Biography & Autobiography

Intimate confessionals on contemporary masculinity and neurodivergence from a non-binary perspective

In this divisive moment in the history of gender politics, Alex Manley navigates life as a neurodivergent non-binary person and explores their dislocations from the norm.

Post-Man delves into the ways in which Manley has always felt apart, alone, and othered—how they always felt there was something wrong with them. In adulthood they came to recognize that in addition to suffering from depression, anxiety, ADHD, and possibly more, they understood themselves as existing outside the neat binary of gender that modern society imposes on us.

With this understanding of themself, Manley takes readers through the stultifying machismo of hockey culture, the improbable job of working for a men's website, the strange unpleasantness of going bald as a non-binary person, and more. Heart-wrenching and profound, Post-Man is a book that will make you reconsider your own perceptions of masculinity and manhood.

On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.

This moving and revelatory book is an eyewitness account of the quake and its aftermath. In a series of vignettes, Laferrière reveals the shock, rage, and grief experienced by those around him, the acts of heroism he witnessed, and his own sense of survivor guilt. At one point, his nephew, astonished at still being alive, asks his uncle not to write about "this," "this" being too horrible to give up so easily to those who were not there. But as a writer, Laferrière can't make such a promise. Still, the question is raised: to whom does this disaster belong? Who gets to talk and write about it? In this way, this book is not only the chronicle of a natural disaster; it is also a personal meditation about the responsibility and power of the written word in a manner that echoes certain post-Holocaust books.

Includes a foreword by Michaëlle Jean, UN special envoy to Haiti and the former Governor General of Canada.

Dany Laferrière was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1953. He is the author of fourteen novels, including Heading South and How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired. His awards include the Prix Médicis and the Governor General's Literary Award. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

In his final college semester, Ben awakens to read on his computer screen about the death of his classmate and childhood friend Avi. Avi’s death is sudden and senseless, killed by a drunk driver on his way back to his dorm. Here begins Ben’s story of coming to terms with loss and finding his way to adulthood. 

In the fall of 2010, with his new degree in Moral Philosophy, Ben boards a plane to Israel to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Though Ben has never held a gun, before the next summer ends, he is a trained sharpshooter. His service takes him from the Negev Desert to the Occupied Territories and Gazan border, all while finding "home" at a southern kibbutz where he is adopted as a brother and son. From Providence, Rhode Island to California and at last to Israel where Ben joins Mahal, the special set of non-Israeli-born Jews who volunteer in the IDF, he finds family where never expected, a place of his own in the Israeli mosaic. In a memoir that is both a coming-of-age story and epic ballad, Bastomski’s lyrically told story is intensely personal and ultimately universal.

As a middle child in a large military family, Christine just wants to dance. Her parents support her dreams, even if they seem beyond their comprehension. At 20, determined and talented, Christine heads across the country from Santa Fe to New York City and, in a made for-Hollywood story, is chosen for the London cast of A Chorus Line. While unwilling to fully cut ties with the traditional life her parents envision for her, she finds a new family with the dancers and more fluid, open characters that fill the theater world in London, and later New York, in the ‘70s & ‘80s. Christine learns that one member of her family is equally at home in her new world: Laughlin, her older brother—divorced, a father, ex-military and a corporate lawyer—also makes his way to New York City, where he meets, and begins to build a life, with rising fashion star Perry Ellis. The two men enjoy a partnership and a financial success that Christine both admires. and envies. She spends much of her free time in their Upper West Side brownstone and Water Island retreat. Soon everyone is talking about a mysterious new disease. As deaths of dancers, theater folk, and eventually friends start to mount, Christine realizes she’s in the middle of an epidemic that neither her traditional family nor the public at large is ready to reckon with. As the AIDS crisis cuts closer and closer, eventually impacting those she loves most, Christine does what she has always done: she strikes her own path. This memoir is an emotional, honest examination of what it takes to succeed in the competitive world of New York theater, how hard-won dreams can be quickly lost, what it means to redefine family, and the devasting toll AIDS exacted on a generation of artists.

Community leader and former Manitoba MLA, Kevin Chief shares his story of strength, resilience, recovery, and identity.

In With a Name Like Chief, Kevin frankly and honestly recounts growing up in poverty in Winnipeg’s North End, navigating the challenges of growing up in a single-parent home with his alcoholic father, becoming an MVP basketball star and captain of his university team, overcoming his own alcohol addiction to find recovery, and being elected to the Manitoba legislature twice.

Along the way, Kevin shares how many educators and mentors helped him succeed, as well as insights into how the Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe have guided his addiction recovery and helped him gain a sense of his identity.

This memoir will resonate with readers interested in stories about personal growth and the transformative power of community. Foreword provided by Phil Fontaine, OC, OM.

A look at the turbulent, triumphant life of one of rock and roll’s foremost icons

Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks is a musical visionary, a poet and an enduring style icon with a truly phenomenal life story. The Omnibus enhanced Dreams, Visions & Rumours is a celebratory examination of this tale, tracing Stevie’s life from her Arizona childhood, the magic moment when she joined Fleetwood Mac and the hedonistic turbulence that followed.

Crowned 'The Reigning Queen Of Rock And Roll' by Rolling Stone, and with gold and quadruple platinum solo albums under her beaded belt, Stevie Nicks has enjoyed the ultimate in rock 'n' roll success in her life as a recording artist - but this charmed life has come as a result of grit, self-belief and a devotion to creativity above all; hers has been a journey of intense highs and lows.

This biography, a celebration of the Stevie Nicks phenomenon, takes us on her journey from peripatetic mid-West childhood to her explosion onto the music scene as chiffon-swathed rock goddess, right up to present day. Including exclusive interviews with some of Stevie's associates and collaborators from over the years, author Zoë Howe explores the mystique while retaining the magic of this modern-day musical sorceress and wise woman of rock.

This updated edition includes information about the 24 Karat Gold self-portrait collection exhibition Stevie curated in Hollywood, her work with the LA band Haim, coping with the loss of her close friends Glenn Frey and Prince, being a Rolling Stone cover girl again and more.

From aristocratic lineage to convent school, stardom to attempted suicide, junkie to punk, folk singer to torch chanteuse, Marianne has seen her life flash by in banner headlines. 

Researched through over 50 interviews with her family, former lovers and friends, As Years Go By reveals the truth behind the headlines, the person behind the profile. Updated and extensively revised by one of the UK s most acclaimed writers, it is a candid, illuminating account of an endearing yet misunderstood artist.

While a student at Oxford, Oscar Wilde was courting a beautiful Dublin girl, Florence Balcombe, and on Christmas Day 1876 he presented her with a love gift of a golden crucifix. Two years later, Florence surprised Oscar by suddenly marrying another young writer from Dublin, Bram Stoker, the future author of Dracula.

Dutch writer Maarten Asscher uses that crucifix as a fulcrum to examine Wilde’s early development as an artist, from a seminal trip to Greece to his whirlwind tour of America and beyond, including real-life encounters with Walt Whitman and Arthur Conan Doyle. Asscher draws on the complete panoply of Wilde scholarship to supplement historical fact with imaginative reconstruction, including a myth-busting account of Wilde’s deathbed in Paris, and a fictional solution to the mystery of the crucifix delivered by none other than Sherlock Holmes.  The result is a convincing and original interpretation of Victorian history, and a literary tour de force.

From the award-winning author of The Polished Hoe comes this delightful memoir about the trials, joys, and ultimate disillusionment of a small Barbadian boy experiencing British colonialism in the 1940s. Alive with the warmth and colour of the Caribbean, singing with the lilting cadence of Barbadian speech, this is renowned author Austin Clarke’s own story–the story of the trails, joys, and ultimate disillusionment of a small Barbadian boy experiencing British colonialism in the 1940’s. Authentic and vivid, Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack details the life of a boy whose mother struggled against insurmountable odds, yet succeeded in giving her son the best available education. It is a dazzling account of a slow, dogged climb upward in a society whose rigid customs, rules and expectations were imported from England and accepted almost without question by the islanders. It is the story of a boy bent on making his mark in that society, despite the cruelty of British schoolmasters and the incongruity of studying for his Senior Cambridge examinations in a mango tree–his improvised study–in a vast field of sugar cane. Throughout this first volume of Clarke’s autobiography courses his irrepressible exhilaration with life itself, his deep delight in the antic humour of people who populated his childhood, and his unshakable pride in his heritage.

From Manchester to Laurel Canyon—legendary musician John Mayall.  

With a foreword by Mick Fleetwood. 

John Mayall’s story is like no other in the annals of rock and blues. Born in the UK in 1933, he laid the foundations of British blues, nurtured a generation of future superstars and then took the music back to the land of its birth.

This extraordinary autobiography offers a vivid glimpse of Britain well before the rock revolution of the sixties, at a time when young men like John found themselves conscripted for national service that, in his case, included eighteen months in Korea. What followed when he returned was an odyssey of musical trailblazing.

From Manchester to Laurel Canyon and many points in between, John’s account of his long life is both affectionate and compelling – a guided tour through more than sixty years of the music business and its stars, brought to vivid life by one of its undisputed pioneers. This edition has been updated to include coverage of Mayall’s life and work up until his death in July 2024.

Look What I Dun is the story of Slade told through the eyes of drummer Don Powell whose life was shattered when, in 1973 at the height of the group's fame, he was involved in a horrific car crash.

Unflinching in his honesty, Powell deals frankly with the aftermath of the accident that took the life of his girlfriend and left him with injuries that affect him to this day. Leaders of the glam rock movement, Slade were the UK's biggest singles band in the years 1971-74. Their many hits have become rock'n'roll standards, not least 'Merry Christmas Everybody', arguably Britain's all-time favorite Christmas song. For Don Powell, though, success came at a price. Lucky to survive, the aftermath of his accident included alcoholism, financial woes and a life of reckless promiscuity. Now sober and settled in Denmark with an adopted family of his own, Don Powell's story - as told to Lise Lyng Falkenberg - is a no-nonsense journey to the heights and depths of the rock world.

“[An] absorbing study of an ultra-talented country music icon.” MOJO

This definitive biography of Dolly Parton is as dazzling as the woman it celebrates.

Smart Blonde tells the remarkable story of Dolly Parton’s rise from a poor East Tennessee childhood to superstardom in the male-dominated world of 1960s Nashville. With charm, determination, and unparalleled talent, Parton built not only a musical legacy but a multifaceted business empire.

With a foreword by music journalist, David Sinclair.

As the influential drummer from iconic rock‘n’roll band The Hollies, Bobby Elliott has six decades worth of musical anecdotes. Continually touring since 1963, his adventures have seen him beating Keith Moon in a drumming audition, being serenaded by Joni Mitchell while she was in bed with Graham Nash and being offered a job by Paul McCartney to work with Wings.

Covering all such stories as well as exploring Bobby’s personal highs and lows, It Ain’t Heavy, It’s My Story is a funny, honest and enlightening account of sixty years on the frontline of rock ‘n’ roll.

The most authentic memoir of Freddie Mercury—now in the Remastered Series from Omnibus Press.

Peter Freestone was Freddie Mercury’s personal assistant for the last 12 years of his life. He lived with Mercury in London, Munich, and New York, and was by his side when he died.

In this book, Freestone paints a striking portrait of the man behind the myth. The result is a compelling, entertaining, and ultimately, very touching memoir. From their first meeting at the Biba department store in the early 1970s – when Queen was still unknown – Freestone witnessed Mercury’s rise and with it the generosity, the excess, and the celebrity friends who came and went. From the famous names – including Elton John, Kenny Everett, Elizabeth Taylor and Rod Stewart – to the shadowy army of lovers, fixers and hangers-on, Peter Freestone saw them all play their part in the tragi-comedy that was Freddie Mercury’s life.

First published in 2000, Freestone’s best-selling account of his life alongside the singular icon is the closest fans will get to an autobiography of Mercury.

“A full-blooded insider’s account of life inside the Kling Klang studio. This is a must read for the robots’ fans.” Prog Magazine

As a core member of Kraftwerk, some of the most beautiful, era-defining music has been co-composed by Karl Bartos. From “Computer Love” to “Autobahn,” “Tour de France” to Kraftwerk’s 1982 number one single “The Model,” Bartos’s deft musical hand has undoubtedly shaped the contemporary musical landscape we know today.

For the first time, in The Sound of the Machine Bartos speaks candidly about his life in Kraftwerk for the first time.  He vividly recalls his experiences in the Kling Klang studios during recording, describing the process and perfectly capturing the joy, passion and synergy of people composing and recording together. 

At once cerebral and witty, Bartos’s narrative journeys through his post-war childhood in Germany, his sense of wonder on first hearing The Beatles, his early musical ventures and his parallel career as a musician and teacher. Offering a fascinating insight into both a band and a man at the forefront of musical innovation over the last thirty years, Bartos also looks to the future, sharing his hopes and fears for today’s musical culture. 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Our greatest evangelist for American Liberty…He’s a martyr now for American Freedom.”

—President Donald J. Trump

CHARLIE KIRK

BORN OCTOBER 14, 1993 — DIED SEPTEMBER 10, 2025

In THE REAL CHARLIE KIRK, #1 New York Times bestselling author and NEWSMAX contributor Dick Morris reveals the inspirational life-story of a man who made a career out of telling America to “WAKE-UP!” 

THE DAY THE MEGAPHONE FELL SILENT

It was a clear Wednesday morning on September 10, 2025 when the news broke: Charlie Kirk, son, husband, father, evangelical and political leader, commentator and conservative firebrand, foe of the liberals, and friend of many, including President Donald J. Trump, and influential founder of Turning Point USA, had been assassinated while doing what he loved: addressing an audience of students at Utah Valley University, in Orem, Utah; one of the many stops on his wildly popular American Comeback Tour.

A SINGULAR VOICE OF HIS GENERATION — SILENCED FOREVER

For millions of his followers, the shock was not only personal — it was political. It was also a religious moment for many. First and foremost, Kirk was a Christian; a prominent evangelical leader who was making a powerful impact on American life.

In the polarized theater of American politics, Kirk had been a megaphone, amplifying youthful energy for the right, a voice that seemed both reckless and indispensable to a younger generation of conservatives. 

To the left, he was a provocateur; to the right, a culture warrior; to many outside politics altogether, he was a meme factory. But death has a way of stripping away caricature. On that morning, when phones buzzed with push notifications — “Charlie Kirk, conservative activist, dies at 31” — the question was not only how he died, but what would die with him? Who would lead Turning Point USA? And, who was this man who died so young? Where did he come from? What did he believe in? How did he rise so far, so quickly? And why did his words, passion, beliefs, love of country, and growing grass-roots movement to get people to think for themselves and fight for their freedom, enrage so many and incite such hatred that ended in his murder? 

In THE REAL CHARLIE KIRK, Morris puts Charlie Kirk’s life and times into political and religious context, his impact on America galvanizing the youth vote to twice elect Donald J Trump to the presidency, and how he embraced the role of passionate proponent of a Christian lifestyle of marriage and family. The book will help anyone learn more about Kirk’s life, his youth movement, rise to leadership, deeply felt Christian Faith, patriotism, conservative belief-system and how he changed America:

• American beginnings – the Education of a Young Conservative Activist
• Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk’s Revolution
• From the Campus to the White House 
• Why Christ was EVERYTHING to Charlie
• The Fight for the Unborn and War on Transgender
• His Legacy and Memory – Charlie’s Final Chapter Yet to Be Written

Charlie Kirk’s murder raises questions about what happens next for the conservative youth movement. Do they double down on Kirk’s free-wheeling style? Or does his absence create space for a less Christian, less pro-Trump leadership? Kirk’s death may not shift America’s electoral map overnight. But it could mark the beginning of a new chapter in American politics. 

For years, he embodied a certain mode of conservatism — brash, digital, youth-oriented, and undeniably effective in shaping culture. His absence now forces a reckoning. What happened on the day Kirk died was  not only the silencing of a voice. It was the opening of a question mark over the future of American politics.

Kirk’s death is more than the end of a life; it is a mirror held up to a polarized nation’s soul. A nation is being radicalized by big media, social media activists, progressive advocates, anarchists, and secularists. The grief, criticism, debates over rhetoric and responsibility — all signal that America is facing a literal “turning point.”

The question becomes not just how to remember him, but what happens next: whether the country will choose to heal, restrain the poisonous edges of political discourse, protect free speech without making it a free-for-all that enables violence, and ask whether faith, politics, and culture can coexist without annihilating the empathy that underpins democracy?

In death, as in life, Kirk may serve as both a warning and an inspiration. His assassination should galvanize those who shared his vision. But, ultimately, the measure will be whether America uses this moment to reaffirm its moral and civic foundations. 

As Kirk might have said, this is the moment for America to find God.

A new paperback edition of the most comprehensive biography to date of the controversial Fatimid ruler

An acclaimed biography of poet, pacifist and political firebrand Eva Gore-Booth.

The Irish poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1926) led a life defiantly at odds with her aristocratic origins. Choosing to live and work among the poor of Manchester, she campaigned on behalf of barmaids, circus performers, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses, her partner, Esther Roper, at her side.

Gore-Booth was tireless in her pursuit of justice. She was a militant pacifist during the First World War, a champion of Irish independence and a pioneering thinker on gender and sexuality. She was also a prolific author, publishing nineteen volumes of poetry and prose that reflect the full force of her radical convictions.

Featuring a new preface that situates Gore-Booth’s life and work in the context of our current political climate, this biography reclaims her place as a significant figure of Anglo–Irish letters and an unsung hero of LGBT+ history.

The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.

For millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured beyond the city wall or village boundary. So how did women claim their place in the remote and lovely parts of our planet?

In Wildly different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth’s wild places. We’ll meet Mina Hubbard, who outraged the exploration community when she stepped into a canoe in northern Labrador. Evelyn Cheesman, who became the first female keeper of insects at London Zoo. Dorothy Pilley, who shocked polite society by donning men’s climbing breeches. Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District Britain’s first National Park. And Wangari Maathai, who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa.

Drawing on interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Wangari Maathai’s daughter and others, Lonsdale recounts the women’s adventures across five continents. Evocative and inspiring, this book shows how women can be ‘wildly different’.

From the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder

Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras's riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation depicts the harrowing realities of World War II–era France "with a rich conviction enhanced by [a] spare, almost arid, technique" (Julian Barnes, The Washington Post Book World ). Duras, by then married and part of a French resistance network headed by François Mitterand, tells of nursing her starving husband back to health after his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to her. The result is "more than one woman's diary . . . [it is] a haunting portrait of a time and a place and also a state of mind" (The New York Times).

