra situaciones absurdas vividas por la protagonista mientras Facebook intenta expandirse alrededor del mundo: desde escenas cómicas con la Gallina Caponata en las bambalinas de un festival, hasta las terribles matanzas en Myanmar provocadas por la obsesión de Meta por crecer sin parar.

Este libro es ante todo una mirada privilegiada al mundo de los tecnooligarcas y un retrato despiadado y certero de la hipocresía, insensatez y ligereza con la que se toman las grandes decisiones que condicionan la vida de miles de millones de personas.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The book Mark Zuckerberg tried to silence... And probably for good reason.

Sarah Wynn Williams, a young New Zealand diplomat, decided in 2009 to pivot her career and apply for a job at Facebook, the company that at the time promised to change the world—for the better. But as she climbed the ranks, she realized the magnitude of her mistake. This book, a madcap comedy with tragic undertones, offers an inside look at life at the highest levels and the ruthless mindset that has governed big tech companies. Written as a memoir, it recounts absurd situations the protagonist experienced while Facebook tried to expand across the globe: from comic scenes with Big Bird backstage at a festival to the horrific massacres in Myanmar driven by Meta’s obsession with relentless growth.

Above all, this book is a privileged look at the world of the techno-oligarchs and a blunt, incisive portrait of the hypocrisy, foolishness, and carelessness with which major decisions are made—decisions that shape the lives of billions of people.

This book is dedicated to the memory of the departed descendants of John Glasse of Taunton, Somerset, England, who braved the dangers of a transatlantic crossing in the early 1600s in search of religious liberty and a safer more prosperous life, who wrested an existence from the forests and rocky hills of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont, who traveled the Great Lakes region in search of arable land to sustain growing families, who fought in the Civil War for the Union, who followed the expansion of the transcontinental railroad that opened the West, and who labored in the emerging trades of the early 20th Century, so that we, the living descendants of John Glasse can enjoy the safety, comforts, and peace of the 21st Century. May we, the living, do as well by our descendants.

"The Evolution of Fire is stunningly written—vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on."—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year

From the celebrated author of Limber, a luminous collection of essays about crisis, hope, and the decision to resist or embrace evolution—a book about time, for our time.

Crisis is an agent of evolution, and Angela Pelster knows what it means to evolve. As a child, she burned grass to keep weeds at bay and watched tadpoles transform. She basked in the warmth of her father’s love but was burned by his rage, and she witnessed a sudden, unnamable change occur in her older sister after an encounter with a stranger in a white van. In adulthood, she survived the explosion of her marriage, the destruction of her burning home, and a year spent as the single mother of a toddler without a home of their own. And like us all, she has weathered the upheaval of our current atmosphere—political instability, climate change, mass extinction.

But in spite of the world’s violence, Pelster manages to remain open to its beauty, deciding not to resist change, but to give herself over to it and let evolution make her into a new animal. She plumbs the depths of ancestral knowledge to uncover the scale of our ancient capacity for adaptation, from humankind’s early harnessing of fire to the grandmothers responsible for our continued existence.

Meditative and curious, pulsing with fascination, fear, and the untamable human spirit, The Evolution of Fire contemplates who we are now and what we still might become. 

Paul M. Sweezy was one of the greatest Marxist political economists of the twentieth century. Born in 1910, his upbringing during the Depression deepened his understanding of capitalism, especially its tendency toward stagnation—the inability of capitalist economies to generate sufficient capital investment to make use of abundant resources, much less produce a harmonious social order. During the Second World War Sweezy taught at Harvard, and doubled as an intelligence officer—until it became clear that his political views would prohibit a future in any mainstream arena. Leaving Harvard, in the midst of the Red Scare, Sweezy boldly co-founded what is North America’s most distinguished and enduring Socialist magazine, Monthly Review, where he remained until his death in 2004.

