Personal Memoirs

Skipping to School is the true story of a childhood spent in Liverpool before, during and after the Second World War. It recalls the fabric of everyday life on the home front and the impact of war on both family life and the local community. At home in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593355190Author Fatima AliFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

FIRST YOU HAVE TO ROW A LITTLE BOAT first hit shelves in the mid 1990s and has been inspiring readers ever since. Written by a grown man looking back on his childhood, it reflects on what learning to sail taught him about life: making choices, adapting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612542737Author Julie HornokFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Brown Books Publishing GroupPublisher Brown Books Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

This gripping insider's account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria's national liberation movement to combat her country's French occupiers. When the movement's leaders turned to Drif and her female...

'This is the kind of book I wish I had access to as a young mum' Nadiya Hussain___________What does it mean to be a parent in a space where you are the minority?Meandering through a supermarket highway of camembert and baguettes, Priya Joi heard a...

Paper both shapes and defines us. Baby books, diaries, sewing patterns, diplomas, resumes, letters, death certificates—we find our stories in them. My Life in Paper is Beth Kephart’s memoiristic exploration of the paper legacies we forge and leave...

Opening with a powerful letter to former Tacoma police chief David Brame, who shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on himself, Norm Stamper introduces us to the violent, secret world of domestic abuse that cops must not only navigate, but which...

Ben Brooks-Dutton's wife - the great love of his life - was knocked down and killed by a car as he walked beside her, pushing their two-year-old son in his buggy. Life changed forever. Suddenly Ben was a widower deep in shock, left to raise their...

Ben Brooks-Dutton's wife - the great love of his life - was knocked down and killed by a car as he walked beside her, pushing their two-year-old son in his buggy. Life changed forever. Suddenly Ben was a widower deep in shock, left to raise their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956238061Author Ken BarlowFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Kenbar PublicationsPublisher Kenbar PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425189887Author Richard PicciottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451621389Author Susannah CahalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana...

One man's voyage through life It's the late 1960s - a decade of Mods and Rockers; Beats and Hippies and full of peace and love. Aged seventeen, John Cooke ventures out on the roads, hitch-hiking around the UK. On the South Coast, he gets caught up...

One man's voyage through life It's the late 1960s - a decade of Mods and Rockers; Beats and Hippies and full of peace and love. Aged seventeen, John Cooke ventures out on the roads, hitch-hiking around the UK. On the South Coast, he gets caught up...

A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again.Book InformationISBN 9780393336597Author Ann HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton &...

Cricket fans, where were you during the disaster that was the 2013 Ashes? Adam Zwar was making a documentary about bodyline and filming a stunt that involved Brett Lee bowling bouncers to him while he wasn't wearing a helmet. Matthew Hayden warned him...

Despite growing interest in her philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood. She is typically portrayed as a mere intellectual follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905795888Author David WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Aspect DesignPublisher Aspect Design

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398409774Author Gemma HillFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang of a father's aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first kiss to the anodyne void of disinfectant and death, this is a decadently original olfactory memoir. In sixty-three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996244411Author Deeann K Callis GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Head-On PublishingPublisher Head-On PublishingWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399588174Author Trevor NoahFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983401Author Domenica RutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician, Dr. Adam B. Hill, suffers stress and disillusionment with the culture of medicine, leading to alcoholism, depression, and suicidal thoughts. Then while in recovery, he loses a mentor to suicide,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646597317Author David KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Aia PublishingPublisher Aia PublishingWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786933928Author John WolfFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993526541Author Paul ScraseFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint ArkboundPublisher Arkbound

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486798103Author William SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645600506Author Paul InnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Withinnes Pty LtdPublisher Withinnes Pty LtdWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212587Author Elie WieselFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm * 7mm

In a film career that spanned more than seven decades, Freddie Francis distinguished himself as both an award-winning cinematographer and as a director of classic British horror films of the 1960s and 70s. From his formative years as a clapperboy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416587378Author Janet JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Andy and Me: A Life for My Disabled Son is an inspiring story about one family's experience dealing with disability.Book InformationISBN 9781838046422Author Barbara O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint i2i PublishingPublisher i2i Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115881Author Liam CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Small Beneath the Sky is a tender, unsparing portrait of a family. It is also a book about place. Growing up in a small prairie city, where the local heroes were hockey players and curlers, Lorna Crozier never once dreamed of becoming a writer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471263890Author Batya Swift YasgurFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062293299Author Toni BraxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...