Personal Memoirs

An upbeat memoir to savor and admire, Still Alive! proves that in your later years you can still be going strong . . . and having fun! “Old age is a shipwreck,” Charles de Gaulle once observed. Not so, says Herb Gold in this lively, often hilarious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927366806Author Antoine MountainFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982116927Author Ed StackFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author’s paternal...

Mad Men meets the Foreign Service in this candid depiction of the hidden worlds of a high-functioning alcoholic.From the main line of Philadelphia to the summer scene in Bar Harbor ME, William Newlin grew up surrounded by adults who made the cocktail...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734989908Author Julie MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Soulstice PublishingPublisher Soulstice PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582708416Author George ZimmerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Beyond Words PublishingPublisher Beyond Words PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637581209Author Holly RehderFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter...

A riveting and redemptive family memoir, The Four Walls of My Freedom is Donna Thomson’s account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about “the good life.”Donna Thomson’s life was forever changed when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062845665Author Todd FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 705gDimensions(mm)...

Growing up in an Italian American family in Queens, New York, in the ’70s, Francesca Miracola was trained from an early age to keep up appearances at all costs—but behind closed doors, her parents’ toxic marriage served as a blueprint for dysfunction. So...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594206573Author Jonathan RosenFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 878g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574781649Author Florence TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Black Classic PressPublisher Black Classic PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642939248Author L Brent BozellFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 152g

The true story of two women who found meaning, strength, and friendship in one of the most punishing and magnificent landscapes on earth.Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637630730Author Brig SorberFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 137g

Part memoir and part urban social history, Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt is an African American woman's personal account of her life during a racially turbulent period in a northern American city. Raised in a black neighborhood in urban Detroit, Marvin...

Ever since I left the land that was my home, wherever I have traveled and lived, I have been asked the same question: How could a Hitler happen, in the land of poets and scientists and thinkers, the land of music and arts, the land of plenty, the land of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984900008Author Ben MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Lookout BooksPublisher Lookout BooksWeight(grams) 499g

This book could well be the battly cry of the baby boomer generation today. In his entertaining and motivating book, author Bob Basso, dubbed America's Number One Fun Motivator by People Weekly, takes the reader along on the wild, wacky, adventure of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637553428Author Estela CasasFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Mascot BooksPublisher Mascot Books

Until seriously wounded in August 1944, when he was badly burned when his tank was hit and caught fire during fighting in southern Poland, Armin Bottger experienced the horrors of the Second World War on the Eastern Front from the perspective of a tank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062877581Author Janice DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 199gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735290747Author Jameel McGeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A Division...

In 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public. Through these letters readers gained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944297909Author Joyce A HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Robert Reed PublishersPublisher Robert Reed PublishersWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941758984Author Katie C McKennaFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint InksharesPublisher InksharesWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925927375Author Ron ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wilkinson PublishingPublisher Wilkinson Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618511348Author Robert AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Baha'i PublishingPublisher Baha'i PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597098151Author Deborah LottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen Press

This edition of E.J. Pratt's letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. Because of Pratt's role in the making of Canadian culture between and after the World Wars, his correspondence highlights key moments in our cultural history and...

Portrays Robinson's career from a new perspective--that of an adoring nine-year-old fan who saw him play up close, at Ebbets Field. Through this boy's eyes, we see how the borough of Brooklyn embraced Jackie Robinson, the man and the player, as their own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975561850Author Mary Hunt JentschFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint McWitty PressPublisher McWitty PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998825717Author Natalie SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 291Imprint Hawthorne BooksPublisher Hawthorne BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888889758Author Bill HendersonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Pushcart PressPublisher Pushcart PressWeight(grams) 484g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883784068Author Turner Sr Thomas SFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Third World PressPublisher Third World PressWeight(grams) 454g

For twenty-five years, paramedic and firefighter Christy Warren put each tragic, traumatizing call she responded to in a box and closed the lid. One day, however, the box got too full and the lid blew open—and she found herself unable to close it again...

In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with eleven others on a jury in the trial of Freddy Burton, a young Black prison inmate charged with the grisly murders of two white wardens inside Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison. After...

This book deals with the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) that was launched on 29 August 1944 in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. In the West, the uprising is an under-researched topic in the history of WWII. The Slovak state was an ally of Nazi Germany, but the...