Títulos en Culturales y regionales

Born in West Africa in the early 1950s, Somé was kidnapped at age four by a French Jesuit missionary to be trained as a priest, for the next 15 years enduring the harsh regimen of a seminary where his native language and tribal traditions were systematically suppressed. At age 20 he escaped, but when he returned to his Dugara people in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) they rejected him as an outsider. To reconnect with his native culture, Somé underwent a month-long initiation into shamanism.

In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer with a divided soul.

It Ain't Perfume You Smell: Short Stories of Rural Life: a collection of short stories written while living in rural America. Being a city--boy every day was a new adventure. Now, in one audiobook, my favorite stories for your enjoyment. Sit back, listen, and dream of what is outside the city limits.

Childhood at the Northern ShorePart 1 of the Northern Shore TrilogyOne shore. One childhood. And questions no one ever answered. She was eleven when her mother didn't come home. No goodbye. No reason. Just a silence that split her world in two. In West Berlin, between concrete and water a child learns to carry whatno child should : responsibility, loneliness, and a life that starts too soon. These early years leave a mark, because they were never what they shouldhave been. This is where my trilogy begins.

The Gifted Jamaican Part 1: A Windrush Generation Success Story is an inspiring Windrush generation biography tracing the life of Michael Adolphus Hylton from rural Jamaica to his journey to Britain in 1960. Born in Manchester Parish, Jamaica, in 1933, Michael grew up amid hardship, strict discipline, social inequality, and limited opportunity. Yet he possessed remarkable gifts. He became a highly skilled carpenter and joiner, an accomplished singer, poet, storyteller, entertainer, and man of faith.

Everyone is your friend now. The word that once required an altar can be had for a thumb. For fifty years, David Boles ran his life on one blanket rule: if I know you, you are my friend. Then an actor he calls Curtis said six words in a rehearsal room, and a laugh came out where a sentence should have been, a sentence thirty years in the carrying. This book opens that ledger and refuses to close it politely.

The surgeon left a 3mm needle tip inside him. Under oath, he called it "nothing but a "blur" on an MRI" You've trusted a doctor before. You'll trust one again. Andy Hageman did too right up until an operating table at the University of New Mexico Hospital changed his life forever.

¿Qué tan diferente sería tu vida si fueras capaz de recordar información y aprender cosas nuevas sin mucho esfuerzo? A lo largo de tu vida, probablemente hayas notado que había unos pocos grupos selectos de personas que probablemente pensabas que eran muy seguros de sí mismos, inteligentes y exitosos. Nos han hecho creer que lo que distingue a la mayoría de estas personas es su coeficiente intelectual y que poco podemos hacer para desarrollar esos atributos.

What the Iron Holds follows four generations of the Francom family across three continents and eight decades—from the red dust of Uitenhage in the Cape Colony to the Atlantic crossings, the thousand miles on foot across the American plains, the Black Hawk raids, the polygamy underground, the Colorado River in January, and the quiet Utah bench-land where a family finally stopped moving and started building something that would last.

I grew up in a big polygamist family, the 23rd of 46 children. My father had six wives and our very existence was a secret. We lived in the middle of Salt Lake City in a big white house on Fifth East, with neighbors to the north and south of us and yet we remained utterly hidden. Homeschooled and cut off rom the world, that secrecy was a breeding ground for abuse. While my father was gone to work during the day, his third wife, Mother Kay, sat at the head of the family, controlling the other mothers and abusing the children.

I have felt the pull of this extravagant wanting elsewhere ... A meal is a shape. It is a container into which we pour our cravings. At 35, after the end of a 13-year relationship, food journalist Candice Chung finds herself not only losing a life partner, but her most reliable plus-one for...

The moving true story of an ordinary Welsh woman who dreamed of breeding a race horse, and Dream Alliance, who defied the odds to become a champion and brought a community together. Janet Vokes was running the bar in her local working men’s club in the small Welsh mining community of Cefn...

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, award-winning Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story. Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one...

Now an Academy Award-nominated major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara, this New York Times bestseller and #1 international best-seller tells the miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity...

A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work “Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the...

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GILLIAN ANDERSON AND JASON ISAACS "Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love."—Entertainment Weekly A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD The true story of a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. _______ 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The...

One of the first personal narratives written by an ex-slave, this is also one of the few written by a woman. Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) was enslaved, along with her family, in North Carolina under a ruthless master who sexually harassed her. After several failed escape attempts, and several years of hiding, she finally made her way North to freedom, where she was eventually reunited with her children. The book was published in 1861.

Um belo e comovente retrato de uma das ativistas mais brilhantes do século XX, que inspirou gerações de mulheres negras a trilhar o caminho da liberdade e da militância. Inclui uma carta inédita de Lélia Gonzalez escrita aos 18 anos e um epílogo sobre a atualidade de seu pensamento. Cada...

Are you one of the millions of adults who got bullied as a child? The kind of everyday bullying that started in first grade and continued all the way through high school? For years I never told anyone I had been bullied. It was a shameful secret I carried with me most of my life. Then something happened in my early 30's which opened my awareness to the possibility that those experiences were impacting major life decisions. When I googled "long-term consequences of bullying" and didn't find much I knew I would have to chart my own course of recovery.