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Filled with sparkling anecdotes and tales of living life to the full, featuring previously unseen photographs from Lady Glenconner's personal collection.Lady Anne Glenconner, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret and Maid of Honour at the Queen's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916246690Author Helen Parker-DrabbleFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Animi PressPublisher Animi Press

In 1911 Alice Day Pratt, single and nearing forty, boarded a train and left the east coast to file claim on 160 acres of land in the Central Oregon high desert. She was one among tens of thousands of people who took up homesteads in the arid West in the...

Richard L. Neuberger is a consequential but often forgotten figure in Oregon history, largely due to his early death at forty-seven, near the end of his only term in the United States Senate. But his life and legacy continue to inspire Oregonians and...

Jim McConnell was one of the first Americans to serve with the French during WWI, first as an ambulance driver and then as a pilot. On the University of Virginia campus, one can find a winged, 12-foot-tall bronze statue titled The Aviator...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962603270Author Yue-Sai KanFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo PublicationsDimensions(mm) 215mm * 152mm * 33mm

The authoritative, official inside story of 40 years of Live Aid, from Band Aid to todayIn 1985, with GBP100+ million in his back pocket from Live Aid - the greatest rock concert the world had ever seen - Bob Geldof took a trip across Africa to decide...

The first major biography on artist Louise Bourgeois brings the life and work of an iconic twentieth-century artist into sharp focus Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. She is known for a body of...

The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century According to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), philosophy is a "battle...

An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her uncomfortable. Maybe she would rather not know. Instead,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493091461Author Charles FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Globe Pequot Press

Capturing all the pain and glory of this incredible family saga, Surf's Up is the definitive tribute to a remarkable band - and the genius who made it all possible. If any man in pop history deserved the tag of genius, it was Brian Wilson. As leader,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953691996Author Simmons, SonnyFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Blank Forms EditionsPublisher Blank Forms Editions

As a young boy Michele was destined for the priesthood, but he later became a celebrated drag queen and stripper. With no formal training Michele also became a hairstylist to the Who's Who of Johannesburg. The late Jane Engelhard sent Michele to work...

On the world stage, the opera Porgy and Bess is acclaimed as a distinctively American, yet universal, classic. Though scholars and the popular press have discussed it for nearly one hundred years, no one has factored in the major contributions of one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967751044Author Barbara WansbroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

In Driftin' on a Memory: Celebrating Seventy Years of the Isley Brothers, Trenton Bailey tells the story of this groundbreaking musical act. The Isley Brothers began recording as a vocal trio consisting of the brothers O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley,...

"How would our lives change," wondered entrepreneur Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard in 1987, "if everyday people had a stable, high-speed data connection to the Internet?" While he wasn't the first to imagine a world of digital connectivity, Yassini-Fard was in the...

War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895-1977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew of the famed novelist John Galsworthy. Revealing him to...

Growing up in the wake of the Spanish military's shattering defeat at the hands of the United States in 1898 over Cuba and having survived a bullet to the stomach while serving his country in Morocco, it is perhaps no wonder that Francisco Franco's fame...

In Driftin' on a Memory: Celebrating Seventy Years of the Isley Brothers, Trenton Bailey tells the story of this groundbreaking musical act. The Isley Brothers began recording as a vocal trio consisting of the brothers O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887441344Author Sheena KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny Goodman,...

Philip Burton (1904-95) is best remembered as the schoolmaster responsible for training and transforming his pupil Richard Jenkins into Richard Burton, world- famous star of stage and screen. Together they produced a remarkable symbiosis. The...

Rusty Egan, co-founder of Visage and resident DJ at London's iconic Blitz Club, helped define the New Romantic music movement. His autobiography captures the birth of British electronic music, 1980s London nightlife, and collaborations with Midge Ure,...

Out There recounts one man's search to lead an authentic life, an adventure that takes him all over the world and through some of the biggest societal changes of recent history. From a distance, this could be a typical American story: boy grows up in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685970376Author Ted GeltnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 454g

The coming-of-age memoir of a homebirth midwife in the desert Southwest. Within these birth stories is a larger story of Wrankle leaving her childhood religion and raising her three children in the culturally harsh and unforgiving landscape of southern...

A collection of letters exchanged between the author and four "outriders"-artists, writers, and activists who risk everything to confront censorship, injustice, and the constraints of convention In More Letters from the Edge, Margaret Randall continues...

The literary memoir of a founder of Tel Aviv, now available for the first time in an annotated English translation. Born in Jaffa in 1870, Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche grew up within a notable Sephardi family in the local Jewish community. He went on to...

Elizabeth Lowe charts her journey to becoming a translator through a series of vignettes relating her life as a " third-culture kid" and living and working abroad in a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages. She lived in Germany as a young child...

A Chicagoan's coming-of-age memoir finds courage in the face of immense loss In her early twenties, Maggie Andersen was a founding ensemble member of Chicago's storied Gift Theatre with her then-boyfriend, Michael Patrick Thornton. But after a series of...

When a mid-life couple finds an old farm that promises refuge from hectic lives and encroaching illness, their world opens up to unexpected adventures: breeding heritage goats, hogs, and cattle; managing a half-dozen large guardian dogs; dealing with...

The first Black woman graduate of the University of South Carolina recounts a life of activism and service Come Along with Me is a compelling memoir of resilience, activism, and breaking barriers in the causes of health equity and social justice. Henrie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896360087Author Stephanie L. MaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes Press

'A wonderfully engaging, honest and witty portrait of the humiliations, idealism, nobility and banality of democratic life' - Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge'Wryly self-deprecating, but also informative and illuminating' - Matt CooperAs...

Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny Goodman,...

Since the early 1960s, the Journal of the William Morris Society (renamed Journal of William Morris Studies in 2005) has attracted a wide range of scholars to consider the life and work of this pivotal figure in Victorian culture. During that time the...

A Village Boy's Memoir is the compelling story of Professor Upendra Chowdary's life, from growing up in village in India in a Zamindar family, to becoming a Professor of Neurosurgery. Leaving behind his family in India, this was a journey that required...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637747872Author Nattie NeidhartFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint BenBella BooksPublisher BenBella Books