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Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to...

"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.comThis colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439183441Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 395g

In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014371348Author Arthur 1915-2005 MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)...

"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." -David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Charles Bowden's Red Line is a look at America through the window of...

This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text of Auden's first separately published prose book, The...

A compelling set of short stories from the author of World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the...

Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997253139Author Christian WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint East Wind PressPublisher East Wind PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618386246Author Robert StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062334732Author Gregg HecimovichFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

"Heartbreakingly beautiful writing; sometimes funny, sometimes shattering--always revolutionary. Truly amazing collection!"--Margaret Cho "Sister Spit is like the underground railroad for burgeoning queer writers. Not only in the van, but in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536553Author Andrew RubenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598530308Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm)...

What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes, featured by a yet-to-be-named...

A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry...

"On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts living free."When award-winning author Charles...

The 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...

A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today.About the AuthorTerry Castle has taught at Stanford since 1983. She has written five books ranging from Masquerade and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967750644Author Florence JonesFormat PaperbackImprint Bright Eyes BooksPublisher Bright Eyes BooksWeight(grams) 127g

A selection of representative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from the Anthology from 1953 to present.Book InformationISBN 9780393027693Author George PlimptonFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 1160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486499130Author Strowbridge StrowbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The literary legacy of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) consists of numerous works in which the traditional restraints of language are abandoned for spontaneous and surprising expression. Her writings challenge the reader, yet also offer an inviting...

This is the first volume of the autobiography of Langston Hughes, covering the years up to 1931. Hughes offers recollections of his childhood in Kansas, his high school years in Cleveland, his sojourn with his father in Mexico, and his initial reactions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912020133Author Erik JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ELSPPublisher ELSP

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a stunning, emotional story of a young soldier's unthinkable act...and the unbreakable bonds between a sister and brother. Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544817333Author Leslie JamisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063223790Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat PaperbackImprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 2585gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 206mm *...

When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation--his journals--remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 and continued without significant lapse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374517199Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Praise for Mezcal:"Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629954707Author Richard L. PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian & Reformed)Publisher P & R Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476765198Author Jeffrey EugenidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

There's more than one way to interpret destiny.The Son of Satan, a demon hunter, a mummy, a witch, a harpy, and the messenger of an elder god walk into a bar... and try to prevent the apocalypse? The devil isn't thrilled, and frankly the angels aren't...

At the centre of The Wilkes Insurrection stands Major Tamika Smith, an intelligent and dedicated Black combat search and rescue leader in the Air-Force, who is in charge of the aftermath of Ford Wilkes' first terrorist attack on Flight 209. Yet the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602064041Author Richard Rolle of HampoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781721534784Author Monna EllithorpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481113953Author Dr Virgil R StoneFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...