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On the world stage, the opera Porgy and Bess is acclaimed as a distinctively American, yet universal, classic. Though scholars and the popular press have discussed it for nearly one hundred years, no one has factored in the major contributions of one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967751044Author Barbara WansbroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896360148Author Barbara CaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476698519Author Jesi StrachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896360162Author Janet KintnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614299646Author Sandra FernandezFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586424169Author Bruce GoldfarbFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638192343Author Patricia PeteFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Milk & CookiesPublisher Bushel & Peck Books

"It is important that this part of Churchill's life should have found so keen a portraitist."** - ****Sir Martin Gilbert** "...this is a most valuable, well-written and scholarly work...Churchillians will want to read and admire it." **- Finest Hour,...

Alma Mahler, one of the most fascinating and controversial women of the early 20th century, was far more than just the wife of composer Gustav Mahler. A muse, composer, writer, and socialite, she moved in the highest intellectual and artistic circles of...

War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895-1977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew of the famed novelist John Galsworthy. Revealing him to...

Growing up in the wake of the Spanish military's shattering defeat at the hands of the United States in 1898 over Cuba and having survived a bullet to the stomach while serving his country in Morocco, it is perhaps no wonder that Francisco Franco's fame...

The war in Afghanistan had grown to its most violent of times, and Helmand Province had made for some of the bloodiest battles. With their departure to the front lines fast approaching, a Welsh infantry battalion was in the process of selecting their...

The third of three volumes, this book offers to English readers, for the first time, the memoirs of Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii, which rank among the best in the vast Napoleonic memoir literature. Radozhitskii, a distinguished Russian artillery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887441344Author Sheena KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny Goodman,...

The remarkable life of one of the twentieth century's great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Criminal Court On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal,...

Meet the Spanish player who scored the game-winning goal in the 2023 World Cup: Olga Carmona. Her skill with the ball makes her shine bright in every game, and her defensive work has saved club and country from countless attacks over the years. Olga's...

Philip Burton (1904-95) is best remembered as the schoolmaster responsible for training and transforming his pupil Richard Jenkins into Richard Burton, world- famous star of stage and screen. Together they produced a remarkable symbiosis. The...

Rusty Egan, co-founder of Visage and resident DJ at London's iconic Blitz Club, helped define the New Romantic music movement. His autobiography captures the birth of British electronic music, 1980s London nightlife, and collaborations with Midge Ure,...

The Line of the Ball reveals the extraordinary life journey of Dr. Beh Chun Chuan, who transformed a single medical laboratory into one of Malaysia's largest healthcare groups while becoming an accomplished international polo player.Dr. Beh's story...

A freewheeling and riveting memoir from media honcho Tom Freston that takes us behind the scenes of his global adventures-from hitchhiking around the world, to running a clothing export company out of India and Afghanistan, to cofounding MTV, to becoming...

Out There recounts one man's search to lead an authentic life, an adventure that takes him all over the world and through some of the biggest societal changes of recent history. From a distance, this could be a typical American story: boy grows up in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685970376Author Ted GeltnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 454g

The coming-of-age memoir of a homebirth midwife in the desert Southwest. Within these birth stories is a larger story of Wrankle leaving her childhood religion and raising her three children in the culturally harsh and unforgiving landscape of southern...

The literary memoir of a founder of Tel Aviv, now available for the first time in an annotated English translation. Born in Jaffa in 1870, Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche grew up within a notable Sephardi family in the local Jewish community. He went on to...

Elizabeth Lowe charts her journey to becoming a translator through a series of vignettes relating her life as a " third-culture kid" and living and working abroad in a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages. She lived in Germany as a young child...

Back in print: the playful and personal memoir of Meredith Willson's creative tribulations and triumphs before The Music Man Composer, musical director, writer, lecturer, and piccoloist Meredith Willson laid many eggs throughout his career-but not all...

The extraordinary story of costume designer Phyllis Dalton (1925-2025), filled with insights, recollections, and revelations from a life spent on the great film locations of the twentieth century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967751105Author Soren Ulrik ThomsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Nigel Owens is one of the most famous referees in World Rugby and one of only two Welsh refs ever to officiate at a Rugby World Cup Final. In his bestselling second autobiography, he reveals all about the second half of his career, including the full...

Engineering entrepreneur James Edmiston acquired the Sterling Armament Company in 1971 while still in his twenties. The company was notable for manufacturing one of the most famous sub-machine guns ever produced. The Sterling had seen limited use in the...

Reviled by his contemporaries and historians alike, 'the monstrous Titus Oates' masterminded the fabricated Popish Plot of 1678-1681, a conspiracy that led to the wrongful execution of 27 Catholics. His story is one of staggering ambition, lies, and...

Spirit Untamed is a deeply personal and thought-provoking collection of reflections from Ajaz Ahmed, tracing three decades of creative leadership, personal growth and cultural commentary. From growing one of the world's most celebrated creative companies...

On the morning of January 22, 1927, Baylor University's basketball team set out by bus for Austin to play the University of Texas that night. The game, however, would never be played. Ten of the twenty-two passengers died when a train hit the team's bus...

The first Black woman graduate of the University of South Carolina recounts a life of activism and service Come Along with Me is a compelling memoir of resilience, activism, and breaking barriers in the causes of health equity and social justice. Henrie...

Standing at the base of a towering cliff, the layers of rock before you tell a story millions of years in the making. Few places on Earth reveal this tale as vividly as the Jurassic Coast of southern England. This book invites you to explore the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896360087Author Stephanie L. MaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes Press

Sir Charles Wogan was an Irish knight-baronet of the exiled monarch of the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, King James Stuart III. His intrepid life story (c1683-1754) is told here through his own words, based on his copious...

'A wonderfully engaging, honest and witty portrait of the humiliations, idealism, nobility and banality of democratic life' - Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge'Wryly self-deprecating, but also informative and illuminating' - Matt CooperAs...