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Though Murder Has No Tongue: The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher by James Jessen Badal 9781606350621
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat. Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the... -
Hauptmann's Ladder: A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping by T. Cahill Richard, Jr. 9781606351932
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.51In 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published... -
Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many by Thomas P. Hillman 9781606354711
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Illuminating the central struggle in The Lord of the Rings to deepen understanding of the whole of Tolkien's legendariumIn this remarkable work of close reading and analysis, Thomas P. Hillman gets... -
Hemingway, Cuba and the Cuban Works by Larry Grimes 9781606351819
Booksplease Price: £61.35The profound impact of Cuba on Ernest Hemingway's life and work Ernest Hemingway resided in Cuba longer than he lived anywhere else in the world, yet no book has been devoted to how his life in Cuba... -
The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips: Abolitionism, Democracy, and Public Interest Law by Peter Charles Hoffer 9781606354780
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Examining the life of an early advocate of the legal rights of Black Americans In this brisk, engaging exploration of 19th-century radical reformer and abolitionist Wendell Phillips, Peter Charles... -
The New Ray Bradbury Review, Number 5, 2016 by Phil Nichols 9781606352748
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47As a highly visual writer, Ray Bradbury's works have frequently been adapted for film and television. One of the most stylized and haunting dramatizations is Francois Truffaut's 1966 film adaptation... -
Rockne and Jones: Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties by Thomas Rupp 9781606353301
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.83Notre Dame's rallying cry was once "Win one for the Gipper." The football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has long since faded into history, but every year the Irish continue to... -
Unforgettable Ohioans: Thirteen Mavericks Who Made History on Their Own Times by Randy McNutt 9781606352359
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.26Captivating portraits of extraordinary individuals Famous Buckeyes are recognized by practically everyone. They range from presidents and inventors to aviators and astronauts. But other important... -
The Collected Poems of C.S. Lewis: A Critical Edition by Don W. King 9781606354117
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.77Although C. S. Lewis is best known for his prose and for his clear, lucid literary criticism, Christian apologetics, and imaginative Ransom and Narnia stories, he considered himself a poet for the... -
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 12, 2005-2007 by Tom Batiuk 9781606354483
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £29.71Since its newspaper debut in 1972, the comic strip Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the journey through life of a group of students from the fictitious West View High School. This twelfth volume... -
The Ohio: The Historic River in Vintage Postcard Art, 1900-1960 by John Jakle 9781606353165
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.36The first half of the 20th century was a period of great change along the historic Ohio River corridor. It was then that the Ohio became the most heavily engineered river in the world, facilitating... -
Lincoln's Lover: Mary Lincoln in Poetry by Jason Emerson 9781606353066
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In his Poetics, Aristotle said a historian and a poet do not differ from each other-one simply writes in verse and the other in prose. In fact, history and poetry have a long connection; much of what... -
Lisa's Legacy Trilogy, 3 Volume Set by Tom Batiuk 9781606353271
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £54.80Prelude is a collection of the early comic strips that bring Lisa and Les together. Introduced to readers of Funky Winkerbean in late 1984 as she experiences SAT test anxiety, Lisa becomes Les... -
The Complete Funky Winkerbean: Volume 2, 1975-1977 by Tom Batiuk 9781606351512
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.00Funky, Les, and the gang pun their way through Westview High Since its debut on March 27, 1972, Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High... -
Little Nest by Diane Lueptow 9781606352496
Booksplease Price: £5.24"In Little Nest Diana Lueptow shows a unique skill for bridging the everyday and the mythic. In lines and sentences that blend formal elegance with earthy, idiomatic force, Lueptow weaves surprising... -
Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront by Rachel Williams 9781606354735
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.88Examining how a civilian organization used the Civil War to advance their religious mission Tabernacles in the Wilderness discusses the work of the United States Christian Commission (USCC), a... -
Classic Steelers: The 50 Greatest Games in Pittsburgh Steelers History by David Finoli 9781606351987
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37When it came to football in the 1930s, the college sport was king. But in 1933, former boxer and minor league baseball player Art Rooney, who had quarterbacked the squad at Duquesne University,... -
Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations by 9780873389457
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £42.90This series focuses on works that expand the parameters of U.S. foreign relations. Chronologically broad and topically diverse, it is designed to further the internationalization - indeed,... -
Kardiac Kids: The Story of the 1980 Cleveland Browns by 9780873387613
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47A heart-pounding journey through the most exciting season in Cleveland Browns' historyEvery longtime Cleveland sports fan knows about "Red Right 88," the play that ended the Browns' 1980 season... -
A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut by 9780873387668
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £33.60A new case study of one of Lincoln's political generals in the Civil WarA Politician Turned General offers a critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial... -
Seven Boxes for the Country After by Janet McAdams 9781606352960
Booksplease Price: £5.03"Seven Boxes for the Country After is a book about a way-making and way-finding. It is a journey, both internal and external, across a map, over borders, through a life, and in a body. It is passage... -
I've Seen the Elephant: An Autobiography by 9780873386685
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32In this lively memoir, William B. Saxbe narrates his life's journey from his youth in a small Ohio town to his military career during World War II and Korea and through his career as a public servant... -
The Good-bye Door by 9780873388740
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.14Nicknamed ""the Blonde Borgia,"" Anna Marie Hahn was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. When the State of Ohio strapped its... -
Twilight of Innocence: The Disappearance of Beverly Potts by 9780873388368
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37One of the nation's first highly publicized missing child casesTen-year-old Beverly Potts was last seen at 9:00 p.m. the evening of August 24, 1951, at Halloran Park on Cleveland's West Side. She and... -
A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction by Robert Dunne 9781606352267
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The first extensive treatment of Sherwood Anderson's work from a postmodern perspectiveSherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the... -
From Guernica to Human Rights: Essays on the Spanish Civil war by Peter N. Carroll 9781606352380
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The Spanish Civil War, a military rebellion supported by Hitler and Mussolini, attracted the greatest writers of the age. Among them were Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Andre Malraux, Arthur... -
Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings by Craig S. Simpson 9781606352915
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.08A deadly confrontation at Kent State University between Vietnam War protesters and members of the Ohio National Guard occurred in the afternoon on May 4, 1970. What remained, along with the tragic... -
Teaching Hemingway and Gender by Verna Kale 9781606352793
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Ernest Hemingway's place in American letters seems guaranteed: a winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Hemingway has long been a fixture in high school and college curricula. Just as influential as... -
Human Voices Wake Us by Jerald Winakur 9781606353349
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Patients and physicians are adrift in this era of rapidly changing medical paradigms. Perhaps it has always been so, though it seems that lately the dissatisfaction on both sides has intensified... -
Stahlhelm: A History of the German Steel Helmet by 9780873386777
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Perhaps the most easily recognizable military helmet of the 20th century is the German Stahlhelm. In this revised and expanded edition of the text, Floyd R. Tubbs and Robert W. Clawson identify and... -
The Miracle of Richfield: The Story of the 1975-76 Cleveland Cavaliers by Roger Gordon 9781606352779
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.17Three years before Brian Sipe began his magic with the Cleveland Browns, Bill Fitch and his band of Cavaliers brought a buzz to Northeast Ohio basketball that fans had never seen before. Despite a... -
Hell's Wasteland: The Pennsylvania Torso Murders by James Jessen Badal 9781606351536
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.90Did the Mad Butcher of Cleveland also strike in Pennsylvania? From 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city's safety director,... -
The Infirmary by 9781606350355
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606350355Format PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Kent State University PressPublisher Kent State... -
Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies by 9780873389167
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.58A collection of women's illness narratives Stories of Illness and Healing is the first collection to place the voices of women experiencing illness alongside analytical writing from prominent... -
Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri by Joseph M. Beilein Jr 9781606353783
Booksplease Price: £28.53Bushwhackers adds to the growing body of literature that examines the various irregular conflicts that took place during the American Civil War. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. looks at the ways in... -
WIXY 1260: Pixies, Six-packs, and Supermen by Richard Berg 9781606350997
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.28The story of one of Cleveland’s most popular and influential radio stationsBefore FM radio and the commanding album rock stations of the 1970s, there was WIXY 1260, a tiny Northeast Ohio AM radio... -
Zoar in the Civil War by Philip Webber 9780873389068
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.92Traces the response of the Zoar community to the Civil WarZoar Village, located in Ohio’s Tuscarawas Valley, functioned from 1817 to 1898 as a communal society. Formed by German separatists seeking... -
A Community of Inquiry: Conversations Between Classical American Philosophy and American Literature by 9780873389150
Booksplease Price: £42.68This title explores the ways literature and philosophy enrich each other's inquiry into the human condition.Recently and increasingly, literary and philosophical scholars are subscribing to the view... -
For Dear Life: And Selected Short Stories by Belinda Jelliffe by 9780873387477
Booksplease Price: £27.58I've often read books about people who grew up in the country, and have been amazed to find that they all seemed to have been great philosophers. They saw, and felt, a great deal more than I had time... -
Orphics by 9780873387583
Booksplease Price: £5.78A collection of sonnets written in a playful manner.About the AuthorLeonard Kress is assistant professor of communications at Owens Community College. His previous publications include Sappho's...