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'A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own' Rory Stewart'A brilliant portrait not just of a great and unjustly forgotten man, but of an entire age' William Dalrymple'Important reading at any time in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771624459Author Keriann McGooganFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

The life of Honor, Lady Lisle, follows a dizzying narrative arc. Born into a West Country family, her second marriage propelled her into Anne Boleyn's court, as the new step-aunt to Henry VIII. Her husband, Arthur, was the illegitimate son of Edward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068698019Author Stewart MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Beatdom BooksPublisher Beatdom Books

The authors of this dual memoir did not live through the trauma of the Holocaust; they inherited it. Whether survivor-parents revealed what they endured or erected barriers of silence, the horrors they experienced permeated the lives of their children...

Little People, BIG DREAMS Louis Braille explores the life of the remarkable man behind Braille, the tactile reading and writing system.Little Louis was a curious child – always exploring and having adventures. Then one day, while playing in his father's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514011409Author Kathleen NorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint IVP FormatioPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668094716Author Arundhati RoyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976600692Author Jerry AppsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918122008Author Stuart Reid FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Noble Legacy PublishingPublisher Noble Legacy PublishingWeight(grams)...

A memoir of a professional football dream that became reality. The book is a fascinating first hand account of disappointment, drive, ambition and resilience. Andy Leaning reveals a unique insight into the emotional and mental qualities required to...

Timothy M. Gay writes that four-time major champion Rory McIlroy is "golf's ageless Opie Taylor," a freckled superstar whose boyish charm transcends national boundaries and enlivens the game. His seemingly effortless swing is so powerful that Tiger Woods...

Learn about the inspiring story of Ludwig van Beethoven, the ground-breaking pianist and composer who changed the shape of classical music.Little Ludwig grew up in the city of Bonn in Germany. His father and his grandfather were both musicians, and they...

A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068475511Author Mark HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Tulip PublishingPublisher Tulip Publishing

Journey Back Into the Vault invites people to travel with author Mario Cartaya back to the land of his birth for the first time in fifty-six years as he seeks to reclaim his forgotten childhood memories, original identity, and once-promised destiny. Join...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685970345Author Pat LipskyFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593732106Author Raymond AntrobusFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint HogarthPublisher HogarthWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 145mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804661444Author Caroline BrewerFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint What on Earth!Publisher What on Earth!

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639734740Author Miriam ToewsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374178710Author Nicholas BoggsFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259412Author Linda PawlentyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009,...

This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historical rupture of the Holocaust and World War II. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593803288Author Robert B. ReichFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668201336Author Scott Kid Cudi MescudiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917455183Author Esther AsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Malcolm Down Publishing LtdPublisher Malcolm Down Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837947348Author R.C MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

To be published on what will be the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, survivor Setsuko Thurlow shares her memories of that horrific event and her resulting lifelong commitment to activism to ban nuclear arms.When Setsuko...

At a time when real-life heroes or role models can be scarce, these ordinary people are making a difference in human rights, not for glory but for good...Voices Against Trafficking is a compelling collection of firsthand accounts of people who found...

In 1969, James Owens (1951-2016) made sports history as the first Black football player at Auburn University-a significant milestone that marked the beginning of the end of segregation in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Owens, a running back, was an...

In 1969, James Owens (1951-2016) made sports history as the first Black football player at Auburn University-a significant milestone that marked the beginning of the end of segregation in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Owens, a running back, was an...

From a childhood shaped by neglect and violence to three brutal years spent in a cold, indifferent convent, Breda O'Toole's early life was marked by abandonment. When she sought help, she entered a mental health system that continued the pattern -...

Deborah Kapchan's Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritual. Taking readers from New York, Paris, and Casablanca to Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi while exploring her Christian childhood, Jewish...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, detailing her harrowing escape from slavery and seven years hiding in an attic crawl space and the racism she faced in freedom. The Norton...

First published in 1978, The Worlds of Patrick Geddes is a study of Patrick Geddes’ thought and action, his relationships and his life, as someone who defied labelling and who was years ahead of his contemporaries. The work of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)...

"I am more than what has happened to me."With the world's politics in a mess, with an American President leading that charge, American playwright, Richard Nelson, wrote and directed a play for Theater on Podil in Kyiv, Ukraine. Throughout the ten weeks...

In Body Problems, M. Wolff offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and activist whose body was continuously policed and politicized. Gross's role in founding Intersex South Africa and her involvement with the...

Cunninghame Graham was a famous and hugely influential figure in late 19th and early 20th century Scottish politics and literature. He published 34 books during his lifetime, equally divided between histories (mostly of South America), and anthologies of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781963937Author Brian SladeFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Fantom Films LimitedPublisher Fantom Films Limited