Back in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction and afterword by the author

"Mab Segrest's book is extraordinary. It is a 'political memoir' but its language is poetic and its tone passionate. I started it with caution and finished it with awe and pleasure." —Howard Zinn

In 1994, Mab Segrest first explained how she "had become a woman haunted by the dead." Against a backdrop of nine generations of her family's history, Segrest explored her experiences in the 1980s as a white lesbian organizing against a virulent far-right movement in North Carolina.

Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice. bell hooks called it a "courageous and daring [example of] the reality that political solidarity, forged in struggle, can exist across differences." Adrienne Rich wrote that it was "a unique document and thoroughly fascinating." Juxtaposing childhood memories with contemporary events, Segrest described her journey into the heart of her culture, finally veering from its trajectory of violence toward hope and renewal. Now, amid our current national crisis driven by an increasingly apocalyptic white supremacist movement, Segrest returns with an updated edition of her classic book. With a new introduction and afterword that explore what has transpired with the far right since its publication, the book brings us into the age of Trump—and to what can and must be done.

Called "a true delight" and a "must-read" (Minnesota Review), Memoir of a Race Traitor is an inspiring and politically potent book. With brand-new power and relevance in 2019, this is a book that far transcends its genre.

Widely hailed as a stunning memoir, Becoming Ms. Burton is the remarkable life story of the renowned activist Susan Burton.

In this "stirring and moving tour-de-force" (John Legend), Susan Burton movingly recounts her own journey through the criminal justice system and her transformation into a life of advocacy. After a childhood of immense pain, poverty, and abuse in Los Angeles, the tragic loss of her son led her into addiction, which in turn led to arrests and incarceration. During the War on Drugs, Burton was arrested and would cycle in and out of prison for more than fifteen years. When, by chance, she finally received treatment, her political awakening began and she became a powerful advocate for "a more humane justice system guided by compassion and dignity" (Booklist, starred review). Her award-winning organization, A New Way of Life, has transformed the lives of more than one thousand formerly incarcerated women and is an international model for a less punitive and more effective approach to rehabilitation and reentry.

Winner of an NAACP Image Award and named a "Best Book of 2017" by the Chicago Public Library, here is an unforgettable book about "the breathtaking resilience of the human spirit" (Michelle Alexander).

"A contemporary anecdote not only confirms that Martha commanded respect in her own right during her lifetime, but also suggests an awkward truth later historians have preferred to ignore-that without Martha and her fortune, George might never have risen to social, military, and political prominence. Toward the end of his life, George Washington, war hero, retired president, and object of universal fame and veneration, was negotiating to purchase a plot of land in the new capital city, to be named in his honor. The seller, an aged veteran of the Revolution, was reluctant to part with the plot, even to so distinguished a purchaser. Washington persisted until the veteran's patience snapped: 'You think people take every grist that comes from you as the pure grain. What would you have been if you hadn't married the Widow Custis!'"
-from the Introduction to Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty

From the glittering social life of Virginia's wealthiest plantations to the rigors of winter camps during the American Revolution, Martha Washington was a central figure in some of the most important events in American history. Her story is a saga of social conflict, forbidden love affairs, ambiguous wills, mysterious death, heartbreaking loss, and personal and political triumph. Every detail is brought to vivid life in this engaging and astonishing biography of one of the best known, least understood figures in early American life.

After artist Joanne Bloch experienced serious sight loss, she felt called to explore what it means to be visually impaired in our society. Unseen gives both her own reflections and those of 20 other South Africans, each told in the unique voice of its contributor. The conversations and stories in Unseen reveal many hidden complexities. They describe sensory and bodily adaptations, as well as the systemic barriers to basic rights that are built into our society. They show the constant need to counter ignorance and hostility and describe the social discomfort and isolation that often comes with visual impairment. Yet these are not narratives of passive victims. Instead, they are idiosyncratic, compelling expressions of courage, humour, solidarity and resilience. Most of all, they reflect a determination to live a rich and fulfilling life despite every difficulty. 

Arriving from high society England to rural South Africa in the turbulent 1960s, Rosemary Smith is out of her depth. But when faced with the startling reality of her new home, Rosemary joins the Black Sash—the white women-led anti-Apartheid organization of which she would one day become national vice president—thrusting her into the interior workings of a country struggling violently towards democracy.

Pulled from her journals charting decades of justice work, this emotional and engrossing memoir is a reexamination of the ally, a rare insight into South Africa’s democratic transition, and the inspiring true story of a community of women who set a new standard for civic responsibility and quietly changed the landscape of an entire nation.

WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023

THE GLOBE AND MAIL BEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023

CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION OF 2023

Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her father's life, and her sister’s suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. 

Three essays, three deaths. The first is the death of the author’s mother, a protracted disappearance, leaving space for thoughtfulness and ritual: the washing of her body, the making of a death mask. The second considers the author’s father, his remoteness, his charm, a lacuna at the centre of the family even before his death, earlier than her mother’s. And then, the shocking death of the author’s sister, a visual artist and writer living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, who writes three reasons to die on her bedroom wall and then takes her life.

In this close observation of a family, few absolutes hold, as experiences of reality diverge. A memoir of cascading grief and survival from the author of The Incident Report.

"Martha Baillie’s novels are thrillingly, joyously singular, that rare combination of sui generis and just plain generous. That There Is No Blue, her memoir, is all of those things too, is no surprise; still, she has gone somewhere extraordinary. This triptych of essays, which exquisitely unfolds the “disobedient tale” of the lives and deaths of her mother, her father, and her sister, is a meditation on the mystery and wonder of grief and art making and home and memory itself. It made me think of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repair, in which the mending is not hidden but featured and beautifully illuminated. Baillie’s variety of attention, carved out of language, is tenderness, is love." – Maud Casey, author of City of Incurable Women

"This is a stunning memoir, intense and meticulous in its observations of family life. Baillie subtly interrogates and conveys the devastating mistranslations that take place in childhood, the antagonism and porousness of siblings, and the tragedy of schizophrenia as it unfolds. I couldn’t put it down." – Dr. Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad and Sad and Everyday Madness

""Exquisite." – Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of How to Pronounce Knife

"I am grateful for this profound meditation on family and loss.” – Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker

"This strange, unsettling memoir of outer life and inner life and their bizarre twining captures the author’s identity by way of her mother’s death, her sister’s failing battle with mental illness, and the mysterious figure of her father. It combines anguished guilt, deep tenderness, and bemused affection in highly evocative, often disturbing prose. Its brave honesty is amplified by a persistent lyricism; its undercurrent of fear is uplifted by a surprising, resilient hopefulness. It is both a plea for exoneration and an act of exoneration, an authentic meditation on the terrible difficulty of being human." – Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

From an innovator of autofiction comes a meditation on grief, care, Buddhism, and artmaking. 

'This is a story. It is a story about someone accompanying another to the last gate.'

Years ago, Kristjana Gunnars took her husband back to his home in Oslo to die. Through the dark, cold days, she tends to his needs as she feels her own self disintegrating. Later, as she looks back to this slow departure of the man she loved, she weaves together threads from her own life, reflections on the thoughts of Gautama Buddha, discussions of Renaissance art, and considerations of contemporary artists. 

Engaging with thinkers as varied as Ingmar Bergman and Jacques Derrida, Henry David Thoreau, and Ursula K. Le Guin, Gunnars — one of the earliest practitioners of "autofiction" — crafts a new kind of hybrid text, with elements of memoir, lyrical essay, Buddhist teachings, poetics, art theory, and meditation.

The Silence of Falling Snow is a deep dive into grief, the way we circle around it, dipping in and out of the pain, finding comfort in art and philosophy and religion where we can. It’s an intellectual cabaret, a Buddhist primer, and a pointillist portrait of grief – above all, it’s the consoling and invigorating reflection we need in this moment.

WINNER OF THE 2025 CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR MEMOIR

NOMINEE FOR THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2025 BOOK AWARD

A stolen sign, ‘No Jews Live Here,’ kept John Lorinc’s Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.

From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations of his Hungarian Jewish family's journey through the Holocaust, the 1956 Revolution, and finally exodus from a country that can't rid itself of its antisemitic demons.

This braided saga centers on the writer's eccentric and defiant grandmother, a consummate survivor who, with her love of flashy jewellery and her vicious tongue, was best appreciated from afar. Lorinc also traces the stories of both his grandfathers and his father, all of whom fell victim, in different ways, to the Nazis’ genocidal campaign to rid Europe of Jews.

This is a deeply reported but profoundly human telling of a vile part of history, told through Lorinc’s distinctively astute and compassionate consideration of how cities and cultures work. Set against the complicated and poorly understood background of Hungary's Jewish community, No Jews Live Here is about family stories, and how the narratives of our lives are shaped by our times and historical forces over which we have no control.

"John Lorinc weaves Hungarian history with the equally fascinating history of his own family to tell a deeply researched story with universal resonance: how events, enormous and seemingly tiny (a genocidal war, foggy skies), conspire to create outcomes with life-and-death implications through generations." – Marsha Lederman, author of Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

From one of Sweden's most loved authors, an essayistic memoir about women and food, translated by Saskia Vogel.

Bread and Milk traces a life through food, from a bag of tangerines devoured in one sitting to the luxury of a grandmother’s rice pudding, from pancakes meant to make up for a mother’s absence to perfectly sliced tomatoes winning, at last, a distant father’s approval; it explores how food can fill an emptiness but also consume you. After all, what we eat is inexorably intertwined with how we love.