In Amos Cecchi's Monopoly Finance and the Crisis of Capital—published for the first time in English—readers are given a comprehensive examination of Sweezy’s massive body of work prior to, and throughout, his many decades at Monthly Review. Each of Sweezy’s major works is given a careful reading, from his seminal interpretation of Marxian economics, The Theory of Capitalist Development, to his pathbreaking study of the impact of monopolized markets, Monopoly Capital, written with Paul Baran, to his pioneering analysis of the financialization of capitalism, written with Harry Magdoff. Cecchi also explores the various exchanges Sweezy had with other political economists, along with those who influenced his thinking, including Maurice Dobb, Charles Bettelheim, Rudolf Hilferding, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and Josef Steindl—as well as several of the political economists who were, in turn, greatly influenced by Sweezy. Throughout, the author highlights the importance and timeliness of Sweezy’s open and creative Marxist approach particularly in terms of his view of “the present as history.”

Temple Grandin is the most famous person with autism in the world. Whether you know her from the HBO movie, Temple Grandin, her decades of work in the meat and cattle industry, or her unmatched contribution to the autism world, surely you know a thing or two about Temple. Well, prepare to meet a whole new side of her in Temple Grandin: The Stories I Tell My Friends. Temple’s close friend and author, Anita Lesko, conducts personal and unique interviews that include chapters such as:

• Filming of the HBO Movie, Temple Grandin, with Clare Danes
• Crazy Funny Stuff and Childhood Memories
• Thrilling Events in Temple’s Life
• Work Hard to Succeed
• Temple’s Big Message

And so much more!

In these pages, witness the moments that made her laugh (and cry!), meet those closest to her, and even take a glimpse into her seventieth birthday party. Discover Temple’s “big message” and her ideas about what makes the biggest difference for children with autism. Lesko has created a truly personal, unique look into the mind and life of Temple Grandin. This is a story you don’t want to miss.

Helpful chapters include:

• Leave My Home for a Home
• Interesting Associations in the Home
• I Re-Enter the World
• Discovering Autism
• What Autism Is To Me
• Professionals and More Ideas on Autism
   

From her troubled teenage years in a state institution where her coping behaviors were interpreted as defiant and oppositional, to her years in a Christian community where her behaviors were misunderstood, to a brief marriage and the birth of her three sons, Judy has emerged as a strong voice on the autism spectrum. This book reveals Endow's resilience, courage, hard work, and sheer willpower. Paper Words: Discovering and Living With My Autism shows visually on the printed page how Endow, a highly visual thinker, translates her thoughts into words. 

EL LIBRO MÁS ESPERADO DEL AÑO

Las memorias en primera persona de Su Majestad el Rey Don Juan Carlos.

«Mi padre siempre me aconsejó que no escribiera mis memorias. Los reyes no se confiesan. Y menos, públicamente. Sus secretos permanecen sepultados en la penumbra de los palacios. ¿Por qué le desobedezco hoy? ¿Por qué he cambiado de opinión? Porque siento que me roban mi historia». Esta obra, escrita en primera persona y cuya publicación es en sí un acontecimiento histórico, viene, en efecto, a reparar esa situación. Si Su Majestad ha decidido dar cuenta de su historia después de casi cuarenta años de reinado, es porque el traslado a Abu Dabi, parte de la opinión publicada y, por qué no, los propios errores han acabado por ensombrecer su trayectoria y sus aportaciones fundamentales al éxito de la democracia española.

Reconciliación relata en detalle la parte privada de una vida pública. Son unas memorias ricas en anécdotas que no eluden los episodios más significativos de nuestra historia reciente, pero tampoco las alegrías ni los malos momentos de su vida íntima y personal. Un recorrido que empieza en un país inmerso en una guerra cainita y con un joven Juan Carlos anclado a un destino que no le pertenece, pero que paso a paso, eludiendo mil complots y ganándose la confianza de unos y otros, acaba convirtiéndose en el actor principal de la transformación radical de España en el estado moderno y próspero que es hoy.

