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'One of the best political memoirs I've read in years' The Times 'Gripping... enjoyable' Amol Rajan, BBC Today Programme 'Recalls the boisterous fiction of Hanif Kureishi' The Telegraph 'A remarkable story of resilience and ambition, brimming with love for his family' Sunday Times 'Striking...

Literary legend James A. Michener was “a Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart” (The New York Times Book Review). In this exceptional memoir, the man himself tells the story of his remarkable life and describes...

Former Prime Minister Theresa May exposes the abuse of power by public institutions and politicians in a series of riveting first-hand accounts from her time in office. As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the...

Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation’s current predicament—and how our future depends on finding ways to instill confidence in the American project, and in each other. Trust is the essential foundation of America’s democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she’s learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. Not many White House...

A voice of reason in a polarized U.S. Senate, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska tells the story of how she learned to adapt to the harsh climate of Washington, D.C., and issues a fervent appeal for a politics grounded in compromise and compassion. “Two paths diverged—Lisa Murkowski took the one less...

**Instant New York Times bestseller** This program is read by the author. A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government. Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan’s alarm clock was set to go off at...

O enredo do volume 2 de Trapaça – Saga Política no Universo Paralelo Brasileiro começa horas antes do ponto em se encerra a história do volume 1. O diapasão temporal vai da madrugada do dia 1º de outubro de 1992, quando Itamar Franco assumiria a Presidência da República substituindo Fernando Collor, que passava a responder a um processo de impeachment, até a segunda-feira 26 de abril de 1999 quando o ex-presidente do Banco Central, Francisco Lopes, sai preso do Senado Federal.

Winner of Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2020 'Dan Jarvis's story is a belter. It's about love, loss, courage and determination told with his customary modesty which fails to disguise the amazing man behind the story' Alan Johnson Dan Jarvis is an MP and a Mayor, but this is not a...

The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post. Like...

Pela primeira vez o jornalista Luís Costa Pinto – que há quase 30 anos deu início ao processo que resultou na queda do presidente Fernando Collor – revela os bastidores de uma investigação dramática, num tempo em que nem a Polícia Federal nem o Ministério Público estavam aparelhados para cumprir com o papel que exercem hoje. Trapaça – Volume 1 – Collor é o primeiro de quatro audiolivros da saga que pretende contar, em ritmo de thriller policial e literário, os bastidores do poder no Brasil ao longo de três décadas, da ascensão e queda de Collor aos dias de hoje.

The extraordinary memoir from Dylan Thomas Prize-winning poet, Kayo Chingonyi. Did leaving begin the hold that writing would have over my life as a wrote into this most expansive of absences? 1993. Shortly after his father’s death, six-year-old Kayo is smuggled out of Zambia onto a plane bound...

“Don’t tell nobody our business,” Michael Tubbs’ mother often told him growing up. For Michael, that meant a lot of things: Don’t tell anyone about the day-to-day struggle of being Black and broke in Stockton, CA. Don’t tell anyone the pain of having a father incarcerated for 25 years to life. Don’t tell anyone about living two lives: the brainy bookworm and the kid with the newest Jordans.

New York Times bestseller Twenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how they—and America—have changed in the last two decades. James Carville and Mary Matalin have long held the mantle of the nation’s most ideologically...

“Right out of the pages of our lives…Compelling portraits placed in the excitement of a period when oppressed and powerless people moving together changed themselves and their country profoundly and permanently.” —The New York Times Book Review The essential moments of the Civil Rights...

In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given...