Personal Memoirs

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In this unforgettable and "essential feminist memoir of women's lives" (Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love) the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection unearths her mother's hidden past in in Nazi-occupied Austria.To Julie Metz, her...

Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death.Full of laughter...

The day of her mother's funeral, Harriet Brown was five thousand miles away. To say that Harriet and her mother had a difficult relationship is a wild understatement; the older Harriet grew, the more estranged they became. By the time Harriet's mom died...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910296899Author Toby LittFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Galley Beggar PressPublisher Galley Beggar Press

If in 2017, a group of young men had decided to emulate this odyssey, they would probably only have managed a part of the journey. Conflict and bureaucracy would have barred their entry to many of the countries they tried to cross. However, in 1960,...

Untold secrets of a post-war childhood. A true story of a child born in war-torn London soon after the Second World War whose early memories are of the care and security given to him by his grandmother and a guardian angel who watches over him. At six he...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory.By inviting so many into the final months of Joey's life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis;...

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from...

***'An honest and thoughtful memoir. Moving but, ultimately, full of hope. Beautiful.' KATE MOSSE'Superb. Love & Care is a book about the unbreakable bonds of family, the cruelty of passing time and a love that never dies.' TONY PARSONS'A beautiful,...

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 authorsA beautifully written and astonishing memoir of a woman - a writer - in the midst of motherhood,...

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 authorsA beautifully written and astonishing memoir of a woman - a writer - in the midst of motherhood,...

A young Chinese girl forced to work in a New York sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful memoir about labour and self-worth, economic revolution and cultural dislocation. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416552352Author Ariel SchragFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 271mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250050892Author Moss HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881774248Author Feng Chi-shunFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 218g

'A fresh and insightful debut' New York Times'Incisive and exciting' ShondalandIn this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western...

Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645276299Author Claire AudibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Nightstand PressPublisher Nightstand PressWeight(grams) 458g

2023 Int'l Latino Book Award Honorable MentionsThis important book focuses on how women of colour, children of immigrants, and other minoritized groups are predisposed to workplace imposter syndrome-and charts a path forward for self-advocacy and...

More than 20 years ago, Health Educator and veterinary surgeon Max Tuck approached collapse with Epstein Barr virus and chronic fatigue after years of pushing herself relentlessly. Though written off as a chronic invalid by her doctor she has since run...

Society of Midland Authors Literary Award Finalist in Biography & Memoir Award-winning journalist Michele Weldon provides a potent antidote to the harried single mom stereotype in this beguiling memoir of raising three sons alone in the face of cancer,...

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Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household-her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. But it was the beginning of a chaotic...

As seen on The Today Show and in the Washington Post's most inspiring stories of the year! "Important in helping us understand America's complex racial history."-Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS's Genealogy RoadshowIncludes a new afterword by bestselling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385680387Author Alan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 474g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398453111Author Betty DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421804Author Mokhtar MokhtefiFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

'I want to be in the company of her frank intelligence forever' Nigella LawsonIn our mothers' day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers: If you work, you're neglectful; if you stay...

Sacco paved the way for Palestine with his powerful triptych on modern war and its innocent victims, originally published in his comic Yahoo and collected here: 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People' chronicles the effect of aerial warfare on civilians,...

'The descriptions are sublime . . . Goodwin's eye - sharp, unforgiving - allows nothing to escape . . . His literary promise is savage' THE AUSTRALIAN'Goodwin is a natural-born storyteller, effortlessly compelling whether he's talking about the draconian...

Yet Kunz's verses are unsentimental, visceral, sprawling between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly. They grapple with the shame and guilt of choosing to leave the culture Kunz was born and raised in, the identity crises caused by class...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736506202Author Elaine Elizabeth PresleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Kid of the KingPublisher Kid of the KingWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062843302Author Harrison Scott KeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590518076Author Saul FriedlanderFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861514516Author Louise WrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

After the passing of her beloved father, Sarah felt something inside that she had not felt before, a desperation for change. She decided to follow this feeling and dive into the world around her until she understood more. Her adventures took her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Books for a Better Life (Inspirational Memoir) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781401301385Author Elyn R SaksFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint HyperionPublisher...

In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of the intimacy they shared, grappling with the resulting void, and finding...

At nineteen Bieke Vandekerckhove fell ill. The diagnosis was devastating: the fatal motor neuron disease ALS. Life expectancy: two to five years. So what did she do with the paltry bit of life that was left? By force of circumstance she was led to Saint...