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The engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious Royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first Royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860398Author Vera MaloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 400g

There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle. Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi is a book about how the impossible became...

After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from two Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay was banished as a traitor from his native home land. Chinghiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, writing novels about the lives of...

This is a fascinating autobiography of how to become an American during the 1940-50s. A globally recognized media lawyer and communications scholar, Monroe Price was born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1938. In 1939, his family immigrated to the US...

In "Black on the Block", Mary Pattillo - a "Newsweek" Woman of the 21st Century - uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood - Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982116361Author Jeff HobbsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Consistently an outsider - a child of the fundamentalist South with an eighth-grade education, a self-taught intellectual, a black man married to a white woman - Richard Wright nonetheless became the unparalleled voice of his time. The first full-scale...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743253291Author Valerie BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 527Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

In 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns's conscience and six months later he was leading the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744733Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501131738Author Mitchell JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218028Author Michael TillotsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 348g

Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134411Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571686565Author Robert L UzzelFormat PaperbackImprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 227g

It is easy to find England on a map - it is part of that conspicuous thing in the North Sea, just off the French coast. It gets trickier once you arrive: Not even the English are keen to explain what England actually is. Why do the English eat what they...

In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, in some ways, less explored question: once the exile...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (History). Short-listed for National Book Award Finalist 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780143120322Author Manning MarableFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804171045Author Jonny SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780385312523Author Sarah L. DelanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Delta (imprint of...

In the words of an African American conductor on the Underground Railroad, His Promised Land is the unusual and stirring account of how the war against slavery was fought-and sometimes won. John P. Parker (1827-1900) told this dramatic story to a...

Written over five years, this engrossing and enlightening book stretches to over a quarter of a million words and is a fast paced read as it races through the exploits and achievements of an astonishing gallery of the Scots who make up this Scottish...

Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic...

The rise and fall of one of America’s first Black sports celebrities “Deeply and impressively researched. . . . Ms. Mooney pieces together a narrative with an arc so tight and clean that it’s a wonder it actually happened. . . . It reads, in other...

THE AMERICAN DREAM IS ALIVE AND WELL FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO WORK FOR IT.To celebrate the 40th anniversary of his iconic song “God Bless The U.S.A.”, celebrated singer-songwriter Lee Greenwood takes us on his personal journey to the American Dream in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998408085Author Julie SalversonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Wolsak & Wynn PublishersPublisher Wolsak & Wynn PublishersWeight(grams) 325g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350368989Author Stephen C Ferguson IIFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

A uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America. A zealous eugenicist, who regarded himself as white, ran Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentieth century, misusing...

From acclaimed bestselling author of White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing, comes a brand new collection of stories of people uncovering their past.What They Never Told Us tells the stories of ordinary people who made...

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Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler’s Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the San Francisco...

In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we eat, cook and appreciate food in this country. It is no exaggeration to say that most of what makes our current culinary...

During a boat trip on the Baltic, Jan Brokken chanced upon Pärnu harbour, on the Estonian coast of the Gulf of Riga. It was an unforgettable introduction to the Baltic lands: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. The...

No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes...

The biography of George Clinton, one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters, featuring a new cover and foreword by critic Miles Marshall Lewis. The most comprehensive history of the life, music and cultural significance of a...