Personal Memoirs

Dancing to an Indian Tune; an Education in India tells the story of an English woman's life-changing experiences as a student of Indian Religion and Philosophy at the Hindu University of Banaras (in Varanasi) between 1963 and 1965. Mary Searle's decision...

*The story that inspired the film Brian Banks* Discover the unforgettable and inspiring true story of a young man who was wrongfully convicted as a teenager and imprisoned for more than five years, only to emerge with his spirit unbroken and determined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125105Author Emily Rapp BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767929011Author Christopher LukasFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 269g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142000946Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 128mm *...

A shocking and hopeful account of one woman's extraordinary courage to face her past and embrace truth in order to help others find hope and healingIn The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child, Tana Amen shares her incredible story of transformation-of...

Compiled from the Finzi Friends newsletter, The Clock of the Years is a fascinating anthology of writings on Gerald Finzi, his family and his circle. The Clock of the Years is an anthology compiled to celebrate 25 years of the Finzi Friends Newsletter...

This compelling memoir starts with a boy's journey through the early years of the 1930s: days of the rag and bone man, street lamplighters, Hercule Poirot, and in the background, Hitler. Then life gets real: at school where cane and cricket bat rule and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578526591Author Julia Dreyer BrigdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Julia Dreyer BrigdenPublisher Julia Dreyer BrigdenWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999506202Author David BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Darbella Publishing, LLCPublisher Darbella Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 452g

Abby Johnson thought she knew what mercy was when she ushered desperate women toward abortion as the director of a Planned Parenthood facility. She was wrong. It wasn't until she understood the blood on her hands that she personally experienced the power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452273405Author Dorothy AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983237044Author Ellen SchecterFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Greenpoint PressPublisher Greenpoint PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781501133107Author Sarah SmarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517088149Author Bobbi DavariFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

This is the true tale of a boy born into a typical East End family in the Second World War, beginning with his early memories of hop picking and having little money, and moving on to his life in the 1950s and his experience of the devastating east coast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977368Author Maggie NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

"Words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living." (Cyril Connolly). After the death of her sister, Nina Sankovitch found herself caught up in grief, dashing from one activity to the next to keep her mind occupied...

As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't...

When Saigon fell to the Viet Cong in April, 1975, Kien Nguyen was there. He watched the last US Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, his mother or his grandparents. More at risk than most in the decimated country, with his odd blond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228806028Author Earl W FeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995600607Author Alan F. HerbertFormat PaperbackImprint Blossom Spring PublishingPublisher Blossom Spring PublishingWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From "the FBI agent who started it all" (David Martin, CBS Sunday Morning), an epic, behind-the-scenes account of the biggest counterintelligence story of our time: Russia's war on American democracy, and the effort to...

THE LETTERS FROM THE SUITCASE by Rosheen and Cal Finnigan reveals the detailed and poignant wartime romance between David and Mary Francis. For readers of Sheila Hancock's MISS CARTER'S WAR or Helen Simonson's MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND 'I still have...

The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to...

This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s.Book...

A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire, and Miller's personal and working relationship with David Foster WallaceA naive and idealistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398455375Author Pamela Jean MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456639129Author Cynthia EhrenkrantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Ebookit.comPublisher Ebookit.comWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Zanzibar has had the most turbulent postcolonial history of any part of the United Republic of Tanzania, yet few sources explain the reasons why. The current political impasse in the islands is a contest over the question of whether to revere and sustain...

Delivered with Joan's signature sense of humour, Men Are Stupid...And They Like Big Boobsis a no-nonsense, common-sense, "can-we-talk" guide to the ins and outs of such increasingly common beauty procedures as botox injections, chemical peels,...

Do we inherit the psychological as well as the material legacies of our ancestors, the hidden dynamics that influence our relationship patterns, our health and our self-image? Una's heartfelt family memoir, based on her parents' letters and diaries,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939282408Author Gilda Haber PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Miniver PressPublisher Miniver PressWeight(grams) 447gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781461047810Author Earthquake KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345408167Author Gloria SteinemFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180457Author Amy WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm * 19mm

As a manager for the Grateful Dead, Rock Scully was with the band from its early days in San Francisco to the years it spent touring the globe as one of the most enduring legends in music history. In Living with the Dead , Scully gives a complete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228885924Author Don S HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439159965Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...