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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761808Author Fran LebowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA 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...

"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,...

The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644399606Author James E SeaverFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

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 *...

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...

First published in 1927, ""Tombstone"" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Noble Burns's portrayal of Earp has profoundly influenced subsequent generations of historians, novelists, and screen writers...

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 9781648450143Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566494168Author Malachy McCourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Welcome Rain PublishersPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers

Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the...

This book is about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910. Against these are juxtaposed excerpts from the Badger State Banner, from the Mendota State (asylum) Record...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684814926Author Ted MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 813gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 31mm

Storrings' delightful watercolours capture the energy and excitement of unique New York City events, including the Easter Parade, the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks, the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and New Year's Eve in Times Square. He also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531644499Author Chris WadsworthFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531676575Author Jeff LivingstonFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385073530Author Foxfire Fund, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 233mm...

Alex Stewart was a recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1983 by the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington which recognized him as a living national treasure. Over a twenty year period of friendship the author developed a profound...

Discover the highlights and hidden gems of Yosemite National Park with this gorgeous, photo-filled guidebook. Over 100 five-star reviews for previous editions. Yosemite is the crown jewel of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Whatever your interests -...

May, 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one Western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away. Just days after becoming prime minister, Winston Churchill...

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593310809Author Rick BraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618773473Author Timothy EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansive and powerful Indigenous groups on the continent, they...

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 *...

Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 60 ghost towns along the Mother Road, rich in stories and history! The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boomtowns built around oil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780767904148Author Michael CapuzzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531698706Author Elizabeth TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435837Author Paul Andrew HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...

In 1999, the University of Chicago Press published a collection of Mike Royko's columns entitled One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko. The response was immediate and overwhelming - readers almost instantly began asking when the second volume of Royko...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906978112Author Iona SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob PressWeight(grams) 140gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 2mm

Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream"Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no...

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, racoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today it is the city of Broadway and Wall Street,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496858Author Stewart O'NanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

"Charming, surprising, and beautiful. The perfect Yosemite guidebook for history buffs." -Andrea Wulf, author The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Every day, Yosemite National Park welcomes people from around the world who seek a...

The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593299920Author Evan FrissFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780804137331Author Sam AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown...