Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589652Author PrinceFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 765gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 163mm *...

Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and found" (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the...

In the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, "When God Looked the Other Way", gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet...

Challenged to prove her claim that an 18th-century diet was better than today's, for a full year Fiona J Houston recreated the lifestyle of her 1790s rural Scottish ancestors in a basic one-roomed cottage, cooking from her garden and the wild, often...

Born a stone's throw from the church and educated at the village school, Ernest Ambrose was brought up to respect God, his parents, Long Melford's two local squires and the rector. That didn't mean rural Suffolk life in the nineteenth century was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642860894Author Linda Bostroem KnausgardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint World EditionsPublisher World Editions

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Faith, family, hard work, and second chances are at the core of every great American story. Jenny Doan has one of those great American stories.Over the last decade, the Doan family business has grown from Jenny's corner shop to become the largest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635767919Author Lee SansumFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion BooksWeight(grams) 140g

What happens when an urban girl swaps her kitten heels in the city for karma in the country?It is a big year for Lucy - she has met the love of her life and they're planning to trade the city rat race for a Norfolk farmhouse, get married, and try for a...

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah...

Berlin 1966, a city divided by an impenetrable wall erected by the communist German Democratic Republic. Together with his friends, the West German student Volker G. Heinz is looking for ways to help would-be fugitives escape from East to West. Their...

"An illuminating account of a brilliant neurosurgical career." -Henry Marsh, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Do No HarmIn this medical memoir, Dr. Friedman recounts the humorous, tragic, and always intense relationships of neurosurgeons to...

Jessica Knowles is someone who has always embraced the outdoors. But growing up, she could never understand why all the voices that occupied this space were men. Determined to break the mould, Jessica set out on adventures with her trusty companion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881198Author John M VineFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 266g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983358930Author R. StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

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The Sandwich Years is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and how one woman - through caring for the person she had relied on the most - finally found herself. Alana Kirk, married with two children and a third on...

The Sandwich Years is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and how one woman - through caring for the person she had relied on the most - finally found herself. Alana Kirk, married with two children and a third on...

In 2015, suffering from a dreadful case of writer's block, novelist and short story writer Jan Carson set herself the challenge of spending an entire year writing short pieces of microfiction on postcards and mailing these to friends around the world...

'We will change things from within' Sherin Khankan is a pioneer, founding the first mosque for women in Europe and leading the way for a more progressive form of Islam. In this remarkable work, she shares her journey growing up between east and west to...

When you're pregnant you think: 'I'm having a baby', not a person who will eventually catch trains by themselves, share a fridge with ten strangers, go to a festival in Croatia without succumbing to a drug overdose, and one day, bring you a gin and tonic...

'Rana el Kaliouby's vision for how technology should work in parallel with empathy is bold, inspired and hopeful' Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global'This lucid and captivating book by a renowned pioneer of emotion-AI tackles one of the...

In the early 1960s, travel-writer Simon Gandolfi drove a VW from England to Goa where he rented a bungalow on the beach at Calangute. And it was on Calangute beach that Gandolfi met and loved Vanessa and explored with her much of the subcontinent. The...

"Dylan Marron is the internet's Love Warrior. His work is fresh, deeply honest, wildly creative, and right on time." -Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Dylan Marron is like a modern Mister Rogers for the digital age." -Jason Sudeikis ...

1986, Mobile, Alabama. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front lawn, her father has shot and killed her mother before turning the gun on himself. Allison Moorer would grow up to be an award-winning...

After the death of her mother and the end of a post-divorce relationship leave her heartbroken, novelist Amanda Brookfield finds her once secure world imploding. As despair closes in, she talks of getting a puppy to revive her optimistic spirit. ...

"Words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living." (Cyril Connolly). After the death of her sister, Nina Sankovitch found herself caught up in grief, dashing from one activity to the next to keep her mind occupied...

Best known as an actor and one of the BBC's Eggheads, few people would guess at the horrific early years CJ de Mooi endured. As a teenager, CJ fled from his childhood home to escape prolonged child abuse, hatred and violence, and consequently slept...

A remarkable story of turning heartbreak into hope Life as we know it can change in an instant, in the blink of an eye. And it did for Martina Cox and her family in 2018. On an ordinary day in April of that year, Sean Cox travelled to Anfield to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112624Author Carl SaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 140mm *...

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Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life-and how he might guide yours, tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie-Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title...

'I caught a glimpse of him, behind the veil. And he knew I'd caught it. There was that understanding between us. We were members of the club of the X-ray eyes, the club of people who can see into the human heart.' Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's candid and moving...

Barack Obama was the breath of fresh air the Democrats didn't even realise they needed. Running on a platform of hope, change and progress, he won his first term with a decisive landslide, completely rewriting the rules of politics. So how did we go...

Barack Obama was the breath of fresh air the Democrats didn't even realise they needed. Running on a platform of hope, change and progress, he won his first term with a decisive landslide, completely rewriting the rules of politics. So how did we go...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322882Author Kpomassie Tete-MichelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

"When my parents signed me up to Trojan Swimming Club, they had no idea of the evil behind Gibney's interest in me. As a thirteen-year-old, who knew nothing but kindness and love, I was ill-equipped to understand what was happening as he insidiously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408641Author Kathryn HeymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

`I evidently saw that unless the great God of his infinite grace and bounty, had voluntarily chosen me to be a vessel of mercy, though I should desire, and long, and labour until my heart did break, no good could come of it . . . How can you tell you are...