Personal Memoirs

Grammy Award-nominated artist Kem shares his life in this revealing and remarkable memoir tracing his transformative journey from homelessness to gold-selling artist. Known for his smooth affecting crooning and dapper style, Kem's journey to the stage is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306903496Author Jimmy O YangFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Da Capo PressPublisher Da Capo PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982787Author Marc MaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982787Author Marc MaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau, and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable microcosm of Europe Italians, French, Russians, Dutch, Poles,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800746275Author Adam HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen?The story behind Notebook starts with a minor crime: the theft of Tom Cox's rucksack from a Bristol pub in 2018. In that...

A powerful and urgent memoir of loss, exile and hope by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja'This gripping memoir conveys the courage and cost of telling a truer story' Guardian Book of the Day'Revelatory ... The particulars of her story speak for the losses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250777065Author Gary GulmanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 454g

From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV's news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself - an insightful and funny memoir about comedy and life that takes us through uncharted waters to unexpected places.Comedy has been Shaun's escape, his...

This is a memoir about hope - hope in others, hope in systems, and hope for the future.I've never quite known where to begin when someone asks me what I've been up to. I've never quite known how to explain what our daily life is like. I wanted to write...

The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards.With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the...

Curious to find out what it means to be an Anglo-Indian? Join Andrea Malam BEM as she shares the story of her journey from Bombay to London, and the search for her ancestry and identity. Along with her contributors, Andrea reveals the...

Far too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women's eloquent rage is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926199Author Lisa St Auben de TeranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903-2014The pianist Alice Herz-Sommer survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attended Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, and along the way befriended some of the most fascinating historical figures of our time, from Franz Kafka...

Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903-2014The pianist Alice Herz-Sommer survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attended Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, and along the way befriended some of the most fascinating historical figures of our time, from Franz Kafka...

For most of her life, Stefanie Preissner was a people-pleaser. From hair-raising sleepovers and endless offers of cake to unwanted second dates and unrealistic work demands, she said yes to everything - even if it scared her or made her uncomfortable...

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,...

'When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures.'John Muir was eleven when he and his family left Scotland in 1849 to build a new life on a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870815515Author John C. BehrendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint University of Colorado,Department of Fine ArtsPublisher University of...

Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security briefing with President-elect Donald Trump. And it...

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

Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion reveals the ups and downs of the band's forty-year career. From their beginnings as teenagers jamming in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole" to headlining major music festivals around the world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486546Author Viram JasaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394714394Author Akira KurosawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

'Engrossing' Daniel Beer, Guardian'A beautiful book... incisive, radiant' Olivia Laing'Illuminating, dramatic... majestic writing' Spectator'Enthralling... a triumph' Andrew SolomonAlex Halberstadt returns to Russia, the troubled, enigmatic land of his...

'A labour of undiluted love and enthusiasm' Daily TelegraphAs Daniel Hardcastle careers towards thirty, he looks back on what has really made him happy in life: the friends, the romances... the video games. Told through encounters with the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452271876Author Robert RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142000946Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 128mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859654562Author Lindsay ReadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640096370Author Kristine S. ErvinFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life-and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgroundsWhat is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the...

Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant "sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters" (Newsweek).Natchez, Mississippi, once had more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735213463Author Garrard ConleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

September 1940. A four-year-old London boy gazes at a night sky lit by burning London. Eighty years later, in another emergency and a hugely changed world, the same lad is persuaded to write about his ordinary life that has occasionally been quite...

In 1986, Charles Nicholl travels through Thailand to learn about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism in the north of the country. But interesting things have a habit of getting in the way. When Nicholl meets Harry, an old French Indochina hand,...