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At birth it was only Amal's father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her 'Amal'- meaning 'Hope'- in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society and an indigenous...

Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of the nineteenth century-and one of the first truly global celebrities. His story, told here in full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250811271Author Edmund de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423803Author Mark KamineFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917667425Author Theo MesmerFormat HardbackPage Count 612Imprint Books Publishing CompanyPublisher Books Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805088304Author Robert M UtleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642595680Author Angela Y DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

A uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America. A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentieth century, misusing his position to reclassify people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker's Book Award 2017. Nominated for Heritage Toronto Award - Historical Writing: Book 2018.Book InformationISBN...

This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a research project undertaken by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru- National Museum Wales. Moving away...

William Carlos Williams's medical practice and his literary career formed an undivided life. For forty years he was a busy doctor in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, and yet he was able to write more than thirty books. One of the finest chapters in...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792833Author Lindsay VartyFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 954g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374515263Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551520476Author Bridget MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

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 9780306903496Author Jimmy O YangFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Da Capo PressPublisher Da Capo PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970222473Author Jake BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Amber Communications Group, Inc.Publisher Amber Communications Group, Inc.Weight(grams)...

One of the most influential singers and songwriters of all time, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes--the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed to white audiences,...

The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain. It was (according to himself) created by one man: Iorwerth C. Peate, poet, author, and scholar. This is the first book-length critical study of Peate as scholar and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643258Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 1184Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1168gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

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...

A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994733986Author Geraldine Ryan-LushFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Mulberry BooksPublisher Mulberry BooksWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307453402Author Colin BroderickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136422Author Raynor WinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781868045105Author Jenni KirbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Clf PublishersPublisher Clf PublishersWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247816Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statues, forgetting that what begins with the destruction of statues, often leads to the killing of people...

Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451631579Author Claude BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2023 and The National Book Critics Circle Award - Autobiography 2022. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2023.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957288857Author Anne K HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 254g

In the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest brought an...

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection. Paul Robeson was, at points in his life, an actor, singer,...

From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An American Princess comes the true story of an unconventional family divided by war and prejudice during WWII. When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Literary Non-Fiction Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781400066124Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random...

A lot of people have made up their minds about Rachel Dolezal. But none of them know her real story. In June 2015, the media "outed" Rachel Dolezal as a white woman who had knowingly been "passing" as Black. When asked if she were African American during...