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Refugee High: Coming of Age in America by Elly Fishman 9781620978320
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88A year in the life of a Chicago high school with one of the nation's highest proportions of refugees, told with "strong novel-like pacing" (Milwaukee Magazine)"A stunning and heart-wrenching work of... -
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly 9781471175725
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'For anyone interested in Lee's legacy, this is a roundhouse kick of a biography' - Sunday Times'At last, Bruce Lee has the powerful biography he deserves... It will... -
Refugee High: Coming of Age in America Elly Fishman 9781620975084
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Lit Hub's Most Anticipated of 2021 A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation "A wondrous tapestry of stories, of... -
You Ought to Do a Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption by Ted Jackson 9780062935687
Booksplease Price: £12.07"This masterpiece of dogged and loving reporting will astonish you and touch your heart. The struggles and quest for redemption of football star Jackie Wallace make for a fall-from-grace tale that's... -
William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras by Scott Martelle 9781613737293
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.17In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them... -
Five O'Clock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, the 1927 New York Yankees by Harvey Frommer 9781630760045
Booksplease Price: £13.96An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season and then swept the World Series. With verve, facts,... -
Pro Sports in 1993: A Signature Season in Football, Basketball, Hockey and Baseball by David Ostrowsky 9781476680262
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59America and Canada both saw historic sports milestones in 1993. While the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bulls reigned supreme, the Toronto Blue Jays won a second consecutive World Series on a... -
Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television by James R. Walker 9780803248250
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.06In Baseball Weekly's list of things that most affected baseball in the twentieth century, television ranked second-behind only the signing of Jackie Robinson. The new medium of television exposed... -
When In Doubt, Stop the Bout: A Revolution Approach to Boxing Safety and Reform Mike Silver 9781949590777
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.41In When in Doubt, Stop the Bout, renowned boxing historian Mike Silver presents a shocking expose of the sordid underbelly of professional boxing, and uncovers the sport's criminally flawed... -
David and Ameena by Ami Rao 9781912054275
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Modern-day New York, a subway train. David, an American-Jewish jazz musician, torn between his dreams and his parents' expectations, sees a woman across the carriage. Ameena, a British-Pakistani... -
Capone's Vault: The Real Story of the Biggest Disaster in Television History William Elliott Hazelgrove 9798216370079
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.66Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the broadcast, an inside look at the historic televised reveal of Al Capone's vaults that would define Geraldo Rivera's career and change television forever... -
The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies by Jeffrey Winters 9780241661826
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.24A gripping new account of oligarchy from 'the most astute social scientist studying the phenomenon today' (Guardian)The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the masses throughout most of human... -
The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees by Steve Steinberg 9781496219664
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01From the team's inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. The team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his... -
The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees by Steve Steinberg 9780803248656
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.06From the team's inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. The team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his... -
The Knucklebook: Everything You Need to Know About Baseball's Strangest Pitch—the Knuckleball by Dave Clark 9781566639699
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.78This little book will teach you all you need to know about the most frustrating yet entertaining pitch in baseball: the knuckleball. It makes batters look foolish when it works; it embarrasses... -
Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left, and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York Jonathan Butler 9781531513528
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy... -
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide Howard W. French 9781324092452
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.04The Second Emancipation, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-World War II colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary... -
John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community by Raymond Arsenault
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.76The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis "The perfect book, at the right time."-Michael Henry Adams, The Guardian For six decades John Robert Lewis... -
We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States Michael G. Long 9780872867567
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38"A highly relevant, inclusive collection of voices from the roots of resistance. . . . Empowering words to challenge, confront, and defy."--Kirkus Reviews"This book fights fascism. This books offers... -
John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community Raymond Arsenault 9780300281811
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis "The perfect book, at the right time."-Michael Henry Adams, The Guardian For six decades John Robert Lewis... -
Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms by Dan Bernstein 9781496202017
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.712024 American Legacy Book Awards WinnerJustice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes in their... -
Cassius X: A Legend in the Making by Stuart Cosgrove 9781846975790
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Now a Major Feature Length Documentary: 'Cassius X: Becoming Ali' (Cinema release Spring 2023) Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest... -
Cassius X: A Legend in the Making by Stuart Cosgrove
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.07Now a Major Feature Length Documentary: 'Cassius X: Becoming Ali' (Cinema release Spring 2023) Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest... -
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Cassius X: A Legend in the Making by Stuart Cosgrove 9781846974762 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £4.00Now a Major Feature Length Documentary: 'Cassius X: Becoming Ali' (Cinema release Spring 2023) Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest... -
The Accidental President by A. J. Baime
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who find themselves facing extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as President... -
Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business by Josh Noel 9781613737217
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.49North American Guild of Beer Writer Award Recipient Goose Island opened as a family-owned Chicago brewpub in the late 1980s, and it soon became one of the most inventive breweries in the world. In... -
Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War by Chris Lamb 9781496219459
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56Finalist for the 2023 Anthology Book Award from North American Society for Sport History Shortlisted for the 2024 Indiana Authors Award When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA... -
Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore Adam Henig 9781538194959
Booksplease Price: £29.17From the prison cage to the batting cage, Ron LeFlore's journey to the major leagues was anything but ordinary.When twenty-three-year-old Ron LeFlore played his first organized baseball game, it was... -
The Sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball by John Matthew Smith
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98For more than a decade, the UCLA dynasty defined college basketball. In twelve seasons from 1964 to 1975, John Wooden's teams won ten national titles, including seven consecutive championships. The... -
The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer Rick Jervis 9780062962966
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.05"A thrilling ticktock on the borderland slayings and the effort to solve them."-Texas Monthly The shocking true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers... -
After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets by Art Shamsky
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.59"A great and insightful" (Keith Hernandez, New York Mets legend and broadcaster) New York Times bestselling account of an iconic team in baseball history: the 1969 New York Mets-a last-place team... -
Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago by William Hazelgrove 9781538135556
Booksplease Price: £16.21Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago fighting the hold... -
Benchwarmer by Josh Wilker 9781610394017
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.26A moving, funny, inventive parenting memoir, written in a surprising form: an encyclopedia of failure in sports What can a new father learn about parenthood from reading sports almanacs? For most... -
Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil Michael Soffer 9780226835549
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.25The first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst. Reinhold Kulle... -
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon 9781324094647
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.64For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power... -
Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers by Erik Sherman 9781496231017
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Finalist for the 2023 CASEY Award Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day... -
The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots by Jonathan Mahler 9781529155099
Booksplease Price: £15.97A Foyles Top Ten Read for August From bestselling author Jonathan Mahler, comes a sweeping chronicle of four years in 1980s New York that would transform the city and leave it more divided than ever... -
A History of American Sports in 100 Objects by Cait Murphy
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.60What artifact best captures the spirit of American sports? The bat Babe Ruth used to hit his allegedly called shot, or the ball on which Pete Rose wrote, I'm sorry I bet on baseball"? Could it be... -
Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford Carla Kaplan 9781805265375
Booksplease Price: £26.07From British country homes to Republican Spain and civil rights America, the inspiring, wildly entertaining story of Jessica Mitford--investigative journalist, radical activist, renegade aristocrat. ... -
The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots by Jonathan Mahler 9781529155082
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A Foyles Top Ten Read for August From bestselling author Jonathan Mahler, comes a sweeping chronicle of four years in 1980s New York that would transform the city and leave it more divided than ever...