Títulos en Culturales y regionales

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Mi niño: El alma cansada es el testimonio real de Buenaventura Miranda Díaz, un hombre que recorre su vida desde una infancia humilde en Gran Canaria hasta su madurez, marcada por la responsabilidad, la ansiedad y una lucha constante por salir...

Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller...

Em um mundo acelerado, saturado de estímulos e orquestrado por algoritmos, o que acontece quando perdemos a capacidade de imaginar? Em Uma Odisseia Criativa: Em Busca de Tolkien, Érico Borgo parte de uma inquietação pessoal para investigar como J.R.R. Tolkien cultivou suas fontes de inspiração, construiu um universo próprio e transformou experiências, perdas, paisagens e referências em uma das obras mais influentes da literatura.

Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated," she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes, people were equal, neighbors helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world.

From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In colonial Quito, a young girl observing the world from a narrow window will become Manuela Espejo, guardian of the memory of her brother Eugenio, the enlightened physician who dreamed of a continent's freedom. Many years later, across the ocean in...

A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice. These letters begin with Sowell as a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1960 and conclude with a reflective letter to his fellow economist and longtime friend Walter Williams in 2005.

A beautiful, expansive memoir on food as a vital bridge between cultures, from the internationally award-winning author of Parwana. To truly understand things, we need to know them. We need to taste them. This is a story of how food connects us all - not only at the table but to each other's...

Brought to you by Penguin. Corruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of twentieth-century Sicilian life, as the Mafia rose to dominance; this is the story of one man who stood in opposition. In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history took place in Sicily. The...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland around 1818, and this is the account he wrote himself — not a novel, not a retelling, but the testimony of a man who taught himself to read, fought back against a brutal overseer, escaped north, and...

Once among New York City’s most recognizable faces, Walter Thornton—agent to future film-noir legends and architect of the WWII pin-up phenomenon—vanished from the glamorous world he helped create after a mid-1950s trial destroyed his reputation. A man once synonymous with glamour became a...

كتاب «سفينة الموت: عبارة السلام 98» للمؤلف محمد علي المشوط هو توثيق مؤثر لإحدى أكثر الكوارث البحرية مأساوية في التاريخ الحديث. يستند الكتاب إلى شهادة أحد الناجين، ويروي تفاصيل الأحداث التي وقعت على متن عبارة السلام 98، مجسدًا لحظات الخوف، والشجاعة، والصمود التي عاشها ركابها في مواجهة الكارثة.

كتاب «مذكرات معتقل في غوانتانامو (كوبا)» للمؤلف حسين عبدالقادر هو سيرة ذاتية مؤثرة يروي فيها تجربته الشخصية خلال فترة اعتقاله في سجن غوانتانامو. ومن خلال سرد صادق وتأملات عميقة، يكشف الكتاب واقع الاعتقال، والصمود في مواجهة أقسى الظروف، وقوة الإيمان والأمل في تجاوز المحن.

Book رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان By Ghassan kanfani ... "المرأة توجد مرة واحدة في عمر الرجل، وكذلك الرجل في عمر المرأة، وعدا ذلك ليس إلا محاولات التعويض." جانب آخر من حياة غسان نكتشفه... عرفناه مناضلاً، عاهدناه وطنياً، والآن نتعرف عليه إنساناً وعاشقاً. رسائل الحب التقليدية هي (خطابات غرام) لا أكثر. ولكن رسائل غسان كنفاني لغادة السمان خطابات "إنسانية" تختلط فيها الصداقة العميقة بلغة العصر وأوجاع الزمن. تختلط فيها الصداقة بالقضايا. ولهذا جاءت رسائل غسان وثيقة "عشق عاقل" إن صحت العبارة. وعندما تنشر غادة السمان خطابات غسان لها موثقة بصورة هذه الرسائل، فهي تريد أن تقول لنا أن

كتاب يحكي عن اهم الشخصيات بتاريخ الامارات

تناولت داخل الكتاب مجموعة من مواقف الحياة التي يفترض أن بجميع الناس ،لكن بظروف و حالات مختلفة. و صنفت مواقف الحياة إلى نوعين، الأولى مواقف الحياة و الثانية مواقف بين الأمل و خيبة الأمل.

هو حكايةُ روح تشكّلت بظل أم... كانت الدفء حين بردت الدنيا، والسند حين مالت الخطى، والنور حين غاب اليقين.

Before she understood herself, Tarajia Morrell understood flavor. Born to one of New York’s most celebrated wine families, Tarajia Morrell grew up at the table, where conversation was wine-soaked and food was the love language—a merchant’s daughter amid the Manhattan elite. In this lush, lyrical memoir, the James Beard Award-winning writer traces a life shaped by hunger—for beauty, for love, for pleasure, and for belonging.

El día después de cumplir diez años me partí en dos. Era agosto del 81. Guatemala era un caos político y social. Recuerdo tiroteos, disparos sueltos, combates en las calles y barrancos y hasta uno enfrente del colegio, con todos los alumnos recluidos dentro. Recuerdo al nuevo guardia...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Art Kensey takes you on a remarkable journey through time, family and the human story. Blending traditional research with modern DNA, this book explores how one gene can lead to a lifetime of discoveries. You will meet ancestors who shaped nations...