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No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō, whose calm exterior hides his tormented soul. Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.

In a world that celebrates the loud and outgoing, how does an introverted daughter of an immigrant rise to leadership in global finance? Quiet Perseverance is the answer to that question. Victoria Liu, a former COO of a prestigious investment bank, shares thirty transformative lessons from her journey as an outsider who turned her perceived weaknesses into formidable strengths.

Few politicians have risen to national prominence as quickly as Marco Rubio. Here is the full story of his unlikely journey. Florida Senator Marco Rubio electrified the 2012 Republican National Con­vention by telling the story of his parents, who were struggling immigrants from Cuba. They...

Richard Pryor journeys from his childhood in a family that worked in whore-houses and bars, through to his years in Hollywood - the money, the women, the drugs - and the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America. Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands...

Nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature ""An absolute must-read"" – Shondaland “[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York Times They called her Rabbit. Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the...

Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as...

Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.

The explosive, definitive account of Michael Jackson’s fall from grace has now been updated with four new fascinating chapters. Award-winning journalist Diane Dimond, who first broke the story of the King of Pop’s battles against child molestation charges from 1993 to 2005, takes you behind the scenes and into the courtroom of one of the most controversial cases of the decade. This audio version gives listeners a dramatic glimpse of one reporter’s vigilance and unending quest to uncover the truth.

Der jüdische Humor und seine Witze vermengen sich in Erwin Javors Erzählung wie ein Mosaik mit Geschichte und persönlichen Geschichten aus Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. Es ist ein Buch über ostjüdische Identität im Lauf der Generationen: subjektiv, ironisch, kritisch, lachend, weinend und liebevoll. Eine jüdische Familiengeschichte der ganz besonderen Art. Vom Schtetl nach Budapest, von Budapest nach Wien und nach Israel führt Erwin Javors Zeitreise. Sie ist eine Liebeserklärung an seine Eltern, deren Geschichten und Erzählungen über eine heute verlorene Welt ihn geprägt haben. Das Schtetl ist, mit Sehnsucht verklärt, im kollektiven jüdischen Gedächtnis immer noch präsent. Doch diese versunkene Welt war auch hart und erbarmungslos, und gerade daraus entstand der jüdische Humor. Was ist an ihm so besonders, warum bringt er uns zum Lachen? Weil hinter jeder guten Pointe, wie bei jeder guten Komödie, immer auch ein Stück Tragödie steht.

Die drei ???, Kultermittler aus Los Angeles von Alfred Hitchcocks Gnaden: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten.

Aikau's legendary life and legacy, a pipeline into the exhilarating world of surfing, and an important chronicle of the Hawaiian Renaissance and the emergence of modern Hawaii. In the 1970s, a decade before bumper stickers and T-shirts bearing the phrase Eddie Would Go began popping up all over the Hawaiian islands and throughout the surfing world, Eddie Aikau was proving what it meant to be a "waterman."

This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha.

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.

Mark Daniels Liebeserklärung an die Ruhrstadt und die Menschen, die seine Herzensheimat prägen. Das Hörbuch erzählt kuriose und berührende Geschichten unter anderem von Peter Steger, Hildegard Doebner, „Earny“ Dussin, Franco und Dominik Sapia oder Eddi und seinen Durst & Wurst Express. Historie und Humor strömen aus Orten wie Muttental, Thyssen, Wiesenviertel oder der Tanzschule Feldmann-Hartmann.

Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed...

Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just 14 years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the US, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.

Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship bound her to the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities and left her without a sense of cultural belonging. Yet Nora knew little about her own family’s involvement in the war: Though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.

This gifted storyteller poignantly shares the memories of those mentors and teachers who profoundly influenced her life. She speaks of her voluntary muteness as a child. Even in this silence, "Mama" (Angelou's grandmother) spoke prophetically to the child's unbelieving ears: "You'll speak about the glorious nature of the human spirit and what we can be striving for."

The remarkable autobiography of the globally-recognized human rights champion whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda “Fascinating…your book is called An Ordinary Man, yet you took on an extraordinary feat with courage, determination, and diplomacy.” – Oprah, O, The Oprah Magazine...