Biography & Memoir

Legends have to start somewhere... Witness the King of Rock 'n' Roll's humble beginnings in Memphis as a young artist struggling to define his voice and break into the music industry. From the history-making Sun Studio to television sets across the...

A graphic biography of Djuna Barnes: writer, artist, and queer radical of the Lost Generation in the Roaring 20s. Djuna Barnes lived in a dazzling world filled with literary salons, innovative writing, and daring new art styles. But it didn't come...

From a multiple-award-winning cartoonist, Noah Van Sciver, comes Maple Terrace, a new autobiographical graphic novel. Based on the author's childhood, Maple Terrace unfolds a tale of big money comic-collecting craze of the early 90s as seen from the...

Tereza never thought she would go bald before her boyfriend did. She couldn't imagine being unable to sweep her hair up in a ponytail or to style it in other ways. But when she lost all her hair in just a couple of months due to alopecia, her perspective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798368809281Author Gerry DugganFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Image ComicsPublisher Image Comics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887440347Author Sean Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957363325Author Valentin GendrotFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 196mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940398495Author MarinaomiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Retrofit ComicsPublisher Retrofit ComicsWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 180mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101870839Author Kristen RadtkeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 188mm *...

Major General Smedley Butler is one of the most decorated Marines of all time and is a legend among the Corps. Coming from a background of privilege, he became a Marine to prove his worth. Through conflicts like the Philippine-American War, the Boxer...

Brent Dulak doesn't want to go to Afghanistan. Haunted by the memories of his two tours in Iraq and burnt out on soldiering, he wants nothing more than to drink to self-destructive excess and have meaningless sex with questionable women.He's a U.S. Army...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588797Author David KushnerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.Weight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534453Author Will Betke-BrunswickFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886200379Author Keezy YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver SprocketWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Quebec Book of the Year 2017 (Canada). Nominated for Friends of the Montreal Library Award 2017 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9781772620276Author SirisFormat...

A New York Times Bestseller Using the sepia tones of the Dust Bowl as his pal-ette, author and artist Nick Hayes tells the story of world-famous folkie Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), starting in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager supporting himself in...

More than 130 years after its completion, the Brooklyn Bridge remains one of the most extraordinary landmarks and symbols of Brooklyn and New York City-and the story behind this architectural marvel is just as extraordinary. The Brooklyn Bridge was...

At age thirty-five Margaux's life is full of upheaval and unexpected twists and turns. She's divorced, raising a child on her own, and trying to get back on her feet in today's fast-paced world. When romance eventually returns it takes on the most...

If you want to take your culinary skills from cook to master chef, you'll need to know a few things. Where can you get not just good, but the best wild garlic? What are the tried-and-true utensils every master chef's kitchen should have? Which recipe...

Cartoonist SINA GRACE returns with another chapter in his growing library of reflective memoir, producing his most compelling and strongest tale to date. Chronicling a year of heartbreaks, writer's block, career highs, emotional lows, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681121345Author Rick GearyFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

Mike Hawthorne's mother is left alone to raise her son in New York City, a city that torments them both with its unforgiving nature. But when Mike falls victim to an old world Santeria death curse, a haunting sign from the old country of something his...

Follow novelist Cecil Castellucci in this insightful memoir of making art, the nature of memory, and being a teenager in 80s New York City. One thing young Cecil was sure of from the minute she saw Star Wars was that she was going to be some kind of...

From Nate Powell, the National Book Award-winning artist of March, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a new era of necessary protest-now in paperback with sixteen pages of new materialIn seven interwoven comics essays, author and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681121017Author Ana-s DepommierFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

From a child s-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, alcoholic step-dad, and overwhelmed mother. As a kid, Dandro would temper the tension of his every day with flights of fancy, finding refuge in toys and animals...

In the spirit of essayist David Sedaris and monologist Spalding Grey, SEAGLE and 19 emerging global cartoonists take drawn storytelling into the world of the "graphic essay." nineteen stories of global attitudes about the naked body balance raw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250805140Author Darrin BellFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Henry Holt & CompanyPublisher Henry Holt & CompanyWeight(grams) 1247gDimensions(mm) 257mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945509858Author ElleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver SprocketPublisher Silver Sprocket

In Memento Mori, celebrated Finnish graphic novelist Tiitu Takalo chronicles her sudden, unexpected cerebral hemorrhage and the long road to recovery she had to travel. It is a dramatic story about a life turned upside down overnight: a ruptured...

In this extraordinary graphic novel, author Peter J. Tomasi and illustrator Sara DuVall bring to life the construction of one of the most iconic landmarks in the world and shine a light on the incredible triumphs and tragedies that went into building the...

From the time he was four years old, Joseph Jacob "Joe" Foss (1915-2003) found flight fascinating. As an adolescent, he followed the career of flyer Charles Lindbergh and could hardly wait to get into the air himself. In college, he took private flying...

A deeply moving tragicomic graphic memoir about a single woman's efforts to conceive in her forties.A few months after Myriam Steinberg turned forty, she decided she couldn't wait any longer to become a mother. She made the difficult decision to begin...

A visual biography of the groundbreaking investigative journalist Born in 1864, Nellie Bly was a woman who did not allow herself to be defined by the time she lived in, she rewrote the narrative and made her own way. Luciana Cimino's...

A graphic novel memoir recounting one parent's unique and wrenching journey caring for a child with a terminal diagnosisWhen Rick and Emily's infant son Ronan is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an incurable neurological disorder, they are faced with the...

When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix - a troublesome combination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through...

In virtually every military conflict in recorded history animals have fought--and often died--alongside their human counterparts. While countless stories of the men and women who've served in the trenches, jungles, and deserts of the world's battlefields...

Fear of contagion, isolated patients, a surge of overwhelming and unpreventable deaths, and the frontline healthcare workers who shouldered the responsibility of seeing us through a deadly epidemic: as we continue to confront the global pandemic caused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506710853Author Ethan YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Told for the first time in graphic novel form, the story of Francis Bacon's life is as complex, colorful, and highly charged as his paintings. Drawn in shades of mauve, red, yellow, and blue that distinguished his palette, these illustrations weave...