Títulos em Cultural e Regional

Stephen Huyler's journey into India began on his twentieth birthday, pedalling a bicycle rickshaw from the border. Over fifty-two years, for an average of four months a year, he has explored India's diverse village and other subcultures through his writing and photography, becoming a leading documentarian of India. Transformed by India invites listeners to join Huyler as he navigates this remarkable nation, highlighting individuals from the wide spectrum of life all around the country.

Top of the Morgen! charts the adventures of Laurence Falconer, a craic-loving Dubliner, as he tries to get to grips with a new life in Germany. From attempts at raucous busking in a quaint and quiet German village to the conversational pitfalls that come about when 'grand' is your answer to a lot questions, Laurence hilariously details the blunders and escapades that thrive in the bewildering cultural gap between the Irish and the Germans.

In this mother-daughter memoir, Samantha and Myrna each share their journeys of breaking down barriers and the redemptive power of love. Inspiring and honest, Role Model is the story of two proud Dunghutti women claiming their space and the path to greater representation, highlighting just how much can change in two generations.

This collection of true stories puts the listener in the action, providing humor and nostalgic adventures of a young boy growing up in America in the 1950's. This book continues where Part One left off, with me being 9 years old and halfway through grade school. This is the second of a four-book series that progresses through grade school, junior high and high school.

This is the story of Veronica Walker. A second generation white African. This is the story of how one woman learnt to accept loss and rebuild her life time and again and how she learnt to fight for herself against a society where women were deemed as second class citizens and the possession of their husbands or fathers. Fighting for her children's safety, Veronica learns to demand her voice be heard and she be accepted for the independent woman she was.

Fahima Ali, a Brown girl raised in the UK, works as a therapist in the South Asian community. Also known as 'The Brown Therapist', she draws on her own lived experience to give a voice, validation and practical support to the often-overlooked struggles women face in the Brown community. As a society, we often fail to acknowledge or understand that people from different cultural backgrounds experience different lived-in circumstances. Our upbringing shapes and impacts our mental health in distinctive ways.

Com relatos marcantes, esta obra resgata memórias muitas vezes esquecidas, valorizando a trajetória de cidadãos de todas as classes sociais e profissões. Mais do que um simples livro, é um convite para fortalecer o orgulho de um povo, preservando o legado de quem construiu Pedro Afonso.

A probing essay collection that chronicles one woman’s complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study and contributor to Four Hundred Souls, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain Where do I belong in a country that has never loved me?...

Together, two friends with vastly different backgrounds share their vision for a reconciled country—one in which small, daily actions can make a monumental difference Derek Aronhie:nens Montour is an Indigenous man who grew up on the Kahnawà:ke Kanien’kehá:ka Territory. Elin Sandberg...

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Una piccola colonia di autori residenti all'estero racconta una Monaco fatta di entusiasmo e frustrazione, amore e lavoro, passione per la Germania e nostalgia dell'Italia.

La terra di Cesare Borgia, Benito Mussolini e Federico Fellini, narrata da Barbara Garlaschelli, Giampiero Rigosi, Gabriella Kuruvilla e altri sette. Un affresco sulla Romagna, sulle sue atmosfere languidi e forti, di questa parte d'Italia crocevia di strade e culture.

Martin Frank lebt schon sein ganzes Leben lang auf dem Bauernhof seiner Familie, zusammen mit Hühnern, Ziegen, Katzen und Kühen – doch in diesem Jahr ist damit Schluss, der Vater wird den Hof aufgeben, und die letzte Kuh verlässt den Stall. Er zieht auf den Biohof seines Lebensgefährten, eines Landtierarztes – und ein ganz neues Kapitel beginnt.

Andrei Tarkovsky: A Life on the Cross by Lyudmila Boyadzhieva is an intimate portrayal of the renowned Soviet filmmaker’s life, struggles, and artistic legacy.

FLORIAN KIRNER, auch bekannt als PRINZ CHAOS II. , erzählt mit Charme und Finesse, wie er ohne Geld zur Rettung eines schwer sanierungsbedürftigen Schlosses in Südthüringen antrat: eine spektakuläre Geschichte über die Integration und Sturheit eines Bayern in Ostdeutschland - vollgestopft mit saukomischen und hochdramatischen Begebenheiten. Ein Buch über Denkmalpflege und Verwaltungslogik, zwischenmenschliche Schönheiten und Abgründe, wilde Schlossfeste, Wandergesellen, Neonazis, Paradiesvögel und die Absurditäten der Corona-Politik im ländlichen Raum.

Sarah Lutterodt’s inspirational memoir, Worlds Apart, traces her life from a sheltered post-war childhood in southern England through transformative years teaching university in Ghana to the hustle and bustle of the American business world and her return to Ghana in retirement.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is the bold, witty memoir of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who defied racism and sexism to care for soldiers during the Crimean War in the 1850s. Writing in her own voice, Seacole recounts her travels across the Caribbean, Central America, and Europe, sharing vivid stories of healing, hardship, and independence.

'One of the best Dublin memoirs I've ever read' Donal Fallon Peig McManus was born into the last of Dublin's tenements before moving to one of Ireland's first social housing estates in Cabra. Her father believed that children should earn their keep and learn to face reality as soon as possible. While that reality was poverty, class prejudice and strict Catholicism, at the heart of Peig's earliest memories are music, hoolies and the bonds of family and community. I Will Be Good is the story of a girl who rebelled against societal expectations and dreamed of further education.

From Sicily to the South is a heartfelt and historically grounded family memoir that traces the journey of Giuseppe Murana, a young Sicilian boy who left everything he knew behind in 1904 to begin a new life in America. At just five years old, Giuseppe arrived at the port of New Orleans with his parents aboard the S.S. Liguria—unaware that his journey would one day shape generations to come.

De l'annonce de la mort de son père, Kaddour, le 15 août 2020, à sa mise en terre six jours plus tard, le temps est en suspens tant la complexité de la situation liée au covid rend incertaine la possibilité que son corps puisse être rapatrié en Algérie comme il le souhaitait. Six jours durant lesquels Rachida Brakni convoque ce qu'elle sait de son enfance abîmée en Algérie, de son arrivée en France qu'il sillonnera au volant de son camion, jusqu'à la chute, corps meurtri.