Escrita a corazón abierto y sin concesiones, la obra navega entre los dos exilios que marcan el principio y final de su vida —el obligado, en Estoril, y el voluntario, en Abu Dabi— y por ella transitan muchos de los protagonistas más destacados de la historia contemporánea. El monarca, en el crepúsculo de su vida y lejos de su familia, se dispone a hacer su última confesión. «No tengo derecho a llorar», dice. Pero tiene derecho a buscar su anhelada reconciliación con el país que tanto ama y añora.

THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR

The first-person memoirs of His Majesty King Juan Carlos.

“My father always advised me not to write my memoirs. Kings do not confess. Especially not in public. Their secrets remain buried in the shadows of palaces. Why do I disobey him now? Why have I changed my mind? Because I feel my story is being stolen from me.” This work, written in the first person and whose publication is itself a historic event, seeks to set the record straight. If His Majesty has chosen to tell his story after nearly forty years of reign, it is because the move to Abu Dhabi, part of the published opinion, and—why not—his own mistakes have cast a shadow over his legacy and his fundamental contributions to the success of Spanish democracy.

Reconciliación (Reconciliation) recounts in detail the private side of a public life. These memoirs are rich in anecdotes and do not shy away from the most significant episodes of recent Spanish history, nor from the joys and hardships of his personal and intimate life. It is a journey that begins in a country torn by civil war, with a young Juan Carlos bound to a destiny not of his choosing, who—step by step, dodging countless plots and earning the trust of many—ultimately becomes the central figure in Spain’s transformation into the modern and prosperous state it is today.

Written with an open heart and without concessions, the book moves between the two exiles that mark the beginning and end of his life—his forced exile in Estoril and his voluntary one in Abu Dhabi—and features many of the most prominent figures in contemporary history. The monarch, in the twilight of his life and far from his family, prepares to make his final confession. “I have no right to cry,” he says. But he does have the right to seek the longed-for reconciliation with the country he so deeply loves and misses.

One of the most authoritative and personal guides to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich.

Written by world-renowned musician and musicologist Vladimir Zak—who knew Shostakovich personally—Shostakovich and the Jews offers a rare insider’s perspective on the composer’s life, music, and the subtle presence of Jewish motifs throughout his work.

Classical music lovers will

• Be transported to the most turbulent chapters of Soviet history, witnessing Shostakovich’s artistic development amid the terrors of Stalin’s regime
• Follow the author’s journey through the Soviet era, encountering major historical and cultural figures along the way
• Discover the depth and nuance of Shostakovich’s musical language, including his coded messages, speech patterns, and stylistic choices
• Explore connections between Shostakovich’s work and the music of Eastern European Jews, as well as broader currents in world music
  

Structured as a mosaic of essays, diary-like reflections, and philosophical musings, Shostakovich and the Jews invites those interested in classical music to start anywhere and follow their curiosity. Some chapters unfold like cinematic short stories—perfect for fiction lovers and screenwriters—while others offer deep insight for musicians and serious listeners.

Whether new to Shostakovich or a seasoned admirer, every reader will come away with a richer understanding of his genius.

'The Gil Scott Heron of his generation' CHARLIE DARK

You've fought and you've run away.
You've danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise.
Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes you wanted to be held.
With all that you've endured, you are nothing less than miraculous.

From choirboy to drag act, grandson to mentor, poet to lover, Dean Atta has played many roles in his life. In this formally inventive, candid and courageous book, he explores what he has carried in his body: wins and losses, shame and pride, pain and joy. Dean also investigates how radical self-acceptance and a willingness to abide with discomfort open up the possibility of a life lived beyond definition: a person unlimited.

A Mother’s Trailblazing Journey to Keep Her Family Together

Pam was twenty-four, pregnant with her third child, and holding fast to a life built on faith, love, and promise—until everything changed with the birth of her son Jonny. Diagnosed at birth with CMV (Cytomegalic Virus) causing him multiple profound disabilities, Jonny's arrival shattered expectations and sparked a soul-deep reckoning: What does it mean to be a loving mother when caretaking takes her on an unknown path?

