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Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision that Made Abortion Legal by Marian Faux 9780815410935
Booksplease Price: £15.81From the back-alley clinics of illegal abortionists to the behind-the scene deliberations of the Supreme Court justices, Roe v. Wade is a riveting history of the thorniest ethical debate ever... -
Carlos and the Cornfield / Carlos y la Milpa de Maiz by Jan Romero Stevens 9780873587358
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.78In this delightful sequel to Carlos y la Planta de Calabaza, Carlos is told by his father that you reap what you sow. After some humorous experiences, Carlos comes to understand the rewards of hard... -
Missing in the Mountains by Terri Fields 9780873589505
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.77Jarod is a snowboarder and is stuck taking care of his younger sister, Jennifer. When a bully threatens the two, Jarod convinces Jennifer to ski out-of-bounds to avoid a conflict. They venture into... -
Julius Streicher: Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer by Randall L. Bytwerk
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.13The Nazis put a remarkable amount of effort into anti-Semitic propaganda, intending to bring ordinary Germans around to the destructive ideology of the Nazi party. Julius Streicher (1885-1946)... -
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild by David Stenn
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.77Hollywood's first sex symbol, the ' It ' girl, Clara Bow was born in the slums of Brooklyn in a family plagued with alcoholism and insanity. She catapulted to fame after winning Motion Picture ... -
Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict by Edwin P. Hoyt 9780815411185
Booksplease Price: £18.91The many factors that led to Japan's participation in World War II, and the horrifying battles that resulted, come into focus in Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict. The book, which takes into... -
Willie: An Autobiography by Willie Nelson 9780815410805
Booksplease Price: £16.47Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captures this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and... -
Essays of the Masters by Charles Neider 9780815410973
Booksplease Price: £16.41This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature-writers best known for novels, plays, and poems-and how they put the essay to their personal use... -
Temptations: Revised and Update by Otis Williams 9780815412182
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.90The Temptations were the most commercially successful and critically lauded male vocal group of the Sixties and early Seventies. Through the years, the group's trademark razor-sharp choreography,... -
Why is This Country Dancing?: A One-Man Samba to the Beat of Brazil by John Krich 9780815412618
Booksplease Price: £13.82Details the major aspect of Brazilian popular music and its relation to the formation of national identity in Brazil including a wealth of in-depth musical history about such sub-genres as choro,... -
Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival by Sam Kessel 9780815411628
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.95A Jewish member of the French Resistance, Sim Kessel lived for almost three years in Nazi captivity. The bulk of his time was at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he survived torture,... -
Operation Valkyrie: The German Generals' Plot Against Hitler by Pierre Galante 9780815411796
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.96The bomb that exploded in the "Wolf's Lair"-Hitler's command headquarters-on July 20th, 1944 was the closest any assassination attempt ever came to ridding the world of the Nazis' Fuhrer. Pierre... -
Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini by Henry Mancini 9780815411758
Booksplease Price: £15.23Best known for the "dead-ant" theme to the Pink Panther films, Henry Mancini also composed the music to Peter Gunn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, and the Academy Award winning... -
Do Princesses Really Kiss Frogs? by Carmela LaVigna Coyle 9780873588805
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66Our favorite princess returns-hiking boots and all-this time loaded with questions for her daddy. Everyone knows a princess. As this princess and her daddy wander through the woods, all kinds of... -
The Three Little Javelinas/Los Tres Pequenos Jabalies: Bilingual by Susan Lowell 9780873589550
Booksplease Price: £6.11Everyone knows the story of the three little pigs. This book features the three little javelinas - wild, southwestern cousins of pigs. Living in homes of built of tumbleweeds and cacti, the first... -
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto
Booksplease Price: £23.89Spoto's biography of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe makes use of over 150 interviews and more than 35,000 pages of previously sealed files, including Monroe's diaries, letters, and other personal and... -
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945 by Walter Gorlitz 9780815410720
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.79These extraordinary memoirs-written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm keitel (1882-1946) in the six weeks before he was hung in Nuremberg for war crimes-offers readers an unparalleled insider's view of... -
Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco by Toby Cole 9780815411413
Booksplease Price: £15.57For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and... -
Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend by Geoffrey Giuliano 9780815410706
Booksplease Price: £15.13As far as legendary rock bands go, The Who ranks alongside the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Penning the Who's enduring rock anthems and bringing those songs to life with some of the most frenetic... -
