Crime meets Too Fat to Fish with the mad flavor of The Corporation in the highly anticipated debut memoir by Joey "Coco" Diaz. Born in Havana in 1963, Joey is brought to New York City as a toddler when his single mother flees Cuba under an alias after killing her sister's rapist. As she pursues her American Dream opening a bar and a bookmaking operation, Joey struggles to find his place as an immigrant in the world of violence, drugs, Santeria, and...

After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong ... this is her staggering true story. When Jade Kelly met her new foster mother she thought her prayers had been answered. Kindly Carol Docherty was everything her violent, drug addicted mother was not. Loving and nurturing, she fed and clothed ten-year old Jade and offered a life free of fear from near constant abuse....

Author Nevin Martell sets out on a very personal odyssey to understand the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes.

'I couldn't put it down' -Sofie Laguna This is a true story… A young man heads off on a journey to find out if magic still exists in the world, to know its wonder, and to see if it might save him when his own life is unexpectedly at stake. Instead of retreating after being deported from Mexico, or beaten up in Guatemala, he travels to the Caribbean where he meets a Rastafarian Don Juan who teaches him about the 'natural mystic;' a magical tradition...

In February 1942, nine-year-old Olga Morris and her family were in Singapore when the city fell to the Japanese Imperial Army in the biggest defeat in history of the British Forces. Turned back at an evacuation ship's gangway as the bombs fell, Olga and her parents and siblings were forced to take their chances and hide out until, captured by Japanese soldiers, they were sent on a forced march to the notorious Changi Prison. There's a certain stereotype...

Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over. The Gianfranco Rosi Collection includes four of his greatest films. Fire at Sea (2016), an Academy Award® Nominee for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, is a heart-wrenching portrait...

Behind the notorious Hudson men who dominated the Canterbury Estate for over 30 years were the girls, and my mam Shirley. Whether marrying into or determined to escape from it, the third installment of this gritty series recounts the incredible stories of the unflinching women behind the legendary Hudson family. The Canterbury Estate in Bradford during the '50s and '60s was a tight-knit community reared on poverty, crime and violence, and at the top...

Two Sisters, Two Years Apart, Two Different Gifts. Everyone thought Pam and Karen lived a very normal life but little did they know that behind the scenes, it was anything but normal. Sisters being two years apart, opposite in many ways but their connection to each other and the other dimensions takes the reader on a real-life chilling journey. Through their eyes, you will experience terrifying premonitions, ghostly encounters, and demonic attacks...

Rarely does a trauma therapist disclose their own trauma history . . . yet it's the untold, brutally honest, incredibly heartbreaking story of Dr. Frank Anderson that made him the world-renowned trauma expert he is today. Known for his magnetic and radiant personality, Frank spends his time training thousands of clinicians around the world on how to help clients with complex trauma make sense of their suffering. But underneath this charismatic exterior...

Stoicism was the philosophical current which predominantly expresses the Hellenistic and Roman period, up to the end of the 2nd century AD. As the city-state lost its political power, the importance of the integration of the citizen into its institutions diminished. In the Hellenistic megacities, moreover, the Macedonian royal dynasties ruled, which were then replaced by the Romans. The man of that time felt alone in the face of developments which...