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In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she'd emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical characters making exotic and delicious wine with the low-tech methods of centuries past. She was smitten, and she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870352758Author Patrick BridgwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint LibrisPublisher Libris

Leyland Rover is an account of Ken Ryeland's tours of the Far East as a service engineer for British Leyland during the early 1970s. After serving an engineering apprenticeship and several years working in Nigeria, Ryeland and his family returned to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845276997Author Aled TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were...

Bessie Quinn was an early 20th century New Woman, a mother living her love story in the enchanted world of the Garden City. When she died in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19, her shattered husband abandoned her memory, belongings and life history. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861517715Author Nick ClementsFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

This book offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336-323 BCE from the vantage point of the defeated. The extent and form of the resistance of the populations he confronted varied according to...

This first volume in Martin Brecht's three-volume biography recounts Luther's youth and young adulthood up to the period of the Diet of Worms. Brecht, in a clear, eloquent translation by James Schaaf, discusses Luther's education at the University of...

This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then where it fought. Within each of the various battles covered, the book focuses specifically on each Waffen-SS soldier that...

In this inspiring and hilarious memoir, YouTube star Ricky Dillon gives you an exciting look into his personal life and reveals the ins and outs of being a young star online. A former member of the enormously popular YouTube group Our Second Life,...

In this inspiring and hilarious memoir, YouTube star Ricky Dillon gives you an exciting look into his personal life and reveals the ins and outs of being a young star online. A former member of the enormously popular YouTube group Our Second Life,...

In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria - just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around...

This is a rare account of the horrors of the WWII death camps from someone who experienced them. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Prague, Hoffman lost his entire family in the Holocaust. The story of his own ordeals, and how he managed to survive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780829406474Author John EaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Loyola PressPublisher Loyola PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

The 1845 North-West Passage expedition of Sir John Franklin in the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with a full company of 129 officers and men, none of whom ever saw England again, was one of the most heroic and courageous, maritime expeditions in...

Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry. Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life, including her turbulent marriage to the poet Ted Hughes.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035808847Author Hugh FifeFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

John O'Halloran was a country boy from Tamworth, NSW, who was called up for national service not long after the start of the Vietnam War. As a tough and determined 21-year-old, he guided 6 RAR's B Company 5 Platoon through some of the biggest conflicts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544516868Author Charles U DalyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Houndstooth PressPublisher Houndstooth PressWeight(grams) 140g

In the first volume of his trilogy, noted political philosopher Maurice Cranston draws from original manuscript sources to trace Rousseau's life from his birth in provincial obscurity in Geneva, through his youthful wanderings, to his return to Geneva in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847716927Author Bryan Davies with Elfyn PrichardFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955352089Author Graham WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Naked Guides LtdPublisher Tangent BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955352089Author Graham WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Naked Guides LtdPublisher Tangent Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935216387Author Marc FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 459Imprint ICS PublicationsPublisher ICS PublicationsWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670094950Author Rakesh Anand BakshiFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Books India Pvt LtdPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdDimensions(mm)...

Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational examples of virtue or vice, not Christian martyrs or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Fact Crime) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780374230593Author Richard Lloyd ParryFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Straus &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398408555Author Dale DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597842815Author Dr Resit HaylamazFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 146g

'I work in a pretty ordinary office from 9 to 5. I could be the receptionist in your building, or the girl next to you on the bus reading a copy of Metro. And I'm wondering, what happened? How did I turn from a spotty teenager into this femme fatale who...

This book is an ambitious attempt to separate what is actually known (and can be known) about Mozart from the many myths and legends that have grown up about his life, character, and death. It subjects individual myths to critical and scholarly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615364018Author Bobby BlotzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Blotzer Brothers PublishingPublisher Blotzer Brothers PublishingWeight(grams)...

This is a journey of self discovery. An honest and powerful story entwined with supportive & insightful spiritual guidance, paving the way for modern mystics. Nicola Richardson is down to earth & spiritual, she shares her wisdom, guidance and experiences...

In 1866, a frail, impoverished invalid, middle-aged, widowed and divorced, rose from her bed after a life-threatening fall, asked for her Bible, and took the first steps toward the founding of the Christian Science Church. Four decades later, she was...

Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds--some grew up in slavery,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777305Author Bob HopperFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Hypochondriac, neurotic and a habitual worrier, Ariel Leve has always looked on the blighted side of life. She counts it a good day if she manages to get out of bed. If someone should ask: what's the worst that can happen? she has a ready-made list and...

In this second volume of the unparalleled exposition of Rousseau's life and works, Cranston completes and corrects the story told in Rousseau's Confessions, and offers a vivid, entirely new history of his most eventful and productive years. ...

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world...