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Spanning four seasons, 10 countries, three teaching jobs, and countless buses, Patagonian Road chronicles Kate Mc Cahill“s solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language, r …

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction In this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page Mc Bee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while strugglin …

David Foster learned at a young age he was different and when the medical world was ready to throw him away he found salvation and love of his life in climbing the Sierra Nevada Mountain trails in Ca …

The biography of a 29 year old woman, disgruntled after a long period of depression and promiscuity. Tired of feeling like she was the only one who had been where she had gone. She walks through her …

Frances Bowar lived in Ethan, South Dakota, a smallfarming community. She kept a diary from 1938 to1970, recording the activities of her family, her ownthoughts, feelings, and judgments, and the birt …

From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. It is a life that navigates, and transcends, abuse, addiction, self-destruction and the crushing l …

The story of James W.C. Pennington who was a former slave, then a Yale scholar, minister, and international leader of the Antebellum abolitionist movement. He escaped from slavery aged 19 in 1827 and …

This book assesses contrasting interpretations of President Roosevelt“s relations with the Nye Committee. It explores the complexity confronting Rayburn in weighing the factors that influenced his a …

Told with intimacy and ferocity and set in the passionate and crumbling Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a poignant tale of first love – of a place, of a person – where languages and cultures collide …