Personal Memoirs

Healed is the powerful, moving and deeply personal story of actor Manisha Koirala's battle against ovarian cancer. From her treatment in the US and the wonderful care provided by the oncologists there to how she rebuilt her life once she returned home,...

** 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 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...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Middle East Book Awards (Youth Literature) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780061999758Author Sophia Al-MariaFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher...

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

From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramon comes a powerful memoir about one woman's complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin. In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.Book InformationISBN 9781524763138Author Michelle ObamaFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown Publishing...

Abby Chava Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470289068Author Don FelderFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 636gDimensions(mm)...

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

'The Lockdown Diaries' records a year in the life of Dawn, Rod, their kids, cats and garden. It's hilariously daft but we will all identify with their daily struggles with the Pandemic. Dawn started sharing her diaries with a few friends, then with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804391532Author Chris CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

The true story of a Jewish refugee boy, Erich, who arrived in this country from Nazi-occupied Europe three days before the start of the war. He was just four, and would never see his parents again. His earliest memories are of the tiny room he slept in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225165Author Assia DjebarFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 326g

***Now a major motion picture on Netflix, starring Kevin Hart***'It will make you cry... for the beauty of love and its miraculous power to heal.' John Grogan, author of Marley & MeMatt and Liz Logelin had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home...

***Now a major motion picture on Netflix, starring Kevin Hart***'It will make you cry... for the beauty of love and its miraculous power to heal.' John Grogan, author of Marley & MeMatt and Liz Logelin had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home...

Pamela Rhodes, one of the first British policewomen, tells her fascinating story in Bobby on the Beat.Back in 1950 Pam became one of the first policewomen in the country. But the force's new female recruits faced a sceptical public in rural Yorkshire and...

This is a story spanning some of the most turbulent decades in recent world history. James Marsh was born during the first year of the Second World War and many of his infant years were spent in air-raid shelters outside his home. Bombs rained down from...

What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about ourselves?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307280466Author Stephanie SaldanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

Karma is the definitive autobiography from music icon, Boy George - the fabulous Grammy, Brit andIvor Novello award-winning lead singer of 80s pop/reggae band, Culture Club.Told in his inimitable style, Karma will reflect on Boy George's life as a kid...

'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' Helen MacdonaldI tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just like that. I was looking at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998906966Author Cynthia Zvanut HoveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Barringer Publishing/Schlesinger AdvertisingPublisher Barringer...

Reflecting on seventy years of voracious reading, All Booked Up invites you to reflect on the transformative power of literature on a life through fifteen captivating chapters, each focusing on a different book. Opening with Five Go Off In A Caravan,...

Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games takes you inside the video arcade game industry during the pivotal decades of the 1980s and 1990s. Warren Davis, the creator of the groundbreaking Q*bert, worked as a member of the creative teams who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123378Author Henry A. CrumptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author's upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British...

Brian Woodworth was born in 1968 and became one of England's longest serving funeral workers. He has clocked up 35 years of service working in the Salford area of Manchester. His first book 'Wooden Overcoat' went into great detail, telling the story of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486089Author Gordon NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'I love [Rachael's] comics - human, humane, funny and always surprising.' Chris Addison, comedian and director of VeepAfter going through a breakup and attempting to get on with her new, single life, award-winning comic-creator and author of Quarantine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316535892Author Katie CouricFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952225581Author Ron ChepesiukFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MUST-READ BOOK When Wayetu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a party at home in, Liberia. Yet all she can think about is how...

'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES'A fascinating, brilliant book, full of joy, rage, a love of music' THE SKINNY'Variously optimistic, troubling, joyful, illuminating, fierce and thoughtful' GUARDIANINTERVIEWS WITH...

Light in Bandaged Places shows us the harm done when an older man in a position of power convinces a child that sex with him is alright because he loves her. This poignant story takes us through the long-term wounding of such abuse—and the multifaceted...

Heaven Come Down is the stunningly powerful testimony of someone growing up with severe dysmorphia and gender dysphoria, in a broken dysfunctional family, and their discovery of hope, love and faith through the healing power of God. Chrissie Chevasutt's...

Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, "shot through with sharp humor" (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.One...