Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993356766Author Jonathan PowerFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Cambria PublishingPublisher Cambria PublishingWeight(grams) 148g

On the day her first book came out-a new translation of Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross-Mirabai Starr's daughter, Jenny, was killed in a car accident. "My spiritual life began the day my daughter died," writes Mirabai. Even with decades...

This book charts the author's long journey of healing from the trauma caused by having to go into hiding as a child and having to deny that she was Jewish. It is not intended as an autobiography or a clinical paper on the healing process but as an...

Mississippi, 1967. It's the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers' maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice. In You'll Forget This Ever Happened, Laura Engel takes us back to the Deep...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534455Author Edward BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

'Fee writes with stunning honesty ... utterly breathtaking' - BustleA beautiful memoir from an exciting young writer, Meg Fee, on finding her way in New York City. Full of the dramas and quiet moments that make up a life, told with humour, heart, and...

'Ach cerbh i Peig Sayers?' Niorbh i in aon chor an tseanbhean ologonach i ar chuir na glunta de dhaltai scoile aithne uirthi. Is leir o chuntais uathu siud arbh eol doibh i gur bhean ghramhar thuisceanach i a raibh acmhainn grinn inti; bean a fuair...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593186794Author Sarafina El-Badry NanceFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062906373Author Jonathan Van NessFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

For this, the third book in a series on the area of Walworth, we let the people, old and new, speak first-hand about SE17. A few of those you will hear from have long since left Walworth physically, but it is a place they still hold dear to their hearts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398438897Author Leon ParrishFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan ThompsonKenan Thompson is Saturday Night...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398454514Author Andrew MarriottFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly...

'I swim for every chance to get wasted - after every meet, every weekend, every travel trip. This is what I look forward to and what I tell no one: the burn of it down my throat, to my soul curled up in my lungs, the sharpest pain all over it - it seizes...

John grew up in poverty in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1960s. Fatherless, and with a family in chaos, John fell prey to the predatory clutches of a neighbour, setting off a cycle of sexual abuse that eventually led to being sold as a teenage prostitute...

John grew up in poverty in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1960s. Fatherless, and with a family in chaos, John fell prey to the predatory clutches of a neighbour, setting off a cycle of sexual abuse that eventually led to being sold as a teenage prostitute...

Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize 2022 'Engrossing...brilliant' Monica Ali 'Heartbreaking and really funny' Ross Gay 'This book fell into my heart' Sabrina Mahfouz 'The kind of authentic voice that is rarely heard' Saima...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451496676Author A. J. MendezFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Three Rivers Press (CA)Publisher Three Rivers Press (CA)Weight(grams)...

A heart-warming memoir about life as a nursery nurse and nanny in the 1960s, for fans of Call the Midwife. In 1961, sixteen year-old Pam Weaver began her training as a nursery nurse. Drawn to this profession by her caring nature and a desire...

Sir Bob Scott looks back on an unusual life with several careers. A single theme through it all has been getting things off the ground. There has been both success and failure. After a childhood spent abroad as the son of a diplomat and in England...

'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...

The gripping and remarkable true story of author Ralph White's desperate effort to save the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.In April 1975, Ralph White was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475633Author Brandon WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986921Author Zlatan IbrahimovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931564Author Elizabeth EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061997174Author Ree DrummondFormat PaperbackPage Count 341Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 272g

One for Sorrow relates the story of the loss of 21-year-old Tom to cancer, and how his family lived through the aftermath. When Alan began writing the memoir, he believed it would be about his son's illness and death. He soon realized, however, that he...

Ronald White-Cooper may have worked as a doctor in London's slums and tended to badly wounded men on the Western Front, but when he arrived in Dartmouth in 1920 to set up as a GP he found himself facing some unique challenges. From the normally reliable...

Ronald White-Cooper may have worked as a doctor in London's slums and tended to badly wounded men on the Western Front, but when he arrived in Dartmouth in 1920 to set up as a GP he found himself facing some unique challenges. From the normally reliable...

"I'm just passing through," Milton Gendel liked to say whenever anybody asked him what he was doing in Rome. Even after seven decades in the Eternal City, he refused to be pigeonholed. He was always an American - never an "expat," never an emigre - but...

Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy. It is just that, because of the nature of my grandfather's business, our secrets are more sinister'Lilian Pizzichini's grandfather was a conman who worked...

From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations. In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani's parents left the United States...

Brought up by her middle-aged father, after her mother's death when she was barely five, Sue revelled in the gamut of experience afforded by the combination of an almost feral rural childhood to living in London's possibly most exclusive address,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250795786Author Betty GilpinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 145mm *...

When Mark McDonough was a teen, a catastrophic fire claimed the lives of his mother and younger brother. It also left Mark with burns on over 65 percent of his body. During a long and painful recovery, his faltering faith in God was strengthened by a...

German general Hermann Balck (1897--1982) was considered to be one of World War II's greatest battlefield commanders. His brilliantly fought battles were masterpieces of tactical agility, mobile counterattack, and the technique of Auftragstaktik, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401324056Author John KralikFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 138mm * 20mm

Mike Carney was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1920 in that unique, isolated Irish-speaking community. Mike left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin and eventually settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, with other former islanders. The death...

British post-imperial decline has been much examined. In these memoirs, David Hannay, one of Britain's leading behind-the-scenes players in this process, provides fascinating frontline information and insights into Britain's complex relations with...