Personal Memoirs

Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will never understand; how she helped him, and when she needed to let him go. But Rosalind Williams' memoir is...

This book describes the theory and practice of interreligious dialogue, education and action in Israel and Palestine in the context of the political peace process as well as the peace-building processes and programs, by drawing on personal experiences...

"Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople." So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to their families...

Amid the turmoil of the Ming-Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China, some intellectuals sought refuge in romantic memories from what they perceived as cataclysmic events. This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062992260Author James DaleFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 238mm...

"Offers hope in the face of desperate odds" - ELLE Magazine, ELLE's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020"[D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir...This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the many families separated at the U.S.-Mexico...

The Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. "544 Days" is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24.The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held hostage in a high-security prison in Tehran for eighteen...

One can truly have it all - myth or fact? Yes, by understanding that life comes in stages. Award-winning broadcast and communications veteran Freda Liu shares the stories and insights on her life journey with characteristic vivacity. From growing up in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062851352Author Jose Antonio VargasFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982113018Author Elizabeth NyamayaroFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982102227Author Sara Carole SchaeferFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950354085Author Tom CutlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 147mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948677356Author Trudy Cathy WhiteFormat HardbackImprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 145mm * 25mm

Widely published in French, Ombasic is the author of thirteen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as a filmmaker and professor of philosophy. Will appeal to readers concerned about contemporary humanitarian issues regarding refugees,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413429Author Antanas SileikaFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 318g

A powerful memoir about the traumas of a perilous childhood, a shattering murder-suicide, and a healing journey from escape to survival to recovery. Growing up, Lisa Nikolidakis tried to make sense of her childhood, which was scarred by abuse, violence,...

Lee Edwards is the preeminent historian of the conservative movement. But as this riveting memoir makes clear, he has not simply observed conservatism as a detached scholar; he has been active on the national stage longer than any other conservative in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605980676Author Norman BusselFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

In Death Watch, the National Book Award-winning poet Gerald Stern uses powerful prose to sift through personal and prophetic history and contemplate his own mortality. Characteristically audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic, Stern looks...

Every year people watch in shock as homes are destroyed and communities devastated by natural disasters. As the media arrives, the information that is reported is mainly statistical. The horror of living through and recovering from the experience is...

Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. In this family of two parent teachers, with its intermittent celebration of...

Details Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Roger L Simon's odyssey from financier of the "Black Panther Breakfast Program" to darling of the political right.Book InformationISBN 9781594032479Author Roger L. SimonFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550176957Author Amanda BathFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 384g

At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers a call to help retrain the troubled horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico, a facility run entirely by the prisoners. The horses are...

Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881853Author Carl NathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry BooksWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957363462Author Nicola HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608082919Author Harriet HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint WriteLife LLCPublisher WriteLife LLC

Animal House on Acid is a memoir by Beverly A. Potter, a neighbor of the "most notorious housing unit on the face of the Earth." Barrington Hall, a large student-run co-op on the south side of the University was Berkeley's last outpost of the '60s...

A fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories from Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and director Christine Lahti.For decades, actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated...

Tina Alexis Allen is the youngest of thirteen children brought up by a saintly mother and a strict Catholic father in the 1980s suburbs of Maryland. Her father, Sir John, was a formidable, charming, British-born man with the distinct honor of being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550176391Author Randy NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

When the deacons at Mark Beaver’s Bible Belt church cue up an evangelical horror flick aimed at dramatizing Hell, he figures he'd better get right with God, and soon. Convinced he could die at age seven and spend eternity roasting on a spit in the fiery...

• About 38% of people will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life. Nearly everyone in the world will be touched by cancer by adulthood.• Many best-selling books have examined mother/daughter relationships • The value of the global fashion...

Winner of the Presbyterian Writers Guild's Best First Book Award Coming of age in 1950s Ethiopia, American Caroline Kurtz returns as an adult with spouse and family, searching for "home." Caroline Kurtz grew up in the remote mountains of Maji,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416545125Author Alicia OltuskiFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

A deeply moving account of one man's return to the German town where he first pursued a career in winemaking, and his attempt to reckon with the mental illness, alcoholism, and enduring relationships that defined the most formative chapter of his life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558965416Author Mark D. Morrison-ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Unitarian Universalist AssociationPublisher Unitarian Universalist Association

Author of the New York Times bestseller Chanel Bonfire, Wendy Lawless chronicles her twenties: the darkly funny story of a girl without a roadmap for life who leaves her disastrous past to find herself in the gritty heart of 1980s New York City.Before...

Award-winning journalist and host of Black "Enterprise" Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother-Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole-and the relationship that blossomed between them through the...