In this radiant memoir, one of Sweden’s most acclaimed writers considers the complex relationships between the women in her family as they struggle with financial and emotional vulnerability, and how those relationships replicate themselves in fraught and obsessive relationships with food. Bread and Milk is at once wholly original and a natural extension of the brazenly intelligent and personal writing that has come to define Karolina Ramqvist’s authorship.

'If Annie Ernaux and Marcel Proust had a love child it would be Bread and Milk by Karolina Ramqvist.' – Laurel Kane, White Whale Bookstore

'Karolina Ramqvist’s writing is straight-talking scripture, a spiritual text in memoir form. Food isn’t just love or its opposite; food marks time for the mortal body. Food is how people remember the people who no longer exist to make and eat food. Ramqvist's mind is transgressively pragmatic, and a constant source of enlightenment. Instead of saying, 'Look at what you didn’t know,” her book says, “Look at what you thought you didn’t know, but always did.' – Heidi Julavits, author of Directions to Myself

'Swedish novelist Ramqvist’s highly relatable memoir details the problems that can arise when a child associates food with love…The term “food memoir” doesn't quite encompass her profound autobiographical journey…her story, with its lush and evocative prose, will speak to many readers.' – Booklist

Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening

Steacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made them who they are: the Mormon church, an Anglican boys’ boarding school where they were sent to be ‘reformed’ and where they were abused by a teacher, and then, later on, rodeos and bathhouses and mall bathrooms. The world Easton describes is one in which desire is complicated, where men – ‘daddies’ – can be loving and they can be abusive, and there isn’t always a clear distinction.

Easton explores the essential texts of their sexuality, from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick to Neil LaBute, Kip Moore to Lorelei James, and delves into their own encounters as they came of age. These daddy lessons are blunt about the pleasures of disobedience, slippery and difficult, revelling in the funk of memory and desire.

"In dangerous times, Daddy Lessons dares to complicate the question of what children desire, including things that they probably shouldn’t, and that adults must not exploit or manipulate. Except they do. Steacy Easton's meditations follow how such desires and disasters secrete an aesthetic and a self, and how something vivacious can spring from that muck, something like this book itself, smutty and shining and garlanded in jonquils." – Carl Wilson, author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste

"Steacy writes about the queer pleasure-seeking body in ways both fresh and eminently familiar." – Jordan Tannahill, author of The Listeners

"Daddy Lessons is a cocky and tender reclamation of childhood and teenage wanting." – Vivek Shraya, author of I’m Afraid of Men and People Change

One Boy! is an emotionally charged—at times even humorous—coming-of-age narrative. In this debut work of creative non-fiction, Benjamin Maiangwa draws readers into the intimate interior of a boy navigating the delicate space between youthful innocence and the harsh realities of a Catholic boarding school.

The story traces a young man's journey through the tangled terrain of love, loss, and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of cultural expectations and religious doctrine, the protagonist endures betrayal, bullying, and the fragile beauty of friendship. As he matures within the strict confines of the boarding school and the religious hostilities of the outside world, he arrives at a moral crossroads: should he uphold the Judeo-Christian values of forgiveness instilled in him—or yield to the seductive pull of revenge?

One Boy! is more than a story of survival; it is a meditation on what it means to remain whole in a world that so often insists you break. In the end, the question isn’t just what the boy will choose—but what we would choose in his place.

The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's masseur who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of over a hundred thousand people, including sixty thousand Jews.

'Remarkable' The Times
'Extraordinary and gripping' Mail on Sunday, Book of the Week
'Fascinating' Sunday Post

Oskar Schindler is well known for having saved a thousand Jews from Nazi extermination during World War II. Yet Felix Kersten, Heinrich Himmler's personal physician, remains almost unknown to this day.

Only Kersten was able to relieve the Reichsführer of his crippling and chronic abdominal pains. Though despising the Nazis, he continued to work for Himmler throughout the war, using his position to pass intelligence to Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands, and demanding as payment from Himmler the liberation of victims sentenced to imprisonment or death.

Drawing on unseen archive material from Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands and Israel, François Kersaudy guides us in the footsteps of a man who exploited the politics of hatred and fear within the Third Reich to save the lives of over a hundred thousand people, including sixty thousand Jews.

In this memoir of place, memory and motion, Linda Cracknell reels in the hidden lives of the women who went before her, crystallising her connection to them and to the sea.

When Linda Cracknell’s quest to connect herself and her mother to a seafaring family history finds her in a harbour, bracing herself to throw a line, she is struck by the parallel of this physical action to her years-long mission of reeling the past closer to the present, finding her place in a family tree full of mariners and ship-owners, whose lives were defined by the ebb and flow of tides.

She travels the Scottish and South-West England coast – where many of her ancestors lived – by boat and foot; travels on a 121-year-old sailboat; joins a community effort to build and launch a rowing boat on a Highland loch; and lays a family palimpsest in the footsteps of her ancestors across marshes and clifftops. She finds that it is the women in her family who reach across the decades and centuries to catch the line she throws, and begins to understand them more clearly as the linchpins of the coastal communities they lived in, and as the undertow of her own identity. All the while, she is slowly untangling her complex relationship with her own elderly mother.

What begins as a quest for legacy takes her well beyond, as she grows to understand something more elemental and unconscious in her pull to the sea, imagining her blood as salt-saturated, sea-marked.

His girlfriend is horror famous, his own writing and acting is floundering, and he is drinking to make sense of it all.

Kyle Kouri’s debut non-fiction collection is full of ‘whiskey courage’ staring at the abyss of family, writing rejection, relationships, and his own drinking. From hijinks at AWP to hustling in the movie business, Kouri bridges the gap in drama between indie and horror.

At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, The Problem Drinker is the story of an artist living with another artist, yearning to move the needle in his career, amidst a sea of personal tragedies and comedies. If F. Scott Fitzgerald had one foot in the 2020s horror scene, that’s the spirit of Kouri’s caustic and big-hearted, lush and refreshingly candid debut.

An Oklahoma girl’s years of immersion in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery

Girl in a Box: Seeking Enlightenment as a Tibetan Buddhist Nun chronicles a five-year immersion in the paradigm-altering world of a Tibetan retreat center in New York’s Hudson Valley. It weaves flashbacks of Collins’ former life with her ongoing attempts to surrender to monastic life. She travels to India with her teacher, takes vows as a nun, then returns to life at the monastery where she works as a house cleaner days and evenings to earn money to attend a dreamed-of three-year retreat. In her struggle to become a stellar nun, she conducts a one-sided jealous rivalry with a beautiful and “perfect” young nun—whom she later discovers is hiding a shocking secret. She also describes the grueling practice of performing over 100,000 prostrations and her disillusionment upon learning of the imperfect humanity of her revered teachers.

As the underlying grace of those years spent with the Tibetans come into focus, Collins sees that she is like a girl who packs her suitcase and sets off down the road only to discover she has nowhere to go. What she is seeking––the very “home” she longs for––has been right there all along. Hiding in plain sight; masked in a cloak of the suffering she so longs to escape. Overlooked. Because, as the Tibetans teach—it’s too simple, too obvious, too close.

A memoir of adversity, hope, and the value of the Gurdjieff Work

James Opie’s spiritual autobiography is a story of continuous movement. Episodes of youthful right-wing politics, racism, and drug use move into resistance to the draft and Vietnam, and eventually connect with the teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff. Opie even enters the same line of work that the spiritual master maintained—becoming an Oriental rug dealer. There are travels to Iran and Afghanistan, and colorful characters as Opie plies his trade with distinction. Opie moves through several marriages and other personal turbulence. Fourteen years in a Gurdjieff center in Oregon come to an end in 1988 when Opie runs afoul of the motherly but overbearing leader of “The Farm.” But by then he has spoken with Madame Jeanne de Salzmann, Gurdjieff’s most devoted pupil who remained with him until his death in 1949 and for forty-one years worked to transmit his teaching and preserve the content and meaning of the Movements. Opie also learns directly from the leader of the Gurdjieff Work in North America, Lord Pentland. In the end, this memoir-with-Gurdjieff reveals how inner efforts and fortuitous help incrementally make a man more mature and serious, though still remaining a beginner.

A deeply moving account of trauma, motherhood, love, and the complexities of memory and healing by a survivor sexual assault grappling with her lost childhood as she refuses to let her experience of violence define her future. For readers of Jeanette Walls, Alexandra Fuller, and anyone who has struggled to hope, to heal, and to forgive.

When Jessica Teich happens upon the obituary of a fellow Rhodes scholar named Lacey, she vows to unravel the truth behind the young woman’s suicide. As Lacey’s story unspools, Teich begins to detect ghostly links to her own life, forcing her to reflect on her own anguished past. A funny, probing and deeply affecting book, The Future Tense of Joy is the luminous account of one woman’s efforts to free herself—and her family—from the demons of her memory. The book explores the daily upheavals of marriage and motherhood, even as it exposes the treachery of silence and honors the consoling power of love.

“'No one was less likely to take her own life.' That’s what her Oxford thesis advisor said. From the moment I stumbled across her obituary, late at night when I couldn’t sleep, I was captivated. This brilliant woman seemed incandescent. She was funny and gifted and generous and beloved. Twenty-six years old, and a newlywed. Why would she decide to die?"

