Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648349877Author Megan BlandfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Wild Dingo PressPublisher Wild Dingo Press

First published in 1967, this is an autobiography that is a memoir of boyhood and adolescence. Beginning with a lesson in brutality at a progressive boarding school, the book moves to a self-help settlement in Florida, a Connecticut mental hospital...

Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis-one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future.With temperatures rising and the risk of disasters growing,...

When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786933911Author John WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A Daily Express Book of the Year 'Engrossing ... grips you and doesn't let go.' The Spectator 'Waterdrinker's gift for savage comedy and his war correspondent's eye have few contemporary equivalents.' The Times A thrilling escapade through the Soviet...

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown...

'Beautiful and heart-rending . . . I could smell Africa on every page' - A. A. GillCaroline Jones was born in Ethiopia and spent most of her childhood in East Africa. She read French and Spanish at Oxford University and went on to make documentaries for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035806836Author Amanda TrollopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562702Author Meghan O'GieblynFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

As a young reporter John MacKay took the first calls on the Lockerbie Bombing. As a news anchor he conducted the final TV interviews of the Yes and No campaigns in Scotland's Referendum. His journey in journalism has taken him to the key events through...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593472583Author Shayla LawsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Tiny Reparations BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi's quirks, which at first appeared so charming and sweet, soon revealed a darker side-he was a gambler, a drinker, and a womanizer, impossible to...

The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. 'Superb . . . Nothing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951142599Author Courtney CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 168mm...

In this gripping memoir, originally published in 1957, the Dutch author, codename 'Zip', recounts her extraordinary journey. A young fighter for the resistance during World War II, Zip is captured and held prisoner as part of the 'Night and Fog' unit,...

When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By their early thirties, they had tens of millions of dollars. Today, there are millions of people like her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808419Author Savannah KnoopFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 270g

'"Mrs Byrne, you've a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye." As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus and I still would have come out better than this.' ...

'"Mrs Byrne, you've a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye." As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus and I still would have come out better than this.' ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399181603Author Elissa AltmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

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'I have already touched on my childhood in Strange Places, Questionable People. But the further through life I get the more I want to revisit it. I want to look at the whole of my childhood, the England I grew up in and my family.' This is not a mere...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911249658Author Marcie LaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Huge JamPublisher Huge Jam

** Includes foreword from Susie Green, CEO of charity Mermaids ** Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl. When Marlo Mack's three year old says these words, she's not surprised - but she's completely...

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...

A 39-year-old dad of two, Harold Cabrera is your typical sports weekend warrior, who decides to complete three big challenges before turning 40. Chase That Smile is his account of relationships, family life, good times, and hard times. Of training...

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. "Voluntary or involuntary?" asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737907312Author Merryl TengesdalFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Merryl TengesdalPublisher Merryl TengesdalWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Named a "Best Book of the Year" by New Statesman, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Washington Independent Review of BooksSouthern Book Prize FinalistFrom New York Times contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306847318Author Douglas LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm...

'Sarah doesn't just sit at the table - she stands on it. She's full of inspiring advice about how to bounce back from failures, speak your truth, embrace your quirks, and have a lot more fun along the way.' Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and Founder of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578688527Author Renee OlivierFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Renee OlivierPublisher Renee OlivierWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540467Author David ParrishFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula."A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do...

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children's author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband's life without her in the...

Michelle Knight-now known as Lily Rose Lee-captured the world's attention May 2013, when she and fellow kidnapping victims Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were found and freed after years of imprisonment and torture. Michelle was a young single mother when...

The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himself Streetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine "cool" coexists with big business; where a star designer might work concurrently with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735574806Author Nicolas ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Nicolas ColePublisher Nicolas ColeWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 8mm