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From one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982182946Author Jesse ThistleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and...

'A scrupulous biography' Publishers Weekly 'Fresh, incisive, and uplifting' Kirkus 'If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read' Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk James Baldwin is an icon of liberation who created...

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced...

More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klima's generation. Klima's story begins in the 1930s, in the Terezin concentration camp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979097638Author Rick JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Amber Communications GroupPublisher Amber Communications GroupWeight(grams) 565g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561323Author Meredith TalusanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Described as 'a masterpiece' by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing. If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistry's Fine Balance or...

The incredible true story of Tiger Woods's dramatic return to glory at the 2019 Masters following his humbling and very public personal, physical, and professional setbacks. One publicly imploded marriage. Two car accidents. Eight surgeries. And...

The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, from the author of Michael Jordan: the Life. Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and also controversial, athletes in history. He lifted the dowdy sport of American pro...

Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890452Author Eirinie CarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743467698Author Pauline HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959616Author MassaqudiFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814828413Author Juleen ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Marshall Cavendish EditionsPublisher Marshall Cavendish Editions

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally...

'A remarkable set of essays unlike anything else' - Kadish Morris, Guardian As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. Written with...

Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe-winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award-winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of...

Artist, activist, and influencer Laetitia Ky, known for sculpting her own hair to create powerful and joyful artwork that embraces the beauty of Black hair and style, the fight for social justice, and the journey toward self-love, tells her personal...

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958259016Author Elli MilanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cloud Road PublishingPublisher Cloud Road PublishingWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small...

"In yet another skillful excavation of a dazzling Latino champion, Christian Giudice...follows Hector 'Macho' Camacho from his embattled childhood in Spanish Harlem, to the heights of his electrifying yet too-brief stardom and onto his abject end by hail...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063138322Author JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A most appealing book . . . Its genuineness and its simplicity will build up a large audience of enthusiastic readers.-San Francisco ChronicleRalph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through...

Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining...

Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum; she knew at first hand a soot-blackened world, lit by candles and oil lamps, where you slept in your clothes - if you hadn't already been sewn into them for the winter - and fought an unending...

Funny and heartfelt, this amalgamation of memoir and essay collection tells the story of twenty months the author spent in Lesotho, the small, landlocked kingdom surrounded by South Africa. There he finds a spirit of joyful absurdity and resolve,...

Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment and later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe and began practising as their first ever qualified...

Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198668Author Alicia ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702239069Author Kari GislasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590565551Author Aph KoFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873487542Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 270g

As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and...

#1 New Release in Caribbean & West Indies History - Discover the True Story Behind One of the Black Passengers on the TitanicAn Incredible Tragedy: Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416577850Author Dennis LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...