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In this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America's air...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890680044Author Ann McCallum StaatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 363g

Silas Talbot’s life illuminates his time—not with greater brightness than the lives of his more famous contemporaries, but with perhaps broader range and greater insight into the experiences and circumstances of a plain citizen of the new republic—a...

Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight-talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374610951Author David MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint MCDPublisher MCD

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538197622Author Kate Clifford LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538197615Author Mar�a Bel�n Rabad�n VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Bittersweet, A Story of Food and Yemen is a captivating exploration of Yemen’s rich culinary heritage. Authored by Bangladeshi photographer, Sayed Asif Mahmud, with contributions from Marta Colburn and Jessica Olney, this visually stunning book takes the...

One critical priority of the discipline of Africana studies is applied memory, specifically, how the record of the culture’s survival and agency reveals usable and reproducible knowledge and behavior. In terms of how Muhammad Ali, as an historical actor,...

Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often wise” (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of...

A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a...

The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, translated by Richard Sieburth   Ex-surrealist and maverick anthropologist Michel Leiris (1901–1990) crafted his multivolume autobiography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686876Author Salvador DaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books

A memoir of global travel and the 175 recipes it inspired.Always Enough: A Global Food Memoir​ is a storied cookbook, a love letter to the author's tables in America, Europe, and Africa. From Philadelphia to Paris, Morocco to the Ivory Coast, Bologna to...

A moving, witty memoir about a Jewish childhood in apartheid-era South Africa "There were three other people present, or five, depending on whom one chooses to include... The ceremony lasted precisely thirty minutes, as had been agreed on well in...

This definitive biography of Vince McMahon, former WWE chairman and CEO, is “riveting, essential reading” (Rick Perlstein, New York Times bestselling author) as it charts his rise from rural poverty to the throne of one of the world’s most influential...

Grammy Award–nominated artist Kem shares his life in this “breathtaking” (Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author) and revealing memoir tracing his transformative journey from homelessness to gold-selling artist.Known for his smooth,...

A riveting tell-all biography that delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood's most infamous private detective and "fixer" to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative files. During the...

From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mrs. Kennedy and Me comes another New York Times bestseller, which reveals never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill’s travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South...

From one of the central figures in Buddhism's introduction to the West and the founder of Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one’s own path that Pico Iyer calls 'unflinching' and 'indispensable.' The daughter of an artist, Helen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998877587Author Pepper PersleyFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Young Authors PublishingPublisher Young Authors Publishing

Mihir Bose, born in Kolkata shortly before Indian independence in 1947, still feels enormous gratitude towards Mr Crombie of the UK’s Home Office, who confirmed his permanent resident’s rights. After studying in Britain, Bose had dreamed of making a life...

Discover the story of Adelaide Labille-Guiard-a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France-in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.Summer in Paris, 1783. The Louvre steps, too hot and no breeze, the...

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest.Anyone who has...

The author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation when she moves to the Southwest desert with nothing and no one...

Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Books of 2023“Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president—Gerald R. Ford. Ford’s is a very American life, and Smith has charted its...

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection—from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. Speaking to his lawyers days...

Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of THE MAN I KNEW, Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on people's hearts and souls. As America heads into what...

More than fifty years ago, Nathaniel "Nate" Northington changed the face of sports as the first African American to play college football in the Southeastern Conference. When this trailblazing athlete stepped onto the field for the University of Kentucky...

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--from the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House.New York Times bestselling ghostwriter Nancy French is coming out of the shadows to tell her...

Old houses share their secrets only if they survive. Trading the corporate ladder for a stepladder, Lee McColgan commits to preserving the ramshackle Loring House, built in 1702, using period materials and methods and on a holiday deadline. But his...

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be...

The definitive biography on Meriwether Lewis by Thomas C. Danisi and John C. Jackson now in paperback for the first time.October 11, 2009 marks the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis's death. As the leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition, an epic...

The plan was outrageous: A small team of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, which had only been successfully climbed once before. Unlike the first large...

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves   In Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823572Author Phillippa BaranFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955062978Author Casey CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Running Wild PressPublisher Running Wild Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417588Author Jon FinkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

A compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice—and how their story echoes across generations.In 1942 newlyweds Itaru and Shizuko Ina were settling into married life when the United States government upended their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538197639Author Clayton DreesFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield