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Decades after spending a summer in the Irish countryside with her parents—author Deborah Love and National Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen—Rue takes her young family back to Ireland to revisit locales from that season in the sixties. As a guide, she has her mother’s poetic book...

Society’s labels never define who you are—or who you are capable of becoming. Barely an adult, Rick Scadden’s future looked bleak. He was a convicted felon battling addictions, unable to break free from the darkness pulling him under. The patterns he repeated were destructive. The healthy...

Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was shattered by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly escaping a fire that would rage for weeks, burn more than 85,000 hectares and force 80,000 people to flee. In this book, she tells her dramatic story, and contemplates mourning, memory, and rebuilding.

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The Woman Inside: From Outer Space to Inner Peace will take you on a journey of self-discovery. Throughout a 34-year career at NASA, launching rockets or leading teams, while literally traveling around the world, the book takes you on a journey of discovery and transformation. This is one woman’s experience of transitioning from presenting as male to presenting as female. You will join me as I overcome the societal expectations that are assigned at birth and learn to, understand the difference between sexual hardware and gender software.

Interweaving memoir and good old fashioned ice adventure, Kim Stanley Robinson takes readers along on the journeys that have happened before and the journeys that may never happen again. In May of 1911, Robert Scott and the twenty-four men under his command said good-bye to the sun and settled...

Legendary alpinist Barry Blanchard returns to the thin places where weather, will, and luck decide everything—and the consequences echo for years. Blanchard, in his inimitable, heart-pounding, and brutally honest style, continues reminiscing about the life he introduced readers to in The...

When the world was shutting down, Angela escaped on a grand adventure. What began as a sailing passage across the Pacific to film a documentary became an unexpected reckoning with love, loss, and the God of the wind and waves. Quarantined at sea with near strangers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Angela’s romantic relationship turns tumultuous and her life as she knows it begins to unravel. With nowhere to run and nothing to distract her, she is forced to face challenges, uncertainty, and courageously find a way through her fear.

Ben Koether was born into a boating community on the edge of Long Island Sound, learning to maneuver a small penguin class sailboat on his own through the fog by the time he was eight years old. The water became his playground. He would go on to spend an entire summer on the Atlantic when he was fourteen, helping to sail the famous VEMA, captained by none other than the renowned Lou Kenedy. But the beginning of his greatest adventures took place in 1959, when he set sail for the uncharted waters of the Antarctic and became the youngest navigator of the then largest Icebreaker in US History.

Die 27-jährige Sozialarbeiterin Sarah Kokot aus dem Leipziger Land hat es ausprobiert: allein, in 300 Tagen, über 7 Kontinente. Sie ahnte das Abenteuer, aber nicht, dass es sie so verändern würde. Sarah arbeitete in einem Kinderschutzprojekt in Südafrika, sie zeltete ohne Zaun in der afrikanischen Wildnis, kletterte auf über 5000 Meter hohe Berge im Himalaya und aß Insekten in Kambodscha. Dabei stellte sie fest, dass es sich mit leichtem Gepäck am besten reist und dass sie letztendlich das Wenige braucht, um näher zu sich selbst zu kommen.

Surfing The Interstates chronicles a transformative 4,000-mile hitchhiking journey across America in 1973. This coming-of-age memoir follows a 21-year-old's two-month odyssey from East Coast privilege to West Coast revelation, capturing the last summer when you could truly vanish in America.

Lilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WWII in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incredible tale of survival and kindness. Lilo was just a teenager when the Nazis took away her mother and father in September 1942. She never saw them again. A year later, she received another painful blow when her brother Hans was taken too. She was now alone at 19-years-old in a dangerous and brutal world. Until she heard one familiar voice that called her name, and saved her life.

Life has offered me many chapters—each one layered with movement, discovery, faith, and quiet transformation. But for a long time, I wasn’t sure how to share my story. I always carried the desire within me, yet I often paused, unsure where to begin or how to reach those who truly needed to hear it. I first began sharing anonymously through a faceless YouTube channel, using my voice to narrate bits of my story. But it didn’t feel quite right. I craved a deeper, more intentional way to connect.

Learning to Dance in the Rain is a powerful true memoir about addiction, motherhood, loss, faith, and the relentless courage it takes to rebuild a life when everything has been stripped away.

What if your greatest pain served as your greatest teacher? From childhood wounds and family secrets to spiritual awakenings and boardroom battles, Jennifer Gauthier bares her soul in this fierce, unflinching memoir. Through Her Eyes is a roadmap for every woman and man who has ever felt unseen, silenced, or stuck. With raw honesty and deep compassion, Gauthier invites you to face the past, rewrite your inner narrative, and reclaim your power.

She thought silence would keep her safe. She thought pretending would make the pain disappear. She thought no one would ever believe her truth.

One moment, Terrance McDuffie was a Soldier, a father, and a man planning his future. The next, he was fighting for his life against one of the deadliest heart attacks known as the Widowmaker.

In 2012, Jason Millsaps, a worship pastor and father of two, could barely swim 37 yards without gasping for air. Thirteen years later, he stood on the starting line of the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, one of the most demanding endurance events on earth. From 37 Yards to Kona is the raw, honest story of transformation from energy drink addiction and rock-bottom fitness to becoming a 16-time IRONMAN finisher, including the World Championship.

Josef Mengele, el médico del horror de Auschwitz, murió en libertad. Tras la guerra huyó a Sudamérica y pasó sus últimos 18 años en Brasil, oculto bajo una identidad falsa y protegido por una red de simpatizantes nazis. Con un estilo vibrante y riguroso, Betina Antón reconstruye esta historia real con acceso a archivos secretos de la Mossad, entrevistas a quienes le dieron cobijo y documentos nunca antes publicados. Tras la pista de Mengele es una obra imprescindible para entender los vacíos de justicia en la historia reciente, la persistencia del odio y la fragilidad de la memoria.

From the bestselling author of Thirst and Mud, Rocks, Blazes, this compelling memoir chronicles Heather Anderson's ambitious journey to thru-hike America’s Triple Crown—the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide Trails—in a single calendar year. Between 2003 and 2017, Anderson...