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One cannot discuss the Renaissance without coming across the name of Desiderius Erasmus. He was renowned for scholarship, views on education, religion, and conduct. Erasmus found himself in the midst of the religious debate in Europe during the...

An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora Growing up in World War II-era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marshall (1929-2019) was fiercely driven to become a writer,...

The creation of one of the most beloved books and Broadway musicals of the century When the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, James A. Michener was an obscure textbook editor working in New York. Within three years, he was a naval officer...

"Tyrus has always been a Great Fighter, who will never let you down. This Book is fantastic-Enjoy!" -President Donald J. Trump A vivid collection of trademark classic Tyrus stories, from his personal and professional life, that offer unfiltered insights...

From the award-winning composer/co-lyricist behind such iconic projects as Hairspray, Sister Act, Mary Poppins Returns, and Smash comes a wickedly funny, no-holds-barred memoir.In Never Mind the Happy, musical dynamo Marc Shaiman looks back on five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887441764Author Niillas SombyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593533512Author Brad MeltzerFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476697123Author Michael K BrantleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Discover the incredible story of Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance genius whose boundless curiosity and creativity changed the world. Young readers will follow Leonardo from his childhood in the small village of Vinci, Italy, where he sketched animals...

Since his execution for high treason in 1916, Roger Casement has been lauded for his humanitarian activism in Africa and the Amazon. His life, however, has remained obscured behind speculation about his sexuality and his complicated contribution to...

In this powerful memoir of survival and healing, Elizabeth Smart empowers readers to navigate life's detours, embrace resilience, and find healing and purpose after adversity.In Detours, Elizabeth Smart explores how trauma can derail one's path in life...

"Beautifully done ... I really cannot recommend this book too vigorously" - The Sunday Telegraph From the author of 84, Charing Cross Road comes another literary jewel of a memoir from Helene Hanff. This is a delightful account of her early days as...

Middle-Grade Biography Illuminates Harriet Tubman's Life of Courage, Faith, and Freedom Harriet Tubman was a conductor of the Underground Railroad, a nurse and spy during the Civil War, and an advocate for the Women's Suffrage Movement. Her dangerous...

Now with a new foreword by Harvard Law Professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith, and with a new concluding chapter from the author on the unprecedented ethical challenges in the first year of Trump 2.0.Essential reading for anyone...

In the late 1970s the golden valley between Utah's Wasatch Mountains was home to some of the best dairies in the country. That was also where Linda Rhodes, a newly minted large animal veterinarian, had to prove that a woman could do what the Mormon...

Middle-Grade Biography Illuminates John Bunyan's Life of Grace, Courage, and Creativity John Bunyan was an imaginative author, father, and Puritan preacher who was deeply committed to sharing the gospel that had transformed his life. His enduring...

Meet the real, thinking, feeling woman that was Charlotte Bronte, as told in this biography by the surviving witnesses to her life - the clothes that she once wore. These garments were present as she penned Jane Eyre, as she walked the cobbled streets of...

A wealthy textile titan from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Frank Masland Jr. was an ardent political conservative and an equally fervent conservationist who was well known and highly respected in the mid-twentieth-century environmental preservation community...

A dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling loss.When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as "the bear guy," brought home an...

Published ahead of the centenary of the Queen's birth, this beautifully illustrated book uncovers the hidden history of the Crown and how it survived a tumultuous era and two world wars.**Features over 100 sumptuous images**From the birth of the house of...

Fighting from Dunkirk to Berlin chronicles the extraordinary military service of Wilfred Needler, from his mention in despatches at Dunkirk in 1940 and continuing through pivotal moments such as his battlefield commission in Africa, his participation in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476697864Author Patrick HoeppnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Wyndham Ward grew up with a determination to fly whatever the odds. Starting out as boy mechanic in the RAF, he progressed to being a 'Junior Joe' fighter pilot in the iconic Hawker Hunter, despite making almost every mistake possible during air combat...

They degraded her to the point where she'd become this sex thing - this thing that wasn't human, but an object - to the point where she believed that's what she was.The world of abuse and grooming gangs couldn't have seemed further away from Kate's start...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896360445Author Linda BassFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896230120Author Frederic ProkoschFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher New York Review Books

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635422245Author Andrew S. CurranFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Focusing on the first nineteen years of Katherine Mansfield's life, from her birth in 1888 to her arrival in London in 1908 to be a writer, this new biography sheds new light on Mansfield's childhood and teenage years as well as on her development as a...

This biography explores the inspiring story of one of the world's greatest entertainers, from humble beginnings to superstar success. Matthew Long sheds light on the enduring popularity of the Italian American legend. In a career spanning 65 years, Como...

Learn about inspiring story of Beatrix Potter, the legendary author, illustrator and protector of nature. During her childhood in London, little Beatrix loved to draw. She drew everything she came across, and particularly loved drawing animals and other...

Cleopatra was born into a time when power struggles within her own kingdom of Egypt were magnified with the increasing dominance of Rome. As more and more kingdoms were conquered by the Roman Empire, Cleopatra faced challenges at home in Egypt. When her...

Guitars, cars, skinheads, cops, crashes, bouncers and bullets. From the depths of a South African gold mine to the heights of a Cuban skyscraper, from Checkpoint Charlie to the Great Pyramid of Giza, from the heaving North Sea to the serene Aegean,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606716Author Stephen ChanceFormat PaperbackImprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

Student, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy: introducing the maverick whose diplomacy saved Europe from war.Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's ambassador in 1604. Yet the most remarkable phase of his...

Sixty years before the International Brigades fought for the Spanish Republic, international volunteers entered the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 in response to the call of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Army of the Vosges to save a fledgling French republic...

'A gripping, unsettling and authoritative portrait of football's original dark genius - brilliantly researched and superbly told.' - GUILLEM BALAGUEA wonderfully compelling biography... This is a story that, once read, you can't forget.' - DUNCAN...

Two commoners pretend to be royalty to bring down the Tudors. The long-awaited Tudor prince dies of the Sweat on his fifteenth birthday. The Queen of Scots is ruthlessly executed by the Queen of England. A seventeen-year-old ascends the Throne...

The White Mouse: Gestapo's Most Wanted tells the extraordinary true story of Nancy Wake during one of the darkest chapters in modern history. This new biography traces Nancy's path across the globe, from her youth in Australia, to New York, London,...

Sir Geoffrey de Langley, a Warwickshire knight, was studied within the context of a 'crisis' of the knightly class. This much respected, and much cited study, concluded that this family failed to achieve anything much of note and fell from history, due...