Títulos en Culturales y regionales

While visiting his ailing father in Sydney, the author discovers an old suitcase thrown out on the street. Curiosity gets the better of him and he opens it. Inside are hundreds of photographs, newspaper clippings and letters, all addressed to Mr Blank. And so the process of discovery begins: Who is Mr Blank? A maverick entrepreneur with the Midas touch, a convicted criminal with impeccable tastes, a publican and theatre impresario, a gap-toothed lover of beautiful women from all over the world. Mr Blank flew above the law and mainly below the radar of twentieth century Australia.

In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town of Tombstone to face the history he was raised on as a boy—gunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboys—for a new, personal confrontation with the West’s foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, whiteness, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and “slathered in murder.”

"Unbound" is an inspirational memoir that traces the author’s journey from being a mixed-race immigrant daughter navigating the challenges of cultural dissonance to her becoming a mature woman who has embodied her worth with compelling honesty and grace. Serena Arora offers a deeply personal lens on the unique struggles of daughters of immigrants, exploring the impact of cultural conditioning on relationships, intimacy, and identity, from the longing for validation to the pain of playing small.

The story of this Bushman's youngest son starts in 1960s' small town New Zealand where life didn't come without its challenges. This true story begins with a lot of rugby, beer, pig hunting and the socialising that was all part of our basic Kiwi lifestyle. However there was me, Terry, different from the rest of my siblings, separated by design and confusing to my parents...

In early 1983, electrical engineer Barry Norris travelled from Sheffield to Japan to help build an oil rig in Yokohama. Each week he recorded his thoughts on cassette tapes, describing daily life in Japan during its industrial boom, from shipyards and sushi bars to earthquakes and karaoke nights. More than forty years later, his son David Norris introduces and shares those recordings in full, preserving the unfiltered voice of a Geordie abroad.

Khadija’s Journey: What Love Is isn’t just a memoir—it’s a soul awakening. Through her story, Khadija invites you to walk beside her from the olive groves of Morocco to the quiet roads of South Carolina, where faith, pain, and transformation meet. This is a journey of healing from childhood wounds, cultural expectations, and the search for belonging—only to find that love and wholeness were within her all along.

There is No Such Thing as a Typical Librarian pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day operation of working in both an academic and public library. It is a love letter to the library profession based on the personal experiences of Steve Antonuccio, who worked in libraries for over 30 years. He spent 20 years at Colorado Springs’ Pikes Peak Library District creating and operating the Library Channel as the manager of the educational cable access studio.

Winner of 2026 PenCraft Book Award for Nonfiction Memoir. "The work offers a welcome wealth of insights into the challenges of living with mental illness. An engrossing debut memoir." - Kirkus Editors Pick Best Books of 2025 of the Hudson Valley by Chronogram Magazine. One cold night in April...

A Universityのテーマは「複雑な世界で、より善く生きる」タイパ・コスパと言った、いかに効率よく生きるかを競うことばかりに注目が集まる時代。

С неизменной любовью, безупречной точностью и неподражаемым юмором Даррелл рассказывает о пятилетнем пребывании своей семьи (в том числе старшего брата Ларри, то есть Лоуренса Даррелла — будущего автора знаменитого Александрийского квартета) на греческом острове Корфу. И сам этот роман, и его продолжения разошлись по миру многомиллионными тиражами, стали настольными книгами уже у нескольких поколений читателей, а в Англии даже вошли в школьную программу.

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

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “There’s such warmth to Dumas’ writing that it invites the reader to pull up a seat at her table and smile right along with her at the quirks of her family and Iranians and Americans in general.”—Booklist In the New York Times bestselling memoir Funny in...

The sons and daughters of slaves and slaveholders attempt racial reconciliation in York County, South Carolina – the onetime heart of the Klu Klux Klan. As they embark on their global journey, they find trauma – and heroes – through the generations...and a path to healing.

Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and the incredible challenges she faced advocating for her daughter’s health in the United States. When she arrived in Texas, Claudia discovered that being undocumented would mean more than just an immigration status—it would be a way of living, of mothering, and of being discarded by even those institutions we count on to care.

Discover the lives of the men that forever changed the course of history! This book contains the fundamental history, early influences, life-changing events, and lasting impact of historical figures such as Moses, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Gandhi, and many others! For each of these great men, you will learn who they were, where they came from, who influenced them, the fundamental turning points in their lives, and their lasting contributions to the world.

Very similar in style to Walden, and in fact written while he stayed at Walden Pond, this account chronicles Throeau's 1830 boat trip. In it, he weaves together travel writing, essays on religion, history, and lyrical poetry, as well as his own unique philosophy.

My parents were born about 56 and 54 years before me. They were born and raised in a much different world, an entirely separate cultural and technological time period. Their 1950’s childhood differs immensely from my early 2000’s childhood.

Early in the morning of 6th October 1957, a five-year-old boy looked up to the skies over the Tunisian Sahel region to get a glimpse of the very first satellite in orbit around Earth, the famous Sputnik. Despite not spotting it, he started dreaming of a future high up in the skies. Little did the young boy know then about his future, and that his life would eventually fulfill and even exceed his wildest dreams.

A powerful diary-style narrative that gives voice to a 12-year-old girl navigating grief, survival, and hope in the shadow of war. Inspired by the power of first-person accounts like The Diary of Anne Frank, Diana Castro brings to light the heartbreak and resilience of a child caught in the devastation of conflict.

Between the Sauce, Stars and Heaven is a memoir flavored with faith, love, laughter, and loss—told by a man who survived 12 minutes of death and came back with a deeper purpose. Raised in the tight-knit Italian-American town of Netcong, NJ, Lou Basenese shares unforgettable stories of his family—especially the wild uncles, devoted parents, and the son he lost too soon. Through meals, miracles, and moments of mischief, Lou paints a portrait of a community rooted in tradition but forever reaching toward grace.