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As Zenzele, a spirited modern girl prepares to leave home for study abroad at Harvard, her more traditional mother Shiri, finds she has so much she longs to share with Zenzele. Of her own struggles to find her place in the world, of the loves she has lost , of the meaning of being an African woman, of the fight for independence and its heavy toll. Above all, Shiri crafts a narrative bridge of stories to connect with her daughter and convey her hopes and dreams for her future and lay to rest a burdensome and often painful past.

An acclaimed Syrian journalist crafts a vital portrait of October 7, 2023, and its aftermath through the harrowing yet life-affirming accounts of 26 Palestinians.Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like since that pivotal date. In Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Lifea title adapted from one of the flyers dropped on the residents of Gaza minutes before a bombingYazbek captures the raw, chilling accounts of ordinary civilians aged 13 to 65, who have witnessed what history may remember as one of the most savage military offensives of our time.Their stories reveal a nightmarish dystopia, where each survivor has endured unimaginable losshomes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliteratedand many have been treated in hospitals ravaged by Israeli attacks. But these survivors remain determined to share their experiences, and cling to the hope that their voices will resonate.More than a record of horrors for posterity, this breathtaking collection testifies to the power of education and writing, which remind us of our common humanity.

Suge Knight was handed nothing in life. Anything he ever had, he fought for, knowing that he had to take what he deserved. Now in this unflinching memoir from behind bars, Suge takes readers on a thrilling ride through the Golden Age of Rap and the streets of Compton.Back when the streets and the music business mixed freely, Suge Knight brought rap icons such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur to global superstardom with the creation of his label Death Row Records. Living by the rules of the streets, where might makes right and only the strong survive, Suge made his artists household names the same way he fought his way out of Compton, Los Angeles: By overpowering anyone who got in his way.Everyone in the rap game has a story about Suge Knight. Now, for the first time, Suge is telling his side. From his legendary encounter with Vanilla Ice to blow-out brawls with P. Diddy and the night when he and Tupac got shot in Vegas, Suge doesnt shy away from the controversy that has followed him his entire life. He pulls no punches, asks for no forgiveness, and explains exactly how he battled his way to the top. YOUR PAIN IS MY JOY is more than a music memoir: its a candid and unapologetic look inside the mind of the original rap kingpin. Electrifying, raw, and often hilarious, Suge gives readers a shotgun seat tour through the wild, wild west of gangsta rap.

Join an adventurous and charismatic independent journalist (perhaps you know him from YouTube) on a journey through some of the very best of America, reminding us of all the reasons weve got to love this place and one another.Have you ever swapped stories on a porch with Amish snowbirds in Florida? Searched for reindeer with the Siberian Yupik in Alaska? Been a guest on a houseboat deep in the Louisiana bayou?Peter Santenello hadnt either, until after years spent traveling through eighty-five countries and living abroad, he realized the most unfamiliar territory was often his own American backyard. And so, with a camera in hand and an open mind, he began visiting communities across the country that most media overlooks or misrepresents, from tiny towns in Appalachia to the streets of East LA.What began as curiosity becameone story at a timean intimate, revealing portrait of America today. From road trips and chance encounters to dinners shared in locals homes, Your Fellow Americans captures what makes this country so dynamic, so resilient, and most of all, so very human. Because what Peter discovered on his travels wasnt a nation torn in two. He found something more complex and more powerful: people who want to be seen, who are willing to listen, and who still believe were more alike than we are different.With humor, exuberance, and reverence for the human spirit, Your Fellow Americans is a celebration of the United States that exists far beyond the headlinesand an invitation to sit down, open up, and rediscover the soul of this place that we call home.

Real-life stories of mothers and daughters of what we inherit, what we bury and what we, finally, find the courage to say by the award-winning New Yorker staff writer.Beautiful, thoughtful and probing writerDaisy JohnsonYou Wont Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other and for themselves. Aviv explores the complexity of this relationship in seven essays, six originally published in the New Yorker and reconceived for this intimate, revelatory book.Aviv writes about one mother searching for her vanished daughter; another who sacrifices herself for her daughters by working as a nanny for other peoples children. In the final story, a daughters traumatic experience is erased by her family, only to be recast by her mother, the writer Alice Munro, in stories celebrated around the world.You Wont Get Free of It is an astonishing exploration of the competing dynamics of knowing and unknowing, recognition and refusal, that shape our most foundational relationship.PRAISE FOR STRANGERS TO OURSELVESAn arresting work of profound empathy and insightPatrick Radden KeefeCombines the poise of Janet Malcolm and the confessional bravery of Joan DidionVogueProfoundly intelligentGuardian

