Personal Memoirs

An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended family,...

He walked on the Moon. He flew six space missions in three different programs--more than any other human. He served with NASA for more than four decades. His peers called him the ""astronaut's astronaut.""Enthusiasts of space exploration have long waited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860046Author Mary Jayne BlackmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Discover Great New Writers (Nonfiction) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780547203881Author David SheffFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher...

These journals provide great insight into the mind and art of one of the great 20th century artists. Though born in Poland, he is best known for his paintings of Welsh miners, for it was workers that inspired him, and he painted them with great...

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This is a first-person account of an overseas Chinese who was involved in the armed struggle for the independence of Malaya and Singapore and who evolved through several roles during those tumultuous times - from an anti-Japanese agent in World War II,...

How do you mend the pieces of a broken heart? When Elizabeth finds herself at the crossroads of her life after a broken relationship, feeling a little lost and a little uncertain of her future, not knowing what direction to take, she embarked on a...

*Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistYou know how he died. This is how he lived.Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642933024Author Hawk KochFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.' Jamie Lee Curtis'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simply a book on what it means...

David Vann has loved boats all his life. So when his academic career seems to be stuck in the doldrums, he leaps at the opportunity to start an educational charter business, teaching creative writing workshops aboard a sailboat. But a trip to Turkey...

Narrated in a series of stark, brief vignettes, The Illiterate is Agota Kristof's memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in factories in Switzerland, and the writing of her first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998279367Author Gary ComenasFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Fast BooksPublisher Fast BooksWeight(grams) 140g

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On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Velodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were...

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HOLLYWOOD From Below the Line: A Prop Master's Perspective Steven M. Levine, a veteran Hollywood property master, through both humorous recollections and poignant stories, not only takes the reader onto a Hollywood set as aAbout the AuthorDuring his...

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Amid the turmoil of the Ming-Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China, some intellectuals sought refuge in romantic memories from what they perceived as cataclysmic events. This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998414386Author Peter Mt ShastaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Church of the Seven RaysPublisher Church of the Seven RaysWeight(grams)...

Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself on daring solo skis down the wild slopes of Mount Rainier, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662841293Author Jacqueline Wray-JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Xulon PressPublisher Xulon PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'I was born as part of a monstrous structure - the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that shaped me, that shapes the very language that I speak and use and love. I am...

Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book AwardBest of 2019: Nonfiction - Entropy MagazineA memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767904988Author Jon KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957555907Author Mvuka Alex NtungFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Ears PressPublisher Ears Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501135927Author Phil KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982107222Author Jackie ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743246989Author Jung ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541846Author Helen BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 329g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451233899Author Albert CutieFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 368g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486720Author YM MehanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, she walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Partition,...

"A collection of exchanges - as surprising as they are interesting - between British author Nicky Gentil and some of the cabdrivers who have crossed her path. You will have a great time reading this book!" Taxi G7 Magazine, Paris Taxi Tales From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063031616Author Nicole ChungFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good.With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting...