Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550175752Author Chris CzajkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm)...

A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, Raising Girls in Bohemia chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood...

In this transformative book, award-winning poet and essayist James Lenfestey makes an epic journey across the world to find the Cold Mountain Cave, a location long believed to exist only in myths and the ancient home of his idol, Han Shan, author of the...

The first time journalist Jon Lurie meets Jose Perez, the smart, angry, fifteen-year-old Lakota-Puerto Rican draws blood. Five years later, both men are floundering. Lurie, now in his thirties, is newly divorced, depressed, and self-medicating. Jose is...

This debut memoir by Mexico's foremost gonzo journalist recounts his life as an illegal immigrant in the Bronx, where he works in kitchens and at gas stations as he dreams of becoming a successful writer. For the Love of the Dollar presents a present-day...

With irreverent and at times mordant humor, Most of Me chronicles Robyn Michele Levy's early, mysterious symptoms (a dragging left foot, a crash into "downward dead dog" position on the yoga mat), the devastating Parkinson's diagnosis, her subsequent...

Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Memoir/Biography A revelatory memoir about sex, oppression, and the universal struggle for justice.From his time as a child in 1960s India, Siddharth Dube knew that he was different. Reckoning with his...

A witty, unflinching, and provocative memoir about one woman's journey into the fact, fiction, and fraud of the modern mystical complex. In the months following the breakup with her longtime boyfriend, Victoria Loustalot crossed paths with multiple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439198964Author Francis SlakeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318g

In 1964, at age seven, Jorge Masetti was informed by a Cuban colonel that his father had died gloriously leading a guerrilla band in Argentina. By the age of sixteen, Masetti had left Havana to follow in his father's footsteps, fighting as an urban...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413290Author Martin HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611450217Author Will ChaffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476702742Author Maria MutchFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416559313Author Samson KambaluFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 145mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594932786Author Janet MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Bella BooksPublisher Bella Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501151262Author Paul Brinkley-RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501111532Author Kristin KimballFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 408g

Brutal and beautiful, Stray is the true story of a girl who runs away and finds herself.After growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive home, Tanya Marquardt runs away on her sixteenth birthday. Her departure is an act of rebellion and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451618075Author Doron WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 147mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555974381Author Kate BravermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560983682Author Constance BowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 191mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982100629Author Axel LindénFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 136g

A daring collaborative celebrity autobiography by two of America's finest poets, D.A. Powell and David TrinidadAbout the AuthorDavid Trinidad teaches at Columbia College, Chicago. He has taught at Rutgers, Princeton and Antioch (L.A.). His previous...

A literary exploration that asks seeks to answer the question: Have I lived the life I intended? Jesse Browner, a novelist with a full-time job at the United Nations, has written a book reminiscent of the Talking Heads classic song "Once in a Lifetime."...

The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families.On a mid-August...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550178685Author Greg NolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595584526Author Marguerite DurasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476745480Author Wendy LawlessFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487011994Author Peter CounterFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint House of Anansi PressPublisher House of Anansi PressWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550177275Author Caroline WoodwardFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)...

Anyone who has spent any time messing around with boats — wooden boats in particular — knows that those cunning curves, endless seams, and rotting wood hold more than practical challenges. All boats have histories, some more poignant than others, and few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250827852Author Deborah D E E P MoutonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Henry Holt & CompanyPublisher Henry Holt & CompanyWeight(grams) 454g

Streaming Video on Love In Black & White now available at Expandedbooks.com Most Americans regard the World War II period as belonging to the "greatest generation," but it was also a time when religious intolerance and racial violence flourished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982120832Author Theo PadnosFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 140g

Over 150,000 innocents died of starvation in Changchun, northeastern China, after the end of WW2 when Mao's army laid siege during the Chinese Civil War. Japanese girl Homare Endo, then age seven, was trapped in Changchun with her family. After nomadic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950354771Author Mary HobanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 135g

Madder, matter, mater-a weed, a state of mind, a material, a meaning, a mother. Essayist and horticulturist Marco Wilkinson searches for the roots of his own selfhood among family myths and memories. "My life, these weeds." Marco Wilkinson uses his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642931938Author Thomas H HainesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

In this darkly funny, surprising memoir, the original "Lit Girl" and author of the era-defining Slaves of New York considers her life in and outside of New York City, from the heyday of the 1980s to her life today in a tiny upstate town that proves that...

A small town girl leaves her troubled family and starts stripping--which introduces her to a community that keeps her sober and saves her life--but a rollercoaster lifestyle ensues. She gets drugged, does enema shows, and unionizes the club. When she...