Personal Memoirs

The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts - here comes to the stage.James Atlas takes us back to his childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061230974Author John GuntherFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476737416Author Gerald MarzoratiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101973721Author Ayelet WaldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

MTV stars Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra share their story of teen pregnancy, adoption and breaking the cycleSince Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra shared their story of teen pregnancy and adoption on the MTV's 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom,...

Thirty years ago, Englishwoman Caroline Seller met a handsome Sicilian named Marcello Manzo during a chance encounter at a costume party. Although she spoke little Italian and he practically no English, both were undeniably smitten. After only a few more...

If your mom is dead, is she still your mom? At twenty-five-nearly two decades after losing her mother to breast cancer as a little girl-an accident on a downtown street unleashes startling emotional reactions in Peg Conway, and this question starts to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482011609Author Alan ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

As Jonathan Lethem put, Steve Erickson's journal of the last 18 months of the Trump Presidency "sears the page". Erickson, one of our finest novelists, has long been an astute political observer, and American Stutter, part political declaration, part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949484083Author Yve-Alain BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint No Place PressPublisher No Place Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007162222Author Helen CastorFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592405619Author Julie KlausnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501137877Author Tamara ShopsinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Books CoPublisher Scribner Books CoWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Roy Snell has been in what he calls 'Close Protection' for over 16 years, guarding international royalty and celebrities including Madonna, George Michael, Tom Jones and Frank Sinatra. A former SAS sniper and heavyweight boxing champion, Roy is Britain's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398444324Author Elizabeth Joyce DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Do you wish you knew how to talk to people about life's deepest and most sensitive topics? In The Listening Road, you'll ride along on one man's remarkable 33-day journey cycling 3,000 miles across the United States on a mission to engage with people...

From memories of childhood when no policeman was safe, to working life spent down the pits of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, to vacations in the Paris of the fifties, this is a unique history of one worker's life and of mining in the country...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250764294Author Ric PradoFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328477873Author Tova MirvisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm...

An "entertaining" (Booklist) account of the mysterious, hair-raising, and heartbreaking cases handled by the coroner of Marin County, California throughout his four decades on the job-from high-profile deaths and serial killers to inmate murders and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912850044Author Cathy Phelan WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Clink Street PublishingPublisher Clink Street PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061245183Author Benyamin CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 200g

As a boy, Hardeep Singh Kohli knew where home was: Glasgow. But everyone else always assumed he was Indian. Because surely he couldn't be British, with his brown skin and turban? Thirty years later, Hardeep sets out on a journey to discover where he is...

An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were...

In this haunting memoir, Alison Gold gives a luminous account of key moments in her life that brought her to be the writer she is. They tell of her early activism; they tell of her descent into alcoholism; they tell of her recovery; they tell of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616202811Author Marlena de BlasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 259g

Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence—and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use—that chills to the bone” (Nylon). As Melissa Bond raises...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997017588Author S C SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint No Bueno! PublishingPublisher No Bueno! PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544105430Author Caleb DaniloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 136mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609454920Author Levan BerdzenishviliFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

Cole has heard it all before - token, bougie, oreo, Blackish - the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy...

Les Mason approached the huge gates of the prison with apprehension; he rapped on a highly polished brass knocker and a fierce man in uniform appeared and beckoned him in. Nothing could have prepared him for what he would see, what he would witness, what...

Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American emigre who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class Italians on the mean streets of 1950s South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358701491Author Neil KingFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 160mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439196366Author Lisa Niemi SwayzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112808Author Margaret HeffernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Edgar Award Nominee 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781641292696Author Jacqueline WinspearFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692777695Author Jared BeasleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Tom McGrathPublisher Tom McGrathWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995458956Author Shauna O'BriainFormat HardbackImprint OWN IT!Publisher OWN IT!

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610352482Author Allan AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...