“Jessica Teich’s understanding of trauma is the infallible authority upon which her tale rests. But the delicacy and nuance with which she renders this story is that of a poet. This beautiful, compassionately imagined book will bring a pang of recognition to anyone who has traveled to young adulthood from a wounded adolescence via the quest for ‘perfection.’”  —MERYL STREEP 

WINNER, 2025 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD, MULTICULTURAL NON-FICTION
WINNER, 2025 IPPY AWARD, MULTICULTURAL NON-FICTION - ADULT (GOLD)
WINNER, 2024 BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD, CULINARY MEMOIR
WINNER, 2024 LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD, INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR - MALE (BRONZE)

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY & FOREWORD REVIEWS BOOK OF THE DAY • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY ZED BOOK CLUB & INDIA CURRENTS • LA WEEKLY BOOK PICK • RECOMMENDED BY BOOK RIOT & ELECTRIC LITERATURE

A timely self-examination of the “mixed” American experience featuring exclusive recipes and photographs from the author’s multicultural family.

As citizens continue to evolve and diversify within the United States, the ingredients that make up each flavorful household are waiting to be discovered and devoured. In Colorful Palate, author Raj Tawney shares his coming-of-age memoir as a young man born into an Indian, Puerto Rican, and Italian-American family, his struggles with understanding his own identity, and the mouthwatering flavors of the melting pot from within his own childhood kitchen.

While the world outside can be cruel and unforgiving, it’s even more complicated for a mixed-race kid, unsure of his place in the world. Turning to his mother and grandmother for guidance, Tawney assists in the kitchen, providing intimate moments and candor as he listened to the tales behind each culinary delicacy and the women who perfected it. Each lovingly prepared meal offered another opportunity to learn more about his extraordinary heritage. The ability to create delicious fare with his family wasn’t just a duty for the grand ladies who raised him; it was a survival tactic for navigating new and unknown cultures, not always willing to accept them at first or even a hundredth glance. As Tawney examines both himself and his loved ones through the formative stages of his life, from boyhood through adulthood, he begins to realize, through all of the chaos and confusion, just how “American” he actually was.

In this contemporary coming-of-age tale, Tawney tackles personal hot-button issues about race and identity through poignant, heartfelt moments centered on delicious meals. From succulent tandoori chicken to delectable arroz con habichuelas to scrumptious spaghetti and meatballs, Tawney shares his family recipes along with the intimate stories he overheard in the kitchen as he played sous chef to hundreds of recipes that not only span continents but also come with their own personal histories attached. Colorful Palate is a tale of the mixed experience, one of the millions that rarely get told, undefined by a single group or birthright and unapologetic about its lack of classification.

Los malos de la historia: Malinche.

«Empezaré por una advertencia. Si el lector busca entre estas páginas una biografía del tipo: “La Malinche nació en el año tal, cursó sus estudios en la escuela primaria Herederos de Chimalpopoca, se graduó con honores, amó con pasión incondicional y desmedida a Hernán Cortés y fue madre del primer mestizo de América”, mejor devuelva este libro al estante. No va a encontrar nada de eso.

Malinche (ya explicaremos todos los nombres que se le dieron y sus porqués) es sin duda la mujer más importante de la historia de México. Ni doña Josefa, la Corregidora, ni Leona Vicario, ni la Güera Rodríguez, ni Carmen Serdán (aunque se enojen nuestros más fervientes patriotas, prófugos de la monografía y mártires de la cartulina) tuvieron el impacto que causó la mujer indígena protagonista de este libro. A su vez, ningún personaje femenino de la historia de este país ha pasado por tantas, extremas y contradictorias etapas de interpretación que la consideran, desde la traidora más abyecta de nuestra suave patria, hasta la víctima inerme y esclava sexual de los infames españoles.

Baste con reafirmar que este libro no es una apología en favor de ningún bando, sino que busca comprender el devenir vital de una mujer tan peculiar como ensombrecida, sin reconvenciones moralinas que dicten lo que unos debieron hacer, pensar y evitar, o lo que los otros dejaron de hacer, lo cual es una tarea fundamental del historiador».

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The Villains of History: Malinche.

“Let me begin with a warning. If the reader expects a biography like: ‘Malinche was born in such-and-such year, attended Herederos de Chimalpopoca Elementary School, graduated with honors, loved Hernán Cortés with unconditional and excessive passion, and became the mother of the first mestizo of the Americas,’ they’d better put this book back on the shelf. That’s not what they’ll find here.”

Malinche (all her names and their meanings will be explained) is undoubtedly the most important woman in Mexican history. Not even Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, Leona Vicario, La Güera Rodríguez, or Carmen Serdán (despite what our most fervent patriots may think, fugitives from school projects and martyrs of poster board) had the impact of the indigenous woman who stars in this book. No other female figure in Mexican history has undergone such extreme and contradictory interpretations—ranging from the most abject traitor of our tender homeland to the helpless victim and sexual slave of the infamous Spaniards.

This book is not an apology for any side, but rather an attempt to understand the vital journey of a woman as peculiar as she is shadowed, without moralistic judgments about what some should have done, thought, or avoided, or what others failed to do—an essential task for any historian.”

With a poignant and inspirational story, Blake Shumate traces the footsteps of his life to deliver a moving debut memoir. Follow his journey from a childhood spent in working-class rural Virginia caring for his mentally disabled sister and factory worker mother to an unexpected career as a co-founder and corporate executive of a supply chain logistics company to the visionary investor of people.

When Blake embarks on a hunt to uncover the cause behind a series of sudden medical emergencies that leave doctors puzzled, his life is forever changed. Once a work-obsessed and ambitious career man, Blake finds his priorities drastically transformed when faced with a life-altering diagnosis. But through adversity and unwavering determination, he uncovers the true meaning of love, family, resilience, and faith.

Prior to his fight against a mysterious disease, Blake had been consumed by the demands of his career, inadvertently sidelining his wife and daughter in the process. But as the symptoms of an elusive multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis begin to take control of his daily life, he must reevaluate the purpose of his time on earth. Realizing the importance of his family’s unflinching support and his faith in God, he asks for the strength to change his ways and strengthen the bonds with his loved ones.

The narrative takes a deeper turn as we learn of his difficult childhood, marked by living on the wrong side of the tracks and a competitive high school career as a champion wrestler that ultimately earned him the chance for a first-generation college education. Despite facing a multitude of hardships, Blake’s determination to escape the clutches of poverty shaped him into a successful business executive only to realize that his true mission was to be more like Christ and invest in others.

Through a series of flashbacks and present-day events, the story reveals how his childhood struggles inadvertently prepared him for the hurdles of MS. As a battle against his own body ensues, Blake embodies the spirit of perseverance and uses the same tenacity he displayed as a child to confront his medical condition head-on. That determination has led Blake on a mission to uncover answers to MS on behalf of himself and anyone else affected by this little-understood disease.

As the tale unfolds, Blake’s transformation goes beyond the professional sphere. He becomes an advocate for those suffering from neurological diseases, sharing his story to inspire others facing similar challenges. Through his bravery and vulnerability, he touches the hearts of many, spreading hope and encouragement to those who may feel overwhelmed by life’s trials.

In the end, this gripping story reveals that life’s most profound lessons often emerge from the darkest of times. It serves as a reminder to embrace the love of family, cherish every moment, and find strength in one’s past to conquer the present. Blake’s journey through his MS diagnosis to find healing in mind, body, and spirit is an endearing testament to God’s power.

El creador y CEO de Amazon nos revela los principios fundamentales que lo han guiado en la creación, dirección y transformación de esta compañía.

«Cuando me preguntan quién, a día de hoy, está a la altura de genios innovadores como Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein o Steve Jobs, no tengo ninguna duda: Jeff Bezos, CEO de Amazon», Walter Isaacson

A pesar de su fama e influencia, Jeff Bezos, fundador de Amazon, ha permanecido a los ojos del mundo como un enigma. Ahora, a través de sus reflexiones sobre innovación, negocios y política, así como el cambio climático y el universo, es posible entender el porqué y el cómo de su éxito. Ya desde el prólogo de Walter Isaacson, biógrafo de Steve Jobs, el libro nos permite adentrarnos en la mentalidad del que es hoy el hombre que ha revolucionado, primero el mundo del e-commerce, para después liderar el negocio de la venta al por menor, el de la producción audiovisual y el streaming, la edición de diarios y ahora la industria aeroespacial. Todo, hasta convertirse en el hombre más rico del mundo.

Crea y divaga ofrece un acceso privilegiado a sus orígenes, su trabajo, la evolución de sus ideas y su peculiar cosmovisión, siempre proyectada sobre un horizonte muy lejano.

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The founder and CEO of Amazon reveals the core principles that have guided him in building, leading, and transforming the company.

“When people ask me who, today, stands alongside innovative geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, or Steve Jobs, I have no doubt: Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.” —Walter Isaacson

Despite his fame and influence, Jeff Bezos has remained something of an enigma. Now, through his reflections on innovation, business, politics, climate change, and the cosmos, we gain insight into the why and how of his success. From the foreword by Walter Isaacson, biographer of Steve Jobs, the book invites us into the mind of the man who first revolutionized e-commerce, then went on to lead retail, film production and streaming, newspaper publishing, and now aerospace. All of it, until becoming the richest man in the world.

Invent and Wander offers privileged access to his origins, his work, the evolution of his ideas, and his unique worldview—always projected toward a distant horizon.

Essays and short stories from a celebrated Cupeño/Cahuilla journalist.

