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At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is an exemplary American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome and charismatic. But his Texas town is poor and dangerous, and it isn't long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593230367Author Harriet JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity. From familiar themes to the less...

Award-winning writer Heather Lanier's memoir about raising a child with a rare syndrome, defying the tyranny of normal, and embracing parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways.Like many women of her generation, writer...

A punch in the face of the puritanism and conservatism he raged against, My Life and Loves is the highly-charged, erotic autobiography of Frank Harris (1856-1931), an Irish writer and editor who founded Pearson's Magazine in the United States (1914-1918)...

'An inspiring gift for teenagers with a conscience' - Independent'We're not the future. We're doing it right now.'Young people are uniting across the world to create change, have their voices heard and stand up for what they believe in.In this bold and...

In real life, there is a person like "Anonymous", who, for the sake of this story, I'll call Huey Carmichael. I was friends with this person for a while before I learned about his other life. The real Huey knows more than a thing or two about the weed...

In this classic psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his renowned insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the mighty figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.About the AuthorA winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805050875Author Etty HillesumFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 240g

The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover and a reluctant hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885 James Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the lives of over 100 criminals in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Tortured by...

The author's account of being abandoned by her mother as a young child and her life in homes and institutions will captivate any reader. The mystery of her search for her mother and constant rejections will leave the reader wondering what demons drove...

More gypsy tales from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author...Rosemary Penfold's A FIELD FULL OF BUTTERFLIES was a beautiful and evocative memoir of her life growing up in the fields of the English countryside. A moving testament to a forgotten world and a...

The complete memoirs of a man of many talents and faces - the late, great Spike Milligan - affectionately recounted by his close friend and agent for 35 years, Norma Farnes. 'What's he really like?' Wherever I went and was introduced as Spike...

The complete memoirs of a man of many talents and faces - the late, great Spike Milligan - affectionately recounted by his close friend and agent for 35 years, Norma Farnes. 'What's he really like?' Wherever I went and was introduced as Spike...

Fire up the crimpers and get backcombing! Hairspray and heartbreak abound as the painted youth of the 1980s go on the rampage in a North West London suburb. Further `Tales of a Rock Star's Daughter' by Nettie, eldest offspring of Cream/Blind Faith...

Thoroughly revised and expanded from the 2012 edition (twice the number of pages, almost double the number of illustrations) this book pays tribute to the man and his diverse works and achievements. James Hutton (1726-1797) was one of the first...

A full-colour illustrated biography of the life of Susie Cooper and her ceramic company's output. During her sixty-five-year career, Susie Cooper introduced more than 4,500 ceramic patterns and shapes, making her one of the most prolific, versatile...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838574994Author Cath SenkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory...

Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995581005Author Elizabeth DentFormat PaperbackImprint Elizabeth Dent PublishingPublisher Elizabeth Dent Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613824177Author Olaudah EquianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Simon & BrownPublisher Simon & BrownWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692461426Author Tabitha J FarrarFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Tabitha FarrarPublisher Tabitha FarrarWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The incredible true story of how one man turned his life around through the companionship of his best friend.For years, John Dolan had been living rough, trying his best to get by. Born and bred on the estates of east London, his early life was marked by...

George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye is a life of the gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. From age 18, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476795454Author Barbara LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 23mm

This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is "a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget" (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647227364Author Greg MacGillivrayFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents written by their own hands. From the second century BCE to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062514172Author Olga KharitidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911246534Author Chris YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 321Imprint TriggerPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

Now that he's in prison, the whole world knows that Dennis Rader is BTK. But the intricate twists and shocking turns of this story have never before been told by the people who were there - and intimately acquainted with both the BTK killer and Rader the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250879493Author James KeeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

In this powerful and evocative memoir, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter, Oliver Stone, takes us right to the heart of what it's like to make movies on the edge. In Chasing The Light he writes about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering...

Somaly Mam was abandoned as a baby and looked after by her grandmother until she disappeared. She was then taken into the care of a man she called 'grandfather', but was treated no better than an unpaid servant. sold. Raped at twelve, Somaly was forced...

Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the...

Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the...

This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achievements and legacy of one of the war's top combat admirals has been long overdue until now. Battleship...

The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the...

In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War. Her family and friends, their home and their travels, the glorious wildlife and scenery, described in rich and loving...