Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838283858Author Ltyv PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Listening To Your Voice PublishingPublisher Listening To Your Voice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418443Author Robert TonseticFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544002197Author Anthony ShadidFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

A collection of irreverent and poetic short works from legendary actor Vincent D'Onofrio This is not a story woven around plot, characters, and contrivance. Rather, it is what acclaimed actor Vincent D'Onofrio's mind produces when on idle, when he is not...

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Koschorrek, a fresh young recruit, wrote his notes on whatever scraps of paper he could find and sewed the pages into the lining of his winter coat. Left with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977746217Author Lois WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Lois WrightPublisher Lois WrightWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668028292Author Cassidy HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 259g

An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist Alexandra Billings. Born in 1962, Alexandra Billings grew up in a decade in which being herself was illegal. When she started transitioning in 1980,...

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'I have yet to come away from reading [Bering's] work and not feel considerably better informed than I was minutes before' (Forbes)__________________This penetrating analysis aims to demystify a subject that knows no cultural or demographic boundaries...

"I warned you Brenda, that's what you get for dating a soldier - heartache. A life of heartache." It's an army spouse's worst nightmare. It's what you fear more than anything. But fear cannot prepare you for the reality, or the desperate heartache. I...

What do you do when you find yourself living as a stranger? When Beth Lynch moved to Switzerland, she quickly realised that the sheer will to connect with people would not guarantee a happy relocation.Out of place and lonely, Beth knows that she needs to...

Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the 'Shearing sound' - the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique 'locked hands' approach to...

"In this outstanding memoir, chef and restaurateur Matsuhisa...shares lessons in humility, gratitude, and empathy that will stick with readers long after they've finished the final chapter." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Inspiration by example"...

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At the age of thirty-nine, Sarah Kowalski heard her biological clock ticking, loudly. A single woman harboring a deep ambivalence about motherhood, Kowalski needed to decide once and for all: Did she want a baby or not? More importantly, with no partner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947821425Author Roger KnightFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint J.W.McKenziePublisher J.W.McKenzieWeight(grams) 700gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 159mm * 21mm

'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend Warner There are many ways of telling the story of a life and how we've got to where we are. The questions of why and how we think the way we do...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279965Author Barbara WaltersFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451696110Author Lyssa ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Howard BooksPublisher Howard BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 20mm

For Satyadasa the Buddhist path has been fulfilling and often joyous, but also full of doubts and obstacles. What does it mean to be a Buddhist in the West in the twenty-first century? And is being born with one hand a curse - or a blessing? "I'm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616208677Author Shoba NarayanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804391365Author Fiona BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

'A transfixingly readable amalgam of memoir and history... Superbly written and researched.... [Meller] has turned the raw material of her life into literature'Ian Thomson, author of Primo LeviRachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool,...

'HONEST, POWERFUL AND RIVETING'Levison Wood, author of The Art of Exploration'JUST BRILLIANT...THE BOOK OF THE DECADE'Tim Flannery, former Australian of the Year'WOW. A HUGELY IMPORTANT AND ENJOYABLE BOOK THAT WILL RESTORE YOUR FAITH IN HUMANITY AND WHAT...

'[A] clever, cosmic, moving and funny parenting physics and poetry adventure . . . It's wonderful' Max Porter via Twitter'Clear, nimble and dexterous' Ocean Vuong'It's a magical book. An incantation to be fully present, fully concerned, fully alive' Luke...

'A funny and brutally honest book about what it means to be a woman and what it takes to be a creator, She Wants It is deeply personal but always universal in its unapologetic recounting of a life lived and raw talent shared. Good. Detailed. Honest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398449848Author Cathy HullFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'Heartwarming and hilarious' Telegraph'With as many horrifying stories as heart-warming ones, this is a fascinating look at the year in the life of a vet at a London animal charity hospital. There are some proper belly laughs as well as some insights...

'A really clear, funny, useful guide to mental health.' Keith Stuart, author of A Boy Made of Blocks'Warm, welcoming and wise.' Red magazine'This is a funny, brutal, kind, sobering, remarkably brave and clear-eyed book. Compelling and necessary.' Warren...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544570320Author David J MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129484Author Liza RodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 140mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501175244Author Tima KurdiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm...

A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing. Moments of clarity and revelation are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty and irresolution within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307587749Author Roger HousdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946774569Author Jesse Lauriston LivermoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Mockingbird PressPublisher Mockingbird PressWeight(grams)...

In Service is the tale of one person's journey into manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. It is a journey littered with colourful anecdotes and diverse experience: from military training in the Guards Depot to Trooping the Colour;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062962812Author Ree DrummondFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061430275Author Terri CheneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204g