"Johnson is by turns tender and hilarious—as ever. This book is a welcome addition to his loving history of the world as he knows it." —Susan Straight, author of Sacrament

In this moving collection of short stories and essays, Gordon Lee Johnson (Cupeño/Cahuilla) cements his voice not only as a commentator on American Indian reservation life but also as a master of fiction writing. From the noir-tinged mystery of "Unholy Wine" to the gripping intensity of "Tukwut," Johnson effortlessly switches genre and perspective, vividly evoking people and places that are fictional but profoundly true to life. Johnson’s nonfiction is equally revelatory in its exploration of connections between past and present. Whether examining his own conflicted feelings toward the missions as a source of both cultural damage and identity or sharing advice on cooking for eight dozen cowboys and -girls, Johnson plumbs the comedy, catastrophe, and beauty of his life on the Pala Reservation to thunderous effect.

Raymond Boyd, a veteran private investigator, opens the case files of his storied career in Polygraphs and Paper Clip Bracelets. This follow-up to his popular memoir, God Bless Crime: It’s Been Good to Me, delivers a captivating mix of real-life crime stories, humorous detective tales, and personal reflections. Boyd’s approach to private investigation is anything but conventional, blending his love for laughter with his commitment to uncovering the truth.

In one unforgettable story, Boyd recalls the antics of a smooth-talking con artist who thought he could outwit a seasoned detective. Using his polygraph expert skills, Boyd cleverly cornered the suspect, turning the tables in a way that left everyone—from the criminal to the courtroom—laughing. Another tale sees Boyd tackling a high-stakes case involving missing heirlooms, where his ability to read people and navigate complex family dynamics proves crucial. The case’s resolution, both heartwarming and surprising, showcases Boyd’s unique blend of humor and insight.

Then there’s the time Boyd dealt with “wee people”—an unusual case that tested not only his investigative skills but also his patience. The culprit wasn’t a criminal mastermind but a kind-hearted woman convinced that tiny people were following her. With compassion and a touch of humor, Boyd crafted a creative solution that brought peace to his client while adding another entertaining chapter to his life story.

Polygraphs and Paper Clip Bracelets isn't just about solving crimes; it’s a celebration of the human spirit. Boyd's narrative is filled with detective career insights, personal investigator anecdotes, and the kind of humor that makes even the most serious topics accessible. His stories highlight the importance of resilience, whether it’s outwitting a criminal or dealing with personal loss. As Boyd reflects on his life, including the impact of his beloved family and the loss of his wife, readers are reminded that behind every great detective is a story worth telling.

For anyone who enjoys detective memoirs, crime confession tactics, or a good laugh, Polygraphs and Paper Clip Bracelets offers a compelling and heartfelt glimpse into the unpredictable world of private investigation.

"Este soy yo... después de enfrentarme a mis monstruos, de perderme y encontrarme, de decir mi verdad en voz alta. No soy perfecto, pero por fin soy libre. Si algo quiero que recuerdes al cerrar este libro es esto: nunca es tarde para vivir tu vida con verdad. Nunca es tarde para renacer."

UNA AUTOBIOGRAFÍA VALIENTE E INSPIRADORA QUE REVELA POR FIN LA HISTORIA JAMÁS CONTADA DE UNA DE LAS FIGURAS MÁS QUERIDAS DE LA TELEVISIÓN HISPANA.

Más que unas memorias, este libro es un testimonio íntimo y sin filtros de las batallas internas, los miedos, las caídas y los éxitos que han marcado la vida de Raúl González. Con una honestidad sin concesiones, Raúl se atreve a contar lo que durante años calló, compartiendo no solo sus logros, sino también las heridas que lo transformaron.

La verdad muere de pie es una celebración de la resiliencia, el amor incondicional de la familia y el poder de levantarse una y otra vez después de cada caída, sin victimismo ni excusas. Es una invitación poderosa a dejar atrás el miedo, desafiar las expectativas ajenas y luchar por nuestros sueños, por imposibles que parezcan.

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"This is me... after facing my demons, getting lost and finding myself, and finally speaking my truth out loud. I'm not perfect, but I’m finally free. If there's one thing I want you to remember when you finish this book, it's this: it's never too late to live your truth. It's never too late to be reborn."

A BOLD AND INSPIRING AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT FINALLY TELLS THE UNTOLD STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED FIGURES IN HISPANIC TELEVISION.

More than just a memoir, this book is an intimate testimony of the inner battles, fears, setbacks, and triumphs that have shaped Raúl González’s life. With unfiltered honesty, Raúl dares to share what he kept silent for years, opening up not only about his successes, but also about the wounds that changed him.

La verdad muere de pie (Truth Dies Standing) is a celebration of resilience, unconditional family love, and the power to rise again and again after every fall—without excuses or self-pity. It’s a powerful invitation to let go of fear, challenge outside expectations, and fight for our dreams, no matter how impossible they may seem.

New Year’s Eve 1944, Ostrau, Czechoslovakia. As the Russian Army mobilizes just 150 kilometers away, a family gathers to plan their escape.

Hoping that American forces will occupy it, author George Mueck’s father chooses Dresden as their destination. By May 5, 1945, the family reaches Prague—just as the Prague uprising is beginning. Two days later, the Nazis surrender.

The Sun Will Shine Again shares how the Mueck family escaped death in Prague before being among the three million Czech-Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia by the Beneš decree.

Facing homelessness, for George’s father, one thing was certain: they had to leave Europe to overcome the tragic memories and start anew without being constantly reminded of the past. They traveled to South America and finally to Canada, where they settled. 

The Sun Will Shine Again depicts one family’s riches to rags to riches story from 1944 to 1972 and their lives thereafter, making it perfect for those interested in World War II history and stories of survival and triumph after adversity.

In this powerful new biography, the legendary fin-de-siècle adventuress Isabelle Eberhardt emerges as a radically modern figure who lived on her own terms—crossing boundaries of gender, faith, empire, and identity.

In The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt, acclaimed scholar Hédi D. Jaouad offers a bold reexamination of the Swiss-born writer and adventurer whose short life (1877–1904) has long been romanticized, misread, or exoticized. Unlike previous biographies, this book centers the profound relationship between Eberhardt’s writing and the geographies she crossed—revealing how her identity, art, and inner life were shaped not by chronology, but by place. Her story is not one of linear progress, but of dislocation and expansion—where belonging is fluid, and selfhood is constantly rewritten across deserts, ports, souks, and borderlands.

Divided into two parts—“Isabelle Bound” and “Isabelle Unbound”—the book traces Eberhardt’s evolution from a precocious outcast in Geneva to a shape-shifting wanderer in colonial North Africa who lived disguised as an Arab man, converted to Islam, joined a Sufi brotherhood, and fiercely challenged the moral and political boundaries of her time. Jaouad explores how Eberhardt’s spatial existence—dizzyingly mobile, vividly immersive—fueled a kind of life writing that is inseparable from place writing. Her diaries and sketches reveal a philosophy of motion as meaning: to cross into new terrain was, for her, to cross into new dimensions of self.

Sexually ambiguous, spiritually uncontainable, and politically subversive, Eberhardt's life was lived in deliberate defiance of colonial norms and gendered expectations. Yet she remains difficult to categorize—part saint, part scandal, part cipher. Jaouad’s approach, grounded in both literary analysis and postcolonial insight, clears away the myth and restores Eberhardt’s full human intensity. He neither sanitizes her kif-fueled escapades nor sensationalizes her untimely death in a flash flood at Aïn Séfra. Instead, he shows how her lived experience was always tethered to the landscapes she inhabited.

For readers captivated by outsider lives, feminist iconoclasts, and the search for personal sovereignty, The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt is a landmark biography. It lets Eberhardt emerge not as a symbol or mirage, but as a fiercely real figure—forever on the move, and more relevant now than ever.

Aram Saroyan, minimalist poet, author, and son of William Saroyan, reflects on a life shaped by art, fame, and fractured family with a behind-the-scenes view of American cultural life from the 1950s onward, including rare photos and stories of mingling with creative luminaries from Richard Avedon to Marilyn Monroe.

In Before I Forget: A Memoir, Aram Saroyan, traces the highlights of his creative life in Manhattan, Los Angeles, London, and Bolinas. At fourteen he was an after-school apprentice in Richard Avedon's New York studio, taking part in the iconic photographer's fashion and portrait sessions that included Marilyn Monroe. What influences sanctioned his controversial poem “lighght”? An experience after school during high school proves to be an enduring touchstone of his vocation. The son of the beloved author William Saroyan and step-son of Walter Matthau, Saroyan probes the fallout of his father and mother's broken marriage and lessons gleaned in their wake, with memories of his eight-year-old self cast out on the comic sea of Beverly Hills in the fifties. The memoir is capped by two never-before-published minimalist novellas, offering a fictionalized examination of Saroyan's later years. Also included are assorted vintage photos from the author's personal archives.

With sharp intellect and warm humor, Lionel Morrison tells the story of the struggle for freedom in South Africa and beyond, revealing the intimate experience of grand geopolitical shifts

Apartheid in South Africa was arbitrary and ferocious―its end is widely celebrated. Yet the monumental difficulties faced by the movement for liberation and the sacrifices made by ordinary yet remarkable individuals have been hidden in the broad sweep of time.

Celebrated journalist Lionel Morrison brings this history to life, honoring his forgotten comrades. He shares memories as a defendant in the Treason Trial and of periods in prison before being forced to flee South Africa as a stow away, meeting leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement, the heady days of pan-African and Asian nationalism, and fighting racism in Britain.

Completed by Liz Morrison after her husband’s death, Footprints is an ode to community, truth, and resistance.

Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe.
In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity: historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.

A profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders. 

