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Thrown Under the Omnibus by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: $25.80$18.65'Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece.' Richard Nixon P.J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humourists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he tells it, 'I began to write for pay in the... -
Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America by Charles Bowden
RRP: $19.34$16.91Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden's dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own... -
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant
RRP: $46.38$37.94"This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the... -
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
RRP: $18.06$12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452260092Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Random House... -
Charms Against Lightning by James Arthur
RRP: $24.51$13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593871Author James ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 141g -
Septuagenarian Stew by Charles Bukowski 9780876857946
RRP: $12.89$8.57Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait... -
Fifteen One Act Plays by Sam Shepard
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345802767Author Sam ShepardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Nights In The Gardens Of Brooklyn by Harvey Swados 9781590170847
RRP: $23.21$16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170847Author Harvey SwadosFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
J. A. Rogers: Selected Writings by Louis J. Parascandola 9781621907725
RRP: $89.01$71.96"No man living has revealed so many important facts about the Negro race as has Rogers," wrote W. E. B. DuBois. Indeed, as Henry Louis Gates Jr. contends, J. A. Rogers was often the only source for an ordinary Black person to learn of their history from... -
British Museum: So You Think You've Got it Bad? A Kid's Life in the Aztec Age by Chae Strathie 9781788005531
RRP: $16.76$11.07Shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2023!Part of Nosy Crow's list of publishing in collaboration with the British Museum and developed in consultation with one of the world's leading experts on the Aztecs.A kid's life in the Aztec Age might... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau 9780199538065
RRP: $11.60$8.32`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond... -
Granta 130: India: Another Way of Seeing by Ian Jack 9781905881857
RRP: $16.76$11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881857Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 147mm *... -
Collected Works by Flannery O'Connor 9780940450370
$39.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450370Author Flannery O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 1300Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)... -
Thoreau on Man & Nature; by Henry David 1817-1862 Thoreau 9781013360343
RRP: $20.58$18.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013360343Author Henry David 1817-1862 ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
The New Negro: An Interpretation by Alain Locke 9780486845616
RRP: $9.66$6.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486845616Author Alain LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm)... -
The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9780393020397
RRP: $46.43$41.23"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway once declared. First published in 1885, the book has delighted millions of readers, while simultaneously riling contemporary sensibilities, and... -
The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 28: The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits by Charles Darwin
RRP: $36.11$30.52Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been... -
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John Freeman
RRP: $16.76$11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984877826Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
E. E. Cummings: Selected Works by E. E. Cummings 9780393617115
$22.10This Norton Critical Edition includes: 166 poems spanning the range of Cummings's career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his drafts-the first ever annotated and cross-genre collection... -
Collected Nonfiction Volume 2: Selections from the Memoirs and Travel Writings by Mark Twain
RRP: $19.35$14.65Twain's playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling gifts are on full display as he regales readers with his real-life adventures, some of them so outrageous they cannot be true - or can they? As Richard Russo says in his fascinating introduction,... -
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader by Zora Neale Hurston 9781936932733
RRP: $25.74$21.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932733Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Feminist PressPublisher Feminist Press -
The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson 9780393974072
RRP: $21.92$18.85This Norton Critical Edition seeks to give readers a full understanding of Thomas Jefferson's importance to the intellectual development of the United States, particularly in political theory and scientific learning; of Jefferson's role in the expansion... -
The Burroughs File by William S. Burroughs 9780872861527
RRP: $18.05$16.52Trenchant writings by that sardonic "hombre invisible," William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in... -
Notes Of A Native Son by James Baldwin 9780807006238
RRP: $15.47$11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006238Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm * 15mm -
White Fang by Jack London 9781505313109
RRP: $8.97$8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505313109Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston 9780008523008
RRP: $16.76$9.56'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of... -
The United States Through Arab Eyes: An Anthology of Writings (1876-1914) by Nabil Matar
RRP: $30.95$27.17A vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrants, as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time.Book InformationISBN 9781474434362Author Nabil MatarFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint... -
Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists by Sigrid Rausing 9781909889064
RRP: $16.76$11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889064Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S. Levine 9780393892222
RRP: $38.69$36.61The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N... -
Frost by Robert Frost
RRP: $25.80$15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679455141Author Robert FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 165mm... -
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa 9780142437094
$14.71Zitkala-Sa struggled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she attended boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian... -
Zelda Fitzgerald: The Collected Writings by Mary Gordon
$38.71Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been perceived as the tragic "other half" of the Scott and Zelda legend. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting, and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband's... -
The Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Ryan Hyde 9781477824689
RRP: $11.60$7.91When a troubled girl steals a horse, her foster moms are thrown together with their reluctant neighbor in this award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story... -
Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices, and Politics by Richard Caplan 9780198867708
RRP: $28.37$25.71How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once... -
Say Goodbye for Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde 9781503939448
$12.69From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a feel-good story of four outcasts who learn that some bonds are stronger than blood. On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid... -
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin 9780807006115
RRP: $34.83$24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006115Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 146mm * 21mm -
The Collected Shorter Works Of Mark Twain by Louis J. Budd
RRP: $104.48$69.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535280Author Louis J. BuddFormat HardbackPage Count 2126Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 1 (LOA #149) by Isaac Bashevis Singer
RRP: $43.85$28.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082617Author Isaac Bashevis SingerFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
I Am Your Sister Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde by Rudolph P. Byrd 9780199846450
$48.66Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the... -
Granta 128: American Wild by Sigrid Rausing 9781905881819
RRP: $16.76$11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881819Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...