Personal Memoirs

The harrowing journey of a teenage refugee who never gave up on his dream of seeing his family again. Born to a wealthy family in northern Sri Lanka, Logathasan Tharmathurai and his family lost everything during the long and brutal Sri Lankan Civil War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307381217Author Andrew X. PhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261g

Brian Posehn is a successful and instantly recognizable comedian, actor, and writer. He also happens to be a giant nerd. That's partly because he's been obsessed with such things as Dungeons & Dragons, comic books, and heavy metal since he was a child;...

As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life was about to change-that in a matter of minutes she would look up from the sidewalk, burned and deaf, staring at her detached foot,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501133091Author Sarah SmarshFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734932003Author Lise DeguireFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Dr. Lise Deguire, LLCPublisher Dr. Lise Deguire, LLCWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992591625Author Yannick ThoravalFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Yannick ThoravalPublisher Yannick ThoravalWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798619Author Edward BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 139mm * 19mm

Kara knew she could reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. She had done it once before. That's why, when she failed in a second attempt, it brought her so low. As she struggled with food addiction and looked for ways to cope with feelings of failure and...

Three years ago, when Cavan footballer Alan O'Mara was twenty-two, he spoke out about his battle with depression which led him to contemplate suicide. Only the thought of his parents and the pain that they would experience in his death prevented him from...

This edition of Halide Edib Adivar's Memoirs, prefaced with Sibel Erol's excellent introduction, is important and timely. When stereotypes of women in the Muslim world abound, Halide's memoirs remind us of the courage and dedication of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933316287Author Charles de KunffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Xenophon Press LLCPublisher Xenophon Press LLCWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652296399Author Rabbi Dr Sholom GoldFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 978g

This memoir tells the story of the first twenty-one years of my life, growing up and coming of age in the working class Dublin Corporation housing estate of Crumlin. Although humorous when telling my tale, the book also includes stories of abuse,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631521300Author Rebecca Austill-ClausenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint She Writes PressPublisher She Writes PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063119710Author Gabrielle UnionFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935052180Author Sheila Peltz WeinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint White River PressPublisher White River PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062375261Author Wendell SteavensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

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Like many young idealists, Eric Greitens wanted to make a difference, so he travelled to the world's trouble spots to work in refugee camps and serve the sick and the poor. Yet when innocent civilians were threatened with harm, there was nothing he could...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683961321Author Ali FitzgeraldFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer's childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; a place where isolated hill farms, limitless moorland and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948677165Author Peggy RoweFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 365g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401324056Author John KralikFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 138mm * 20mm

In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121084Author Elif ShafakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 225gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975505Author Noelle OxenhandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452296626Author Leslie CaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 140mm * 17mm

A city girl is uprooted and moved to the farm, where she must overcome her fears and learn to live life in a rougher way.Once Bobbi Phelps married Mike Wolverton, an Idaho rancher, she discovered what it was like to live in rural America. The contrast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947951402Author Betsy DovydenasFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint City Point PressPublisher City Point PressWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Susan Cerulean's memoir trains a naturalist's eye and a daughter's heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist's lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398489639Author Eric Buhle GumbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944762575Author James S RockefellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Islandport PressPublisher Islandport PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307450647Author Laura FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101911464Author Jhumpa LahiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416549017Author Daniel TammetFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Ian Campbell Thomson relives his time as a young farmworker on a Stirlingshire farm after the Second World War. It is a touching coming-of-age tale as the author makes new friends and experiences romance while finding his own way in an ever-changing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353575977Author Lisa RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 500g

The memoir of an African-Asian woman adopted into a Punjabi, Sikh family, and her story of overcoming racism, sexism, health problems and escaping Uganda after the expelling of Asians from the country in 1972.A powerful memoir of overcoming adversity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398431935Author Dempsey GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers