Biography & Autobiography

Palo Alto, California, is home to stratospheric real estate prices and equally high expectations, a place where everyone has to be good at something and where success is often defined by the name of a prestigious college on the back of a late-model...

Renowned for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering photographer. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama, including a near-fatal stagecoach...

"A memoir wrapped in an elegy... [that] maps a strangely stunning life... [Wallace] imbues this chronicle with tremendous compassion - for William, for everyone. This Isn't Going to End Well gives off the particular radiance of a life lived hard,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307476586Author Vladimir NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Chicken Little is BACK! But this time, someone new is in town. Chicken Little meets the BIG. BAD. WOLF! Chicken Little is NOT afraid of anything, not even a wolf. No matter how big or bad he is! In fact, she's never...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859651455Author Guus LuijtersFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Elected MP for Londonderry in 1955 as the second-youngest member of the House, Robin Chichester-Clark was at the forefront of Northern Irish politics for almost 20 years during one of the most turbulent periods in its history. A son and grandson of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039148789Author Craig ColbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Lightning through the Clouds is the first English-language life-and-times biography of 'Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a preeminent figure who helped to reshape the political and religious landscape of the region. A Syrian-born, Egyptian-educated cleric, he went...

A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451617535Author Denise KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 152mm * 28mm

Abby Johnson thought she knew what mercy was when she ushered desperate women toward abortion as the director of a Planned Parenthood facility. She was wrong. It wasn't until she understood the blood on her hands that she personally experienced the power...

With the warmth and humour we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up...

The triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artistTOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of...

This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s.Book...

David Livingstone rose from being a factory boy to become an African explorer and a hero of the Victorian age. This volume of essays, rich in new scholarship, tie in with an exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland (beginning 23 November 2012) which...

The first intimate look at the cracked fairytale life of Hollywood's first family, the Farrows. John Farrow was Hollywood royalty. An Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter, he was married to the talented and beautiful actress Maureen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451645798Author Charles LeerhsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

In 1812 the French emperor Napoleon decided to invade Russia. For this purpose, he gathered an army of half a million men and women, consisting of soldiers from all nationalities, including French, German and Italian. Serving in this army was Carel Jacob...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982175658Author Charles OakleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627793537Author Riad SattoufFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Metropolitan BooksPublisher Metropolitan BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728254623Author Judy RakowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 143mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062571977Author Isy SuttieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992597Author Jan WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061125744Author Bill ElliottFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249g

Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal...

In this entertaining autobiography, the Rev. Patrick Forbes looks back at an exceptionally varied ministry in the Church of England - from being the idiot curate to parish priest, to religious programs producer, to a BBC Radio 2's "Pause For Thought"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250217233Author Alisson WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062643568Author C S LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242179Author Camonghne FelixFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

After spending more than twenty-six years as a Special Agent with the FBI, Kathy Stearman recounts the global experiences that shaped her life-and the mixed feelings that she now holds about the sacrifices she had to make to survive in a man's world.When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586422516Author Sam AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525432159Author Henning MankellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A must read for serious leaders at every level." -General Barry R. McCaffrey (Ret.) The FBI's former head of counterintelligence reveals the Bureau's field-tested playbook for unlocking individual and organizational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800748613Author J .DFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Stephen L. Hauser is an acclaimed physician and neuroimmunologist who has spent his career performing cutting-edge research on multiple sclerosis (MS), a devastating brain disease that affects millions of people worldwide. His work has revolutionized our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617753992Author Mark SegalFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 353g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335914026Author Natalie BeachFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398450592Author Leonardo PieroniFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers