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Following David Donachie's earlier Conquest trilogy, the de Hautville warrior dynasty shows no sign of falling back into obscurity. This is the first volume in the powerful Crusades trilogy.Eleventh-century Italy: The domination of the Normans, the most...

His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt Earp. But before Doc Holliday was a Western legend he was a Southern son, born in the last days before the American Civil War and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480845169Author Sidney ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In 1937 tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476790510Author Genevieve GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

An irresistible novel that "charts a harrowing tour through the Civil War" (Connecticut Post) and chronicles the life of Tom Thumb-the tiny man who became, in his time, America's most famous entertainer."I was four years old when Barnum discovered me,...

Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me...A spellbinding tale of secrets, entrapment and obsession from the author of the BBC2 Between the Covers pick The Dictator's Wife.'A delicious page-turning mystery within a mystery' LIZ HYDER'A twisty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468316339Author Victoria GlendinningFormat HardbackPage Count 327Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468316292Author Rachel HalliburtonFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455578542Author Ted DekkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434460318Author Achmed AbdullahFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416593140Author Philippa GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416549222Author Beverly SwerlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781409910077Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackImprint Dodo PressPublisher Dodo PressWeight(grams) 227g

People are disappearing. I spoke to my neighbour yesterday, we laughed at some nonsense, and today he is gone. We only discovered he was missing because the dog wouldn't stop howling and we all knew he would never leave his beloved pet. So I am careful,...

'Do Tell is an absolute marvel: page-turning yet thought-provoking, historical in its setting yet contemporary in its concerns. . . A deeply moving, immensely satisfying, blockbuster of a debut novel' Anthony Marra***THERE'S NOTHING STRONGER THAN A GOOD...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250888204Author Mariah FredericksFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250020437Author Julie KiblerFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295g

THE NO. 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA stunning historical novel from multi-million-copy bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan'Winnie is a great character . . . she's always real - she's always human' Roddy Doyle'A riveting rollercoaster of drama, tragedy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994669254Author Neville HerringtonFormat PaperbackImprint Tekweni ProductionsPublisher Tekweni Productions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985808662Author Deborah LincolnFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Blank Slate PressPublisher Blank Slate PressWeight(grams) 450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935526691Author Captain Frederick MarryatFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint McBooks PressPublisher McBooks PressWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954362744Author Tessa WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Fox BooksPublisher Fox BooksDimensions(mm) 193mm * 120mm * 20mm

In South Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Ireland's many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. "Song of Duiske" is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the...

The Company of Scotland was established by an act of parliament. It planned a colony that would announce itself in a founding declaration, and govern itself by a set of rules and ordinances. These were the founding principles of a new society. Together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930773625Author Farnoosh MoshiriFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Black Heron PressPublisher Black Heron PressWeight(grams) 376g

This panoramic novel hidden from the English-speaking world for more than 50 years begins with the Red Army invasion of Belarus in 1939. Ivan Kulik has just become Headmaster of school number 7 in Hlaby, a rural village in the Pinsk Marshes. Through his...

In 1775, just prior to the start of the American Revolution, the British schooner Halifax was wrecked off the Maine coast. The pilot of the vessel was a Colonial seaman who'd been impressed into the Royal Navy. Drawing on true events and real people,...

Bring together a wonderfully varied mix of characters in a once-grand Maine island summer cottage, leave them to their own devices over the course of a long, idyllic summer in the late 1940s, and you have all the ingredients for a fine comedy of manners...

These stories explore both the enchantments and the hardships of life Down East.Book InformationISBN 9780892723515Author Sanford PhippenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Down East Books,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 522g

The troubles of 1885 are a topic of enduring fascination. Gabriel Dumont in Paris is a fictional retelling of the events leading up to the Northwest Rebellion, focussing on the thoughts and actions of Metis leader Gabriel Dumont. Jordan Zinovich...

The story of New York's '21' Club is the story of American glamour in the twentieth century. In his star-studded memoir, saloonkeeper Peter Kriendler-younger brother of Jack Kriendler, cofounder of '21'-paints a spellbinding portrait of the club through...

In addition to a fresh translation of Los de Abajo, Azuela's classic novel of the Mexican Revolution, this volume offers both a general Introduction to the work and an extensive appendix setting the novel in its historical, literary, and political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838752579Author Sarah FieldingFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825308864Author Bruce HerschensohnFormat HardbackPage Count 275Imprint Beaufort BooksPublisher Beaufort BooksWeight(grams) 840g

Native puppeteers from the White Earth Reservation travel to the 1962 World's Fair. In the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from the White Earth Reservation to the Century 21 Exposition, World's...

Ellen Emerson may be the last living survivor of the Johnstown flood. She was only four years old on May 31, 1889, when twenty million tons of water decimated her hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Thousands perished in what was the worst natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795701900Author Maja KrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 355g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795701870Author Martin KaboekaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 215g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795701474Author Johnny MasilelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 190g