Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784770031464Author Sean Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Kodansha International LtdPublisher Kodansha America, IncWeight(grams) 396g

The inspiring true story of one man's treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona-and the path that led him home. Ousman Umar is a shaman's son born in a small village in Ghana. Though his mother died giving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943977444Author Joseph OsmundsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Sibling Rivalry Press, LLCPublisher Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC

Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette.Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. When she was just fourteen she attended her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593243190Author Jay EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 142mm * 145mm...

"A journey down the rabbit hole of LA's most subtly toxic industry ... funny, brilliant, coy, playful, and wise." - LENA DUNHAM, author of Not That Kind of GirlMusician Hayley Gene Penner tells all in this harrowingly honest memoir.Singer-songwriter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039204Author Charmian BrinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812973662Author Eve EnslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint 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 9780804119221Author Larry GwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 171mm...

"I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400494Author William McLellanFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124412Author David EsterlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 248gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143779131Author Martin FlanaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Winner of the 2009 Lillian Smith Book AwardEven forty years after the civil rights movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner's professors and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647646240Author Harry TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Atmosphere PressPublisher Atmosphere PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198553Author Warren HinckleFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his incendiary autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, arrived in Liverpool for the start of a near-two-year tour of Britain...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035978Author Arnold MostowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. "Instead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others," Peter Nadas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his...

In Exhumation, Madan Lal's great niece, the actor and writer Leena Dhingra, unravels and reveals his remarkable story. Born in Amritsar, the sixth of seven sons of an eminent surgeon, Madan Lal arrived in England in 1906 to study engineering at...

"A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history." - Publisher's Weekly "A book that sticks with you long after you've read it." Volume 1 Brooklyn "Hoke's writing is blunt and honest, and Sticker is a collection worth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692798089Author Dan RyckertFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Up to Something PublishingPublisher Up to Something PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931564Author Elizabeth EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes-America's public lands. Every American is a public-land owner, inheritor to the largest public-land...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250339461Author Kate FlanneryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 281g

What if you set out to travel the world and got sidetracked in a Himalayan sewing workshop? What if that sidetrack turned out to be your life's path-your way home? Part art book, part memoir, part spiritual travelogue, Threads of Awakening is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398456945Author Mandy ShiresFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Award Finalist 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780345804075Author Tracy K. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher...

The acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love recalls his lifelong struggle against ignorance and racism while sharing a train ride with a bigoted white neighborOn a commuter train traveling from New Canaan, Connecticut, to New York's Grand Central Station,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982117696Author Dr John BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 116gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm * 10mm

'A beautiful work that is in turn haunting, touching and redemptive' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one' THE NEW YORKER 'Generous in spirit, devoid of self-pity, and an authentic literary achievement' ANDREW SOLOMON ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743269162Author Maureen O'HaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416537625Author Valerie Plame WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Read Dahlia Jurgensen's posts on the Penguin Blog. A clever and affectionate glimpse at the truth about what goes on behind that swinging door, full of "great insider stuff" (Anthony Bourdain) Life in a restaurant kitchen is strenuous and exciting,...

Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself...

Closer to the Ground is the deeply personal story of a father learning to share his love of nature with his children, not through the indoor lens of words or pictures, but directly, palpably, by exploring the natural world as they forage, cook and eat...

In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425279571Author Jasmin SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 272g

Powerful, heart-rending and unforgettable, 'Gurkha Guns' tells the true story of a young Gurkha soldier's life before, during and after, the Falklands War. The reader is gripped from the beginning by this remarkable, moving account of how the author...