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"اعتدت العيش وسط الظلام منذ نحو ستة وعشرين عاماً، منذ كنت في السادسة من عمري"... هكذا يتحدث محمد راشد الغفلي، الشاعر والصحافي والإذاعي والمسرحي، عن رحلته في الحياة التي أبصر جمالياتها رغم فقدانه لحاسة البصر. وتمكن من تجاوز "التحدي الذي واجهه" بكل إيمان ويقين، فأصبح ناجحاً متميزاً في كل مجال عمل فيه.

يعدُّ يعقوب صروف أحد الأعلام اللبنانيين، فهو عالمٌ وأديب وصحفي، كان واسع الاطّلاع موسوعي المعرفة، أسّس مجلة "المقتطف" الأدبية والعلمية الشهيرة ورأس تحريرها حتى وفاته.

Picking up where he left off at the end of his widely praised debut memoir, One of These Things First, Gaines recounts his hilarious, sometimes poignant attempt to forge a writing career and a successful love life in the gay world of the 1970s. He has limited success until he falls in love with an older woman dying of cancer.

Charles M. Blow’s mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to “love that blurred her vision and bent the barrel.” Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his “do-right” mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and After—the day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Michael Gerson possessed one of the most important consciences of his generation. As the chief speech writer for George W. Bush, he wrote the words that rallied and ennobled the nation after September 11th. He helped design and champion Bush’s PEPFAR program, which saved upwards of 20 million lives as HIV ravaged Africa. Defiant Hope is his writings about the things he loved—humanity, God, his dog, and his boys.