With astute insight and immersive prose, Bonhomme outlines a personal and political history of life in the United States, Haiti, and Germany, discovering what it means to be Black at home and abroad. She unlearns the lies that she was told about slavery and colonialism and explores how communities are resisting the weight of centuries of history.

Whether examining debt, medical racism, art, or reparations, Tending to Our Wounds cuts a breathtaking course between the past and the present, the individual and the collective—identifying the tendrils of history in the everyday and outlining a path to real freedom.

A sweeping biography that opens a window onto the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy.

  Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the emblematic figures of the nineteenth century. Above all, he was the most influential Jewish philanthropist of his time. Today Hirsch is less well known than the Rothschilds, or his gentile counterpart Andrew Carnegie, yet he was, to his contemporaries, the very embodiment of the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Hirsch's life provides a singular entry point for understanding Jewish philanthropy and politics in the late nineteenth century, a period when, as now, private benefactors played an outsize role in shaping the collective fate of Jewish communities.

  Hirsch's vast fortune derived from his role in creating the first rail line linking Western Europe with the Ottoman Empire, what came to be known as the Orient Express. Socializing with the likes of the Austrian crown prince Rudolph and "Bertie," Prince of Wales, Hirsch rose to the pinnacle of European aristocratic society, but also found himself the frequent target of vicious antisemitism. This was an era when what it meant to be Jewish—and what it meant to be European—were undergoing dramatic changes. Baron Hirsch was at the center of these historic shifts.

  While in his time Baron Hirsch was the subject of widespread praise, enraged political commentary, and conspiracy theories alike, his legacy is often overlooked. Responding to the crisis wrought by the mass departure of Jews from the Russian Empire at the turn of the century, Hirsch established the Jewish Colonization Association, with the goal of creating a refuge for the Jews in Argentina. When Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, advertised his plan to create a Jewish state (not without inspiration from Hirsch), he still wondered whether to do so in Palestine or in Argentina—and left the question open. In The Baron, Matthias Lehmann tells the story of this remarkable figure whose life and legacy provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped modern Jewish history.

Vargas Llosa, su otra gran pasión es la primera biografía política sobre Mario Vargas Llosa, premio Nobel de Literatura y uno de los intelectuales más influyentes del mundo contemporáneo.

Se trata de una minuciosa investigación que relata, de manera ágil y documentada, toda su acción política. Desde sus inicios como integrante de la célula comunista Cahuide en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, pasando por su adhesión a la Revolución cubana y posterior rompimiento —por no ser el socialismo en libertad en el que creía—, su tránsito ideológico hacia el liberalismo, hasta la larga y dura campaña presidencial que encabezó en el Perú en la década de 1980 y que no ganó, pero cuyo discurso electoral se impuso posteriormente y, gracias a ello, el devenir económico de su patria mejoró radicalmente hasta la actualidad.

Este testimonio apasionado, narrado por un testigo de parte: Pedro Cateriano, amigo cercano y compañero de ruta política del novelista desde hace cuatro décadas, pasa revista, una a una, a las numerosas batallas libradas por el escritor contra dictaduras de todo signo, sus principales y más acaloradas polémicas y —obviamente— la ardorosa defensa de la cultura de la libertad como ciudadano del mundo librada hasta el día de hoy.

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Vargas Llosa, His Other Great Passion is the first political biography of Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner in Literature and one of the most influential intellectuals of our time.

This thoroughly researched work offers a dynamic and well-documented account of his political journey. From his early involvement with the communist cell Cahuide at the National University of San Marcos, through his support for the Cuban Revolution and eventual break with it—for not being the “socialism in freedom” he believed in—to his ideological shift toward liberalism and the long, grueling presidential campaign he led in Peru during the 1980s. Though he did not win, his electoral message ultimately prevailed, contributing to the country’s radical economic transformation.

This passionate testimony, told by a close witness: Pedro Cateriano, longtime friend and political ally of the novelist, reviews one by one the many battles Vargas Llosa fought against dictatorships of all kinds, his most heated controversies, and—above all—his fervent defense of the culture of freedom as a global citizen, a fight he continues to this day.

Una biografía imprescindible para acercar al lector del siglo XXI una de las figuras centrales de la historia española.

Nadie ha condicionado tanto la historia contemporánea de España como Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892–1975). Sin embargo, y a pesar de su omnipresencia —de las monedas a las aulas, del NODO al debate público—, el dictador sigue siendo un desconocido, oculto tras una maraña de apriorismos, tópicos, maniqueísmos y mentiras. El profesor Julián Casanova, considerado el mejor historiador de su generación y máximo especialista en el período, ofrece una biografía informada y reveladora sobre la persona y el personaje que determinó los destinos de España durante cuatro décadas.

Cincuenta años después de su muerte, Casanova revela aspectos desconocidos por sus coetáneos y traza, para las nuevas generaciones, el retrato definitivo del dictador. Para ello ha indagado en decenas de testimonios, libros y documentos que, con el poso de toda una trayectoria académica y de investigación, le permiten una aproximación tan precisa y novedosa como relevante y sugestiva.

Franco comenzó el asalto al poder con una sublevación militar y lo consiguió a sangre y fuego en una guerra civil. Hasta entonces, había sido uno más entre sus mediáticos hermanos, entre los despiadados africanistas y entre las estrellas ascendentes tentadas por la contrarrevolución. La asunción del poder absoluto modificó profundamente tanto su personalidad como su proyección exterior y su círculo íntimo. A pesar de no contar con un cuerpo ideológico o programático consolidado y de su escaso carisma, su legado forma parte de nuestro pasado más reciente. Hoy, con este relato magistral, la reconstrucción biográfica está completa.

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An essential biography that brings one of Spain’s central historical figures closer to 21st-century readers.

Few individuals have shaped Spain’s contemporary history as profoundly as Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892–1975). Yet despite his omnipresence—from coins to classrooms, from state propaganda to public debate—the dictator remains largely unknown, obscured by clichés, dogmas, and distortions. Historian Julián Casanova, widely regarded as the leading expert on the period, delivers a thoroughly researched and revealing portrait of the man who ruled Spain for four decades.

Fifty years after Franco’s death, Casanova uncovers little-known aspects of his life and offers new generations a definitive portrait. Drawing on decades of academic work and a wealth of testimonies, books, and documents, he presents a precise and compelling account of Franco’s rise and rule.

Franco seized power through a military uprising and secured it with brutal force during a civil war. Before that, he was just one among his famous brothers, ruthless colonial officers, and rising stars tempted by counterrevolution. His assumption of absolute power deeply altered both his personality and his public image. Despite lacking a coherent ideology and personal charisma, his legacy remains part of Spain’s recent past. With this masterful narrative, the biographical reconstruction is now complete.

Conociendo las importantes decisiones que Hitler estaba tomando y que afectaban a millones de personas, cabe preguntarse cómo se vio afectada su conducta por los numerosos medicamentos que tomaba, desde estimulantes hasta sedantes, desde hormonas hasta multivitaminas, desde esteroides hasta belladona y cocaína.

Hace medio siglo Joachim Fest publicó una de las más importantes biografías sobre el dictador alemán, titulada Hitler. Entonces afirmó: «Esta es la versión más completa de los acontecimientos, que incluye todas las facetas de la vida de Adolf Hitler. […] esta es la última palabra sobre este hombre, porque no habrá nuevas revelaciones sobre Hitler que aún no hayan sido de dominio público».

Sin embargo, la desclasificación de todos los documentos de valor histórico relacionados con la Alemania nazi ha invalidado la afirmación de Fest. Entre los millones de páginas, los investigadores descubrieron varios registros que hablaban sobre la salud del Führer y sobre la adicción a las drogas por parte de los miembros del ejército alemán y del propio Adolf Hitler.

Durante los últimos nueve años de su vida, Adolf Hitler, un hipocondríaco de toda la vida, tuvo como médico al doctor Theodor Morell. Los cambios de humor de Hitler, la enfermedad de Parkinson que sufría, los síntomas gastrointestinales, los problemas de la piel y su constante declive, hasta su suicidio en abril de 1945, están documentados en los minuciosos diarios de Morell.

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Given the major decisions Hitler was making—decisions that affected millions—it’s worth asking how his behavior may have been influenced by the numerous medications he consumed, from stimulants to sedatives, hormones to multivitamins, steroids to belladonna and cocaine.

Half a century ago, Joachim Fest published one of the most important biographies of the German dictator, titled Hitler. At the time, he claimed: “This is the most complete version of events, covering all facets of Adolf Hitler’s life. […] This is the final word on this man, because there will be no new revelations about Hitler that aren’t already public.”

However, the declassification of all historically significant documents related to Nazi Germany has proven Fest’s statement wrong. Among millions of pages, researchers uncovered records detailing Hitler’s health and the widespread drug use among German army members—including Hitler himself.

For the last nine years of his life, Adolf Hitler—a lifelong hypochondriac—was treated by Dr. Theodor Morell. Hitler’s mood swings, Parkinson’s disease, gastrointestinal symptoms, skin issues, and steady decline leading up to his suicide in April 1945 are all documented in Morell’s meticulous medical diaries.

A bold, unflinching memoir from the front lines of American protest by lifelong activist Nancy Kurshan. “For readers still trying to figure out what the “new left” was about, this is THE book to read.” —Robin Morgan, Author, Activist

In Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories, longtime activist Nancy Kurshan offers a vivid, woman’s-eye view of seven decades of radical social change. From the founding of the Yippies and the theatrical feminist resistance of W.I.T.C.H., to solidarity work with political prisoners and indigenous liberation movements, Kurshan’s life chronicles the evolution of the U.S. Left—from civil rights to antiwar to feminist, abolitionist, and internationalist struggles.

