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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585427437Author Heinrich HarrerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646487823Author Sharyn KillensFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Miracle PublishingPublisher Miracle Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761874522Author B KumaravadiveluFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Hamilton BooksPublisher Hamilton Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739456757Author GilbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Andrew GilbrookPublisher Andrew GilbrookWeight(grams) 694g

In this evocative memoir, traversing more than three decades, the author recounts a life moulded through his experiences as a refugee, and then cab driver, and finally, the domain of academia as a professor in Norway. Much ink has been spilled, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098359287Author Velma P. AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBaby

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957917344Author Elisabeth HaggbladeFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Glass Spider PublishingPublisher Glass Spider PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

The Homecoming Seasons: An Irish Catholic Returns to a Changing Long Island is a deeply moving memoir of a returning natives re-experience of his childhood community. After many years abroad as a graduate student at Cambridge, a Peace Corps Volunteer in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451651010Author Shirley SherrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 18mm

The author's father, when he was a senior Communist Party member in Belorussia, could have been implicated in the assassination of Mikhoels, the popular director of the State Jewish Theatre in the Soviet Union. This was carried out on the orders of...

Most people only consider the Mississippi River when they cross it or when it inconveniently abandons its banks. But every year, millions of tons of cargo are transported by towboats on the river. In Peep Light: Stories of a Mississippi River Boat...

Part history, part memoir, Outliving the White Lie: A Southerner’s Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey charts conflicting narratives of American and southern identity through a blend of public, family, and deeply personal history. Author James...

Countering the popular misconception that racial discrimination has largely not existed in Puerto Rico, Jay Kinsbruner's Not of Pure Blood shows that racial prejudice has long had an insidious effect on Puerto Rican society. Kinsbruner's study focuses on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802162212Author Fae Myenne NgFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956027600Author Anton Mary Sue (Shy)Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Acclaim Press, Inc.Publisher Acclaim Press, Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743487771Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 100g

The powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition "This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today. It is exceptional."-Nancy Hewitt, Distinguished...

A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743496223Author Price CobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 352g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228831761Author Rinske SalverdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 318g

I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and...

New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee ""Outstanding"" TitleThis fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, digs deep beneath the surface...

This fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallace's unusually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375507892Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599542102Author Vincenzo MarraFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541983Author Frank GioiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540160Author Cosmo F FerraraFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884419263Author Carmine Biagio IannaceFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541297Author Kathy CurtoFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962645072Author Elizabeth MehrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Oregon State University PressPublisher Oregon State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942549819Author Judi BlazeFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

Now in paperback: a gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland."A fascinating and evocative memoir in essays."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewTribal chairman and celebrated storyteller Greg Sarris—whose novels are esteemed...

American society has been long plagued by cycles of racial violence, most dramatically in the 1960s when hundreds of ghetto uprisings erupted across American cities. Though the larger, underlying causes of contentious race relations have remained the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780808501480Author Malcolm XFormat HardbackPage Count 466Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 114mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340067Author Marisella VeigaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560016Author Author Anan AmeriFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

When you think of early Texas history, you think of freedom fighters at the Alamo and rugged cowboys riding the plains. You usually don't think too much about slavery in the Lone Star State. Although slavery existed in Texas only from the second decade...

While the story of John B. Rayner is not widely known, this African American educator and Populist leader, the son of a politically powerful white slaveholder from North Carolina, was a political maverick who dared to challenge the Democratic Party and...

In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries,...

Few figures in the past quarter-century have played a more significant role in American foreign policy than Colin Powell. He wielded power at the highest levels of the most important foreign policy bureaucracies: the Pentagon, the White House, the joint...