In the golden light of her hometown in Napa Valley, where family and traditions run deep, Pam begins a journey that stretches far beyond the familiar and leads her on a trailblazing path that no one before her had sojourned. As caregiving strains her family and systems fail them, she carves a new model to parent Jonny—one that refuses to sideline parents or diminish the sacred role of family. She becomes an unlikely advocate, reshaping policy and possibility for children like Jonny, and for the invisible families who fight to stay whole.

Told with unwavering honesty, Grief Grit Glory is more than a memoir. It’s a testimony of fierce love and spiritual resolve—a story for anyone who’s ever had to hold on while letting go. For those who believe families are irreplaceable, this inspiration story is a rallying cry, a blueprint, and a source of enduring strength.

While many have heard the music of Johnny Cash, few know the whole story behind his extraordinary career and the stories of those who helped him attain his success. Marshall Grant, Cash's long-time bassist and one of the founding members of Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two, chronicles their rise to fame from humble beginnings to world renown.

Martha Stewart is one of the most influential and charismatic women in the world. She has revolutionized our idea of what “lifestyle” means and has tens of millions of devoted fans. For years, we have heard a stream of negative stories purporting to reveal the “real” Martha. Yet the real, complex woman behind the iconic image and brand has never come through—until now. Being Martha finally sets the record straight.

With Being Martha, Allen introduces you to the flesh-and-blood woman behind the glamorous public image. Drawing on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with Martha; her family, including her mother, her daughter, Alexis, her sister Laura, and her brother George; and many of her closest friends and colleagues over the years, the author at last shows us the real Martha: an enormously talented, passionate, determined, and hard-working woman who has achieved phenomenal success by inspiring and enriching the lives of millions.

Isabel Revuelta Poo cuenta la historia de México desde la Conquista hasta el periodo posrevolucionario a través de los ojos de diez mujeres.

«CON UNA MINUCIOSA INVESTIGACIÓN, ISABEL CONSPIRA PARA ENTREGAR A LOS LECTORES UNA VISIÓN DE LA HISTORIA FEMENINA QUE NO ES COMPLACIENTE Y SÍ MUY REVELADORA». ALEJANDRO ROSAS

Las vendieron como esclavas; las consideraron santas y demonios; unieron mundos opuestos por medio de la palabra; escribieron sobre los astros, la noche y la cocina; se hicieron pasar por hombres para levantar a su pueblo en armas; conquistaron nuevas tierras, y forjaron nuestro destino casi de forma desapercibida, hasta ahora.

Isabel Revuelta Poo, historiadora y conductora de El Refugio de los Conspiradores, relata la vida de diez mujeres que fueron parte de los acontecimientos más emblemáticos de México: desde la Conquista hasta el siglo XX. Con un vasto conocimiento sobre la historia nacional, Isabel ofrece una colorida antología que honra la memoria de las protagonistas que construyeron a México.

Isabel Revuelta Poo tells the story of Mexico from the Conquest to the post-revolutionary period through the eyes of ten women.

“WITH METICULOUS RESEARCH, ISABEL CONSPIRES TO DELIVER TO READERS A VISION OF WOMEN’S HISTORY THAT IS NOT INDULGENT BUT TRULY REVEALING.” ALEJANDRO ROSAS

They were sold as slaves; considered saints and demons; bridged opposing worlds through words; wrote about the stars, the night, and the kitchen; disguised themselves as men to lead their people in arms; conquered new lands, and forged our destiny almost unnoticed—until now.

Isabel Revuelta Poo, historian and host of El Refugio de los Conspiradores (The Conspirators’ Refuge), recounts the lives of ten women who were part of Mexico’s most emblematic events: from the Conquest to the 20th century. With deep knowledge of national history, Isabel offers a vivid anthology that honors the memory of the women who helped build Mexico.

