Personal Memoirs

As heard on This American LifeGeorgie Codd is scared of fish. Really, really scared.Loving the sea and resenting her phobia, she plots to cross continents, learn to dive and swim with the world's biggest fish: the mighty whale shark.Georgie soon plunges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525610915Author Tara HenleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Appetite by Random HousePublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399170836Author Amanda BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Blue Rider PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 642g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399170836Author Amanda BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Blue Rider PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 642g

A moving memoir following the author's own experience of psychosis What if psychosis is really a wake up call? Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs... until she decides to give them up... and that's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398478534Author T MogfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398478534Author T MogfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. India's untouchables have been forced to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504308083Author Debbie FlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Balboa Press AustraliaPublisher Balboa Press AustraliaWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

An NEA Big Read Selection"This is the best account of the Hmong experience I've ever read powerful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable." Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"A narrative packed with the stuff of life." ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062422439Author Johnny AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

In the aftermath of a traumatic event, a young man navigates small-town gossip, grief and recovery amidst a culture of toxic masculinity. "A heart-soaring act of literary bravery," Car Crash is a hopeful, raw coming-of-age story for our times (Trent...

Clint Emerson, retired Navy SEAL and author of the bestselling 100 Deadly Skills, presents an explosive, darkly funny, and often twisted account of being part of an elite team of operatives whose mission was to keep America safe by whatever means...

Kristin Espinasse first fell in love with the French language and culture while studying it at Arizona State University. During a semester abroad, she met the Frenchman who would become her husband when she joined him in Provence in 1992. Years later,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Religion) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781611800333Author Shozan Jack HaubnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996640589Author Anna WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Purple Pegasus PublishingPublisher Purple Pegasus PublishingWeight(grams)...

An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man.When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world...

An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man.When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world...

The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.No strangers to the demon booze, her parents were deeply involved in a passionate relationship that rose to exciting highs and plunged to terrible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743276917Author Luis J RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

Allman Joy: Keeping the Beat with Duane and Gregg is Bill Connell's insightful account of the mid-1960s musical journey he went on as the drummer for The Allman Joys, a group that was a precursor to The Allman Brothers Band. A native of Tuscaloosa,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805505Author Kate InglisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

In this meditative memoir-a compelling fusion of Barbarian Days and the journals of Thomas Merton-the author of Saltwater Buddha reflects on his "failing toward enlightenment," his continued search to find meaning and a greater understanding of grace in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345802958Author Lawrence WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Adam Carroll-Smith never completed a football sticker album as a kid. Try as he might, he was always a few stickers short. Six Stickers tells the story of Carroll-Smith's bid to complete his childhood album and rediscover his love for the game. After...

Juliana Buhring had been mired in a dark hole of depression after the death of a man she loved, and when an acquaintance suggested they honor his memory by biking across Canada, she thought, "Canada? Why not the world?" And why not alone. She had never...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786297792Author Victoria J ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692607206Author Kristine M SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Kristine M SmithPublisher Kristine M SmithWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593081914Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authors, in which she examines motherhood and the female experience.'The deeply personal journey of a...

They Were Soldiers showcases the inspiring true stories of 49 Vietnam veterans who returned home from the "lost war" to enrich America's present and future. In this groundbreaking new book, Joseph L. Galloway, distinguished war correspondent and New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451473110Author Judy BatalionFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 294g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212402Author Meir ShalevFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385688901Author Rick MercerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767930512Author Jennifer SteilFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627782142Author James HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Cleis PressPublisher Cleis Press

Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, "shot through with sharp humor" (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.One...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609079253Author John StocktonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shadow MountainPublisher Shadow MountainWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804172714Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993123801Author Jane O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Heart of Life BooksPublisher Heart of Life Books