Personal Memoirs

When Mary Stuever graduated from forestry school in the early 1980s, her profession was facing tremendous challenges as the nation's forests were poised for serious decline from catastrophic wildfires, insect outbreaks, and suburban encroachment. Stuever...

Prodigals, a memoir inessays, explores the life of Sarah Beth Childers’swildly creative brother, who committed suicide at twenty-two, and her life with him and after him, through the lens of the Biblical parable of the Prodigal Son. This book examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820364001Author Joseph GehaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 140g

Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family's extreme and often international...

I didn't invite him. The idea was all my father's, my seventy-four-year-old father who had never been outside America and who suddenly thought that Sri Lanka, where I was a Peace Corps volunteer, would be a jolly place to visit. When John Toner, a...

After a long absence from his native southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live alone deep in the North Carolina woods. This is Crowe's chronicle of that time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing,...

Essays and poems exploring the diverse range of the Arab American experience.This collection begins with stories of immigration and exile by following newcomers' attempts to assimilate into American society. Editors Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814348741Author Fleda BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 140g

Jane Tompkins, a renowned literature professor and award-winning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading day and night because it is all she can do. A lifelong lover of books, she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780812972566Author Gail CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House Trade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967876Author Jane JuskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Originally published in 1959, Yes, Mrs. Williams has long been unavailable. In recalling one of the "determined women" in his life. William Carlos Williams, the quintessentially American poet of this century, does not write about his mother so much as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805974201Author Bassey E EssienFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 152g

Whether they were actually Hungarian or Bohemian, "Hunkies" or "Bohunks," or even from Eastern Europe at all, to the old ranchers of the Great Plains, the farmers and settlers who moved in and fenced off the open land were no-account...

Adopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah's Witness family, Joy Castro is constantly reminded to tell the truth no matter what the consequences. Nevertheless, Castro finds this tenet to be the most violated. Here, in her very own Truth Book,...

A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich's Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where...

Concerns about power, its use and abuse, have been at the center of Margaret Randall's work for more than fifty years. And over time Randall has acquired a power all her own, as her unique ability to observe, consider, and distill experience has drawn...

Unlearning to Fly is the memoir of a bookworm growing up in Alaska-among people whose resilience, restlessness, and energy find their highest expression in winter ascents of Mount McKinley or first descents of wild rivers. These are the flying stories of...

How does one recover from disaster? That question is at the heart of Marybeth Holleman's lyrical, elegiac response to the repercussions of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which devastated Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. Intertwining the destruction of...

"Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books-and, invariably, "hilarious." Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of...

To learn was to live, and to learn well was to live well. This was the lesson of both cultures of the Modern Orthodox Jewish world in which Ilana Blumberg was educated, with its commitment to traditional Jewish practice and ideas alongside an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802875082Author Daphne SimpkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint William B. Eerdmans Publishing CompanyPublisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802161673Author Stephanie BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

"To Sterba, his beloved's cabin is an enchanted castle by the sea, and like its fairy-tale prototype, Frankie's place imposes mysterious laws and rituals, which the aspirant must master before he is deemed an acceptable consort. His prize is, indeed, a...

On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Yathay was a qualified engineer in the Ministry of Public Works. Successful and highly educated, he had been...

What is "identity" when you're a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah's Witnesses? The answer isn't easy. You won't find it in books. And you certainly won't find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of...

In his three previous memoirs, Floyd Skloot grappled with the brain-ravaging virus that struck him at forty-one. He was, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted, "shaping the experience of crippling illness into dazzling literature." How such...

Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary as the Battle of the Bulge, he was separated from his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802126238Author Marceline Loridan-IvensFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982493366Author Silver 6ixFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Silver Six FarmPublisher Silver Six FarmWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982483008Author Howard S Jones JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Panther Gap PublishersPublisher Panther Gap PublishersWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615793207Author Air Commodore John MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint InclusicPublisher InclusicWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615483399Author Jd WhisperlingFormat PaperbackImprint Jd WhisperlingPublisher Jd WhisperlingWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595187829Author Brenda Parris SibleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997228465Author Elizabeth BattagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Words in the Works LLCPublisher Words in the Works LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978564803Author James F MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Temenos PublishingPublisher Temenos PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974776842Author Jacqueline LungerFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Ageless KnowledgePublisher Ageless KnowledgeWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974469898Author Jay LibbyFormat PaperbackImprint Dilly Green Bean GamesPublisher Dilly Green Bean GamesWeight(grams) 191g

Growing up, John Robinson never considered himself an inspiration to others. He was born a congenital amputee and stands three foot eight as an adult. Although he has no extension of his arms or legs, he has not been limited in his career or in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982399958Author Eveta ChaplaFormat PaperbackImprint Dreamtime PressPublisher Dreamtime PressWeight(grams) 213g