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The Shell and the Octopus: A Memoir by Rebecca Stirling
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €9.58This is the story of Rebecca Stirling's childhood: a young girl raised by the sea, by men, and by literature. Circumnavigating the world on a thirty-foot sailboat, the Stirlings spend weeks at a time... -
Dancing in the Narrows: A Mother-Daughter Odyssey Through Chronic Illness by Anna Penenberg
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €12.66Dancing in the Narrows chronicles a mother and daughter's multiyear journey through illness and trauma. At sixteen, Anna's youngest daughter, Dana, is stricken with a mysterious and debilitating... -
The Breaks Ellen Barker 9781647428402
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66Waking up in the emergency room with a broken arm is not one of the ways Marianne imagined her first date with Carl, if it is a date, ending up. Nor was driving up to the entrance of a women's prison... -
Andrea Hoffman Goes All In: A Novel by Diane Cohen Schneider
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €9.58Andrea Hoffman is an overeducated, underemployed, and unmotivated recent college graduate - until an unexpected robbery blasts her out of her funk and into a job in the finance world of early-1980s... -
The Laundress by Barbara Sapienza 9781631526794
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66Twenty-six-year-old Lavinia Lavinia is burdened by her unknown heritage-but her uncle Sal, who raised her in San Francisco, has always kept silent, refusing to reveal the devastating secret of her... -
Fifty First Dates After Fifty: A Memoir by Carolyn Lee Arnold
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66What does a free-spirited, fifty-something professional do when she breaks up with her non-committal Buddhist boyfriend and longs for a life partner? She holds a 'letting go' ceremony with the... -
What's Not Said: A Novel by Valerie Taylor
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €5.81"Taylor's dialogue is snappy and contemporary . . . A witty and often amusing family drama."-Kirkus ReviewsKassie O'Callaghan's meticulous plans to divorce her emotionally abusive husband, Mike, and... -
The Moon Always Rising by Alice C Early 9781631526831
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €13.16In 1998, fiery Eleanor "Els" Gordon thought the new century would find her married to her childhood soul mate, rejuvenating her family's Scottish Highlands estate, and finally earning a managing... -
Home So Far Away by Judith Berlowitz 9781647423759
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €12.40A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Klara's first visit to... -
The Pale Flesh of Wood Elizabeth A Tucker 9781647428341
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.661953. WWII veteran Charles Hawkins sweet-talks his daughter, Lyla, into climbing the family's oak tree and hanging the rope for their tire swing. Eager, Lyla crawls along the branch and ties off a... -
Finding Napoleon by Margaret Rodenberg 9781647420161
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647420161Author Margaret RodenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprin -
Blooming in Winter: The Story of a Remarkable Twentieth-Century Woman by Pam Valois 9781647421168
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €12.40When Pam Valois, a young photographer, met Jacomena Maybeck in 1979, she saw the woman she wanted to be in her own later years. Tarring roofs and splitting logs into her eighties, Jackie presided... -
And Still the Bird Sings: A Memoir of Finding Light After Loss by Linda Broder
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €9.58"The day after my son died, a bird walked into my house. That tiny sparrow wouldn't leave me alone. It kept knocking on my door and showing up in my dreams, until it finally sparked a light within... -
The Location Shoot: A Novel by Patricia Leavy 9781647425678
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.40Controversial filmmaker Jean Mercier is shooting a film on location in Sweden. While spending the summer creating his latest work of cinematic art, he lives in a nearby inn with his lead actors:... -
Friday in Napa: A Novel by Jennifer Hamm 9781647425296
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.40Vene feels like she and her mother have always been at odds-since she was a child, the first word she used to describe Olivia was "cold." When news of her mother's imminent death comes, Vene returns... -
No One Else I'd Rather Be Aimee Kaufman 9781647428280
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66Thank you for always loving me, Aimee Kaufman's daughter, Sam, wrote in a Mother's Day card at twenty-two years old. Reading those words, Aimee knew she'd been right to follow her heart throughout... -
Return of the Evening Star: Book 2 in Silver Mountain Series by Diane Rios 9781631525452
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.16A mysterious hospital deep in the Oregon woods is sending marauding ambulances into the countryside, looking for new patients. Mowing down anything in their path, the deadly ambulance drivers have... -
The Empty Bowl: Pursuing Truth in a Messy World Rikki West 9781647428228
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66Rikki West's tale begins with her Catholic childhood in a Chicago suburb. As a little girl, she prays for her drunk father, begging God not to send him to hell. As a rebellious adolescent, she... -
Moments of Knowing: A Memoir Mary Helen Fein 9781647428624
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95Born into the baby boomer generation, Mary Helen Fein's values and choices often typified the time. At age five, she identified what she calls 'Moments of knowing': moments of knowing more about love... -
Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays Marianna Marlowe 9781647427528
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66Through braided memories that flash against the present day, Portrait of a Feminist depicts the evolution of Marianna Marlowe's identity as a biracial and multicultural woman - from her childhood in... -
All of Us Warriors: Cancer Stories of Survival and Loss by Rebecca Whitehead Munn 9781631527951
