Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480946873Author Jim RockstadFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams)...

On the cusp of middle age, a newlywed journalist discovers and finishes the bucket list of her late free-spirited father. Fifty-four adventures in six years. That's what thirty-eight-year-old journalist Laura Carney embarked on when she discovered her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982884706Author Harriett BronsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Timberlake PressPublisher Timberlake PressWeight(grams) 152g

For anyone who has suffered pain, disappointment, or a broken heart, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Rob Hill, Sr. shares the transformational personal story of his struggles and the invaluable lessons those difficult challenges have taught him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398433168Author Karen HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'Raw, intense and absorbing.' Matt Haig 'As tender and funny as it is painful.' TLS 'I didn't give my hands much thought before they turned against me. ... They have...

In a voice that is wry, disarming and totally candid, the "imaginatively twisted and fearless" (Los Angeles Times) Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster ride through "the change". Loh chronicles relatable,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583333754Author Monica SelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Publishing GroupPublisher Penguin Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

When Ronan Smith was in his twenties, his father, the theatre impresario Brendan Smith, developed obvious signs of early onset Alzheimer's disease but steadfastly refused to acknowledge it. Brendan ran the Olympia Theatre and had founded the Brendan...

In I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound, musician Mike Doughty presents stories about life on the road as an indie rock musician, taking readers deep inside the dislocated life of an itinerant performer, the exhilaration and terror involved in getting up in...

NPR's Best Books of 2020"Galvanizing and urgent....a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle." -National Public RadioA riveting true story of a young woman's days stripping in grunge-era...

Mark has an unusual history. After losing his hearing as an eighteen-month-old infant, the next six years were silent as he honed his way of watching. Wandering Africa and Asia as a teenager and being adopted by nomadic tribes opened his eyes to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307382450Author Sara BarronFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988981430Author Billy HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Curly Brains PressPublisher Curly Brains PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995149915Author Chris PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint The Copy PressPublisher The Copy PressWeight(grams) 165g

"What are we if not our stories?" - Enda Walsh, Playwright Stories. Life stories. Stories of love and loss. Success and failure. Stories about people and place. Stories about the magical spark of creativity. Life stories that make us feel and that...

In February 2004, when her American husband, a recently ordained Zen monk, leaves home to train for a year at a centuries-old Buddhist monastery, Tracy Franz embarks on her own year of Zen. An Alaskan alone-and lonely-in Japan, she begins to pay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788306874Author Alan BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606390900Author Jerry MerninFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409419Author Rebecca AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119562Author Linda GreenlawFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm...

How can tending a flock of sheep empower leadership skills?How does it build character and awaken wisdom?And why was shepherding the starting point for so many of the great prophets, such as Mohammed, Moses and Abraham?These questions had long intrigued...

A young woman follows winter across five continents on a physical and spiritual journey that tests her body and soul, in this transformative memoir, full of heart and courage, that speaks to the adventurousness in all of us-now available in paperback. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316246170Author Elizabeth BardFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm...

An intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family mired in secrets, haunted by their dread of shame and stigma, determined to hide their every imperfection-and in denial or despair when they couldn't."The...

A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child.But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This curious...

Little Linda was three years old when she told Father Christmas a secret. 'What I want more than anything is to have a puppy of my own to love'. But with every Christmas that went by, no puppy appeared. Linda grew into a busy working mum and wife, and...

Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385343800Author Mark VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses and humble realisations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399927611Author Catherine BaudinoFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Catherine A. BaudinoPublisher Catherine A. BaudinoWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996871723Author Kathy EwingFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Red Giant BooksPublisher Red Giant BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Susan E. Rice, National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations, reveals her powerful story with unflinching candor in this New York Times bestseller. Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001837Author Kate BornsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632993540Author Alice GreczynFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint River Grove BooksPublisher River Grove BooksWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531263Author Ishmael BeahFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399588587Author Suleika JaouadFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm)...

Sometimes, it's not only what we plant but where we're planted. As opposed to homesteading, Once Upon a Farm is a book on "lifesteading" as New York Times bestselling author Rory Feek learns to cultivate faith, love, and fatherhood on a small farm, while...

From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV's news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself - an insightful and funny memoir about comedy and life that takes us through uncharted waters to unexpected places.Comedy has been Shaun's escape, his...