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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913853105Author Isabel AdonisFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Black Bee BooksPublisher Black Bee BooksWeight(grams) 129g

After winning an international audience with his novel Children of the Ghetto, Israel Zangwill went on to write numerous short stories, four additional novels, and several plays, including The Melting Pot. Author Meri-Jane Rochelson, a noted expert on...

When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his...

At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced in a French court of...

Nadeine Asbali would be the first to say that a scarf on a woman's head doesn't define her, but in her case, that's a lie. Nadeine's life changed overnight. As a mixed-race teenager, she had unknowingly been passing as white her entire life: until she...

THE LIFE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY BRITISH DJ, NORMAN JAY MBE 'Full of the heart and spirit Norman Jay brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush generation in London's Notting Hill, the violence and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2008 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2007. Short-listed for National Book Awards 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781400034307Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128021Author Herbie HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 330g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307744531Author Oscar LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour, The Two Popes is a fascinating, revealing and gripping tale of two very different men whose destinies converge with each other - they both live in the Vatican - and the...

Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062061034Author B B KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425692Author Professor of Sociology Joshua GamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)...

'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062844927Author Yossi Klein HaleviFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The EconomistChina's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ancient element has so dramatically shaped the country's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027308750Author Mary SeacoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 152g

When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced everywhere, from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar. In The Goddess Pose, New...

Despite gold medals, WNBA championships, and a list of accolades, A'ja Wilson knows how it feels to be swept under the rug - to not be heard, to not feel seen, to not be taken seriously. As a fourth grader going to a primarily white school in South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776666Author Henry Louis GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Strength and Goodness (Force-Bonte) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remains a pioneering work of African literature as well as a unique and invaluable historical document about...

A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007156634Author Hugo HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062091918Author Loung UngFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein's father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916245303Author Eilidh McGinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Eilidh McGinnessPublisher Eilidh McGinnessWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451234216Author John Howard GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 108mm...

Coloured as an ethnicity and racial demographic is intertwined in the creation of the South Africa we have today. Yet often, Coloured communities are disdained as people with no clear heritage or culture - 'not being black enough or white enough. ...

The greater freedom is to be who you actually are; to be able to live your life in the way you deem best, free from any sort of restriction to do that, or fear of repercussions for doing so. Egyptian-born and London-raised, Alya Mooro grew up between...

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images. And yet...

With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an afterword by the author.It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell.When...

The true story of a Romany childhood... Gypsy Princess is a searingly honest account of what life is really like for travelling communities, for girls in particular, and captures a way of life that is slowly fading away. If you enjoyed the memoirs of...

The true story of a Romany childhood... Gypsy Princess is a searingly honest account of what life is really like for travelling communities, for girls in particular, and captures a way of life that is slowly fading away. If you enjoyed the memoirs of...

'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing''Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.' BILL GATESAt age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she...

Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The election of Barack Obama as America's first black president in November 2008 has...

History's only four-time world heavyweight boxing champion and one of America's most admired and beloved athletes reveals the dramatic story of his rise from poverty to the very pinnacle of the toughest sport on earth. Barely able to make it into the...

The story of the Dalai Lama's life, as well as a history of the subjugation of the Tibetan people by the Chinese government. Born into a modest farming family, he was only two years old when monks pronounced him the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.Book...

The Archeology of a Good Ragu offers a unique take on the recovery narrative. A damaged but savvy author finds new wholeness by way of a fascinating old city: Naples, Italy. John Domini's exploration of the place- little known to North Americans, yet...

An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335044983Author Thomas LockleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...