Personal Memoirs

Inspired by her wildly popular The New York Times essay "The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give", Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip), clever (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage. Weaving intimate moments from her own married life with...

'Whenever I see Martino I am reminded of how little I know about life and death compared to him. How we don't know what is within us or what may lie on the other side. I hope it's as magical and beautiful as this book.' RUSSELL BRAND'Raw, brave,...

For fans of the New York Times bestseller I Quit Sugar or Katie Couric's controversial food industry documentary Fed Up, A Year of No Sugar is a "delightfully readable account of how [one family] survived a yearlong sugar-free diet and lived to tell the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910691113Author Archie HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tangerine PressPublisher Tangerine Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101906347Author Colin JostFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

2013 Gold Winner IBPA Ben Franklin Awards In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long...

Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer...

On a November evening in 1989, Laura Levitt was raped in her own bed. Her landlord heard the assault taking place and called 911, but the police arrived too late to apprehend Laura's attacker. When they left, investigators took items with them-a pair of...

After undergoing gall bladder surgery at age twenty-three, Jennette Fulda decided it was time to lose some weight. Actually, more like half her weight. At the time, Jennette weighed 372 pounds.Jennette was not born fat. But, by fifth grade, her response...

After undergoing gall bladder surgery at age twenty-three, Jennette Fulda decided it was time to lose some weight. Actually, more like half her weight. At the time, Jennette weighed 372 pounds.Jennette was not born fat. But, by fifth grade, her response...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767929448Author Nancy PelosiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398436138Author Colin EdmondsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A New York Times Best Seller! Baltimore, one of our country's quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D. WatkinsTo many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American...

In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the...

A new, addictive-to-read collection of essays and stories celebrating yarn-specifically, the knitter's reputation for acquiring it in large quantities and storing it away in what's lovingly referred to as a "stash." The pieces in this collection span...

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...

While working at a Boston newspaper, Nina MacLaughlin applied for a job as a carpenter's assistant. In Hammer Head she tells the story of becoming a carpenter-the joys and frustrations of making things by hand; the challenges she faced as a woman in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860916Author Mary BomfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 348g

'Compassionate' Guardian'Extremely affecting' ScotsmanAs a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language.From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237366Author Ross DouthatFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389701050Author G H HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254844Author Chris ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995143142Author Richard ShawFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm)...

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...

From the WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'A work of bewitching beauty and humanity' Chinua Achebe 'From that moment on, there was to be a before and an after Africa for me.' In 1948, a young J. M. G. Le Clezio left behind a...

Soon after Dexter Petley began writing down his observations of people on the borders of rural Kent and Sussex during the 1960s and 1970s, he realised that his stories were acquiring a broader significance. Between the riverbank where he taught himself...

'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...

The former Stanford University sailing coach sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal tells the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit in this eye-opening memoir that offers a damning portrait of modern...

Alys Morgan was admitted to hospital on the 19th of April, with an unexplained sickness which had rendered her too weak to move. The next day she was diagnosed with Covid-19 - though staff understood her symptoms as little as the virus itself. This is...

Alys Morgan was admitted to hospital on the 19th of April, with an unexplained sickness which had rendered her too weak to move. The next day she was diagnosed with Covid-19 - though staff understood her symptoms as little as the virus itself. This is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063286115Author Tabitha BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Bursting with hilarious anecdotes and moving personal stories, Andy Armitage's gripping and intelligent memoir, 'Keep on Running', takes you on the rollercoaster ride of his journey as a theatre and TV writer, teacher and lecturer. Andy takes you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525480341Author Julianna MarguliesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

From Rufio to Zuko is a personal examination of the upbringing, culture, and work of Dante Basco. Basco ruminates on the formative power of his Filipino-American heritage, his family, the dynamics that evolved throughout his career, and his experiences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061875014Author Noelle HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544532141Author Jason PortnoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Honest Climb MediaPublisher Honest Climb MediaWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A memoir of Victoria Schofield's thirty-year friendship with her Oxford contemporary, Benazir Bhutto. 'Fascinating and moving' Lord Owen 'Abounds with behind-the-scenes gems' Spectator 'Sheds light on the human side of a courageous politican'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590513002Author Mario CalabresiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390327522Author Shantanu NaiduFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733074070Author Douglas EsperFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Scout MediaPublisher Scout MediaWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 23mm