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Aminadab by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23The world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction... -
Jessie Benton Fremont: A Woman Who Made History by Catherine Coffin Phillips
Booksplease Price: $19.98A favorite of President Andrew Jackson and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, Jessie Benton was acquainted with the famous from childhood. When the vivacious belle met John C... -
Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.63Generations before the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery wintered in the northern Plains, the Mandan Indians farmed along the banks of rivers. The traditional world of the Mandans comes vividly to... -
A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed by Douglas H. Chadwick
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.63"In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Pressing hard against the upper limit of life's possibilities, it exists... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.32The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons,... -
![Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin 9780803218833](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1567441/1567021/9780803218833__93554.1706198207.jpg?c=1 "Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin 9780803218833")
Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin 9780803218833
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Lt. Gen. George S. Patton remarked that the "45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best division that the American army has ever produced." Such praise, however, came at a steep... -
Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet: The Deadliest Ships of World War II by James P. Duffy 9780803266520
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25They were the deadliest ships of World War II-nine German commerce raiders disguised as peaceful cargo ships, flying the flags of neutral and allied nations. In reality these heavily armed warships... -
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt 9780803236394
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.63As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and... -
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 by Francis French 9780803226395
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.62It was a time of bold new technology, historic moments, and international jousting on the final frontier. But it was also a time of human drama, of moments less public but no less dramatic in the... -
Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland 9780803270589
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a... -
A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency by Charles A. Siringo 9780803291898
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.89After years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo had settled down to store-keeping in Caldwell, Kansas, when a blind phrenologist, traveling through, took the measure of his "mule head" and told him that... -
Bliss and Other Short Stories by Ted Gilley 9780803232617
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this daring collection of nine stories introduces readers to an edgy vision and a world in which certainties are tested and found wanting. A... -
Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803261846
Booksplease Price: $11.67By the year 2137 Europe has become a largely forgotten, savage wilderness. Fierce bands of hunters rove the crumbling ruins of once mighty, war-ravaged cities. On the other side of the Atlantic a... -
Sketches from the Ranch: A Montana Memoir by Dan Aadland 9780803216365
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25In 1892 a stocky Danish immigrant named Magnus Jensen rode into south-central Montana. He liked what he saw and staked his future on the ranch he would carve out there. Today, Dan Aadland and his... -
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 by Francis French 9780803229792
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.63In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon... -
The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier by Laura Leedy Gansler 9780803259881
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.59Resurrecting a lost hero of the Civil War, The Mysterious Private Thompson tells the remarkable story of Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-98), who disguised herself as a man and defended her country at a... -
The Words and Music of Frank Zappa by Kelly Fisher Lowe 9780803260054
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23The Words and Music of Frank Zappa moves beyond the details of Frank Zappa's life (1940-93) toward a focused treatment of the rock and pop songs of this great American composer. Today Zappa's music... -
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay 9780803280045
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and... -
The Crow Indians by Robert H. Lowie 9780803280274
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.23First published in 1935, The Crow Indians offers a concise and accessible introduction to the nineteenth-century world of the Crow Indians. Drawing on interviews with Crow elders in the early... -
Shadow Catcher: The Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis by Laurie Lawlor 9780803280465
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Many Native Americans photographed by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) called him Shadow Catcher. But the images he captured were far more powerful than mere shadows. When the twentieth century was just... -
Bordeaux by Soledad Puertolas 9780803287488
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.16Bordeaux, a shrewd and moving portrayal of life in contemporary Europe, is the first novel to appear in English by Soledad Puertolas, one of the most acclaimed writers in Spain today. A novel that... -
Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life by Nancy Lord 9780803240001
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place... -
The Wow Boys: A Coach, a Team, and a Turning Point in College Football by James W. Johnson 9780803276321
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25In 2002 ESPN rated football's shift to the modern T-formation offense as the second best sports innovation of all time-just behind baseball's free agency. The story behind the move to the T-formation... -
Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays by Phillip Lopate 9780803222731
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.08"Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780803245716
Booksplease Price: $18.38Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, "the first time I walked off on my own feet-everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired."... -
Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women by Barbara Alice Mann 9780803260429
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite... -
Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books by Warren Motte 9780803261396
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.19Marcel Benabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page taunts and a full... -
Washakie, Chief of the Shoshones by Grace Raymond Hebard 9780803272781
Booksplease Price: $19.65Washakie was chief of the eastern band of the Shoshone Indians for almost sixty years, until his death in 1900. A strong leader of his own people, he saw the wisdom of befriending the whites. Grace... -
The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz 9780803291607
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne tribe in the 1830s, she... -
What a Game They Played: An Inside Look at the Golden Era of Pro Football by Richard Whittingham 9780803298194
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.45In their own words, the pioneers and legends of professional football tell of the early glory years of the National Football League. From the 1920s through the 1940s, pro football players were paid... -
The Adventures of The Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart by Susanne George-Bloomfield 9780803270428
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Generations of readers have delighted in Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915), among the most engaging accounts of life in the American... -
Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny by Robert J. Miller 9780803215986
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Native America, Discovered and Conquered takes a fresh look at American history through the lens of the Doctrine of Discovery-the legal basis that Europeans and Americans used to lay claim to the... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272965
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Some of the women traveling west in the late 1850s were strong advocates of equal rights for their sex. On the trail, Julia Archibald Holmes and Hannah Keziah Clapp sensibly wore the "freedom... -
Gladiator by Philip Wylie 9780803298408
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.25"'What would you do if you were the strongest man in the world, the strongest thing in the world, mightier than the machine?' He made himself guess answers for that rhetorical inquiry. 'I would run... -
Spring Came On Forever by Bess Streeter Aldrich 9780803259072
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.18Acclaimed for her 1928 novel A Lantern in Her Hand, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece,... -
Shelby's Folly: Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the Shakedown of a Montana Boomtown by Jason Kelly 9780803240049
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23In 1923, not long after oil had started gushing from northern Montana fields, declining real-estate sales in nearby Shelby were dimming the little town's prospects of becoming the "Tulsa of the West... -
The Home Place by Dorothy Thomas 9780803282520
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers. This... -
Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians by Frank Raymond Secoy 9780803292093
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Frank Raymond Secoy wrote this classic work while at Columbia University in the early 1950s. In his introduction, John C. Ewers considers the influence of Secoy's book on scholars since its original... -
Never to Return by Esther Tusquets 9780803294387
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.67Never to Return is a witty, penetrating account of a woman's inner journey to understanding through her encounter with Freudian psychoanalysis. On the brink of turning fifty, Elena suddenly falls... -
Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History by Jules Tygiel 9780803294479
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Few sports have as much power and magic as baseball, and few writers have addressed the history of the game as well as Jules Tygiel. In his role as a historian, Tygiel purposefully takes his eye off...