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Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks 9780306830242
RRP: £25.00£14.91Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-dive into the still-unsolved double homicide of two teens in Delphi, Indiana-and its lasting impact on the communityOn February 13, 2017, two teenage... -
The Real Deadwood: True Life Histories of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Outlaw Towns, and Other Characters of the Lawless West by John Ames 9781596090316
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596090316Author John AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chamberlain BrosPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 192g -
Truman by David McCullough
RRP: £16.99£12.08The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian.The life of... -
Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs
RRP: £15.00£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489737Author Farrell DobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books Ltd -
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough 9781501168703
RRP: £12.99£8.18As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
RRP: £14.99£9.70From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and... -
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
RRP: £18.90£12.47Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains where 'as far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there... -
DK Eyewitness Chicago by DK
RRP: £11.99£8.43The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this historic city.Admire Impressionist masterpieces at the Art Institute of Chicago, window shop on the Magnificent... -
Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets by Adam Selzer
RRP: £16.99£15.14Chosen for the 2024 Illinois Reads Program by the Illinois Reading Council One of Chicago's landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city's sprawling history through the stories of its people. Local historian and Graceland tour guide Adam... -
The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space by Michael G. Smith 9781612498416
RRP: £29.95£24.13The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue University's Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and... -
Vacationland by Sarah Stonich 9780816687664
RRP: £14.99£11.86On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge-only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather's care in a... -
Action Park by Andy Mulvihill
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies 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 -
The War for Missouri: 1861-1862 by Joseph W McCoskrie
RRP: £24.99£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467143141Author Joseph W McCoskrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
American Mafia: Chicago: True Stories Of Families Who Made Windy City History by William Griffith 9780762778447
RRP: £14.99£11.26Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the... -
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs: A Decade-By-Decade History by Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572842175
£32.63The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs is a decade-by-decade look at one of baseball's most beloved if hard-luck teams, starting with the franchise's beginnings in 1876 as the Chicago White Stockings and ending with the newfound success of Joe... -
Chicago Then and Now (R) by Kathleen Maguire
RRP: £14.99£10.70Chicago Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today Chicago is a city that through history has triumphed over nature and disaster. It has bounced back from a calamitous fire, re-engineered the... -
Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary by Ray E. Boomhower 9780253023780
RRP: £17.99£15.55On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy boarded his flight from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin... -
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM by Paul Steinbeck 9780226829531
£20.31A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago's South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)... -
The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes by Claiborne A. Skinner 9780801888380
£26.93The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their... -
Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming by Ethel Waxham Love 9781611462661
RRP: £14.99£11.26Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a... -
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football by Rich Cohen
RRP: £16.00£11.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250056047Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 25mm -
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan 9780393355550
RRP: £13.99£11.96The Great Lakes-Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior-hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their... -
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 9780393308730
RRP: £15.99£14.86In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its... -
The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold by Billy Boy Arnold
RRP: £24.00£23.95Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene's raucous heyday. What's more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold-a harmonica master who shared stages with... -
Showdown at Little Big Horn by Dee Brown 9780803262188
RRP: £15.99£11.94On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264 members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3,000 warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne nations and were killed in the ensuing battle. Acclaimed historian Dee Brown... -
Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided by Catherine Pelonero 9781510719835
RRP: £20.00£18.32Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown... -
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan 9780618773473
RRP: £18.99£11.85Apologies 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)... -
Joe Biden: American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
RRP: £9.99£7.11The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year 'A thoroughly readable primer' Guardian 'Biden has overcome unimaginable... -
North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes by Michael G. Johnson
RRP: £12.99£9.54This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars. During... -
The North Shore Line by David Sadowski
RRP: £23.99£14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108966Author David SadowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)... -
Chicago: A Biography by Dominic A. Pacyga
£20.71Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a 'City on the Make.' Carl Sandburg dubbed it the 'City of Big Shoulders.' Upton Sinclair christened it the 'Jungle,' while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it the 'Second City.' At last... -
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt 9780806192901
RRP: £38.95£31.95A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814-71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is... -
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson 9781541619586
RRP: £19.99£16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619586Author Walter JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 38mm -
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry 9780143126287
RRP: £15.99£10.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126287Author Douglas PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 342g -
The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music by Michael O'Malley
RRP: £22.00£19.82The remarkable story of how modern Irish music was shaped and spread through the brash efforts of a Chicago police chief. Irish music as we know it today was invented not only in the cobbled lanes of Dublin or the green fields of County Kerry but in... -
Jazz from Detroit by Mark Stryker 9780472074266
RRP: £33.95£28.39Jazz from Detroit explores the city's pivotal role in shaping the course of modern and contemporary jazz. With more than two dozen in-depth profiles of remarkable Detroit-bred musicians, complemented by a generous selection of photographs, Mark Stryker... -
Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker by Katherine J. Cramer
RRP: £26.00£22.72Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that... -
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone by William J. Helmer
RRP: £14.99£9.88A Case of Bad Timing and Poor JudgmentThe machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland "crime of the century." Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in countless... -
Fading Ads of Chicago by Joseph R. Marlin 9781467141284
RRP: £24.99£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141284Author Joseph R. MarlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
Parsons by David Mattox 9780738561738
RRP: £21.99£16.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738561738Author David MattoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...