Biography & Autobiography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528951630Author Tina Wyngarde-HopkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 532Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Liz Goldwyn's lifelong fascination with the inimitable glamour of classic burlesque inspired her to spend the past eight years corresponding with, visiting, interviewing, receiving striptease lessons from, and forming close relationships with the last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586173432Author Fr Paul GlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 295g

Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D. H. Lawrence spans the full range of his intellectual interests and creative output to offer new insights into Lawrence's life, work, and...

At the beginning of his diary, on 1st January 1660, Samuel Pepys noted that 'Lawson lies still in the River'. A mere two weeks before, amid rioting in the streets of London and with Parliament under the control of the army, Vice-Admiral John Lawson had...

The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography that examines Henry Kissinger's role in American government through his ideas. It analyses the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam and...

In November 2010, Andrew Strauss faced the ultimate challenge for an England cricket captain: winning the Ashes on Australian soil, a feat that had not been achieved for 24 years. By the end of a series that gripped the nation, he had led his team to an...

This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385527194Author Ram OrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Image BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156034678Author Lynne CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing...

A deeply moving memoir of addiction, loss, and survival. This is Hunter Biden's story of tragedy and trauma, and his journey to overcome it all.'In his harrowing and compulsively readable memoir, Hunter Biden tells it all with a bravery that is both...

Untangling the myths and legends of many centuries, this biography gives us the real Eleanor-tenacious, defiant, and powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680512038Author Beth JusinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mountaineers BooksPublisher Mountaineers Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250313966Author Doris Kearns GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's GriffinPublisher Thomas Dunne Book for St...

The Sunday Times bestseller.Stephanie Pratt is the consummate reality star.Since 2007, her life has been lived almost as much on the small screen as off it, and constantly analysed in gossip columns. In Made in Reality, Stephanie gives an exclusive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963837Author Kai-Yin LoFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982179380Author Barbara ButcherFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

With his recent theatrical success, The Play What I Wrote, Braben shows that the audience for the spirit of the incomparable Eric and Ernie is just as alive today as it was in their glory years. Now, the key figure behind their success, scriptwriter...

Clarence Darrow was one of the most legendary and influential trial lawyers the world has ever seen. Famous for his ability to turn seemingly unwinnable cases his way through his oratory and his uncanny skill at reading the mood of a jury, he was a man...

Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979718Author Kathryn HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 203gDimensions(mm)...

Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan Salzman), gives readers a personal and powerful account of his survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. With...

Alcoholics Anonymous is one of the most significant self-help books of the twentieth century with an estimated thirty-seven million copies sold, translated into seventy languages. Released in 1939, the Big Book, as it is commonly known, has spawned a...

As a child, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. A year into an astrophysics PhD program, plagued by self-doubt and discouraged by a white male professor who suggested that she -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553626Author Tony TalburtFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited

As a kid, Randy Lanier dreamed of achieving four-wheel glory at the Indianapolis 500, but knew he'd never be able to afford the most expensive sport on earth. That all changed when he bought a speedboat and began smuggling pot from the Bahamas. Fueled by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688119157Author James RiordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 664gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385198707Author John TytellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 559gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

How America fell for financier Bernie Madoff's $65 billion investment scam.It was luxurious Palm Beach, by the manicured lawns and Olympic-sized swimming pool, that financier Bernard Madoff ravaged the world of philanthropy and high society he had...

A biography of America's greatest all-around athlete that "goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe's life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty" (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993453007Author Helene De KlerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Elysee AssociatesPublisher Elysee Associates

A tsarevich, Nicholas visited Bangkok in 1891 as part of his Eastern Tour, celebrating the opening of the eastern branch of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Lavishly entertained by the Thai monarch, the two become close and an enduring friendship ensued. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905379699Author Paul GarriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Maverick HousePublisher Maverick HouseWeight(grams) 194g

Part of the `Biographic' series, which presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. This book takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of Gustav Klimt, and uses...

Mel Lewis (1929-1990) was born Melvin Sokoloff to Jewish Russian immigrants in Buffalo, New York. He first picked up his father's drumsticks at the age of two and at seventeen he was a full-time professional musician. The View from the Back of the Band...

Focusing on Augustine's personal transformation and dependence on the the Word of God, author Gerald Bray shows us how this ancient theologian can sharpen and encourage Christians today."Gerald Bray accomplishes an improbable task with this remarkable...

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political warfare, they found expression for what it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781433540745Author John BoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crossway BooksPublisher Crossway BooksWeight(grams) 386g

The memoir of legendary cartoonist John Callahan, now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara.Featuring more than 60 of Callahan's original cartoonsIn 1972, at the age of twenty-one, John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137919Author Andrew LownieFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 148mm *...