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Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 is the first study of donations to the Knights Hospitaller throughout England and Ireland during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book demonstrates that patrons...

McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight...

A Sword of Bronze and Ashes combines the fierce beauty of Celtic myth with grimdark battle violence. It's a lyrical, folk horror high fantasy. Kanda has a good life until shadows from her past return threatening everything she loves. And Kanda, like any...

For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and 'one of the preeminent book people of our time' (Dave Eggers) - it is a rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399588174Author Trevor NoahFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

A love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive.The supersonic rise of...

Skelligs Haul is a generous compilation of Michael Kirby's prose and poetry, appealing for his simple, elegant style, his knowledge of unique local lore, and his inimitable observations. Kirby, a man who spent nearly every day of his ninety-nine years on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143116967Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668015544Author Annie LiontasFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560255116Author MariJo MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes is the story of two races within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in prewar Quebec, MacLennan focuses on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800745612Author Tony MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497934160Author Dr Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Rhetorical remnants.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913917067Author Qudsia AkhtarFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry Press

A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called...

With a sprightly dose of insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of practical advice, and a bounty of exuberant stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the best work ever to have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine. Inside...

Winner of the 2022 Southern Book PrizeWinner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn Indie Next Selection for September 2021A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 2021A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805075885Author Jane SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. This anthology opens up new religious and poetic...

Uplifting tales from one of the most influential Arabic books of the Middle Ages One of the most popular and influential Arabic books of the Middle Ages, Deliverance Follows Adversity is an anthology of stories and anecdotes designed to console and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060585693Author Ray D BradburyFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726491Author Jonathan AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951682262Author Jan ValtinFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Orchard InnovationsPublisher Orchard InnovationsWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119774Author Daniel GumbinerFormat PaperbackImprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956807601Author Stephen SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint B&D BooksPublisher B&D Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762667Author Leslie FiedlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476784403Author Sari BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 18mm

Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural giants. Pablo Picasso, a pioneering visual artist, created a prolific and widely influential body of work...

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given...

A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to...

Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the immediate and much more distant past. The...

Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features original essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics. This issue of Liberties includes:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781454948193Author Mo WillemsFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Union Square & Co.Publisher Union Square & Co.Weight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 155mm *...

Helen who has always been faithful to her husband Menelaus; who never went to Troy, but was carried off to Egypt, where she remains throughout the Trojan War, waiting faithfully for her husband Menelaus to rescue her. Meanwhile, Helen of Troy - a mere...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060927516Author Milan KunderaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

"Purpura is the real deal, and so is every successive sentence in this collection. A cornucopiac vocabulary is married to a strict economy of expression; an offbeat curiosity is married to the courage of difficult witnessing. . . ."-Albert Goldbarth ...

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the...

'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With...