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Mysteries and folkways of New York City revealed in an entertaining collection of graphic art The life and legend of New York City, from the size of its skyscrapers to the ways of its inhabitants, is vividly captured in this lively collection of more...

"A vivid page-turner" (NPR) detailing the rise, fall, and redemption of Broadway-its stars, its biggest shows, its producers, and all the drama, intrigue, and power plays that happened behind the scenes."A rich, lovely, debut history of New York theater...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451666205Author Michael GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 25mm

"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,...

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 9781737842811Author Jarett KobekFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint We Heard You Like BooksPublisher We Heard You Like BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570616679Author Jack NisbetFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Sasquatch BooksPublisher Sasquatch BooksWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878088Author Adrian BartosFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape--a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind. Meaning, Robert...

A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's...

'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America.Texas is a...

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an...

Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This revised edition of Ar'n't I a...

What do the traditional plain-living Amish have to teach twenty-first-century Americans in our hyper-everything world? As it turns out, quite a lot!It sounds audacious, but it's true: the Amish have much to teach us. It may seem surreal to turn to one of...

Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that...

The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big...

Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American...

This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The...

SELECTED AS A 2018 SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, I-PAPER AND THE BIG ISSUE 'Enormously entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES 'Fascinating' NEW STATESMAN 'Excoriating, brilliant' ALI SMITH 'Enthralling' GUARDIAN 'My number one contributor when it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467123662Author J. Gregory PirmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681791579Author Ted HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995446Author James R SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Word Dancer PressPublisher Word Dancer PressWeight(grams) 342g

Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156899826Author Ivan DoigFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959770312Author John WingateFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Wisdom EditionsPublisher Wisdom EditionsWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316059Author Will YorkFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Portable, up-to-date, and to-the-point, Frommer's Philadelphia Day by Day is all about maximizing the time you have to spend in this fascinating and historic city. This itinerary-based book, written by long-time resident Reid Bramblett, hits all of...

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and...

On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of evidence suggested a connection between the two murders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743244596Author James B. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 428gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423657972Author William MatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

From the creators of Los Angeles Is . . . , a stylish board book that is an ode to the Big Apple, with rhyming couplets and colorful art New York is . . . buildings above, bridges to love, Broadway plays, bagels and lox. This stylish primer for toddlers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134510Author Andy MulvihillFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. Not just the end of the line anymore. Not just the...

This first volume of three discusses the tactical decisions made on day one and the ensuing combat, while also including a brief summary of the grand strategy in the Eastern Theater of the war, the conduct of the Pennsylvania Campaign from June 6 to 30,...

This work provides an authoritative illustrated examination of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, analyzing both grand strategy, and the tactical decisions of Day Two and the ensuing combat. July 2, 1863 was the bloodiest and most complicated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101984697Author Nick OffermanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 1mm * 1mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011858Author Jarvis DeberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly...