Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062911643Author Isha SesayFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 518gDimensions(mm) 230mm...

It might surprise you who's a fan of poetry -- when it meets them where they are. Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said "Poetry Store" and discovered...

In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political...

2017 Books for a Better Life Award Winner: Inspirational Memoir The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant-one the donor and one the...

One of our great essayists and journalists-the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau-takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and a...

On a rainy morning in early 2003, Nia Vardalos found out that she had been nominated for an Oscar for writing the sceenplay for "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding". But her mind was not on champagne and celebratory cheer. Instead, she was alone, en route to a...

"Voluntourist": A guy who attempts to save the world in an attempt to save himself. Someone who can only do it while on vacation. In 2007, when Ken Budd was 39, his father collapsed. He'd just finished 18 holes of golf. He had been retired for a year. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637631775Author Nat GloverFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 445g

Deeply personal essays probing the lingering legacies of the southern social divide In Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter, Patricia Foster presents a double portrait of place and family, a book of deeply personal essays that interrogate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772034455Author Ellen SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Heritage HousePublisher Heritage House

When Nancy Balbirer learns her beloved eleven-year-old beagle has kidney failure, she's devastated. She and her husband had gotten Ira as a puppy-a wedding gift to each other, and their first foray into "parenthood." Now, her dog is terminal, her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713475Author Ian WaddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 362g

In this riveting book, Masetti takes the reader inside the war room of the Cuban revolution. His life involved international revolutionary intrigue: smuggling diamonds and ivory; counterfeiting U.S. dollars; trafficking in narcotics. He served in Angola...

Originally published in 2004, Red Diaper Baby is James Laxer's compelling and extraordinary memoir of growing up in a communist family during the height of the Cold War. When Jim was born in a Montreal hospital, his father was living in hiding under an...

An emotional, revealing memoir of one family’s life in seclusion—and the love, strength, and faith it took to save it. Seahawks star running back Curt Warner and his wife, Ana, were prominent figures in Seattle in the early 1990s. When they dropped from...

Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher invites readers backstage, into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and...

In her first memoir--Immortelles: Memoir of a Will-o'-the-Wisp--Mireille Marokvia described her life growing up in a small village near Chartres, France, in the first decades of the 20th Century. We learned in that beautiful book that the people in her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501112607Author Tom MacherFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 431g

2010 ForeWord Book of the Year, Essay Silver Medalist, 2011 IPPY Awards in Multi-Cultural Adult Fiction 2011 American Book Award “Vaswani is a confident writer whose unflinching eye shows the reader the beauty grounded in the mundane.”San Francisco...

Sometimes all that it takes to start over is the courage to say you will. In Kathleen’s home, red jeans were a sin. Parties were punishable with violence. Fear was part of the daily norm. Growing up in a Catholic cult, under the unforgiving eye of her...

Gib's Odyssey is the true story of one extraordinary man, Gib Peters, and his solo odyssey along the Intracoastal Waterway from Key West to New York and back while suffering the ravages of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS). On...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550178098Author Chris CzajkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 462gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476712727Author Andrew HudginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 442g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416556060Author Nani PowerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 336g

In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West. Portraying an era that started with the Ink Spots on the Zenith Radio in her family's living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145086Author Michael TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595582003Author Marguerite DurasFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316374880Author Leslie JamisonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593493762Author Lucy SanteFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 357g

Growing up amid addiction and chaos in a Minnesota trailer park, Tyler Zed and his two brothers broke the cycle of abuse and forged a different path.“Attempted murder victim told the Brainerd Dispatch she believes her sixteen-year-old son saved her.”...

The Jagged Path tells the true story of a young girl’s journey from an idyllic life in rural 1940’s Nigeria, through the heartbreak of losing her parents, tumultuous years with uncaring guardians, an abusive marriage which ended in betrayal, to finally...

Debbie and Judy are twins—but Judy was born with cerebral palsy, and Debbie was not. Despite the severity of Judy’s brain damage, her parents chose to keep her at home with her three siblings, and ultimately Judy lived at home with them well into...

Family and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, helping to lead her country toward the future of perfect freedom promised by the leaders of her country, the People’s Socialist Republic...

After thyroid cancer, Crohn's disease, and a slew of other autoimmune conditions ransacked her body in her twenties and thirties, Francesca was left feeling completely alone in her chronic pain. Constant, relentless, often indescribable, and always...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593448786Author Lamya HFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593300374Author Sarah PolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982131845Author Kate ZernikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 259g

This is a highly personal narrative, brought to life with excerpts from the letters that Starnes wrote home from London during World War II, when he moved in intelligence circles and met many prominent diplomats and policy-makers. His story recalls...

Big Bill Otter was one member of the early American working class not preoccupied with republican principles or the heritage of the Revolution. Big Bill Otter-apprentice, journeyman, master plasterer-was a thug. Otter's autobiography, first published in...

Eating Grass, Drinking Wine is a gripping memoir of the life of one woman and her family, which began in China under Mao Zedong in the 1950's. Surviving hardships and tribulations, she survived and made it to the United States where her life transformed...