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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585425990Author Jeff GuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Upper Canada, 1804, on the edge of Chippewa territory. Flora MacCallum wakes from a malarial coma and witnesses the staggering loss her siblings have endured during their first days on the mosquito-infested banks of the Chenail Ecarte. Lured from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945062148Author Douglas BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Inkblots PressPublisher Inkblots PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947951303Author James O GoldsboroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint City Point PressPublisher City Point PressWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)...

In this story of eco-resistance based on actual events in the heart of Canada's Nickel Range, Jake McCool, the injured hardrock miner, returns to work for the International Nickel Company (INCO) but now at its nearby Copper Cliff smelter complex. In no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981968773Author Professor Jack MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 476g

In this powerful and visionary novel of Celtic Britain in the tenth century, Sian Hayton writes of the Christianizing of the pagan world that was the overthrow of woman; of one particular woman in the north of Britain who comes to the monks to learn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561644469Author Janet PostFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566568029Author Agop J HacikyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

May 1865 With the death of the Riverbend Plantations owner, the slaves gone to make their homes in other parts of the country, and the only heir in Europe, only one older coupled remained on the property with their daughter. They refused to leave...

The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood—is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642938555Author Oliver NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Fidelis BooksPublisher Fidelis BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090606Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742344Author Charles W ChesnuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609454302Author Chantel AcevedoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

This intense yet panoramic novel is based on an actual episode during the battle of Wagram, in Austria, as it appears in the diary of one of Napoleons generals: two cavalry regiments that did their best to annihilate each other before the gates of Vienna...

An extraordinary novel inspired by true events. 1943. Tasa Rosinski and five relatives, all Jewish, escape their rural village in eastern Poland—avoiding certain death—and find refuge in a bunker beneath a barn built by their longtime employee. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060750862Author Neal StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Of this novel of Canadian business life and village and city social conditions in the early twentieth century, the author explains that his object is 'to enlighten the public concerning life behind the wicket and thus pave the way for the legitimate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420111552Author Fern MichaelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421977Author Colum McCannFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Italian PEN Award for Best Novel 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781609450625Author Simonetta Agnello HornbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Europa...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062999863Author Jennifer ChiaveriniFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878398034Author Dean UrdahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint North Star Press of St. CloudPublisher North Star Press of St. CloudWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385344258Author Conn IgguldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites attacking mills and smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527635Author Lydia KwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

A sprawling story confronting social, historical, and racial tensions, this novel is set against the backdrop of the Trail of Tears, when President Andrew Jackson evicted the Cherokee people from their ancestral lands. The narrative follows several...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442651531Author Margaret a BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 835g

The Story of the Woman Who Fooled the Yankees and Rebels Alike.As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as a man. When her abusive father traded her hand in marriage for a few head of livestock, she...

A grand historical novel about Gertrude Bell, one of the most influential women of the twentieth century.She was the most celebrated adventurer of her day, the brains behind Lawrence of Arabia, an adviser to kings and desert sheikhs, and the British...

Laura Bridgman was the first deaf and blind person to learn language-fifty years before Helen Keller. Laura also couldn't taste or smell; she lost all senses but touch from a bout with scarlet fever at age two. Not since The Diving Bell and the Butterfly...

Set against the devastation of post-World War II Europe, Sunrise Shows Late is a love story about a young Polish Underground veteran, Manya who flees anti-Jewish violence in her country for a displaced-persons camp om Germany where she must make an...

Larry Weill is back with a novel based on the saga of Robert Gordon, a British Loyalist who fled the violence of the American Revolution for the relative safety of Canada. Legend tells us that somewhere en route, he hid a massive cache of gold worth more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934553541Author James BastianFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower HouseWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995893429Author Kat KarpenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735212589Author Lauren KateFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

The abbreviation "Nazi," the acronym "Gestapo," and the initials "SS" have become resonant elements of our vocabulary. Less known is "SD," and hardly anyone recognizes the combination "Sipo and SD."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802062468Author Douglas DurkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 449g

In twelfth century Cambodia, a young woman called Jorani earns her living guiding pilgrims up a two thousand-step stairway to the magnificent cliff-top temple, Preah Vihear. One day, she accidentally witnesses the furtive burning of sacred palm-leaf...