"A beautiful book, painting the dark side of Jean Genet: those moments that are the most fascinating about a writer."—Bernard-Henri Levy, Le Point

During the last eighteen years of his life (1968–86), Jean Genet was preoccupied with the struggles of the disenfranchised and displaced: among them the Black Panthers, the Baader-Meinhof, and the Palestinians. Hadrien Laroche's book is a careful philosophical and historical reading of acts and thoughts of various political movements in the seventies and the eighties all over the world, and of Genet's experiences and writings. It describes the adventures of a writer engaged with the "real world" as opposed to the world of letters or, as he called it, "the grammatical world."

This translation of Le Dernier Genet (Seuil) considers Genet's insights, failures, and critique of humanism, and examines the way in which his energetic prose forged a new political, aesthetic, and philosophical relation between literature and the world. This is also the first book to address the issues of Genet's relation to Israel, Jews, and anti-Semitism.

The Last Genet focuses on a critical moment in history, but also on questions of borders, language, and identity, offering an alternative to Jean-Paul Sartre's concept of engagement. As such, it will be critically relevant to readers interested in the questions surrounding ethical and political writing today.

Hadrien Laroche was born in Paris; he has written three French-language novels and completed his doctorate under Jacques Derrida, who considered him "one of the most talented and original thinkers of his generation."

A mother’s beautiful elegy to her son lost to overdose.

Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief: a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire’s excavation and documentation of the life path of her son Holden, a graffiti artist who died of an accidental opioid overdose at the age of twenty-one. Beginning with Holden’s death and leaping through time and space, McGuire employs fact, investigation, memory, fantasy, and even fabrication in her search for understanding not only of her son’s tragic death, but also his beautiful life. She navigates and writes across the many blank spaces to form a story of discovery and humanity, examining themes of grief, pain, mental illness, trauma, creative expression, identity, and deep, unending love inside just one of the thousands of deaths that have occurred as a result of the opioid crisis. 

With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose.

A remarkably frank memoir about interdependence, grieving, and parenting as a queer femme that doesn't leave out the messy or the erotic

Staying Power, Zena Sharman's memoir in essays, is a beautiful and honest journey of care work, grief, parenting, and chosen family in the wake of intergenerational trauma. Exploring the lessons and inheritances of being raised by survivors of complex traumas, the book challenges the notion that one must be healed in order to parent well and celebrates the transformative power of queer family-making beyond gay marriage and assimilation into the nuclear family.

The book, which recounts the author's experiences of raising three children in a four-parent queer family, asks, "If leaving has helped you survive, how do you learn to stay?" Sharman finds answers in queer kinship, femme erotics, leatherdyke lineages, and the radical possibilities inherent in doing motherwork outside of motherhood, recognizing that sometimes you fight the thing you want most.

Staying Power is a moving, deeply personal account of one person's journey of unlearning independence through an experiment in queer collective care.

An elegiac memoir about food, family, and the thorns of personal history written by a Ukrainian Canadian lesbian, whose family recipes connect intimate vignettes in which food nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past, including those of a father haunted by memories of time spent in a concentration camp during World War II. The author, both at home and in her travels through North America and Europe, also reconciles her family life with her queer identity; food becomes her salvation and a way to engage with the world. Thoughtful, sensual, and passionate, Comfort Food for Breakups muses on the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of hungers: for intimacy, for family, for home.

Marusya Bociurkiw is a filmmaker and the author of three previous books.

A provocative book by an acclaimed writer-filmmaker that combines memoir and media as seen through a trans lens

Following the death of the family patriarch, a box of newly procured family documents reveals writer-filmmaker Chase Joynt's previously unknown connection to Canadian media maverick Marshall McLuhan. Vantage Points takes up the surprising appearance of McLuhan in Joynt's family archive as a way to think about legacies of childhood sexual abuse and how we might process and represent them. To do so, Joynt stages a series of vignettes that place memoir in the context of other sources, media, and stories to create a tapestry—a montage-like experience of reading with surprising and revealing juxtapositions.

