Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986181Author Piper KermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062877574Author Janice DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062678201Author Mohammed Al SamawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

Addiction is a stealth predator. Unrecognized, it will grow and flourish. Unchecked, it destroys. Marilea Rabasa grew up in post-WWII Massachusetts in a family that lived comfortably and offered her every advantage. But they were also haunted by closely...

At age forty, Parker surrendered to her Swept Away meets Swiss Family Robinson fantasy of running an inn far from her home in the Pacific Northwest. For the next twenty-plus years Parker ran La Finca Caribe, an eco-lodge in Vieques, Puerto Rico. What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776416233Author Leila SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pure Ink PressPublisher Pure Ink PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

The Emmy Award-winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982534Author Darin StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

From Our House is the luminous and uniquely American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost both hands. Lee's father, once known for "doing a good turn for his neighbors," changed that...

Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her day, but what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307886828Author Anya Von BremzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Broadway BooksPublisher Broadway BooksWeight(grams) 281g

In 2011, my family was in a major car accident. We were hit head-on by a man in the throes of a heart attack. It took three years to recover from our injuries, and a couple more to deal with the aftereffects of trauma. When I finally returned to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558617018Author Pat MacEnultyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped...

The Franco-Prussian War did not end with the catastrophic French defeat at Sedan on 1 September 1870 when an entire French army surrendered, the Emperor Napoleon III was captured and his regime collapsed. The war went on for another five agonizing...

Mia St. John, a determined and focused five-time world champion boxer, valiantly fought a string of adversaries outside the ring while desperately trying to keep her family together. And just when you think she can't take another punch to the gut, she's...

Love across cultures is tested when Antonio, a penniless university student, and Evelyn, a strong-willed Peace Corps volunteer, succumb to their attraction to one another at the end of her two-year commitment in Peru and Evelyn gets pregnant. Deeply in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648442349Author Brent OvalsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Anahata KarmaPublisher Anahata KarmaWeight(grams) 127g

Do you ever look forward to what life will be like once you are dead?Functioning as a double-rainbow bridge connecting the ordinary now with the stack of memories that create the past and the netherworld ahead, Now That I Am Gone is the memoir of an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684630653Author Jerry A RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint SparkpressPublisher Sparkpress

Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality-or at least the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558616837Author Darina al-JoundiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The...

Linda Olson and her husband, Dave Hodgens, were young doctors whose story had all the makings of a fairy tale. But then, while they were vacationing in Germany, a train hit their van, shattering their lives—and Linda’s body. When Linda saw Dave for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946743367Author Chana Gutreiman GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint 3rd Coast Books L.L.C.Publisher 3rd Coast Books L.L.C.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307591050Author Dean Faulkner WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm)...

Born out of wedlock into a poor working-class family in Aspull, Wigan, immediately after the second World War, Peter Gregory would attend the newly built Aspull Secondary Modern School where an inspirational science teacher would change his life entirely...

Nelson Gross led an outsized life-one in which he played many roles: father, brother, husband, politician, entrepreneur. When he was killed by a couple of teenagers in a botched abduction and robbery, the murder shook his family in predictable and...

An award-winning poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, Brian Turner combines his devastating recollections as "Sergeant Turner" with his visions of the experiences of generations of warriors in his family-and even those of the enemy-in a work of...

Limited to 1000 copies, this Hardback book with slipcase contains an exclusive compilation CD and a certificate signed by Damo Suzuki himself. When the anarchic vocalist of Can left the celebrated German band in late 1973, the ensuing decade-long...

At twenty-one, Evelyn is naive about life and love. Raised in a small Montana town, she moves at age sixteen with her devout Catholic family to California. There, she is drawn to Latino culture when she works among the migrant workers. During the summer...

From the bestselling author of Firewater comes a moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.When Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442652118Author Robert L BordenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 522g

For many years, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer's fans have wondered when he would write a memoir. Well, after four decades as a teacher of sel-empowerment and the best-selling author of more than 40 books, Wayne has finally done just that! However, he has written it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399536076Author Cameron GunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646030804Author Laraine HerringFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Regal House Publishing LLCPublisher Regal House Publishing LLC

At age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she'd recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect her parents' well-crafted family myths while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442631427Author George IgnatieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 458g

In Sight is a memoir about how a love of science and discovery drove Julia Levy, a celebrated scholar and biotech CEO, to work her way through gender bias in order to achieve academic and professional recognition. Her story traces the unconventional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879702Author Gabriel KruisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Pow!Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645166965Author Naomi FryersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Karen Mc Dermott PublishingPublisher Karen Mc Dermott Publishing