Philip Gourevitchs unforgettable modern classic We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families opened our eyes to the 1994 genocide of Rwandas Tutsi minority: close to a million people murdered by their neighbours in one hundred days. Now Gourevitch brings us a staggeringly vivid and intimate exploration of how killers and survivors live together again in the same communities, grappling with seemingly impossible burdens of memory and forgetting, denial and confession, vengefulness and forgiveness. A fiercely beautiful literary reckoning, You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know is the culmination of twenty-five years of reporting on the aftermath of the slaughter. The book takes its title from a stark Rwandan adage that speaks to the uneasy trade-offs that reconciliation after near-annihilation demands. Since the genocide, Rwanda has engaged in the most ambitious and sweeping process of accountability ever undertaken by any society. "Truth Heals" was the slogan. But truth also wounds. And truth is always contested. As Gourevitch returns repeatedly over the decades to the same families in one small hillside village, their accounts of killing and surviving, and of the life after, inform and enlarge one another, becoming ever more complex and more charged with significance for us all. These stories are at once as essential and as extreme as classical myths, illuminating the ways that we seek, individually and collectively, to negotiate our irreparable pasts in pursuit of a more habitable future. This deeply moving book continuously invites us - as only great writing can - to think, and to think again.

This book tells the big story of the city of York by exploring the small remnants of past lives. It will tell ancient stories that are a daily part of the modern city, such as the Tudor staircase still in use in an office building, and the medieval gargoyles watching people go by from their perches on the eaves of coffee shops.Yorks story unfolds through six sections. Protection explores how the city has survived centuries of threats through resilient architecture and infrastructure. Passageways examines its snickelways and spiritual routes, both physical and symbolic. Looking Down and Looking Up reveal hidden treasures often missed, from newly uncovered cobblestones to discoveries of ancient settlements and lost churches. Past Lives highlights influential figures whose legacies still shape the city, including the posthumous fame of Guy Fawkes. Years of Welcome turns to modern York, celebrating its pubs, cafes, and communal spaces. All of this rests on deep historical context reaching back to the citys beginnings.Join us for a journey where its all about the little things!

The Weimar republic and the Third Reich loom large in German history, but what happened afterwards? How did a nation that had so recently been the centre of the biggest international war to date, led by the perpetrators of the greatest crimes history has ever scene, transform itself into the modern, progressive nation we know today?Wunderland reveals the transformations that took place, economically and culturally, from 1955-1967 as the nation came to grips with the legacy of WW2 and found ways to redefine itself as a democratic society where democracy, wellbeing and the freedom of expression could thrive again.In a world rocked by the rise of authoritarian leaders around the world, Wunderland is a powerful reminder that when these regimes fall, they can leave in their wake something even better: an opportunity for rebirth, reconciliation and unprecedented growth.

The inspiring true story of the self-made, Bronx-born portraitist who overcame all odds to become the most followed artist on social media worldwidefeaturing never-before-seen drawings of the people and places that made him who he is.Devon Rodriguez talks to strangers: his subway sketches and person-on-the-street interviews have earned him millions of followers. His hyperrealistic work demonstrates the power of portraiture to help us see ourselves and each other. Hes a new-school influencer with old-school talent.Now, the celebrated Bronx-born artist turns his perspective inward. As a child, Rodriguez escaped into art to cope with devastating abuse. It sustained him, energized him and helped him stay out of trouble. This fascinating memoir is a twenty-first-century fable about a young man with a pencil, a phone, and a relentless drive to succeed.Instead of following the conventional route to art world prestige, he saw opportunity online, experimenting with sharing his work in bite-sized TikTok videos that went viral, making him one of the top influencers of his generation. An entrepreneur who makes art accessible to everyday people, hes succeeded without gallery representation or an MFA. Devon has now sketched over a thousand people. With this book, he delivers his most precise and moving portrait yet: of himself. Frank, profound, and occasionally hilarious, Work in Progress is motivational magic for the digital age.

