Títulos em Cultural e Regional

At an age when most are aiming for retirement, Bob Higgins moved to Uganda with his wife Carol. Over the course of fourteen years, they trained church leaders with the International School of Ministry video curriculum, provided clean water to rural communities, and ran a mobile clinic while establishing a home for children orphaned by rebel warfare in Northern Uganda.

As an educator, Dr. Loretta Sanders headed to the United Arab Emirates for what she thought was a journey to make a difference in the lives of children. She did not know that she was on a journey that would make a difference in her own life and the lives of many who sought refuge from the storms of life by establishing the first and only African American church in the UAE.

Shocking, but laced with wry humour, Vladimir Pereverzin’s extraordinary story is of an ordinary man whose comfortable life is upended. Refusing to give false testimony against Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, he is plunged into lengthy, brutal incarceration in Russia’s nightmarish prisons and penal colonies, including some in which political prisoner Alexei Navalny has been held.

In his debut memoir, Won’t Be Silent, Abe Gurko invites you to join him in celebrating a life that he calls “finally worth living.” It’s an honest, rollicking ride filled with joyous and life-affirming as well as challenging, daunting, and heartbreaking situations that he navigates with aplomb, though not always.

A Place Called Home: Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau is a place-based creative non-fiction memoir at its heart. It is a collection of stories about how finding my “place” was essential to finding my happiness. It is a template for others to find their own happiness within natural and human communities, inspired by a love of a place that calls them home.

The Smartass rides again. After retiring from police work, Norman Duchesneau returns to continue his story.

Driven by strong family culture, author Xianhua Ma passes on the life lessons she learned through serving in the Korean War and surviving China’s Cultural Revolution. Even though she endured cruel hardships, she managed to raise a family and create a career for herself in enterprise culture.

In his fight for drugs, friends, and support, Charles learns the power of linking self to other as he confronts stigma, heartbreak, and fear with a visceral resilience. By discovering the power of community, Undetectable explores a generation of long-term HIV survivors who have lived to tell the story of an AIDS pandemic now in its fifth decade without a cure or vaccine.

Searching for Love in All the Wrong Places is about a small-town boy whose feelings of emptiness inside, due to missing the love of his father, led him into some unsavory places trying to fill the void that he felt inside. Lost, confused, and many times alone, he was not so far gone that true love couldn’t reach him and deliver him from the grasp of an alternative lifestyle.

Una helada mañana de enero de 1967, en plena guerra civil guatemalteca, un comerciante judío y libanés es secuestrado en un callejón sin salida de la capital. ¿Por qué? ¿Cómo? ¿Por quién o quiénes? Un narrador llamado Eduardo Halfon tendrá que viajar a Japón, y volver a su infancia en la violenta Guatemala de los años setenta, y acudir a un misterioso encuentro en un bar de mala muerte ubicado en la esquina de un edificio redondo, para finalmente dilucidar los detalles que rodean la vida y el secuestro de aquel hombre que también se llamaba Eduardo Halfon, y que era su abuelo.

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a “startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry’s abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers” (The New York Times Book Review) and those who had the courage to fight back. On June 27, 2011, a...

In this heartbreaking true story, the abduction of his daughter has a father on an emotional and difficult journey through Family Court in pursuit of justice. The battle is bitter and brutal, with the child stuck in the middle of a heartless and inept UK legal system. Constant and baseless accusations from the mother further derail proceedings, causing delays and torment for their daughter. This story is about courage, angst, perseverance, selfishness, love, and pain.

From Haiti's shores to America's bustling cities, Solanges Vivens takes you on an unforgettable journey of grit, passion, and resilience. Drawing strength from the symbolic turtle, a creature of patience and fortitude, she shares a life marked by challenges, achievements, and boundless determination. It isn't just Solanges' story-it's a reflection of every person who has faced adversity head-on, defied societal expectations, and pursued their dreams with vigor.

In this new book, I will reveal details about his origin, his arrival in the United States, his activities in the country, and how he ended up in a hospital in Oklahoma City. I will also share information about his life in the present. Get ready to immerse yourself in the fascinating and surprising story of Carlos Pérez. I hope you enjoy his story!

What makes Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait unique? And what is it like to be a Torres Strait Islander in contemporary Australia? Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, compiled by poet and author Samantha Faulkner, showcases the distinct identity of Torres Strait Islanders through their diverse voices and journeys.

Resilience isn’t inherited. It’s a hard-fought skill forged by our ability to pick up the broken pieces of our past and remake them into something new. Meet four-year-old Delicia, a poor but carefree child who is about to have her world shattered. Along with her seven-year-old brother Nile, she is kidnapped from her Los Angeles home by her estranged father and taken to Iraq, a foreign world she has never known. This is just the beginning of a string of traumas, hardships, and assaults Delicia will endure throughout her tumultuous childhood.

Step into Brian’s extraordinary world as he invites you on a captivating journey through some of his remarkable life experiences and insightful perspectives. In his groundbreaking book, which combines personal anecdotes with thought-provoking articles, you will immerse yourself in a tapestry of history, culture, and geopolitical relations between the Anglo-Saxon West and China.

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2024 • CBC's Best Canadian Non-Fiction of 2024 "Here is my disconnect: the private and public self. My mind and body. The real person and curated spectacle. . . . Are there actual roots with which...

Alex Oberholzer verbrachte seine ersten zwölf Lebensjahre im Kinderspital. Affoltern am Albis bei Zürich, in einer hermetisch abgeschlossenen Welte und ohne Kontakt zu den Eltern. In knappen, berührenden Episoden erzählt der Autor vom Leben mit Behinderung, von Kusiosem und den prägenden Erlebnissen seiner ganz besonderen Kindheit und Jugend. "Erinnere ich mich zurück, so tauche ich ein in ein gigantisches Wechselbad der Gefühle. Von Schmerz, Qual und Ungerechtigkeit über Gleichgültigkeit und Langeweile bis hin zu grenzenlosem Glück, Euphorie und Triumph.

This author skillfully introduces you to the captivating, wide-ranging experiences of his family in this nontraditional saga. Beginning with the hilarious misadventures of his children, he provides spellbinding insights into the antics of individuals in his family. You'll learn about a Fruit Loop cannon, the tooth fairy that gave rise to a mummy, a latrine queen, a hand that would fit through a ring, a chain sparking off into the distance, and too many other adventures to cover in this short paragraph.