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66In All of Us Warriors, Rebecca Whitehead Munn paints a realistic picture of the impact cancer has on an individual's life, and she attempts to demystify the experience by sharing heartfelt... -
Justice is Served: A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for RBG by Leslie Karst
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.21"The book is a romp from cover to cover-and, just like a great meal, left me ready for more." -Karen Shimizu, Executive Editor, Food & WineWhen Leslie Karst learned that her offer to cook dinner for... -
Kinda Korean: Stories from an American Life Joan Sung 9781647428426
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66In this courageous memoir of parental love, intergenerational trauma, and perseverance, Joan Sung breaks the generational silence that curses her family. By intentionally overcoming the stereotype... -
About the Carleton Sisters: A Novel by Dian Greenwood
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.40A Las Vegas showgirl, a diner waitress, and a heartbroken alcoholic - three sisters - are called into an obligatory reunion in California's Central Valley in the late 1990s as a prelude to their... -
The Girl with Three Birthdays: An Adopted Daughter’s Memoir of Tiaras, Tough Truths, and Tall Tales by Patti Eddington 9781647426507
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €11.64Patti Eddington always knew she was adopted, and her beloved parents seemed amenable enough to questions - but she never wanted to hurt them by expressing curiosity, so she didn't. The story of her... -
For a Good Time: Surviving Sex Work and Addiction to Become the Mother I Was Meant to Be by Patty Tierney
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €9.58It's 1953 in Southern California, Patty is five years old, and her mother hasn't been home in two days. A police officer eventually arrives and takes Patty and her brothers to juvenile hall-their... -
Driving Home Naked: And Other Misadventures of a Country Veterinarian by Melinda G. McCall 9781647425173
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.40Have you ever driven home from work wearing nothing but a pair of rubber boots? For Dr. Melinda McCall, a large animal veterinarian in rural Virginia, this is living the dream. Caring for cattle,... -
Unsexed: Memoirs of a Prostitute's Daughter Marina DelVecchio 9781647426941
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.02Unsexed examines the role that sex plays in the life of one woman with two mothers who introduce her to polarized frameworks of female sexuality. Born in Greece to a violent prostitute and then... -
The Convention of Wives: A Novel by Debra Green
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95Dina and Julia first meet at a surgical convention and bond over frustrations with their husbands' demanding schedules. But geography, time, and growing families make maintaining their friendship... -
Watching Sarah Rise: A Journey of Thriving with Autism Jennifer Celeste Briggs 9781647428242
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €11.75Families who have supported a child with special needs will connect with this memoir about Sarah, a feisty girl with autism and a unique genetic blueprint. Her mom, Jenny, is equally feisty and... -
Sit, Cinderella, Sit: A Mostly True Memoir Lisa Cheek 9781647427283
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66Lisa Cheek loved editing TV commercials - almost as much as she loved her dog, Ron Howard. Then, she 'aged out' of advertising, at 45. After being let go, Lisa got a call - at 2:45 AM - from a... -
Unruly Human Hearts Barbara Southard 9781647428303
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66Elizabeth Tilton, a devout housewife, shares liberal ideals with her husband, Theodore Tilton, and their pastor and close friend Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, both influential reformers of the... -
Saving Sara: A Memoir of Food Addiction by Sara Somers
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.40For nearly fifty years, Sara Somers suffered from untreated food addiction. In this brutally honest and intimate memoir, Somers offers readers an inside view of a food addict's mind, showcasing her... -
Gitel's Freedom Iris Mitlin Lav 9781647428587
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.66At an early age, Gitel questions the expected roles of women in society and in Judaism. Born in Belorussia and brought to the US in 1911 as a child, she leads a life constrained by her religious... -
Unlocking: A Memoir of Family and Art by Nancy L Pressly 9781631528620
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €12.88While recovering from a near fatal illness, Nancy Pressly discovers a treasure trove of family material stored in her attic. Haunted by images of her grandparents and her parents in their youth, she... -
Ice Out: A Novel by Susan Speranza
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €9.58Francesca Bodin has a near-perfect life as an accomplished music teacher and professional flutist living in the Vermont countryside with her husband Ben, and their four-year old daughter, Addie. This... -
Night of the Hawk: Poems by Lauren Martin 9781647426583
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €11.64When I have wandered long enough what am I still beholden to? Ifa. Nature. Illness. Love. Loss. Misogyny. Aging. Africa. Our wounded planet. In this sweeping yet intensely personal collection, Lauren... -
When Your Heart Says Go: My Year of Traveling Beyond Loss and Loneliness by Judy Reeves 9781647425630
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.40What sort of mad longing besets a woman-nearing fifty and recently widowed-to sell everything she owns, buy an around-the-world airline ticket, pack a single suitcase, and set off alone on a... -
Freedom Lessons by Eileen Harrison Sanchez
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €12.60Told alternately, by Colleen, an idealistic young white teacher; Frank, a black high school football player; and Evelyn, an experienced black teacher, Freedom Lessons is the story of how the lives of... -
The First Signs of April: A Memoir by Mary-Elizabeth Briscoe 9781631522987
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.40Wounds fester and spread in the darkness of silence. The First Signs of April, explores the destructive patterns of unresolved grief and the importance of connection for true healing to occur. The...