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Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic by Naomi Shihab Nye
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.45People from around the world reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine through poetryWhen so much in our lives ground to a halt in the spring of 2020, no one knew how long the COVID-19 pandemic... -
Dressing à la Turque: Ottoman Influence on French Fashion, 1670-1800 by Kendra Van Cleave 9781606354599
Booksplease Price: £61.65Exploring the significant influences of Turkish dress on French fashion While French fashion has historically set the bar across the Western world, the cultural influences that inspired it are often... -
The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Virginia A. McConnell 9781606353660
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Affluenza leading to bad behavior among the youth of an earlier century-ultimately ending in murderAt the turn of the 20th century, many affluent Brooklyn teens and young adults were bucking the... -
Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered by Michael P. Gray 9781606353417
Booksplease Price: £45.68The "deadlines" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would take the daring challenge in "crossing the deadline" to attempt escape, Crossing the... -
James Riley Weaver's Civil War: The Diary of a Union Cavalry Officer and Prisoner of War, 1863-1865 by John T. Schlotterbeck 9781606353684
Booksplease Price: £50.55Captured on October 11, 1863, James Riley Weaver, a Union cavalry officer, spent nearly seventeen months in Confederate prisons. Remarkably, Weaver kept a diary that documents 666 consecutive days of... -
Bandersnatch: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings by Diana Pavlac Glyer
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.78An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other's works-in-progress, offering both... -
A Notable Bully: Colonel Billy Wilson, Masculinity, and the Pursuit of Violence in the Civil War Era by Robert E. Cray 9781606354247
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78The definitive biography of a Civil War scoundrel and streetwise politico Largely forgotten by historians, Billy Wilson (1822-1874) was a giant in his time, a man well known throughout New York City,... -
The Fifth Star: Ohio's Fight for Women's Right to Vote by Jamie Capuzza 9781606354551
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.81How Ohio's women were essential to the national women's suffrage movement Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a... -
Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose by Jeanne Bryner 9781606353585
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bedlaughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how... -
No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame's Civil War by Mike Pride 9781606354513
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £30.09Examining the life and career of Harriet Dame, Civil War battlefield nurse, and her major contributions to the Union causeIn June of 1861, 46-year-old Harriet Patience Dame joined the Second New... -
Hemingway and Film: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding Cam Cobb 9781606354827
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354827Author Cam CobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint -
Where East Meets (Mid)West: Exploring an American Regional Divide by Jon K Lauck 9781606354964
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.30Essays on midwestern regional identity Somewhere west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River, the Midwest begins. Just where exactly, and how, and why are the questions explored in Where... -
Moments of Truth: A Photographer's Experience of Kent State 1970 by Howard Ruffner 9781606353677
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.10A student journalist's photographic memoir of events surrounding the 1970 Kent State shootings Working as a photographer for the Kent State University student newspaper and yearbook, Howard Ruffner... -
Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War Ian T. Iverson 9781606354797
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.07The importance of political moderation in preserving the UnionHolding the Political Center in Illinois charts the political trajectory of Illinois from the introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in... -
Civil War Camps and Soldier Health: Sanitation and Military Effectiveness in the Union Army Earl J. Hess 9781606355053
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32An immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers' well-being during the Civil WarThe Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in... -
Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don W. King 9781606354506
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.20The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. LewisDetailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warren's... -
My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor by Paul Taylor 9781606354070
Booksplease Price: £55.40An epistolary chronicle of love and reflection from the Civil War front.More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (1832-1895)... -
Reading Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea: Glossary and Commentary by Bickford Sylvester 9781606353424
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare... -
Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture by Anneliese Abbott 9781606354315
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.61How Malabar Farm pioneered soil conservation and grew the sustainable agriculture movementEstablished in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once... -
The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970 by Susan J. Erenrich
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.33The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970 is a multi-genre collection describing the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, the aftermath, and the impact on wider calls... -
Classic 'Burgh: The 50 Greatest Collegiate Games in Pittsburgh Sports History by David Finoli 9781606353639
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.21The great tradition of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania told through 50 memorable games When sports fans think of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania, most think of football at the... -
Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps Rebecca Jumper Matheson 9781606355015
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.61One couple's bold vision for American fashion Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for "slow fashion," William and Elizabeth Phelps, a... -
The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History by James Jessen Badal 9781606353912
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.96A devastating loss of life and a community's response.March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside of Cleveland. Children at Lakeview Elementary... -
Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis Don W. King 9781606355107
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.66The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. Lewis Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2023 Bronze Medal Winner in World History Detailing the life of Warren... -
The Lion's Country: C.S. Lewis's Theory of the Real by Charlie W. Starr
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.36Using a philosophical lens to more deeply examine, appreciate, and understand C. S. Lewis's writingsDrawing on C. S. Lewis's essays, sermons, and fiction, The Lion's Country offers a comprehensive... -
May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970 by David Hassler 9781606351659
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.05Eyewitness testimony brought to life through verbatim theater On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen occupying the Kent State University campus fired 67 shots in 13 seconds, leaving four students dead... -
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago 9781606354636
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32The story of one Ohio senator's impact on the early abolition movement More than 175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and... -
Peace and Security in Kenya: The USAID Approach Galeeb Kachra 9781606354971
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354971Author Galeeb KachraFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
The Peace Corps in Tanzania: A History by Lawrence E y Mbogoni 9781606354889
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61An examination of one of the earliest Peace Corps programs in Africa In 1961, the first group of Peace Corps volunteers in Tanzania-surveyors, engineers, and geologists-arrived in Dar es Salaam with... -
Medspeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration by Francois I Luks 9781606354438
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.22Guiding us to better communication about illness, treatment, and health through simple art practicesLiving at the intersection of medicine and art, medical illustration is a field that is not well... -
The First 649 Days: Essays and Other Acts of Love Eric LeMay 9781606355060
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24How do we wrestle with unimaginable loss? How does love open us to new worlds and even new versions of ourselves? In The First 649 Days, Eric LeMay explores the everyday moments and momentous events... -
Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves Martin H Bush 9781606354940
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.66The unlikely story of one of baseball's greatest comeback seasons The Boston Braves (the present-day Atlanta Braves) were a bunch of losers and alcohol-soaked whiskey swiggers, buried in last place... -
More Important Than Good Generals: Junior Officers in the Army of the Tennessee by Jonathan Engel 9781606354896
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.07The Union's forgotten mid-level officers and their commitment to the cause More Important Than Good Generals is an in-depth study of the Army of the Tennessee's junior officers--the company and field... -
The Forgotten Battles of the Chancellorsville Campaign: Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Banks' Ford in Spring 1863 Erik F. Nelson 9781606354803
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.72Military operations in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were a significant part of the Chancellorsville Campaign, but they are overshadowed by what occurred in the wilderness of Spotsylvania County, where... -
The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories by 9780873389181
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a local physician... -
Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter by Thomas Crowl
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie Imposter.Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and "one of the top 10 imposters... -
The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875 by Gordon H. Shufelt 9781606354124
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.58An extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century BaltimoreIn 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American... -
Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts by George R. Dekle Sr 9781606353707
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite. His trail of debauched women ended with... -
The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband by Gary Sosniecki 9781606354049
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Albin Ludwig was furious. He had caught his wife, Cecilia, with other men before; now, after secretly following Cecilia one evening in 1906, Albin was overcome with suspicion. Albin and Cecilia... -
Ghosts of an Old Forest: Essays on Midwestern Rural Heritage Deborah Fleming 9781606354933
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.72In the Ohio counties of the Alleghany Plateau, 9th-century barns hewn from old-growth wood rest near remnant forests, reminders of the state's deep agricultural roots and rich ecological past...