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Life writing often explores the profound impact of border crossings, both physical and metaphorical. Writers navigate personal and cultural boundaries, reflecting on identity, belonging, and the transformative power of crossing thresholds. These...

Winton Dean (1916-2013), the renowned musical scholar and critic, gives a sparkling account of his early life – and of his disparate set of forbears. He writes of his controversial father, Basil Dean, the theatrical and film producer and founder of ENSA,...

From a magical childhood in Kenya, through misery at an American high school, to rescue by an inspirational teacher in England, Victoria Whitworth weaves a sublimely rich narrative, which is both an ode to her beloved Greece and Corfu, and a highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638041092Author Howard Erskine-HillFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

WHEN ROCK MET REGGAE: HOW THE CULTURAL CROSSOVER OF BOB MARLEY, THE CLASH, HTE SPECIALS AND MPORE CHANGED THE FACE OF ROCK MUSICBook InformationISBN 9781493074471Author Steven BlushFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint BackbeatPublisher Globe Pequot Press

On a cold and cozy December night in 2018, Jim Kaveney is dying. He is a husband, a father, a business owner, an athlete, and innovator. He is also an Afib patient facing massive cardiac trauma just in time for Christmas. In this breakout memoir, Jim...

Over sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap. Speaking from notes, he began with himself and his hope...

Georgia's story An East End story with a colourful backdrop of the grandfather's early association with the Kray Brothers. Her young mother becomes addicted to drugs after taking speed to lose weight and then moves onto other drugs including heroin. The...

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735213265Author Shalom AuslanderFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949024685Author Emily MarinelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Fayetteville Mafia PressPublisher Fayetteville Mafia Press

In a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ that leads her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence. When Pepper Stetler was told that her daughter, Louisa, who has Down...

*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*‘Extraordinary’ The Observer‘A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read’ New Yorker‘Lewis’s storytelling is as good as ever’ The EconomistFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735247352Author Atiba HutchinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892502177Author Keli SipperleyFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint ApexPublisher North Star Editions

In her early 20s, Edna Loftus had the world at her feet. As a showgirl in England and France during the Edwardian Era, she appeared in a number of successful theater productions, regularly graced the pages of contemporary magazines, and was featured on...

What are the lives of America’s richest families really like? Their nannies see it all…When Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after college to pursue a career in writing, she quickly learns that her entry-level salary won’t cover the high cost of...

From challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK, Diane Abbott has seen it all.A Woman Like Me takes readers through Diane’s incredible journey,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593888902Author J. D. ForesterPage Count 16Imprint Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644213896Author Gary IndianaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

The riveting true story behind an unsanctioned rescue mission in the jungles of the Philippines, engineered by former Green Beret and unlikely American hero Gene Yu. Evelyn Chang and her husband were vacationing in the Philippines when they were ambushed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954118577Author Lola MilhollandFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA Inc

Taken to Europe as a slave, he found his way homeand changed the course of American history American schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgiving possible, but his story goes deeper than the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988670001Author Jonathan LethemFormat HardbackImprint ZE BooksPublisher ZE Books

Football, Freedom and Paradise! is the fascinating and inspirational autobiography of former footballer Rudi Vata, a man who overcame state oppression to attain the most basic of human necessities - his freedom.Born in Albania in 1969, he was raised...

Disability is Other People: My Superhero Story is not a story about overcoming disability but living well with it. Drawing on experience and humour, Richard shares everything he has learned through his triumphs and mistakes, deconstructs traditional...

Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in 1987 to ghostwrite a novel for a wealthy, eccentric...

Growing up in a single parent household in a country at war, Audrey was one of the thousands of latchkey children who survived those troubled years. She gained a place at the local grammar school and subsequently attended college where she qualified as a...

“I took Ted Turner, Kofi Annan and Tony Bourdain into Palestine, shook hands with Yasser Arafat, took Anderson Cooper into the mountains of the Congo in search of a rebel general, a CNN crew into the heart of battle in Liberia, flew to Human Rights Watch...

In this lustrous nonfiction picture book biography, meet Black fashion icon and design pioneer Zelda Wynn Valdes, whose dresses, gowns, and costumes helped make people shine.Zelda grew up watching her grandmother at the sewing machine, until she decided...

Based on over eighty hours of interviews with Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal papers and scientific archive, Jonathan Watts has written a definitive and revelatory biography of a fascinating, sometimes contradictory man.James Lovelock...

Military history, war, immigration and an incredible tale of survival collide in this thrilling and personal account of the Second World War. Few beyond those who have escaped the realities of war today can understand some of what was involved in being...

Peter's mother is dying. Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister's London house, her accent having overnight become posher than the...

When world-class chef Pam first opened Inver, her restaurant on the shores of Loch Fyne, she set out to discover what makes 'modern Scottish food' - or if it even existed. This book traces Pam's journey to answer that question and in doing so reveals...

Embark on an extraordinary journey into the depths of the ocean.Oceanographer Dawn Wright made history in 2022 when she became the first Black person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest and most unexplored place on Earth—a trip that took her over...

The compelling and horrifying true crime classic, reissued for the 20th anniversary of Schapelle Corby's arrest at Bali airport.Book InformationISBN 9781529440249Author Kathryn BonellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Quercus PublishingPublisher...

'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating . . . I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL, BOOK OF THE...

In January 2024, Succession won four Golden Globes - including Best Drama - from a record 13 nominations, cementing the truth in stone: no other show since The Sopranos has come close to its influence, impact and intelligence. Fuelled by the uncertainty...

Home is a vital base for us to thrive, yet, for some, the question of where home is isn't as simple as an address.Depending on circumstance, 'home' may not simply be where we rest, eat and sleep. With the concept of home comes questions of ancestry,...

West Indies legend Sir Clyde Walcott was one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but he was also an important administrator and activist. This first biography offers a detailed examination of his extraordinary life and achievements.