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As Cosmopolitan's professional agony aunt for the last forty years, Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers, while having to keep up with the changing mores and attitudes in British and American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679456582Author Monty RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House (NY)Publisher Random House (NY)Weight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559721578Author Sandra FaulknerFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Carol Publishing CorporationPublisher Carol Publishing CorporationWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688050450Author Robert SheltonFormat HardbackPage Count 573Imprint Beech Tree Paperback BookPublisher Beech Tree Paperback BookWeight(grams) 962g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399143229Author Sara Tuvel BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 353Imprint Putnam AdultPublisher Putnam AdultWeight(grams) 544g

Legendary Rat Pat singer and actor Dean Martin has perhaps become even more respected since his death. Today fans of all ages download his songs from the Net and purchase his recordings on CD. His extraordinary renaissance is detailed in this absorbing...

In this compelling rags-to-riches story, Jane Ellen Wayne charts the life and loves of the gorgeous green-eyed beauty, Ava Gardner. Spotted by an MGM scout who saw her photograph in a shop window, Ava's career took off when she was hired by movie mogul...

A natural beauty with class and refinement, Grace Kelly - Princess Grace of Monaco - made a lasting impression on all her co-stars and directors. She mesmerized Hitchcock in the three films they made together, hypnotized Jimmy Stewart on the set of 'Rear...

Jack Rosenthal had always resisted writing an autobiography, until he hit on an original way of writing it that excited him: it would be as a screenplay, with himself as the central character, the storyline that of his own life, the supporting cast drawn...

Michael Winner, the legendary film director, writer and food critic, is a colourful figure who has led a remarkable life. He has a reputation for being outspoken, and, true to form, in his autobiography he tells it like it is with sharp and insightful...

"I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." - Bono This is the story of U2, in their own words and pictures. It is the only authorised, fully comprehensive guide to the biggest band in the world. "We are trying to pin...

The legendary band leader and jazz trumpeter, broadcaster and humorist looks back at his extraordinarily rich and varied life and the many colourful characters he has known and played with - from Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong. He also recalls his...

Mary I was the first queen to rule England (1553-58) in her own right. She was known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England. The daughter of King Henry VIII and the Spanish princess...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861052575Format PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861051233Format PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 582g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825461644Author Lela GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Monarch BooksPublisher Monarch BooksWeight(grams) 345g

This in-depth and absorbing biography, looks at the many facets of this consummate movie star and reveals that his story is not simply one of a meteoric rise, and takes a much closer look at his private life.Book InformationISBN 9780860517900Format...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789871129430Author Jacinto PadaleFormat HardbackImprint VisorPublisher Visor

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921438165Author Salvador "Leonel" Sanchez CerenFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Ocean PressPublisher Ocean PressWeight(grams) 413g

Captain Andrew Shewan (1849-1927) was the last-surviving tea-clipper captain, and in his 70s set down his experiences in "The Great Days of Sail", his only book, published in the year he died. Brought up in Blackwall, his knowledge of the...

Sharon Osbourne's life has always been an extreme rollercoaster ride. And despite her best efforts, the last few years have been the most dramatic and turbulent of all. In her gripping new autobiography Sharon reveals the truth behind the headlines...

In a captivating and compelling voice that ranks with many of our greatest memoirists, Laura Bush tells the story of her unique path from dusty Midland, Texas to the world stage and the White House. An only child, Laura Welch grew up in a family that...

This is the unauthorized biography of the hugely successful British band One Direction, who shot to fame after taking the seventh series of "The X-Factor" by storm. "1D: The One Direction Story" explores the backgrounds, early lives...

Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence's friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over "Lady Chatterley's Lover" still raging, the abuse heaped on him prompted her into writing this warm and...

Bob Segalman tells his story -- all 60 years plus. Like Bob himself, it's funny, truthful, poignant, insightful and sometimes exasperating. Bob was born with significant cerebral palsy at a time when inclusion, mainstreaming and even special education...

"I'll Go and Do More" is the story of Annie Dodge Wauneka (1918-1997), one of the most well-known Navajos of all time, an indefatigable, passionate, and controversial woman whom the Navajo Nation called 'Our Legendary Mother'. A daughter of the...

"Just Breathe Normally" opens with a traumatic accident. Shattered perceptions and shards of narrative recount the events, from wreck through recovery and beyond. In lyric prose, the stories spiral back through generations to touch on questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860190636Format HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Brockhampton PressPublisher Caxton PublishingWeight(grams) 211g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948265990Author Judith RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press Ltd

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle offer a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world's most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle,...

Nancy Hanks, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 1969 to 1977, turned this fledgling organization into a major instrument for government support of the arts-accomplishing thereby a virtual revolution in the public arts policy of...

From Cripple Creek to the Santa Fe Trail, Mesa Verde to the mountain towns of Leadville and Steamboat Springs, Colorado provides travelers and natives with a spectrum of beauty that is both awesome and austere. Drawn by the lingering mystique of...

Bill Brandt, the greatest of British photographers, who visually defined the English identity in the mid-twentieth century, was an enigma. Indeed, despite his assertions to the contrary, he was not in fact English at all. His life, like much of his work,...

'This is aimed at anyone interested in a thoughtful, humorous, poignant and honest look at love and marriage and family. Since not one of us can lay claim truly to being a specialist in this field - we are all amateurs when it comes to matters of the...

'This honest man, this good man, this man who never did wrong to anyone, who devoted his life to the public good, and who was one of the greatest writers in Algeria, has been murdered...Not by accident, not by mistake, but called by his name and killed...

The second volume includes Humphrey's diaries from 1950 to 1951 and documents a time when the Division of Human Rights focused on providing support for various UN bodies in the development of covenants on human rights and related topics.This was a period...

Although Judith McKenzie deals with Jewett's childhood and university years, much of this insightful story is devoted to her public life as a Member of Parliament for the federal Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party and as a university president...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399167812Author Jill NystulFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Weight(grams) 634g

Before the Super Bowl, before "Monday Night Football," even before the NFL, there was Red Grange.If one wants to understand the forces that helped create the modern superstar athlete, you need to begin with Red Grange.Book InformationISBN...

Richard James Oglesby is best known for introducing the rail-splitter image into Abraham Lincoln's successful presidential campaign of 1860, and in many ways his career ran parallel to Honest Abe's. This biography of the three-time governor of Illinois...