A four-color extravaganza from the Mal Evans archives, including sections from his never published memoirs, his detailed (and humorously illustrated) diaries and hundreds of unseen photographs he took during his time with the Beatles. Truly a goldmine of new insight into the most famous band in the world, from a man who knew them better than most.Malcolm "Mal" Evans was an integral figure in the lives of The Beatles, acting as everything from roadie and assistant to confidante and, above all else, friend. Even after the bands split, Evans remained close to each member as they ventured out into solo careers, though he was closest to Paul McCartney. And through it all, he kept a detailed diary.In the 1970s, Mal made a deal with a publisher for a memoir, and the typed manuscript he submitted remained in that publishers basement until it was discovered by a temp, tasked with cleaning out a storage unit. Along with the manuscript, the temp discovered an amazing collection of photographs and diaries. Instead of throwing them away as instructed, the temp sent a letter to Yoko Ono, who quickly responded. Yoko retrieved the materials, and returned them to Mals family in England. Unfortunately, Mal had taken his life years prior in a drug fueled showdown with the police.Now, from the author who wrote our own acclaimed Living the Beatles Legend, comes a visual celebration of the Mal Evans archives. Once thought lost forever, this holy grail for Beatles die-hards is being shared for the first time. With annotated (by Ken) excerpts of Mals memoir, the first-hand account of life with the worlds most important band through the eyes of the man that was there for it all, and bits from his diaries showing the comings, goings, recording schedules, and personal appointments of John, Paul, Ringo, and George, their life as a group, time on the road, and lives after their dissolution.A companion to Womacks thoroughly researched and family blessed biography of Mal, Living the Beatles Legend, now with the words of the man himself, and featuring hundreds of never before seen photos as well, this will be a beautifully designed must-own for Beatles lovers everywhere.

In Japanese, the word for widow a woman who has outlived her husband literally translates as she who has not yet died. For millennia, widows have lived on the margins of society: banished to the wilderness, silenced, and shrouded in black or white. Across cultures, laws and local customs have maligned them as witches, dependants or objects of pity.In some traditions, widows are expected to remarry within the husbands family, or even in extreme cases commit self-immolation expectations not placed on men. Yet widowhood has also brought unexpected freedoms: financial, social and sexual autonomy denied to married women. In medieval Europe, widows owned property and ran businesses; in Indias Maratha courts, they wielded political influence long before married women could.Drawing on sources from Ancient Egypt and Greece to Africa, the Americas and beyond, cultural historian Mineke Schipper explores widowhood as both oppression and liberation. Widows reveals one of feminisms last great taboos, and the story of women the world has long refused to see.

From FBI: Most Wanteds Dylan McDermott and former FBI Special Agent Christopher Whitcomb, a revealing investigation into the disappearance of the Springfield Three, a cold case that has bewildered police officers, the FBI, and avid true crime followers for three decadesOn June 7, 1992, in Springfield, Missouri, Suzanne "Suzie" Streeter, her friend Stacy McCall, and Streeters mother, Sherrill Levitt, disappeared from Levitts residence without a trace. Police found the televisions on, clothing where it should be, and the family dog safely inside. There was no indication of forced entry, no evidence of assault or violent abduction. The familys cars were locked. The neighbors reported nothing.News spread quickly, with hypotheses about the "Springfield Three" discussed as fervently as the speculation over who killed JonBenet Ramsey just a few years later. Segments by Americas Most Wanted, 48 Hours, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and a People magazine article produced thousands of leads. A task force of FBI agents and police worked round the clock for months, resulting in more than 20,000 pages of forensics and analysis. Detectives interviewed a dozen persons of interest. And yet, more than thirty years after the disappearance, the case has never been solved.In White Pines and Stone, former FBI Special Agent Christopher Whitcomb and FBI: Most Wanteds Dylan McDermott draw on their own deeply personal connections to this caseas well as files only previously seen by law enforcement officersto reveal the chilling details, the suspects who have interested authorities over the years, and the newly discovered investigative breakthroughs they hope will lead them to the womens bodies in what they believe to be a forest of white pines and stone." Together, they will shed new light on an infamous case that has captured the publics attention like few others.

Learn about the fascinating history of Bears Ears and the Colorado Plateau in this illustrated chapter book that spans from the formation of buttes millions of years ago to today!Over 300 million years ago, the beautiful buttes of Bears Ears formed on the Colorado Plateau in what would one day become known as the Four Corners, which is where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. The first humans in this areathe Clovis peopleappeared 13,000 years ago. Since then, the Bears Ears region has been home to many important Indigenous groups, including the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Zuni Tribe, and Ute Indian Tribe. After centuries of their land being mistreated and vandalized, these five tribes came together and asked the United States government to protect the land of Bears Ears by making it a national monument. In 2016, their vision became a reality when President Barack Obama established Bears Ears National Monument, protecting 1.3 million acres of sacred land. Young adventurers, junior geologists, and future archaeologists will love this incredible book about the rich history of this special American landscape.

When the Pipers Play is a fascinating account of the bagpipe as an instrument of war, packed full of remarkable stories. Based on the author Patrick Kings award-winning films, the book combines historical research with exclusive interviews and traces the crucial role of the military piper from the Highlander at Culloden to the carnage of Waterloo and from the trenches of the Great War to the beaches of Normandy.The author reveals how the use of music in war, including drums, bugles and pipes, has for centuries controlled the battlefield. His analysis of the pipes ranges from regulating the soldiers day in camp to a role in wartime propaganda films and how the instrument remains the one primal element in the sophistication of modern warfare. The regimental piper is the real hero of this book. A must read for anyone who enjoys stories of courage and adventure.

