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More than fifty years ago, John R. Erickson took a vow of discipline. Every day, he would retreat to some quiet place and write for four hours. For nearly as many years, readers have eagerly awaited the fruits of those labors, whether they be in the form...

This ground-breaking narrative biography of one of the most influential Americans of all time is a perfect read-alike to Dr. Kendi's other #1 New York Times Bestselling books - like How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped for Young Readers - as well as Steve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250371768Author Tessa HullsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

'BOOK EVERY YOUNG WOMAN SHOULD READ' Daily Mail'BOLD AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' GlamourAs heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's HourA Stylist pick of the best non-fiction for 2024A Cosmopolitan and Glamour best new book for April 2024TEN MEN, MANY STORIES.At the...

Tamar Gakharia was born into a world of uncertainty as the Soviet Union crumbled and the Republic of Georgia struggled to find its footing. Raised by two doctors who lost everything during the collapse, Tamar was driven by a fierce determination to...

The essential biography of Charles Evans Hughes, whose indelible career in politics and law shaped American modernization in the twentieth century.In the first full-life biographical study of Charles Evans Hughes in over seventy years, Joanne Reitano...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916821248Author Sophie CalonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno Ltd

Chet Atkins was arguably the most influential American guitarist of the twentieth century, and, through his work as a recording executive, is often credited as a founder of the Nashville Sound. In Chet Atkins: Mr. Guitar, noted music historian Don Cusic...

Rosemary Woodruff Leary has been known only as the wife of Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor-turned-psychedelic high priest, whose jailbreak captivated the counterculture and whose life on the run with Rosemary inflamed the U.S. government. But...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER 'Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick's book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling...

'Brilliant and powerful' ELIZABETH GILBERT'So full of wisdom and pleasure that you don't want it to end' MAGGIE NELSONIn the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break - for three months she would abstain from...

The finest book on Britain's most celebrated rock 'n' roll band - and why they were destined to reform 'It felt like the London music business had set the stage for Blur to be the centre of Britpop, and...

Colonel Benjamin Stephenson and the History of Early Illinois details the life of Colonel Benjamin Stephenson through unique access to primary sources, including the house in which Stephenson lived--and which still stands--and connects it to the larger...

Captivating, talented, and beautiful, Vera Miles was destined for fame. Within a few years of making her way to Hollywood in 1949, she starred in such films as The Rose Bowl Story (1952), Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955), and Wichita (1955). Her frequent...

George Whitefield dedicated his life to teaching the Scriptures and calling people to know and love God. This biography explores the life of Whitefield as a prominent figure in the early evangelical revival in an honest, historical, and balanced way...

A moving portrait of friendship by Elyce Arons as she reflects on her long relationship with Kate Spade, whom she met in college and went on to cofound the multi-billion-dollar fashion company as they came of age in 1990s New York.When Elyce Arons first...

From an award-winning biographer, a riveting and deeply researched portrait of Mormonism's charismatic founder Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAntonia Murphy is an award-winning journalist and the author of Dirty Chick and Madam, which has been adapted into a television series. She is also the founder of...

Women are an essential part of the history of the piano-but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893380170Author Iman MersalFormat PaperbackImprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774870245Author Linda AmbroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia...

Slave Girls, a new series by bestselling author Louise Allen, reveals a shocking modern-day scandal of County Lines - the single most dangerous form of systematic child abuse prevalent today.Charlotte - The Cutting Girl - comes from a family of high...

Traditions and cultures represent a set of persisting or prevailing beliefs, social practices, oral, linguistic, and values that define an individual's way of life. In other words, in memoir writing, the emphasis is often to propagate a unilateral need...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915584465Author Maajid ParsiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Neem Tree PressPublisher Neem Tree Press

The morning after a white man murdered six Asian women, I ate five oranges. They were not dainty tangerines or pretty satsumas or festive clementines. These were unwieldy, bulging oranges, pock-marked and rind-covered fistfuls of flesh. I ate them all...

"In 2016, I was responsible for the deaths of over 600 people. But they deserved to die. All of them. History will not grant the Islamic State a redemption arc. They were the bad guys, the evil of our time. I don't lose sleep over what we did. However, I...

Hero of Belleau Wood, Lemuel Shepherd was the living embodiment of a Marine Corps legend, for Belleau Wood was synonymous with Marine valor and sacrifice. At the age of just 22, after early graduation from Virginia Military Institute following the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469685762Author Chris DanielsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina Press

The first granular study of nineteenth-century composer devotion-a network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming. During the nineteenth century, music institutions promoted...

From a bestselling and award-winning team comes a moving, gorgeously illustrated picture-book biography of one of the greatest cellists of all time, Yo-Yo Ma, and his lifelong passion for using music to unite people in harmony and joy"I've been asking...

"Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldn't bear to tell it himself." So begins the multigenerational story of a forgotten American dynasty, a farming family from the bean fields of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199811359Author William Kelleher StoreyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 3g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835012413Author Anne GlenconnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bedford Square PublishersPublisher Bedford Square Publishers

E.D.E.N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte) was one of the nineteenth century's most prolific and successful authors, with more novels to her credit than Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain combined. She was widely beloved by...

'A brilliant representation of anxiety made hilarious.' - Romesh RanganathanDoes peaking in high school ruin you for life?Was Miley Cyrus right, is it all about the climb (when it comes to building a career?)And what - scientifically - is the best way to...

'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE 'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR 'Gripping' NYLON An electric, searing memoir by the original...

'Fabulously readable' STEPHEN FRY'Brilliantly told, the fascinating life of one of Britain's greatest songwriters' MATT LUCAS'A brilliant, funny, emotional book' DAVID QUANTICKDescribed variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most...

'A tender but substantive family memoir' Sunday Independent'An acute eye and a lightness of touch ensures that this is never anything other than truly engrossing' The FieldA few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three...

'[A] vivid, inquiring memoir... A properly soul-searching book' ObserverThe powerful and emotive memoir about one man's relationship with his father and the stigma around mental illness, from the acclaimed author and human rights lawyer Clive Stafford...

Before his murder at 25, Tupac Shakur rose to staggering artistic heights as the preeminent storyteller of the 90s, building, in the process, one of the most iconic public personas of the last half century. He recorded 10 platinum albums, starred in...