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'Here lies Kaspar Hauser, riddle of his time. His birth was unknown, his death mysterious.' (Inscription on Kaspar Hauser's tombstone.) In 1828 a teenage boy was discovered on the streets of Nuremberg. Barely able to walk, he clutched a letter in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910265680Author Brenda BurlingFormat PaperbackImprint Matthew James Publishing LtdPublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398481923Author Lil FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This is a true account of incredible highs and inconceivable lows, heart-warming discoveries and heart breaking tragedies. Starting in 1963, it was a journey that lasted for over forty years and quite literally meant travelling to the other side of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993389825Author Aad WagenaarFormat PaperbackImprint Lamorna PublicationsPublisher Lamorna PublicationsWeight(grams) 181g

The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at the very center of the rich culture and clashing politics of the twelfth century. Richest marriage prize...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398473713Author Philip PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910074428Author Alan Gordon WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Umbria PressPublisher Umbria Press

You had one bath a week whether you needed it or not. You knew with iron certainty what was for tea on any given day of the week. There was every possibility that grown-ups, known to you or not, might clout you.But being a child of the 1950s endowed you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582706337Author Barbara Jo BrothersFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Beyond Words PublishingPublisher Beyond Words PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

This new book "SEXIT" is a howl of anguish, of loss, of rage, of defeat, disappointment and rejection. A collective trauma that needs expression and healing. SEXIT is a scandal... but like all scandals when they are shown the light of day, change can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956151322Author Sat MehtaFormat PaperbackImprint Nettle BooksPublisher Nettle BooksWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398435261Author Francis FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916159013Author Leslie Jean MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Dunort PublicationsPublisher Dunort PublicationsWeight(grams) 920gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480926493Author Ron MaddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...

What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvellous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths...

No more than a promising actor with a handful of films to his name when he died in 1955, James Dean has since been elevated to an iconic status surpassed only by Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. And his image - a blend of '50s cool and tough-guy charm...

In November 1919, a year after the Great War, four Australian servicemen made a unique and epoch-making journey home. In the open cockpit of a twin-engine Vickers Vimy bi-plane, brothers Ross and Keith Smith and mechanics Wally Shiers and Jim completed...

William Dargan's career began in Wales on the Holyhead Road, working under the famous Scottish engineer, Thomas Telford. He went on to build roads, railways, canals and reservoirs, developed hotels and the resort towns of Bray and Portrush, laid out...

When a country experiences a civil war, media reports are mainly brought to the attention of the outside world by those who can only report on the surface impressions obtained during a short visit or from the comfort of a studio thousands of miles away...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244111724Author Malcolm RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 435g

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and...

This book reveals the life, drama and mystery surrounding the creator of groundbreaking inventions. It posthumously found renewed fame as the subject of conspiracy theories and as a pop culture idol. It includes historical comics and photos that...

In May 2017, Alan Pickering won the award for the `Greatest Single Contribution to Occupational Pensions (1998-2017)' at the Professional Pensions UK Pension Awards. It was a well-received tribute to the role he had played for more than twenty years. The...

From cradle to great, the comprehensive real story of Bill Monroe The Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe was a major star of the Grand Ole Opry for over fifty years; a member of the Country Music, Songwriters, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame; and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Bks for Younger Children) 2014 and Children's Book Committee Award (Nonfiction) 2014. Commended for Lupine Award (Picture Book)...

This biography of Alfred Hitchcock is as intriguing, revealing, perverse, and entertaining as any of his classic films. 'The best book yet about the movies' most famous director' Publisher's Weekly 'No one will ever top Hitch' Jimmy Stewart One of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784610081Author Alun BurgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956560346Author Simon MorrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint Blue Porch PublishingPublisher Blue Porch PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583940969Author Erik Lee PremingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 502g

In the wake of Texas enacting a bill to deny abortions after 6 weeks, Loved and Wanted shines a light on motherhood and the right to choose. For readers of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy.In 2017, after becoming unexpectedly pregnant, Christa Parravani...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Inspirational Memoir) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780316013260Author Julie PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Little, Brown &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982727Author Bruno JustFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398481336Author Nick ArdleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This is the wartime memoir of a young boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of Reinhard Gehlen, the head of Nazi Germany's intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. After reading this book, however, the reader will wonder who had the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975601747Author Daniel ShayestehFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Daniel ShayestehPublisher Daniel ShayestehWeight(grams) 310g

When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in Suffolk, and abandoned there. The setting was idyllic, lessons were optional, pupils made...

When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in Suffolk, and abandoned there. The setting was idyllic, lessons were optional, pupils made...

Arthur Kenney-Herbert was a cavalry officer who served in India during the British Raj. Using the pen name "Wyvern," he wrote Culinary Jottings For Madras in which he gives instructions to British memsahibs on how to manage their servants, give...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033905Author Erika Myriam Kounio-AmariglioFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...