Personal Memoirs

Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda-threshold years where he found his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610350136Author J Lee DrexlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602396579Author Mark KittoFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 499g

Just Another Nigger is Don Cox's revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He participated in many peaceful Bay Area civil rights protests but hungered for more militant action. His book tells the story of his work as...

In January 1983 Burt Folsom read a story in Time about Mitch Rutledge, a man on death row with an IQ of 84 who said he was sorry for what he did. "Forget him," the last line of the story read. But Burt wrote Mitch a letter and discovered a man...

Writer, teacher, and adventurer Kurt Caswell has spent his adult life canoeing, hiking, and pedaling his way toward a deeper understanding of our vast and varied world. Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents chronicles over twenty years of...

Since its founding in 1993 by the late Pace Foods heiress Linda Pace, Artpace has become one of the premiere foundations for contemporary art. An artist residency program based in San Antonio, Texas, Artpace's goal is to give artists time and space to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591930938Author Carol V. DesainFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Advance Publishing In.,USPublisher Advance Publishing In.,USWeight(grams) 185g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586176952Author Louis BouyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

Brain surgery. Assault weapons in the bed of a pickup truck. Rilke, Rodin, and the craters of the moon. Recovery and disintegration. Monkeys stealing an egg outside a temple in Kathmandu. Brushing teeth bloody on long car rides. Pain, ours and what we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550178197Author Donna KaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550178050Author Aaron WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528939Author Tara McGuireFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician. By the age of twenty-one, she was in her second year of studying medicine. By 1942, Brull-Ulman and her family had become registered Jews under the...

From the Roots explores one woman's decision to find grace, hilarity, and ultimately joy, in the worst of circumstances. As a result of surviving childhood bone cancer twice, Marsha endures long-term side effects that include the amputation of her lower...

What you don't know about the American healthcare system might kill you.From fatal malpractice to Medicare fraud, Dr. Stephen Soloway has seen it all over his thirty years practicing medicine. Now, the man known as "Dr. Trump" is ripping off the Band-Aid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501168093Author Catherine PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501164996Author Blondy BarutiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454g

After the death of her mother when she turned ten, Judith Friedland learned to be resilient. She met the expectations for upper-middle-class women in Toronto in the 1940s and 1950s, which included post-secondary education, marriage, and motherhood. While...

The late Honourable Michael Wilson was a Canadian politician and business professional. As Minister of Finance under Brian Mulroney, Wilson was one of the key negotiators of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement - one of Canada's most important...

His wife died before their second son turned one. How can he keep her memory alive when there’s so much he wants to forget?There was a time before his wife got sick when Gonzalo could think about other things. They had full lives where death didn’t...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439155219Author BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 553g

Until the age of ten, Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. But when her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands,...

One morning, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd. in London to interview for what he thought would be a year-long bookselling apprenticeship. Captivated by the smell of old books and the temptation of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889779921Author Paulo Da CostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Regina PressPublisher University of Regina PressWeight(grams) 318g

Relive the romance of the fur trade. With previously unpublished photographs, this new edition of Northern Trader is a vivid personal memoir and valuable primary account of the last days of the fur trade. Harold Kemp recounts the routines and rhythms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713291Author Amber McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780845348451Author Theresa MeyerowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 93Imprint Cornwall Books,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses

My Withered Legs and Other Essays is a collection of personal essays by Sandra Gail Lambert that reflects upon her experience becoming a writer alongside discussions of disability, queerness, and aging. A seventy-year history of disability is threaded...

In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais's in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. A little more than two miles down a poorly marked one-lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack--it had no electricity or...

The book records the author's personal and intellectual maturation over a period of nine decades. This maturation was never purely self-propelled, but always occurred in response to teachings and experiences. Situated as a "being-in-the-world", the...

This is a story of a young lad who chose college far away from his small home town of Washington, NJ. He worked in the oil industry for 16 years in Saudi Arabia, 4 years in London, England, and 3 years in Stavanger, Norway. 23 years of exposure to the...

As the country recognizes the 101st birthday of former President Ronald Reagan, this memoir offers insight into a local Anglo-Protestant community in Westchester, California, that was but one grain of sand in a sea of change that led to the Reagan...

The astonishing story of a singer-songwriter living on the streets of Nashville who met Jesus, got sober, and found international stardom at the age of 62.Doug Seegers left New York for Nashville in search of every songwriter's dream. When he didn't find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593320426Author Haruki MurakamiFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Knopf Publishing GroupPublisher Knopf Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 137g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471789611Author Daniel GordisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

When Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding sanctuary at an American naval base in the Philippines. Holding what appeared to be a lifeless baby in...

In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a televised speech in support of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. "The Speech," as it has come to be known, helped launch Ronald Reagan as a leading force in the American conservative movement...

This work is the memoir of one of the key scientists involved in the atomic bomb and the chief research assistant and intimate friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer. A prominent member of the Manhattan Project, Robert Serber was one of a team of scientists who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063266087Author Giancarlo GrandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm)...