Personal Memoirs

As a child, Joe Beck heard about his father's legacy: Foster Beck had once been a respected trial lawyer who defied the unspoken code of 1930s Alabama by defending a black man charged with raping a white woman. A lawyer himself, Beck became intrigued by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800743830Author Deborah BestFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

The Interior Circuit is Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores and celebrates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692561010Author Nastia LiukinFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Shine PublishingPublisher Shine PublishingWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Tales from the Ivory Tower recalls moving or amusing incidents from a career in healthcare and academia, and often makes a serious point without belabouring it. The tales include accounts of a terrifying car journey through the Kuwaiti night desert;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616086398Author Sarah LeavittFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 264mm...

Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind. These engaging, deeply psychological vignettes capture the reality of daily life and work in the Soviet Union. Unlike other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439181270Author Jared DillianFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996698702Author Hillevi RuumetFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Syncronea PublicationsPublisher Syncronea PublicationsWeight(grams) 390g

After 13 years of struggling in the music business, Robert Reilly found himself broke and on the edge of despair. The specter of success in the music business had become a monster about to ruin his family life. Something had to change, or something was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928215639Author Martina DahlmannsFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Modjaji BooksPublisher Modjaji BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

An IPPY Gold Medal Winner. Paris Book Festival Winner. Finalist for the Minnesota Book AwardA graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man's fate during World War IISeeking inspiration for a new font...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234933Author Christopher SkaifeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 240g

In 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, Elliott Merrick and his wife bought a ramshackle farm on a Vermont hillside for $1,000. Merrick, a young writer with a healthy dose of idealism and a determination to live in the country, had just sold his...

Virginia Lloyd spent much of her childhood and adolescence learning and playing the piano and thought she would make a career as a pianist. When that didn't happen, she spent a long time wondering about those years of study: had they been wasted? What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237489Author Michelle ObamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062459015Author Danielle TrussoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770416000Author Angie AbdouFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993919572Author Lindsay ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Magna Carta RecordsPublisher Magna Carta RecordsWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

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An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for himself in Seattle in search of lost love. As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999322632Author Alison CobbFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Lapwing Publishing ServicesPublisher Lapwing Publishing Services

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900486712Author David KerekesFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993576270Author Michael GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint 1889 BooksPublisher 1889 BooksWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534219Author Claude LanzmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

States of Desire Revisited looks back from the twenty-first century at a pivotal moment in the late 1970s: Gay Liberation was a new and flourishing movement of creative culture, political activism, and sexual freedom, just before the 1980s devastation of...

Quest for Eternal Sunshine chronicles the triumphant, true story of Mendek Rubin, a brilliant inventor who overcame both the trauma of the Holocaust and decades of unrelenting depression to live a life of deep peace and boundless joy. Born into a...

"Prepare to laugh" -Reese Witherspoon From funny woman, Instagram star, and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted! is a raucous, hilarious, and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas, and how to rock a sexy scar. Part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439190609Author Susanna SonnenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

By the time Laura Munson had turned 40, her life was not how she thought it would turn out. Career success had eluded her; her beloved father was no longer around to be her biggest cheerleader; and her husband wanted out of their marriage. Poignant,...

This "gripping and poignant memoir" (New York Times Book Review) draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the post-Mao era. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416583943Author Annia CiezadloFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733074513Author Garrison KeillorFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Prairie Home ProductionsPublisher Prairie Home ProductionsWeight(grams)...

On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator’s father poses two unsettling questions: “Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?” Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401341985Author Stephanie NielsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 128mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250180582Author Peter GethersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint GriffinPublisher GriffinWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097698Author Eddie JakuFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795801877Author Erns GrundlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Queillerie Publishers (Pty) LtdPublisher Queillerie Publishers (Pty) LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984792757Author Carrie CarielloFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Riddle Brook PublishingPublisher Riddle Brook PublishingWeight(grams)...

Vogue's Best Books of Summer 2021 "Everyone had a clearer vision of my body than I did. It didn't feel as if my body was really mine..." At age fourteen, Jonathan Wells weighs just sixty-seven pounds, triggering a scrutinizing persecution of his...