Joynt writes about difficult pasts and connects them to contemporary politics and ways of being, employing McLuhan's seminal Understanding Media as an inciting framework. Vantage Points is a kaleidoscopic reckoning with the impact of media and masculinity on the stories we tell about ourselves and our families, a unique and highly visual approach to trans life writing, and an experimental move between gender and genre.

With black-and-white illustrations.

A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated.

Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia. Yet, as memories do begin to surface, they are seen through someone else’s eyes—the person whose body she stole, whom she calls Ghost.  

Fighting to stabilize her existence, Tara struggles with the gulf between who she was and who she is now, while constantly battling and paying penance to Ghost. She meets Jude, who is also contending with their identity, the gap between who they are and who they present to the world. As Jude’s transition progresses and they begin testosterone injections, Tara’s conflict with Ghost heightens. Ghost’s voice becomes stronger, and memories, buried in the body they now share, of hospital visits, old desires, and her ex threaten Tara’s new relationship. 

She burrows deeper into the mystery of who she once was, recognizing the need to fuse herself and Ghost into one. When My Ghost Sings is a lyrical memoir of healing, a farewell letter, and an embracing/reclamation of selfhood.

City of Vancouver Book Award winner

As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical underworld, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2011. While the plot of the book was wildly imaginative, it was also based on the author's own experience as a sex worker in the 1990s and early 2000s, and on her coming out as lesbian.

How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn's sophomore book, reveals an even more poignant and personal landscape—the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This memoir, told in prose and poetry, offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author's experiences hustling the streets of Vancouver, and the how those years took away her self-esteem and nearly destroyed her; at the crux of this autobiographical narrative is the tender celebration of poetry and literature, that—as the title suggests—acted as a lifeline during her most pivotal moments.

Amber Dawn is the author of Sub Rosa, editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009), and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005). She won the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilivie Prize for emerging LGBT writers in 2012. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Michael V. Smith is a multi-talented force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male—a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; an insecure teenager desperate to disappear; and an obsessive writer-performer, drawn to compulsions of alcohol, sex, reading, spending, work, and art as many means to cope and heal.

Drawing on his work as an artist whose work focuses on our preconceived notions about the body, this disarming and intriguing memoir questions what it means to be human. Michael asks: How can we know what a man is? How might understanding gender as metaphor be a tool for a deeper understanding of identity? In coming to terms with his past failures at masculinity, Michael offers a new way of thinking about breaking out of gender norms, and breaking free of a hurtful past.

Michael V. Smith won the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBT Writers from the Writers Trust of Canada for his first novel, Cumberland. He's since published two poetry books and a second novel, Progress. He teaches creative writing in the faculty of creative and critical studies at University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus.

An immersive journey into the author’s lifelong attachment to video games, revealing how they shape us, shatter us, and give us the courage to start again

Of Floating Isles is a captivating collection of personal essays that unpack the mystifying and often intimate roles that video games play in our lives. Interweaving memoir with cultural critique, Kawika Guillermo explores the subtle yet transformative influences of video games in shaping them as a queer and mixed-race grandson of two preachers; as a traveller, immigrant, and games scholar; and as a father, caregiver, and mourner. Through a mixture of fanciful musing, rigorous inquiry, and unflinching self-reflection, Of Floating Isles reframes the gamer's retreat from others not as social isolation, but as a quest for a different community, one where they feel seen, heard, and understood. This deep-seated longing to belong, Guillermo suggests, forms the imaginative worlds of video games and the floating isles they conjure.

By exploring their own lifelong attachment to video games, Guillermo shows how games can spark rage, confusion, and the desire to escape, but these emotions are not necessarily bad—they are the growing pains that many young people must work through. So too can games provide reflective realms to dwell, to imagine, and to build spaces for queer, trans, racialized, and neurodiverse groups. Envisioning games as forms of poetic interaction, Of Floating Isles boldly conveys their truth-telling powers: their ability to offer guidance in times of loss and hardship, and their power to reveal the oppressive mechanisms of our "real" world.