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"Narrating her own work, Patrisse Khan-Cullors shares the salient moments of her life that led her to become a founder of Black Lives Matter...pain, frustration, and joy [emblazon] each word she utters." — AudioFile Magazine This program is read by Patrisse Cullors and includes a bonus...

Mahatma Gandhi is a world-famous pacifist figure who managed to lead the Indian independence movement against British rule by employing nonviolent civil disobedience. His ethics and unwavering stance inspired movements for civil rights and freedom all across the world, long after his assassination in 1948.

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.

Derek Black was raised to take over the White nationalist movement in the United States. Derek’s father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s first White supremacist website—Derek built the kids’ page—and David Duke was a mentor. Racist hatred, though often wrapped up in respectability and American history, was all Derek knew. It was their inheritance, their community, their identity. Then, while in college in 2013, Derek publicly renounced White nationalism and apologized for their actions and the suffering that they had caused.

Rechtsextremismus, Rockerclub und Rotlichtmilieu: Das sind die Stationen im früheren Leben von Philip Schlaffer. Erschütternd und aufklärend berichtet er aus seinem vergangenen Leben im Zeichen von rechter Gewalt, Hass und Kriminalität. Es ist der hochbrisante Insider-Bericht eines Aussteigers, der nichts beschönigt und so eindrucksvoll vor den Gefahren des Rechtsextremismus warnt. Schließlich wird der Fahndungsdruck zu groß, und Schlaffer schafft im Gefängnis den Ausstieg aus Kriminalität und Extremismus.

The “extraordinary life story” (Publishers Weekly) of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai, a leading Hong Kong democracy activist fighting for freedom of speech who became China’s most famous political prisoner. Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height...

In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive account, by turns majestic and intimate, of this modern icon.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water. At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an...

For fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as “the first shots of the Civil War,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Dr. Mütter’s Marvels. The year, 1851. The place, a Quaker farming community...

“Nadia is a fierce warrior for justice and a beautiful human being I feel privileged to know. She will inspire women for generations.” —Amal Clooney In a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad reclaims her extraordinary journey from the embers of...

Khalida Popal, de aanvoerder en medeoprichter van het team, kwam al eerder met de Taliban in aanraking. Bij haar terugkeer in Afghanistan in 2007 richtte ze het vrouwenelftal op, dat haar een gevoel van macht, vrijheid en kameraadschap gaf. Na de val van Kabul in de zomer van 2021 is Khalida veilig, maar haar achtergebleven teamgenoten niet. Samen met een klein maar machtig netwerk van bondgenoten orkestreert ze een evacuatieactie om haar team in veiligheid te brengen.

A transformative guide featuring unique practices to harness creativity as a tool for healing, justice, and liberation from visionary artist, activist, and New York Times bestselling author Patrisse Cullors. How do we imagine our way toward a better world? From the clothes we wear to the...

Fentanyl is a first-person, insider account of how the crisis consumed the Biden Administration amid a series of other national security emergencies. It follows Jake Braun, a senior White House official, and his colleagues while they scramble to respond to the epidemic. As Mexican cartels ruthlessly executed their most radical transformation in 50 years, Braun and his colleagues architected the first U.S. government-wide strategy to combat fentanyl in history.

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House...

Er hat sie gerettet, aus dem Müll, aus viel zu engen Käfigen, aus einem Leben an der Kette. Das ist seine Lebensaufgabe. Die Freundschaft zwischen beiden brachte Bruno Jelovic auf einen neuen Weg. In seinem Hörbuch nimmt er uns mit auf seine Ranch in Bosnien, den Alltag und die Notfälle dort, die sein Team und er jeden Tag aufs Neue angehen. In kleinen Anekdoten und emotionalen Rückblenden erzählt er von Freundschaft zwischen Tier und Mensch, der engen Bindung zu besonderen Mitstreitern und dem Schicksal, das ganz unverhofft anklopft und alles verändert.

In 1996, John Greenewald, Jr. began researching the secret inner workings of the U.S. Government at the age of fifteen. He targeted such agencies as the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, Air Force, Army, Navy, NSA, DIA, and countless others. Greenewald utilized the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to gain access to more than two million pages of documents. This archive includes information relating to UFOs, the JFK Assassination, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and top secret aircraft.

A gripping, deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance by a student protestor–turned–political prisoner in post-revolution Egypt. “I will never be the same after reading Huna.” —Javier Zamora “A beautifully written portrait of a radical political awakening.”...

Leading sociologist Xolela Mangcu draws on original interviews and archival research – as well as on his own unique understanding of the complexities of Black South African culture – to offer an important corrective account of Mandela's identity, character, and political career. Mangcu not only sets the record straight about Mandela's Thembu, rather than Xhosa, heritage, but also uncovers a fundamental political pragmatism Mandela developed thanks to his family's strategic alliances with colonialists and through his own Victorian-style education at leading British mission schools.

The Dream Maker is the extraordinary early biography of Patrick Atkinson — a young North Dakota man who stepped unarmed into war zones, red-light districts, drug corridors, and the darkest corners of the world to protect children and women no one else would help. Written and narrated by award-winning journalist Monica Hannan, this internationally selling powerful and unforgettable true story reveals the hidden lives of the children and mothers Atkinson rescued, the peril he faced, and the unexpected moments of grace that shaped them all.

As a child, she was separated from her family and exposed to the worst of humanity. As an adult, she worked tirelessly to establish homeless shelters and to feed thousands in her community. This memoir shows her extraordinary journey from fear to forgiveness, from victim to hero, from childhood trauma to an inspiration of hope for those most vulnerable. Meet Betty Kwan Chinn.