Personal Memoirs

A leading scholar of English romanticism and literary theory and criticism, Hazard Adams writes of a lifetime as a student, a teacher and an academic administrator. The child of academically-minded parents, both teachers at Cleveland's Hawken School,...

Kirkus Best Books of 2018 "You can quit waiting for the other shoe to drop: I'm in it for life." Those are the fateful, repeated words that help convince Kathryn Taylor to remarry, retire from her thirty-year profession, sell her home, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804398388Author Steve JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938140167Author Nadia SahariFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Venus Moon PressPublisher Venus Moon PressWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538733608Author Lauren MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Lakeland Larks, Laughter and Lunacies is a quirky memoir poking fun at the travails and tribulations of Anna Nolan’s car-less exploration of the Lake District, her home and playground, and reflecting her Polish ebullience. This exuberant and frolicsome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101981450Author Elizabeth L. SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837942541Author Kerrie J. HughesFormat PaperbackImprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Rachel likes to think of herself as a nice Jewish girl, dedicated to doing what's honorable, just as her parents raised her to do. But when her husband, David, survives a plane crash and is left with severe brain damage, she faces a choice: will she...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962305112Author Frank G AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Bridge City BooksPublisher Bridge City Books

Mother was an emotionally damaged woman shrouded in depression and dark secrets. Father was a man plagued by alcoholism who lived in a state of drunken evasion for many years before jumping ship. Kathleen Rose Morgan was born into this troubled family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063386341Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 386g

Butterfly Awakens depicts the story of the extraordinary transformation of a forty-something Italian American attorney as she moves through unimaginable grief and sadness watching her beloved mother lose her battle to breast cancer. This tumultuous life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959569084Author James NolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Univ of Louisiana at LafayettePublisher Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451612981Author President Jimmy CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 263g

Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is an important, compelling, and entertaining first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960215031Author Teresa Tumminello BraderFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Belle Point PressPublisher Belle Point PressWeight(grams) 200g

After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in “the Hemp Space.” When hemp was legalized, after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662890512Author Annie McCuneFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Xulon PressPublisher Xulon PressWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984506566Author Lois CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Xlibris AuPublisher Xlibris AuWeight(grams) 152g

Midwestern Strange chronicles B.J. Hollars's exploration of the mythic, lesser-known oddities of flyover country. The mysteries, ranging from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping space aliens to a lumberjack-inspired "hodag...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307955654Author Kristen IversenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439183762Author Gina CasconeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 271g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886809701Author Jb YanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Jb YanniPublisher Jb YanniWeight(grams) 152g

When they were young, Susan and Edna, children of Holocaust refugee parents, were inseparable; Edna was Susan's first love and constant companion. But as they grew up and Edna's physical, and mental challenges altered the ways she could develop, a gulf...

Take a Good Look Around by James C. Wofford, is a book about life in the outdoors. Readers who are used to his books on training horses will find a new side of the author, a side that has rarely surfaced until the publication of this, his latest work...

Before the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in April 1975, Sao Bounchoeurn and San Bounriem grew up in idyllic, though vastly different, circumstances. After a secondary education, Bounchoeurn entered the army, joined the Special Forces, and worked for...

In February 1919, in memoriam of the recent passing of President Theodore Roosevelt, a group of civic leaders began the planning of a monumental road-the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway. Spanning more than 4,000 miles, the highway connected...

Set against the backdrop of World War II and accented by the birth, demise and rebirth of a nation, this memoir chronicles a Baltic refugee family's escape from Estonia to the United States. Spanning nine decades and three continents, and incorporating...

One of These Things First is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15 year old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early sixties, and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother's bra and girdle store, to Manhattan's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986522074Author Amanda Irene RushFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Publish HerPublisher Publish HerWeight(grams) 426g

Some summers are destined to generate cherished memories. For married high school sweethearts Don and Nancy Hammond, they happened in 1972 and 1973, when Don's lifelong dream of being a United States Forest Service fire lookout came true.Don's first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938462634Author David A JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Old Stone PressPublisher Old Stone Press

A haunted record of a life devoted to the visual art of the cinema and the written word, by Ireland's greatest director and one of her finest novelists. In this vivid, moving and strange memoir, Neil Jordan – the author of classic fiction like The Past,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644213797Author Odile HellierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594132667Author Elizabeth GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 631Imprint Large Print PressPublisher Large Print PressWeight(grams) 739gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Born and raised on the island of Jamaica, Fern June Khan has valued and embraced Jamaica in each stage of her life. Despite the island’s economic and educational challenges during her youth, Khan’s childhood was a colorful one, replete with the vibrant...

"America's greatest living tailor" and "the most interesting man in the world," Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story from the darkness of Auschwitz to the glitz and glamour of tailoring bespoke suits for celebrities and...

Pioneering Spirit, American Success In panam.captain, Tim Mellon, issue of one of America’s most illustrious banking dynasties, narrates his journey from the legacy of the Mellon family to his success as an audacious entrepreneur who carved his own path...