Kurshan was not just a witness—she was a key player. She marched at the first major Vietnam War protest in D.C., co-organized the 1967 "levitation" of the Pentagon, and ran the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. She was in court for the Chicago 8 Conspiracy Trial. She traveled to North Vietnam in 1970, and returned four decades later as an honored guest. This insider’s account brings to life a half-century of resistance—from the shadow of McCarthyism to today’s fights for justice. Along the way, Kurshan reflects on the internal tensions of the movements she helped shape—especially the fraught intersection between radical politics and emergent feminist consciousness.

More than a memoir, Levitating the Pentagon is a vital historical document and a passionate call to action, grounded in an ethic of humility and truth. As African revolutionary Amilcar Cabral once said, “Tell no lies and claim no easy victories”—a motto Kurshan lives up to in life, and in this captivating memoir.

Includes a foreword by Bernardine Dohrn (Weather Underground), preface by José López, (Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Chicago), and afterword by Pat Thomas (Jerry Rubin/Yippies biographer).

After decades of agitating from the inside, Joe Uehlein concluded that there had to be a movement that could act beyond the constraints of conventional labor rights and environmentalism.

Joe held two top positions at the AFL-CIO: secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO’s Industrial Division, and director of the AFL-CIO’s Center for Strategic Campaigns. He left the AFL-CIO in 2005 to pursue work on climate change and founded the Labor Network for Sustainability, a force in building cooperation among labor, environmental, and climate movements. Standing on the frontlines of climate justice and the class war requires transforming organized labor to include a durable vision of ecological integrity and transforming environmentalism to embrace working-class solidarity. For Joe, art has also been vital in the struggle for labor and climate. With a guitar in hand, his powerful words have inspired audiences across the globe. While sometimes sharing the stage with musicians such as Tom Morello and Pete Seeger, Joe’s songs have become anthems for elevating the plight of the worker and demanding a healthy environment for future generations.

Three Roads is the distillation of Joe’s dynamic strategy of “building bridges and pushing the envelope” to simultaneously unify and challenge the divergent forces that must come together to protect both workers and our shared planet. Joe’s captivating storytelling, passionate voice, and unique life story provides lessons, guidance and ammunition for a new generation of activists attempting to navigate the dual crisis of rising sea levels and the increasing disparity between the rich and the poor. Three Roads is for everyone who desires coming together and creating a just and sustainable future for all.

Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent is a story about loss, economic survival, and three decades of organizing against the interlocking hellscapes of neoliberalism. Jessica Lawless’s memoir is a queer, anarcho-punk history of community care and healing justice.

An original member of Home Alive, the Seattle-based, feminist self-defense collective founded as a response to the unsolved rape and murder of a beloved friend, Lawless takes the reader into subcultural spaces of the 1980s and '90s where anticapitalist concepts of race, gender, and sexuality were developing against the backdrop of the Christian right’s early culture wars.

Digging into their personal archive of pre-internet flyers, meeting notes, zines, photos, newsletters, exhibition announcements, journals, and funeral programs, Lawless explores the somatic impacts of remembering and forgetting. Her attempts to leave violence in the past lead her to the institutional violence of academia, the absurdity of the Los Angeles art world, the crushing poverty of cyclical subemployment as an adjunct professor, and the heartbreak of working in the labor movement.

Reflecting on the past while entering menopause, Lawless crafts a narrative that twists and turns along a winding path, continually rejecting normative conclusions. Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent is a moving account of abolitionist feminist resistance that will inspire anyone who’s experienced the hopes and hypocrisies of leftist activism.

“Soyer's beautiful debut is essential reading for anyone trying to understand how, why, and through what means we construct ourselves.”—Cyrus Dunham, author of A Year Without a Name

Dreams in Which I’m Almost Human is a genre-defying memoir of disability, identity, and desire that fuses lyricism, myth, and medical truth to explore what it means to live and love a body defined by others.

At eight years old, Hannah Soyer had no choice but to undergo an intensive spinal fusion surgery, in order to keep her lungs from eventually collapsing. Fourteen years later, she chose another treatment for her neuromuscular condition: regular drug injections into her spinal fluid. But what does “choice” really mean, and how much weight do our choices hold?

In taut, lyrical chapters, Dreams in Which I’m Almost Human confronts and communes with bodily autonomy, medical and sexual consent, traveling abroad in a wheelchair, caregiving and caretaking, appreciating the natural world, family history, bedtime stories, fantastical creatures, Irish poetry, and the limits and wonders of language and love. A bold collection of genre-bending essays, this memoir is an investigation into what we (and our words) are capable of, as we yearn to make sense of our relationships to ourselves, each other, and the worlds we inhabit.

“The Way Around is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world.”—Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An Exploration

Growing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was imbued with a particularly acute form of our intensely goal-oriented culture. “Do the reps,” he internalized. “Commit to the work. Grind for your dreams.” Shortly after graduating from college, he embarked on a solo circumnavigation of the globe. And then after returning to the States, he threw himself into ultrarunning, all to combat a deepening discontent.

While traveling around the world, it was in Kathmandu that Triolo first encountered kora, a form of moving prayer in which pilgrims walk in circles around a sacred site or object—a kind of “ritualized remembering” birthed by place. Unable to shake this initial encounter with circumambulation, he sets out here on three such extended walks. First, he completes the sacred thirty-two-mile revolution around Tibet’s Mount Kailash, in search of a cultural counter to Western linearity. Then, following his mother’s diagnosis with breast cancer, he returns home to California and takes part in an annual circuit of Mount Tamalpais, tracing a route made famous by Beat poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Allen Ginsberg. And then finally, he meets up with a quirky hydrogeologist in Butte, Montana, and joins his walk around the Berkeley Pit Complex, the largest Superfund site in the country.

At once uncommonly humble and thrillingly transcendent, blurring the boundaries of inner and outer landscapes, The Way Around models what it means to experience a true revolution of heart and home—for the flourishing of all.

From the sunlit courtyard of her family home in Mogadishu to the icy streets of Minneapolis, Life, Interrupted is a deeply personal memoir about migration, motherhood, and the enduring influence of a father’s love.

Raised in a close-knit, multigenerational Somali household, Sahra was shaped early by tradition and by the towering presence of her father, Noor. His voice, his choices, and his values became the compass by which she learned to navigate the world. But when she arrived in the United States as a teenager, everything shifted. As she built a life in America on her own terms, she examined how her father’s hopes and expectations both shaped and confined her and how the love between them, though complex, endured through every chapter of her life. 

Told with fierce honesty, emotional clarity, and quiet resilience, Life, Interrupted is a memoir for anyone who has ever straddled two cultures, two generations, or two selves and searched for belonging in the in-between.

Trilogía esencial dentro de la literatura del Holocausto.

Un adolescente en los campos de exterminio nazis (La noche), el posterior periodo de reflexión en Palestina (El alba) y la historia de amor en Nueva York, consciente de que la herida no se cerrará (El día).

El autor, superviviente de los campos de concentración nazis, dedicó toda su vida a escribir y a hablar sobre los horrores del Holocausto con la firme intención de evitar que se repita en el mundo una barbarie similar.

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A landmark trilogy in Holocaust literature.

A teenager in the Nazi extermination camps (Night), the following period of reflection in Palestine (Dawn), and a love story in New York, aware that the wound will never fully heal (Day).

The author, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, devoted his entire life to writing and speaking about the horrors of the Holocaust, with the unwavering goal of preventing such barbarity from ever happening again.

This is the personal story of the life of Blase Bonpane, a vanguard practitioner of liberation theology and a former Maryknoll priest.

In the wake of the Second Vatican Council 1962-1965 many religious people, especially those serving in Latin America, began to understand a spirituality that transcended sectarianism. Having come from an upwardly mobile Italian American family marked by Southern Italian anti-clericalism, Blase was accustomed to hearing his parents express real differences with their institutional church. He went into the seminary despite the avid protests of his parents.

BlaseÆs odyssey takes us from his high school and college years, through his service in Guatemala during a violent revolution, to his expulsion from that country for subversion. After receiving gag order from the Church, which he could not in good conscience accept, Blase met with the editorial board of the Washington Post and released all of the material he had regarding the U.S. military presence in Guatemala. This action led to his separation from the Maryknoll Fathers.

Blase accepted a teaching post at UCLA. While serving in academia, he met the former Maryknoll Sister Theresa Killeen, who had served in Southern Chile. They married in 1970. Their adventures include working directly with Cesar Chavez at his headquarters in La Paz, California, building solidarity with the Central American Revolution, forming the Office of the Americas, working in the forefront of the international movement for justice and peace, and raising two children.

Blase worked on the ground for international peace in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba, Japan and Iraq. He led the U.S. contingent of the International March for Peace in Central America from Panama to Mexico in 1985-1986.

"Despite my mother’s efforts to tame me, I resisted, holding onto my creature nature until the day she informed me I would no longer be running naked in the yard or showering with my dad. It took a few scoldings before I was transformed from colt to show-pony: a proper reflection of whichever laundered, starched, pressed, brushed, straightened, zippered, tied, and buttoned garment was placed upon me."

—From the foreword of Summer Brenner's new collection of short stories, My Life in Clothes

These stories explore the charm, tyranny, and preoccupation of clothes, on and off, bought, made, or found, fashion or function, projection or expression, body and soul turned inside out.