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When she was fifteen years old, Leslie King ran away from an abusive home, looking for a better life and longing for real love. What she found instead was a man who wooed her just long enough to trap her in a life of prostitution. She became one of the many thousands of trafficked individuals in the United States, a number that continues to rise.

From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour, and The Two Popes comes the fascinating account of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s friendship—one of the most impactful relationships in history, and the basis of an upcoming play and film. Few...

“Offers hope in the face of desperate odds” – ELLE Magazine, ELLE’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 “[D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir…This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the many families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.” – Publisher’s...

A “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America. Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for...

In 2018, 34 people were shot at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Jaime Guttenberg, a 14-year-old, was the second to last victim. That she and so many of her fellow students were struck down in cold blood galvanized many to action, including Jaime's father, Fred, who has become an activist dedicated to passing common-sense gun-safety legislation. This book is not about gun safety or Parkland. Instead, it tells the story of Fred Guttenberg's journey since Jaime's death and how he has been able to get through the worst of times thanks to the kindness and compassion of others.

Le 8 juin 2016, le Québec entier est en émoi. Les médias viennent d'annoncer qu'une femme a été sauvagement attaquée par un chien de type pitbull, dans la cour arrière de sa propre demeure, et qu'elle a succombé à ses blessures au terme de souffrance inimaginables. Christiane Vadnais a été cruellement tuée par une bête déchaînée – un drame infernal qui plonge sa famille dans le deuil et le désespoir.

A riveting memoir of the first Israeli-born Jewish American to be sent as a Peace Corps volunteer to a closed Arab society. A good memoir is a survivor's tale - the story of a person who has faced obstacles and made it through well enough to tell it. Dalya Cohen-Mor, a Sabra-born American woman, volunteered to serve in the Peace Corps, went through a lengthy and highly competitive application process, was accepted, and was sent to serve in the predominantly Palestinian country of Jordan.

When the bodies of two Black men were found sitting with a crackpipe in a parked car in a rundown section of town in 1994, it seemed just another day in Kansas City, Kansas. The swift arrest and conviction of a seventeen-year-old Black kid from a broken home raised no eyebrows either. And yet, thirty years later, Lamonte McIntyre would prove to be the David that took down the Goliath of corruption that had long controlled the city’s power structure and enveloped the city’s justice system.

In 2018, artist and activist Erin Darcy launched In Her Shoes – Women of the Eighth, an online project where Irish women anonymously shared the realities of abortion under the Eighth Amendment. Within months, hundreds of stories poured in, breaking decades of taboo and helping shift public opinion before Ireland's historic vote to repeal the Amendment that May. Garnering over 100,000 followers and global media attention, the project became both a national reckoning and a personal act of healing for Darcy, who transformed grief into activism.

Este no es un manual ni otra aburrida lectura sobre diversidad, equidad e inclusión, como las charlas (casi sermones) de sensibilización que dan las empresas. NO vas a encontrar historias de superación ni condescendencia, pero sí muchas anécdotas de la vida real. Aquí NO vas a recibir regaños ni juicios por los discursos que te tocó aprender en la escuela, en la tele o en casa por el simple hecho de nacer en una determinada época.

«Ordine compagni!» è la frase che risuona tra i cordoni di manifestanti incaricati di salvaguardare la compattezza e la sicurezza del corteo. È il Sessantotto, si aprono gli anni delle rivolte e delle stragi; quelli passati alla storia come "anni di piombo", solcati dalla paura e dalla voglia di cambiare il mondo, dal desiderio di riscatto e dalla lotta politica. Il Servizio d'ordine si identifica quindi come il braccio armato che coordina e protegge studenti e operai scesi in piazza, i rivoluzionari, i ribelli, i sognatori.

Anna Politkovskaja è una giornalista russa uccisa, a quarantotto anni, nel 2006 a Mosca. Con i suoi capelli grigi e gli occhialini in metallo, è diventata un'icona della libertà di espressione. Nella sua vita ha raccontato molte storie, ma nessuno aveva ancora raccontato la sua. Ora, eccola. Quella di Anna è, prima di tutto, una storia d'amore. A diciotto anni incontra Sasha, che diventerà un giornalista di successo.

El 2 de septiembre de 2016, la religiosa Isa Solá conducía por el centro de Puerto Príncipe cuando un hombre le disparó dos veces y acabó brutalmente con su vida. Solo tenía 51 años y muchos proyectos por hacer. Había llegado a Haití en 2008. Llevaba poco más de un año trabajando en este empobrecido país cuando un seísmo de siete grados en la escala de Richter se llevó la vida de 316.000 personas. Fue entonces cuando Isa, tras sobrevivir milagrosamente al terremoto, decidió compartir para siempre su vida con ese país.

Longtime feminist activist and writer Lynne Segal searches for hope in her own life and in the world around her, and finds it in our intimate commitments to each other and our shared collective engagements, the two being intertwined. Issues of care, intimacy, education, alongside meaningful work, and social engagement, lie at the core of our ability to understand the world and its possibilities for human flourishing. Segal looks at our shared lifelong dependence on care and the well-being of others.

In the 1990s, Steve Farrell cofounded and led two high-growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley that were featured in the INC500 and spanned the United States and Europe. A New Universal Dream is the inspiring story of Steve's journey from the pursuit of wealth and traditional ideas of success toward a more fulfilling life of caring and service to others and to humanity. It's also the story of the potential each of us has for profound change.

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times called him "one of the unsung heroes of modern times." Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most people have never even heard of. A former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid, he founded BRAC, originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, in 1972, aiming to help a few thousand war refugees. A half century later, BRAC is by many measures the largest nongovernmental organization in the world-and by many accounts, the most effective anti-poverty program ever.

In this dispatch from exile, Hong Kong political activist Nathan Law explores the meaning of freedom - and shows how easily freedoms can be eroded or dismantled. Freedom is fragile - it is not a given, and each generation must fight to protect it, whether in emerging democracies or in the Western world, where freedom is too often taken for granted.

William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934), although still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized Black working-class citizens to wield their political power despite the violent racism of post-Reconstruction America. For more than 30 years, the Harvard-educated Trotter edited and published the Guardian, a weekly Boston newspaper that was read across the nation.

Nelson Mandela is a global icon of peace and justice. An influence to human rights activists in South Africa, across the continent and on the Western and Eastern hemispheres, he is seen as an example to follow. Through his resilience, he showed tremendous courage in fighting against apartheid, to enduring the harsh conditions of prison on Robben Island, to leading a free and democratic South Africa as its first Black President and as leader of the African National Congress.

Julian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story. In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father comes a candid and compelling...