Biography & Autobiography

On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder left his office hoping for a glimpse of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade as it passed by Dealey Plaza. A Russian Jewish immigrant who wholeheartedly loved his home in America, Abe thrilled at the chance to see...

Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes ("The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Let America Be America Again") were collaborators, literary gadflies and close companions. They travelled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through...

This is the remarkable life of Sir Cyril Taylor, relating his experience as a toddler in a Congo mission, a teenage platoon commander amid the Kenyan Mau Mau insurgency and a brand manager for Procter & Gamble in the early 1960s. His life's achievement...

'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising . . . Low's conclusion is a valuable one.' The TelegraphThe gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416553656Author Steve MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer," Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation...

While the murder of his wife devastated Anthony Thompson, he and three other relatives of victims chose to privately and publicly forgive the shooter. Years later, the church and community still struggle to understand the family members' deliberate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930051201Author Thomas KeatingFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USDimensions(mm) 191mm * 114mm * 7mm

In 1964, at age 22, Len Downie joined the Washington Post as an intern. He became a pioneering investigative reporter, news editor, foreign correspondent, and managing editor, before succeeding the legendary Ben Bradlee as executive editor.As Downie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375750366Author Bryan MageeFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

As a child, Joe Beck heard about his father's legacy: Foster Beck had once been a respected trial lawyer who defied the unspoken code of 1930s Alabama by defending a black man charged with raping a white woman. A lawyer himself, Beck became intrigued by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759696167Author Shony Alex BraunFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 327g

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 4 Scholastic Set: 07 Title: The Jumping Contest Focus: Adjacent consonants with short vowel sounds (example words: jumping cricket frog spring) Tricky words: the of I said no he be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364053Author Antonia FraserFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm *...

On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator’s father poses two unsettling questions: “Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?” Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097698Author Eddie JakuFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form...and how it formed him!**In a new flexibound format with an updated afterword**This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881310Author John VerneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 294g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618054749Author Jan SwaffordFormat HardbackPage Count 1104Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

One of the most eminent engineers of the 20th century, both on the national anand international stage, Professor Sir Alec Skempton was truly an influential figure in the discipline of soil mechanics. In the late 1940s he was instrumental in developing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330044Author Carlton JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 142mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114457Format PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 656g

Discover the "road map to changing your life by changing the lives of others" (Jillian Michaels, New York Times bestselling author) with the eye-opening and inspirational story of how one person-a film producer by trade and an optimist by...

He's been called "America's greatest living tailor" and "the most interesting man in the world." Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451626216Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 276mm *...

The essays in this collection are a tribute to Stuart Hall, and to the outstanding contribution he has made to contemporary cultural, social and political thought. The central figure in the development of Cultural Studies, Hall's writing has influenced a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONTHE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a...

In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history and the generations that followed enjoyed immense...

Approximately one-third of parliamentary democracies are or are typically ruled by a minority government - a situation where the party or parties represented at cabinet do not between them hold a majority of seats in the national legislature. Minority...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067944Author M H OuvryFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 177g

Charles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of this country's finest directors, yet he remains largely unknown. His films, most notably Killer of Sheep (1977) and To Sleep with Anger (1990), are considered classics,...

It was 1967. Judy Huddleston's parents had just gotten divorced, and she spent her last year of high school attending Doors concerts. Transformed from a perceptive child into a rebellious teenager bent on attracting boys and fueled by psychedelics, she...

At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forcade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Weathering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593685211Author Cheryl StrayedFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' Helen Macdonald'Completely compelling.' Olivia Laing'Read it with awe and sorrow.' Fatima BhuttoAfter the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular,...

In 1972, Jan Wong became one of only two Westerners admitted to Beijing University at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, a student, Yin Luoyi, sought Jan's assistance in going to the United States. Wong, then a starry-eyed Maoist, reported...

With the aptly titled Bad Republican, Meghan McCain expresses how it is to feel like you no longer fit in with your political party.She tells of growing up the daughter of an American icon who shaped her life and details the heartbreaking final moments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888820430Author Shaul WebberFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc.Publisher Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc.Weight(grams) 500g

First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl's memoir Man's Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by...

"Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can't even remember where you were going."...