Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Biography) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781933016443Author Barry PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Behler...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735218796Author Sasha SaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint G.P. Putnam's SonsPublisher G.P. Putnam's SonsWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982197995Author Martha McPheeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736808337Author Paige PublishersFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Paige Publishers & Kevin BrewertonPublisher Paige Publishers & Kevin...

In 1994, 21 years after her disappearance, Lucy Partington's remains were discovered in Fred and Rosemary West's basement at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. In this powerful and lyrical book, Lucy's elder sister, Marian, reclaims Lucy from the status of...

A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980s'Memories demanded that I complete this book. If what I experienced was, in fact, a haunting, I believe I have now laid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982158576Author Mark MessierFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739686246Author Rahul VermaFormat PaperbackImprint Author In MePublisher Author In Me

"A revelatory account of the importance that psychiatric treatment and research from the 1950s has for mental health today." Jean Freeman, author of Fists upon a Star Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470373545Author Tedy BruschiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother's birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles-seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend,...

In 2017, Dr Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"-a long-held, secret belief that she was not clever enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061136658Author Julia ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

"Sh!thouse is one fierce read. And I mean fierce in the best of ways- fiercely honest, fiercely funny and fiercely loving." Lisa Fugard, author of Skinner's Drift "In Sh!thouse, Duke writes with a poignant pen as she weaves a tale of a gritty family who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780718031565Author Dilip Joseph, M.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780718031565Author Dilip Joseph, M.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams)...

Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. A born story-teller whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957607023Author Leslie AbsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Latah BooksPublisher Latah BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 15mm

Twenty-five years after her death, we are still coming to terms with the controversial figure of Hannah Arendt. Interlacing the life and work of this seminal twentieth-century philosopher, Julia Kristeva provides us with an elegant, sophisticated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250284693Author Brad OrstedFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 466gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608082636Author Anne E. TazewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint WriteLife LLCPublisher WriteLife LLCWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501173509Author Aeham AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 23mm

Dan Savage's mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says "no thanks" because he doesn't want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren't "allowed" to get married, but that he'd like to come to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999472910Author Boris SokoloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Bowen PressPublisher Bowen PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982084Author Tom BrokawFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307395894Author Katharine WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

This is a thought-provoking work, capturing the march of time which overtook the maritime world in the last quarter of the 20th century. The final crumbling of the British register caused officers like Hall to find themselves in a strange new world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451221254Author Jen LancasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593685211Author Cheryl StrayedFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692238837Author Gloria Mar a StrassburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Antilles Pearl PressPublisher Antilles Pearl PressWeight(grams)...

Danny Ellis is a survivor, strong and resilient. An acclaimed singer/songwriter, he is proud of the way he handled his difficult past: poverty in the 1950s Dublin slums and the brutality of the Artane Industrial School. He felt as though he had safely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942891284Author Christina Fisanick GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Msi PressPublisher Msi PressWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist's favourite: Betty May - aka the Tiger Woman - was a woman like no other. Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty May used her striking looks and fierce street nous to become an unlikely...

Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist's favourite: Betty May - aka the Tiger Woman - was a woman like no other. Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty May used her striking looks and fierce street nous to become an unlikely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554888047Author Grey OwlFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

This gripping memoir about what it means to face uncertainty details the plans Janine had for her family and her life that were gutted by her then 10-year-old son Mason's diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor, only to be followed by her own cancer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997364606Author Robert WidemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Robert WidemanPublisher Robert WidemanWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

An inventive literary account of Cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplace Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation For about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabruck were part of a small but vibrant...

'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' Helen Macdonald'Completely compelling.' Olivia Laing'Read it with awe and sorrow.' Fatima BhuttoAfter the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular,...

'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' Helen Macdonald'Completely compelling.' Olivia Laing'Read it with awe and sorrow.' Fatima BhuttoAfter the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular,...