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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911593690Author Peter FairsFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Arena BooksPublisher Arena Books

'An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read.' Katharine Birbalsingh'Fascinating and poignant... an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir.' Angela PetchPerhaps it's true that absence makes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147516275Author Zelda la GrangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 138mm *...

Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; running away through the desert; being discovered by Terence...

Today Bill Richmond is largely unknown to the wider public, but he was one of the most significant sportsmen in history and one of the most prominent celebrities of Georgian times. Born into slavery in Staten Island, Richmond won his freedom as a young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 1987.Book InformationISBN 9780060566920Author David GarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins...

A lively and engaging account of the legendary Irish folk music ensemble Ceoltóirí Chualann, and the first time that readers can see the groundbreaking concepts used by Seán Ó Riada and his band Ceoltóirí Chualann as they changed the course of Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385337816Author Anne MoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the women who lived through it. At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to...

What does it mean to be a Pakistani? Can it mean more than one thing? And what do others think it means? Ziauddin Sardar explores what makes a Pakistani, and whether it's something one wants or ought to be. Reflecting on his culture and heritage...

From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been...

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806359168Author Joseph F O CallaghanFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504083140Author Joseph A. PageFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine in search of opportunity. In the process, he reveals a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553653127Author Richard WagameseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Greystone Books,CanadaPublisher Greystone Books,Canada

In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by...

At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. It is to here that award-winning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516887477Author James Dean DivineFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647224363Author Joshua GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to valet and butler.As a boy he had to kill pheasant chicks, boil rabbits for the estate dogs, carry the wood up and down stairs every day for thirty fires...

During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to valet and butler.As a boy he had to kill pheasant chicks, boil rabbits for the estate dogs, carry the wood up and down stairs every day for thirty fires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611883015Author Michaela Foster MarshPage Count 256Imprint The Story PlantPublisher The Story Plant

'I was twenty years old and dreamed of marrying for love.' Leila was born and brought up in France by Moroccan-born parents. But her romantic dreams were shattered when she was forced by her father to marry a man she'd never met, fifteen years older...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956240163Author Carole Boyce DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952322Author Harriet JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807076927Author Jeanne TheoharisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544811942Author Dawn Anahid MackeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613822913Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Simon & BrownPublisher Simon & BrownWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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 9781592402441Author Zainab SalbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm * 21mm

A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147617Author Russell MeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 573Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 907g

Farah Jasmine Griffin's beloved father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand-a line from a note he wrote to her-she shares a...

Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and...

The story begins with a grandfather who heroically escaped from Russia by swimming the Pruth River to Romania-or did he? Then there are stories of another grandfather who kept a lifelong mistress; grandmothers who were ignored except in the kitchen;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608427710Author Mark TwainFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Kathode Ray Enterprises, LLCPublisher Kathode Ray Enterprises, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036487Author Marshall FradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 129mm...