**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “5 UNDER 35” NOMINEE • NEW YORK’S “ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK” PICKNamed One of the Best Books of the Year: Washington Post • NPR • People • Refinery29 • Parade • BuzzFeed“Mirza writes with a mercy that encompasses all things.”*—*Ron Charles, Washington PostHailed as “a book for our times” (Christiane Amanpour), A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonan...

Chronic pain can impair your ability to function in your daily life. You need to find relief in order to get through the day, be able to sleep at night, and be fully present for those you care about. You nurse the hope, dwindling now after all these months, maybe even years, to regain your life, one that is free from agony.Unfortunately, there are not many places to turn to and even the medical community may have exhausted their wealth of expertise.Here's some good news: what...

A century-old Vatican prophecy. A priest with a soldier's past. A secret powerful enough to shake the world.Father Kevin Thrall lives a quiet life as chaplain to a poor inner-city parochial school in Washington, D.C. But beneath his collar is a past he has never fully escaped: combat with an elite military unit and instincts that can reach for a weapon as quickly as a prayer.Then the Vatican calls.Thrall is sent on a dangerous mission tied to one of history's most e...

“Charming and disarming, a story like this heals the divides that threaten to destroy America. Don’t Label Me speaks for all of us who are more than the boxes that others put us into.” — Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author.A unique conversation about diversity, bigotry, and our common humanity, by the New York Timesbestselling author, Oprah “Chutzpah” award-winner, and founder of the Moral Coura...

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to Manhattan and beyond.“Ali’s strength and passion for food and her culture shines through. . . . This memoir is a tribute to the extraordinary life and impact she made in twenty-nine...

An urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage of the genocide in Gaza, told by Palestinians.Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is Together, bears witness to the vast and ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people—their lives, their land, and their future.Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on starvation. Mariam Ba...

Analysing the photos taken on 17 October 1917 in Fatima by Benoliel, the so-called miracle of the sun, the author of this essay verified that in two of them tracks of smoke were visible and an object in the sky that, according to his knowledge of astrophysics and meteorology, could not be the sun. With many doubts about his discovery, he felt that the only way to check it would be to see the picture’s negative and confirm whether or not those objects and tracks of smoke were the same, or i...

In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father Murtaza was murdered, along with six of his associates. In December 2007, Benazir Bhutto, Fatima’s aunt, and the woman she had publically accused of ordering her father’s murder, was assassinated in Rawalpindi. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies for one of th...

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Yvonne Johnson had one goal, start fresh, rebuild, and survive. After her father’s business collapsed, she left everything behind. Enrolling in a new university and juggling a part-time job at one of the city’s most elite restaurants. Life was tough, but she was making it work until the one person she trusted most betrayed her.When a massive sum of money disappears from the restaurant’s accounts, Yvonne is framed as an accomplice. With the police after her and no way to prove her i...

Most novels are written by professional writers using second hand material. Not this one. Peirene commissioned nine refugees to tell their 'Shatila Stories'. The result is a piece of collaborative fiction unlike any other. If you want to understand the chaos of the Middle East – or you just want to follow the course of a beautiful love story – start here.Adam and his family flee Syria and arrive at the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. Conditions in this overcrowded P...

The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours a day on public transport to and from the city, where she feels like a tourist observing Parisian manners. She goes from unstable student to maladjusted adult, doing four years of therapy - her longest relationship. But as she gains distance from her ...