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This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl - and a young woman - trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, and of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community, that made all the difference.

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude.

When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: He wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine - growing up dirt poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman.

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.

Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands of young boys, took flight from the massacres of Sudan's civil war. They became known as the Lost Boys. With little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes not even that, they streamed out over Sudan in search of refuge. Their journey led them first to Ethiopia and then, driven back into Sudan, toward Kenya. They walked nearly one thousand miles, sustained only by the sheer will to live.

When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the writer Jana Bakunina, who has lived in the UK for 20 years, felt furious, ashamed, but most of all helpless. A year later she travelled to her home city of Yekaterinburg to see how ordinary Russians viewed the conflict—and whether the soul of her nation had truly been crushed.

An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd" It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for families of the former to become entrenched in the latter.

In the neighborhoods of South Central LA, LaShawn Wiley grew up learning how to navigate life without a father. Surrounded by noise, pressure, and expectation, he searched for stability in a world that offered very little. Through moments of quiet reflection, painful lessons, and unexpected guidance, his journey from a confused boy to a purposeful man began to take shape.

या पुस्तकात तामिळनाडू प्रांतात निष्ठेने सेवा कार्य करणार्‍या अपरिचित व्यक्तींच्या 30 गोष्टी सांगितल्या आहेत. समाज आणि पर्यावरणाची काळजी निस्वार्थ वृत्तीने घेणार्‍या व्यक्तींच्या कथा आणि त्या सोबत मांडलेले विचार निश्‍चितच प्रेरणादायी आहेत. 'सेवा धर्म महान' ही उक्ती सार्थ करणार्‍या कथा आपल्याला सेवा करण्यास प्रवृत्त करतात.

“Perched On The Rooftop” is a compelling true story about a family’s resilience in the face of overwhelming challenges. The journey begins with a harrowing storm that compels the family to find strength in each other. In the heart of the 1970s somewhere in Honduras, Minda, a spirited young woman, falls victim to a debilitating illness shrouded in mystery. What begins as innocuous headaches and fevers soon spiral into a sinister affliction, defying the arsenal of home remedies wielded by her determined mother, Mita.

Diane Vanette’s Cherry Sisters Music City tells of the three women who became this famous team and have remained lifelong friends. These are the behind the scenes stories of Nashville’s recording studios, the owners, producers, technicians and the development of the Unions that would assure benefits to these independent contractors who made the world’s music. And it shares the near launch of The Cherry Sisters as a front of the stage starring band.

In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.

तालुका प्रचारक ते अखिल भारतीय धर्मजागरण प्रमुख अशी वाटचाल करणारे, आपल्या प्रांताचे, मुंबई महानगराचे प्रचारक, क्षेत्राचे प्रचारक अशा अनेक स्तरीय जबाबदार्‍या समर्थपणे पार पाडणार्‍या व्यक्तिमत्वाचे चरित्र या पुस्तकात लिहिले गेले आहे. संघशाखा, कार्यकर्त्यांची/स्वयंसेवकांची/जडणघडण, समरसता मंच, भटके विमुक्त विकास परिषद, यमगरवाडी प्रकल्प पूर्वांचल विकास आणि धर्मजागरण या कामांमध्ये त्यांनी जातीने लक्ष घातले. त्यांचे चरित्र सर्वांना मार्गदर्शक ठरेल.

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'राज्याभिषेकाच्या तयारीला रायगडावर सुरुवात' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती देणारा लेख. हा लेख ऐकता ऐकता तुम्ही मावळा गेम खेळू शकता.

Move over Hemingway - there is a new bad boy in town and man does he have a story. It is about an intellectual rosier from the hood who refuses to crow and all the shenanigans that come whit that. Enjoy!

In Dangerous Memory, renowned politician, author, and musician Charlie Angus undertakes a major rethink of the cultural and political shifts of the 1980s, an era that unleashed an unprecedented looting of the economy, the environment, and the common good that continues to haunt us today. Expertly weaving his story within the larger narrative of the times, Angus elucidates such key events as the Chernobyl disaster, the Digital Revolution, the AIDS epidemic, the fight against South African apartheid, the rise of neoliberalism, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

If you loved the first collection of short stories you will love the latest collection from up and coming author Jorge Sanchez. From Ghetto Bazookas to playing the famous CBGB's this collection will have you smiling and chuckling. If you need an easy listen to help you forget about your chaotic life by laughing at someone else's chaotic life then this is a must listen.

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'कारतलबखानाला नमविले' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती देणारा लेख. हा लेख ऐकता ऐकता तुम्ही मावळा गेम खेळू शकता.

Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’. Born out of the onrush of memories and feelings provoked by her mother Mary’s death, this is the astonishing, often disturbing and surprisingly funny memoir of the Arundhati Roy’s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'महाराजांवरील प्राणघातक हल्ला परतवला' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती देणारा लेख. हा लेख ऐकता ऐकता तुम्ही मावळा गेम खेळू शकता.