The Sunset Of The Confederacy by Morris Schaff 9780815412106
Booksplease Price: £14.13This outstanding account, written by a sympathetic Union officer and witness to the Civil War's denouement, covers the last days and downfall of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (led by the... -
Martini Man: The Life of Dean Martin by William Schoell 9780815412885
Booksplease Price: £16.68Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy humor to reveal the substantive man behind that mask. Although Martin's movie roles receive in-depth... -
The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes 9780815410744
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.85Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one... -
Harmonicas, Harps and Heavy Breathers: The Evolution of the People's Instrument by Kim Field 9780815410201
Booksplease Price: £16.11The harmonica is one of the most important, yet overlooked, instruments in music. This definitive volume celebrates the history of the world's most popular musical device, its impact on various forms... -
Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles by Georgi K. Zhukov 9780815410980
Booksplease Price: £15.10Considered by some to be the greatest general of World War II, General Georgi Zhukov served as the Chief of Staff of the Soviet High Command, leading Soviet troops against Germans in key battles of... -
Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing by Gene Lees 9780815410218
Booksplease Price: £15.45An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood... -
Hitler's War by Edwin P. Hoyt 9780815411178
Booksplease Price: £16.34Here is World War II, the twentieth century's most destructive international conflict, from the unique perspective of its instigator and architect, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler (1889-1945). Noted... -
Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris 9780815412854
Booksplease Price: £13.58The Velvet Underground is arguably one of the most influential American rock bands ever. Based on interviews with former members Lou Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison, as well as others from... -
Only One You by Linda Kranz 9780873589017
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsThis book has a beautiful message, it's beautiful to look at, and it's great for all ages--children through adults... -
Abuelita Full of Life: Abuelita Ilena de Vida by Amy Costales 9780873589147
Booksplease Price: £14.01Jose is not sure what to expect when his grandmother from Mexico moves in...except that he will certainly have to change his ways. What he discovers is that he doesn't mind one bit. Abuelita is full... -
The Boys from Syracuse: The Shuberts' Theatrical Empire by Foster Hirsch 9780815411031
Booksplease Price: £15.60From 1905 to the crash of 1929, Sam Shubert (1874-1905) and his brothers Lee (1874-1953) and J. J. (1878-1963), despite poor beginnings and near-illiteracy, created a theater monopoly unrivaled in... -
The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis: The U.S. Navy's Worst Disaster at Sea by Raymond B. Lech 9780815411208
Booksplease Price: £15.41On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk. of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished. Culled from previously... -
Jackson Pollock: A Biography by Deborah Solomon
Booksplease Price: £14.75Deborah Solomon's biography sets Jackson Pollock in his time and portrays him as a shy, often withdrawn person, full of insecurities and self-doubts, and frequently unable to express himself about... -
The Great Garbo by Robert Payne 9780815412236
Booksplease Price: £30.21This lavishly-illustrated tour through the film career of Greta Garbo (1905-1990) provides a biographical background of the star and an analysis of her very special mystique. Payne describes how... -
The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics by Phil Berger
Booksplease Price: £17.60The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the standup comic, from the classic years of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Shecky Greene, to today's comedy... -
The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s by Elizabeth Kendall 9780815411994
Booksplease Price: £15.85In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark... -
The U-Boat Wars by Edwin P. Hoyt 9780815411925
Booksplease Price: £14.49The remarkably effective submarines (U-boats) of the German Navy devastated the Allies during the first part of World War II and very nearly brought British and American sea forces to their knees... -
African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Natrualist by Theodore Roosevelt 9780815411321
Booksplease Price: £20.90In 1909, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned ex-President Theodore Roosevelt to collect specimens of African wildlife for the National Museum. Roosevelt went to Africa with his son Kermit,... -
Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin by Bertram David Wolfe 9780815411772
Booksplease Price: £19.41The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possible-Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin-are the focus of this biographical account of the rise of socialism in the late 19th and early 20th... -
Faithfull: An Autobiography by Marianne Faithfull 9780815410461
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.70From pop stardom through the depths of addiction to her punk-rock comeback, Marianne Faithfull's life captures rock 'n' roll at its most decadent and its most destructive. Faithfull's first hit,... -
O'Neill: Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer 9780815412441
Booksplease Price: £20.90The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra,...