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Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715587598Author Alphonse DaudetFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Goh Chok Tong was an improbable Prime Minister for an unlikely country. He had neither the connections nor the cunning to rise to the top, and was even once famously derided by his mentor Lee Kuan Yew for being 'wooden' in his communication skills...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957242005Author Sheila Anne DouthwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint All At Ivy CottagePublisher Busy Corner Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398495821Author James BeckfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world-an insider's story of excess and danger, glamour and greed. In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunette from Loveland...

JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often just plain wrong.On the surface, Arce's story reads like a how-to manual for achieving the American dream: growing up in an...

Robert Lunt lived in Argentina from 1977 and worked in the north with the Wichi people, chiefly as co-ordinator of the Bible into the Wichi language. He married Margaret, a former missionary doctor and their two daughters were born in Argentina. Part 1...

Alex Stobbs is determined to make every day count. Despite suffering from cystic fibrosis and enduring a gruelling regime of drugs and treatment, he has already achieved more in his nineteen years than many do in a lifetime. A musical prodigy, he was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345523976Author C. W. GortnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851249070Author Glyn FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998355078Author Greg RussoFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint CrossFire Pub.Publisher CrossFire Pub.Weight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034160908Author Asser Bishop of SherborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 3mm

"A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of man, full of life and fun. That's how a contemporary described...

Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike-a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957628830Author Maria MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint easyBroomPublisher easyBroomWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Born in Germany in 1907, Peierls was indeed a bird of passage," whose career of fifty-five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800165021Author Richard HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

The biography of Rosalyn Yalow, as told by her longtime friend and colleague Eugene Straus, is the story of a woman who prevailed against class and gender prejudice to reach the pinnacle of the science world. Yalow's story is related against the backdrop...

In Regency England a profligate son was regarded as every parent's worst nightmare: he symbolized the dangerous temptations of a new consumer society and the failure of parents to instil moral, sexual, and financial self-control in their sons. This book...

Stories of life, death and unforgettable clinical cases A psychiatrist and a patient with supernatural connections.A family man's resilience as he recovers from a life-changing terrorist attack.A rural nurse specialist and his incredible roadside rescue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617200243Author Jack BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359382682Author Berta GardonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

JUERGEN SIMONSON was born in Dresden, Germany in 1924 and grew up under the Nazi regime. Because of some Jewish antecedents he was called up to do forced labour in France in 1944, escaped and after more adventures came to England in 1945. He was ordained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244686819Author K W IvesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345432483Author Dave BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 219gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380795536Author Yvette MelansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 202gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995519534Author Zan SwartzbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Lorraine Barbara HoustonPublisher Lorraine Barbara Houston

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035816446Author John ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Donal Walsh first came to international attention in Ireland aged sixteen, when a letter he wrote speaking out against the suicide epidemic in young people was published in the Irish Sunday Independent. At the time Donal was dying of cancer having...

Vanessa Milano was born in England but now lives in the South of France with her French husband and family. The Heart of an Artichoke, her first novel, is based on true events: life as the daughter of a military father, living through riots in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615187242Author Jacques ValleeFormat HardbackImprint Documatica Research, LLCPublisher Documatica Research, LLCWeight(grams) 871g

Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism,...

Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict of American race relations, and the inquisitions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Cafe Society tells the personal history of Barney Josephson, proprietor of the legendary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438963198Author Gary ChevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833-1917) was one of the ablest and most successful commanders of cavalry in any Civil War army. Pennsylvania-born, West Point-educated, and deeply experienced in cavalry operations prior to the conflict, his career...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999549667Author Thomas FenschFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint New Century BooksPublisher New Century BooksWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956489746Author Clive SemmensFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Xin PublishingPublisher Xin PublishingWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359748037Author John G. PatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643543666Author Hafiz Ibn KathirFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint International Publishing HousePublisher International Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...