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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. ...

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982352014Author Patrick F BrowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Wilcox Swanson LLC/ DBA Deer Track PublishingPublisher Wilcox Swanson LLC/ DBA Deer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335150004Author John BoesseneckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning."-Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963215802Author John W DecampFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint A W T, IncorporatedPublisher A W T, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350808Author Franklin RosemontFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 752g

The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre.Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692437254Author Daniel a EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Creative Texts PublishersPublisher Creative Texts PublishersWeight(grams)...

City of Dreams is the long overdue, inspiring, and defining account of New York's both famous and forgotten immigrants: the young man from the Caribbean who relocated to New York and became a founding father; Russian born Emma Goldman, who condoned the...

A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977465743Author Casey J. QuinlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint JFK Lancer ProductionPublisher JFK Lancer ProductionWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250131591Author John BoesseneckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's GriffinPublisher Thomas Dunne Book for St...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063346697Author J Reuben AppelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is 'simply one of the best non-fiction books in English of the last forty years' (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times): a riveting and timeless account of power, politics and the city of New York by 'the greatest political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118824Author Deborah BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm *...

Robert Graysmith's New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California's unsolved Zodiac murders. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425266854Author Matt BirkbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063349285Author Howard BlumFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439159866Author Kevin FedarkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 29mm

This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679752868Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738517964Author Tyler E BagwellFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541736221Author Ethan Sherwood StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" - Jeremy Atherton Lin --- Fire Island: a slim strip of...

Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell - the kind of spell to which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524731977Author Guy TrebayFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

2024 Jon Gjerde Prize Winner for best book in Midwestern History After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region's Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided...

The 2022 Private Eye Annual presents the year's best cartoons, jokes, parodies and topical sketches from the UK's most successful, best-selling satirical news and current affairs magazine. Edited by Ian Hislop and illustrated throughout with cartoons,...

Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what...

New edition with a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo 'A brutal record of segregated America ... essential reading' Guardian 'An anti-racist classic' Bernardine Evaristo In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin...

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this spectacular city.Experience flamboyant resorts and luxurious hotels, marvel at the natural splendour of the...

This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion's darkest book, in which she explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984439Author David KipenFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596291614Author Ted ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"If you can't get to the High Line. . . this is the next best thing." -The Washington Post Before it was restored, the High Line was an untouched, abandoned landscape overgrown with wildflowers. Today it's a central plaza, a cultural center, a walkway,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250184894Author John BoesseneckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's GriffinPublisher Thomas Dunne Book for St...

As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and...

A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey-featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Southside Johnny, members of the E Street Band and Asbury...