The panoramic story of the 1980s, exploring the triumphs and failures of the decade that shaped the 21st century more than any other, from a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who witnessed the transformations firsthandIn January 1980, America seemed broken. Inflation raged. Interest rates topped 20 percent. Americans were held hostage in Iran. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with impunity. Japan was eating American manufacturing alive. Three networks controlled what Americans watched. China had been closed for 30 years.Ten years later, everything had changed. The economy was booming. The Soviet Empire was collapsing. American businesses were competitive again.In this immersive, character-driven narrative, Jonathan Kaufman lays bare the contending ideologiesand peoplewho battled for control of business, media and politics in the 1980s, shaping the way we live today. As Ronald Reagan and conservatives pummeled the Democratic party, as Jack Welch redefined leadership at Fortune 500 companies, and as deregulation spearheaded by Mark Fowler allowed television to become the hundreds of specialized and partisan channels we watch now, the groundwork was laid for our current economic and political conflicts. The decade also launched transformative social and political movements. Karen Nussbaum and Jane Fonda galvanized a struggling womens movement, Evan Wolfson spearheaded the gay communitys legal fight against a hostile government, and Barack Obama cut his teeth as a community organizer in Chicagoall building long-lasting movements whose success progressives can learn from today.From pivotal moments in board rooms and court rooms, to cultural touchstones like the birth of hip hop and of conservative talk radio, as well as the authors eyewitness experiences in Tiananmen Square and Prague, When America Roared is the riveting story of how the 1980s built the world we live in, for better and for worse. It is the decade that made usand the key to understanding where we go from here.

The inspirational memoir of the former Carlton Football Club captain who twice survived cancer, returning to the game braver and stronger after each recovery.Sam Docherty was the heart of Carlton Football Club during his 171-game career. Born to a footy-obsessed family on Phillip Island, Sam grew up aspiring to play for his beloved Carlton, a dream that finally came true in 2012 after a short stint at Brisbane Lions. Despite injuries blighting his start at the club, he soon became a star fixture for the Blues, becoming a John Nicholls Medalist in 2016, an All-Australian in 2017 and co-captain of Carlton from 2019 to 2021. But off field, things werent always so easy.In that time, he overcame testicular cancer twice, at one point returning to the field a mere five months after finishing chemotherapy. Refusing to let his illness define him, Docherty used his time on the sidelines to mentor and coach his teammates, always looking for a silver lining and becoming an inspiration to the country in the process.Full of never-before-told anecdotes from the MCG, this is a story of true heroism, grit and the wisdom that comes when youve faced the worst.

Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then began undermining this by treating witchcraft as a topic of ridicule; threatening magic was replaced by harmless folklore. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750. It places literary witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for witchcraft in this dark period of Scotlands past. It turns out that literary witches are often very different from historical ones: most are comical characters, and some are not even human. The phrase weird sisters, familiar from Shakespeares Macbeth, originated in Scotland, and there is a detailed discussion of the meaning of the phrase and connections between the Scottish play and Scotland itself. Many of Scotlands famous Renaissance poets and dramatists wrote about witches, including William Dunbar, Sir David Lindsay and Alexander Montgomerie, and their work is also explored. By the end of the book, the discussion turns to Robert Burnss Tam o Shanter (1791) in which literary witches are fantasy fiction as they have remained.

Following the demise of whaling in the late 1800s, the island of Nantucket fell into economic torpor. Its population declined and many of its homes and local businesses fell into disrepair.In the mid-twentieth century, Walter Beinecke, a lifelong summer resident and an heir to the S&H Green Stamp fortune, started to buy retail buildings in the town of Nantucket as well as many of the wharves along the towns waterfront. He and others interested in preserving the historic character of the island began resurrecting the crumbling storefronts along Main Street and rebuilding the harbors neglected infrastructure. Beineckes efforts laid the groundwork for the islands revitalization and set the stage for Nantuckets emergence as a glamorous summer resort.Massachusetts State Archivist and lifelong resident of Nantucket John Warner tells the inside story of how Walter Beinecke almost singlehandedly transformed a sleepy fishing village into todays toney mecca. Having delved into numerous archives with the relish and professionalism of a trained historian, Warner shares with us the inside story of Nantuckets own wild sleigh ride, its ups and downs on the way to becoming one of Americas most sought-after summer destinations.