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Eliseo Torres, known as 'Cheo', grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practised in his home and neighbourhood. Later in life, he wanted to know more about the plants and rituals of curanderismo...

"Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His escape from Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling for the first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass murder, led directly to saving the lives of 120,000 Jews: the Jews of Budapest who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780142002834Author Elizabeth GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam...

The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North AmericaIn this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson-fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684462551Author Kt JohnstonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone EditionsPublisher Capstone EditionsWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 286mm * 239mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684464289Author Jennifer Lane WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone EditionsPublisher Capstone EditionsWeight(grams) 229g

Interweaving photographs, concert programs, scores, and drawings with the texts of more than fifty interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, Charles Ives Remembered is a vivid memory portrait of the enigmatic American composer, told in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496695819Author Karen KenneyFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 180mm *...

Essayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With his unique perspective and...

Wilbur H. "Ping" Ferry (1910-1995) was a self-styled "town crank," an influential and iconoclastic figure who seemingly knew everyone worth knowing in the mid-twentieth century.Businessman, thinker, activist, government advisor, and...

Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures is a collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. Anecdotes on small-town baseball and the polio epidemic of 1952 provide a historic backdrop to the story of...

After an initial honeymoon with historians, in recent years John F. Kennedy has been more carefully scrutinized, resulting in a wide variety of assessments of his presidency and his life. Michael O'Brien, who knows as much about Kennedy as any historian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496695307Author Matt ChandlerFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641058209Author Mary Theresa VasquezFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint American Bar AssociationPublisher American Bar AssociationWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780772673107Author Kathryn BridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Royal British Columbia MuseumPublisher Royal British Columbia MuseumWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639089Author Brian CherneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 308g

This is the story of David Wilkerson, the man who believed against the odds that God could do great things in the rejected and ignored of New York City, who refused to give up on those on the streets even when they had given up on themselves, and who saw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062293978Author J. a. JanceFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534473652Author Chris BartonImprint Beach Lane BooksPublisher Beach Lane Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644875957Author Elizabeth NeuenfeldtFormat HardbackImprint Blastoff! ReadersPublisher Blastoff! ReadersWeight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826343482Author Stan HoigFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783364002262Author Sophie Lissitzky-KuppersFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint PHILO Fine Arts GmbH, Verlag der Kunst DresdenPublisher PHILO Fine Arts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642937565Author Michael C MacDonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 152g

Babatunde Olatunji's record album Drums of Passion proclaimed that the time had come for America to recognize Africa's cultural contributions to the music world. Through his many albums and live performances, the Nigerian drummer popularized West African...

Australia’s favourite newsman is back. This time he brings his journalist’s eye to bear on stories of mythical monsters, UFOs, paranormal events and unsolved mysteries from Australian folklore. Mal Walden takes us on a journey through Australian history...

James Prendergast is the most infamous figure in New Zealand's legal history, known mainly for his condemnation of the Treaty of Waitangi as ""a simple nullity"" in 1877. But during his lifetime Prendergast was a highly respected lawyer and judge. He was...

The tragicomic life story of one of America's best-known country entertainers, told with warmth and honesty This book recounts the fascinating life of Roni Stoneman, the youngest daughter of the pioneering country music family, and a girl who, in spite...

Originally published in 1887, The Pioneer Preacher is a lively account of a Congregationalist minister's attempts to lead a sin-free existence on the American frontier. Sherlock Bristol (1815-1906) was a California...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781366025258Author Henry R SchoolcraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591810438Author Michael WeinbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 278g

When seven-year-old Hilde Lysiak found out her new town didn’t have a paper, she grabbed a notepad and began to work.   Hilde Lysiak spent her early childhood in New York City with a passion for journalism. When her family moved to Selinsgrove,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496695949Author Danielle Smith-LleraFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 295g

From Andy Warhol to Malcolm X, Michelle and Barack Obama to Steve Jobs, American Legends Alphabet awesomely presents a must know A to Z of the brilliant, talented, intelligent and strong individuals that have made America great – not great again. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678203269Author Amy AllisonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Referencepoint PressPublisher Referencepoint Press

" "I don't agree with all the choices people make," says the author. "You probably won't either. My job is to let them tell their stories." And so she does in these thirteen warm, funny, and sad short stories about people making...

A Short Season is Don Morehead's bittersweet story of growing up on a Montana ranch during the 1940s. In 1941 his parents eagerly took up residence on a ten-thousand-acre sheep ranch in northern Montana. The entire family was soon caught up in the...

This is an engagingly written memoir, originally published in English in 1990, by one of China's finest writers. Born in 1910, Hsiao Ch'ien joined the Communist Youth League and participated in demonstrations against the government before working with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143448594Author Raja RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint Penguin Modern ClassicsPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883982621Author Janet MoreyFormat HardbackPage Count 173Imprint Missouri Historical Society PressPublisher Missouri Historical Society Press

Here is the ultimate San Antonio sports reference handbook, tracing big-league sports since the city's first baseball team in 1888. The text includes narratives of major and minor league baseball, basketball, football, and ice hockey teams and boxers...