Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496411846Author Virginia ProdanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591812883Author Dorje DolmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 656g

Nothing in Keith Richburg's long and respected journalistic career at the Washington Post prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper's correspondent in Africa. He found a continent where brutal murder had become routine, where dictators and...

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world's...

Popular culture mirrors the human soul and it can't lie about the state it is in-which is what makes it an essential guide on the quest for self-knowledge. Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist is a series of autobiographical explorations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545420Author Charlie HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.

Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the...

This memoir describes the various childhood experiences that informed the quest for meaning and the travels and adventures that came after asking his art tutor a question that ultimately led to a long association with the work of Idries Shah.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439192412Author Storm LargeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398495166Author Harris LatchuFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788789622Author Carol DuncombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983294801Author Kate PreskenisFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Present Essence PublishingPublisher Present Essence PublishingWeight(grams)...

'On the last day of 1959 my father, the Beau Brummel of morticians, piled us into his green and white Desoto in which we looked like a moving pack of Salem cigarettes. He drove away from Lanesboro, the city in which we all were born, and into a small...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312341022Author Kevin SessumsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861710775Author Trijang RinpocheFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

In 2007 Carl Williams was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 35 years' jail. Yet his role in the Melbourne Gangland Wars went far beyond a handful of killings, however brutal, and had made him one of the most infamous names in Australian...

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Elizabeth and Ivy is the fascinating memoir and collection of letters from Robert Liddell. Liddell met both Ivy Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth Taylor (the writer) only several times: nevertheless a close, three-way friendship developed which is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418870Author Simon MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 172mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982497Author Gary ShteyngartFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint Random House TradePublisher Random House TradeWeight(grams) 277g

Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn and paddled across the Pacific Ocean to retrace the voyages of ancient people. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the realm of the spiritual. In a remote Siberian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707050Author Kristi NoemFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999218624Author Megan BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 707Imprint Tyrant BooksPublisher Tyrant BooksWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 43mm

Through narrative, guided exercises, and meditations, Here For Now was the first book to apply the principles of mindfulness meditation to living with cancer. This book empowers the reader to transform suffering into compassion and joy. Follow Elana's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181638Author Jillian LaurenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 235gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 136mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398430136Author Betty RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593542569Author Jancee DunnFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451635232Author Genelle Guzman-McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Howard BooksPublisher Howard BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800749825Author Sara DisalvoFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

One Man's Mountain' is a powerful and energetic memoir describing how what seem to be distant and unachievable dreams can become real and develop into a life's experience that is way beyond what was thought possible. The book depicts life's...

The highly anticipated, first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino. Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life...

In this "beautifully written memoir" (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her mother, Hilda Musa Said, and her Teta, "Granny" Munira Badr Musa. Against the backdrop of the fall of...

Malcolm Nash achieved sporting immortality as the bowler hit for a world-record six sixes by the legendary batsman Garry Sobers at Swansea in 1968 but, as Malcolm himself notes, although this single over made his name well-known, it should not define his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771647229Author Luke TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Greystone BooksPublisher Greystone BooksWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 140mm *...

Over the days and weeks that followed, it was difficult to keep up with changes as new roads and buildings sprouted up at an alarming rate; I have to say that most were positive changes, with oil revenues allocated to the various Five-Year plans. Ports...

Features humorous description of a life spent sailing in different boats, and many adventures.Book InformationISBN 9780954706272Author Tony JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Seafarer BooksPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035809172Author Robert W. WardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780038650Author Catherine OsbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Indepenpress Publishing LtdPublisher Indepenpress Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Kath grew up on a vast council estate in the 1950s, the second youngest of ten children. The two most important people in young Kath's life were her charismatic but manipulative mother Flo and her mother's sister Aunty. But Flo and Aunty were keeping...

Kath grew up on a vast council estate in the 1950s, the second youngest of ten children. The two most important people in young Kath's life were her charismatic but manipulative mother Flo and her mother's sister Aunty. But Flo and Aunty were keeping...