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WINNER 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHYAn engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914090304Author Michael G. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915841490Author Daryl EasleaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Omnibus PressPublisher Omnibus Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954118447Author Matti FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA Inc

In this powerful debut memoir, Neesha Powell-Ingabire chips away at coastal Georgia’s facade of beaches and golden marshes to recover undertold Black history alongside personal and family stories. In May of 2020, Neesha Powell-Ingabire’s hometown became...

A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616499976Author William Cope MoyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hazelden Information & Educational ServicesPublisher Hazelden Information &...

A lucid memoir reckoning with grief and the search for understanding in the wake of a sister’s suicide.Rebecca Spiegel is working as a teacher in New Orleans when she learns of her sister Emily’s death by suicide. Shocked, she flies back to Philadelphia...

An inspiring, rags-to-riches guide to achieving success in life and business by the founder of Myprotein®.How did a working-class 23-year-old, who left school with almost no qualifications, launch a business with just a £500 overdraft and turn it into...

Ultrarunner Jen Scotney has achieved podium finishes in some of the UK’s toughest races and now has her sights firmly set on the Pennine Way. In Running Through the Dark, Jen talks about her ambitions, not just to run the 268-mile Pennine Way but to take...

A girl with grit, determination, passion and a paintbrush—can achieve amazing things!Whether working in his studio or out in the field, Japanese artist Hokusai had a constant companion—his youngest daughter, Eijo. Wherever they went, Eijo brought along...

'I'm not past my prime. And neither are you!' Engaging and wise, A Work in Progress will resonate with every middle-aged woman who feels newly invisible, silenced, underestimated or diminished. From knowing our worth, looking ahead with excitement and...

Should architecture be used for punishment? How might the spaces we inhabit nurture or damage us? How can we begin to start over after the worst has happened? Criminologist Yvonne Jewkes grapples with these questions every day as the world’s leading...

A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşegül Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are...

A powerful biography that presents analysis of a black working-class woman who rose from a tenement slum in intensely racialized British Guiana to become a leading anti-colonialism, workers’ rights and women’s liberation activist in Britain. Jessica...

A child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents’ untold stories and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life.Growing up in Toronto, Sam Chaiton and his brothers knew their parents had been prisoners in Bergen-Belsen. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948954938Author S.L. WisenbergFormat PaperbackImprint Tortoise BooksPublisher Tortoise Books

A searing memoir about growing up in a fiercely loving, abusive rabbinical family in which the author’s father, the charismatic head of a splinter Orthodox religious community, demands unswerving loyalty—and a commitment to guarding terrible secrets...

“Nothing less than the history of a people in the form of an absorbing and emotionally searing memoir.”—David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded KneeGrowing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. While the representation of...

Beckett’s Children is a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father–son dialogue, and literary investigation that probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe in search of traces of their long-rumored status as father and...

This Is Our Life is the story of The Tragically Hip – the definitive account of their incredible journey, as told in their own words. Drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews, Rob Baker, Gord Downie, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair and the...

A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive Jack Kerouac’s archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593581261Author DeMar DeRozanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

An inspiring story of hearing loss and hope from The Bachelor’s first deaf contestantAbigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a...

While many recognize William Penn as the founder of Pennsylvania and a defender of religious liberty, much less is known about Penn as a man of faith. This wide-ranging history examines Penn as a deeply religious man who experienced personal triumph and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593533390Author Brad MeltzerFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582709345Author Lynn V. AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beyond Words PublishingPublisher Beyond Words Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423902Author Wickliffe W. WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684752164Author Todd R. NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450790Author Ann TemkinFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern Art

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635424249Author Piotr SmolarFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990776656Author Jon TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

A debut memoir from one of the first women in the United States to study wild wolves in their natural habitat—a story of passion, resilience, and determination."This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships...

The ex-politician and bestselling author Alan Johnson, who was a Labour cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, takes on the life and premierships of Harold Wilson.Book InformationISBN 9781800753327Author Alan JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count...

The tell-all memoir of Lunden Roberts's tumultuous relationship with Hunter Biden.He was sitting there wearing nothing but parrot boxer briefs, organizing his pipes on his Rosemont Seneca desk. I was sitting in Barack Obama's actual chair from the Senate...

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective storyIn December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John...

'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down'Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, laughed at the goal she'd set. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent...

The only biography of America’s most controversial lawyer.Legal Gladiator is the story of perhaps the greatest lawyer in American history. It is the story of a poor, failing high schooler from Brooklyn who became the youngest professor in the history of...

A NPR Best Book of the YearThe number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.The story of the Astors is a...

'Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs' Kate Mosse 'Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating' Alice Loxton A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret...