Biography & Autobiography

It has the privacy and immediacy of a diary but holds the interest like a novel. It follows the adventures, trials and tribulations of Nuibin Amhlaigh who keeps getting into trouble in his good soldier's progress through army life. A lost treasure of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982141509Author Vanessa SchneiderFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Two by Two is a fast-paced swirl through the dancing scene in L.A., where Leonardo DiCaprio has been known to swing at The Derby and Sandra Bullock salsas at El Floridita. Eve Babitz, a writer known for her hip, off-the-cuff, idiosyncratic style, spends...

"General Gavin was a very brave man who had great faith in his men. The battle or the weather never stopped him from going to check the troops. He would go in the rain or snow. If the battle was severe, he would crawl from foxhole to foxhole to talk to...

Emily's story begins on St. Stephen's Day, 2010, in St. John's, Newfoundland when she gives birth to a baby girl named Sadie Jane with a shock of snow-white hair. Within 3 months Sadie is diagnosed with albinism, a rare genetic disorder where pigment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586178208Author Janel RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894959407Author David J ShaylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Apogee BooksPublisher Collector's Guide PublishingWeight(grams) 504g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335016508Author Glenn KennyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producer. As former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum...

A Boob's Life explores the surprising truth about women's most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts-or loves them. Good Morning America's "25 must-read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951213794Author George SchlatterFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed Press

In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller - the story of one of post-war Britain's most intriguing polymaths. Descended from immigrants who fled Tsarist anti-Semitism to become shopkeepers in Ireland and London's East End,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823443338Author Charles R. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Neal Porter BooksPublisher Holiday House IncWeight(grams) 561gDimensions(mm) 262mm *...

"Scott Parazynski's drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with every fiber in their being." -John Glenn, NASA astronaut An epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473589738Author Brendan ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Long Echo PublishingPublisher Long Echo PublishingWeight(grams) 476g

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a leading statesperson in an era when few imagined such possibilities for women. In this fresh interpretation, the first full biography of Addams in nearly forty years, Louise W. Knight shows Addams's boldness, creativity, and...

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived at his side for more than fifty years as wife and mother of six? How...

"Fate has thrown me some interesting curves," says Elmo Williams, the farm boy turned film editor, director and producer. As a young boy, he traveled with his family in a covered wagon to a new life in a New Mexico homestead. After struggling to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888397454Author Bodie TheoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398467729Author Wesley BoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878866Author Gene SimmonsFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788789363Author Phil JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Vanessa Milano was born in England but now lives in the South of France with her French husband and family. The Heart of an Artichoke, her first novel, is based on true events: life as the daughter of a military father, living through riots in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815731412Author Moshe ArensFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 237mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063086876Author Lindy Elkins-TantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791427521Author Kent WorcesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Frank Shamrock was widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. But first he suffered through a childhood of neglect, juvenile delinquency, and petty crime. He was eventually taken in by Bob Shamrock, who fostered hundreds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351863Author Mathieu LindonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987304605Author Warren MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Warren MacDonald Unlimited IncPublisher Warren MacDonald Unlimited IncWeight(grams)...

Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both. 'We don't choose where we're born. Geography ends up being everything.' Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years ago in the Middle East when Shaimaa was Shelley's student at the...

The fourth, expanded edition of this successful title presents over 50 contemporary treehouses and various conceptions designed by architect Andreas Wenning. The spectrum ranges from private refuges to adventure spaces in nature and treehouse hotels...

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured womanWritten in...

"The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war" (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary Combat Obscura. This is a war story. But it is also a...

Few British pastors can claim to have written a book that is amongst the 'life-books of their generation', yet Boston is one. His Fourfold State of Man has been the instrument of countless conversions and could be said to have changed the zeitgeist of...

The artists in this book defied genre and social convention to shape the music industry as we know it. But many of these incredible musicians have been overlooked or cast in supporting roles in their own stories simply because they are women. Until now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825385Author Doug StanhopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593298824Author Benjamin TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 144mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311397Author Sara CheikhFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375713804Author Beverly LowryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 237gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...