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A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain's Court: Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns by Miki Pfeffer 9780807169735
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08Shortly after Grace King wrote her first stories in post-Reconstruction New Orleans, she entered a world of famous figures and literary giants greater than she could ever have imagined. Notable... -
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.75Across Russia's easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region... -
The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On by John Stauffer 9780199837434
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.37It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial... -
Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony: La Grande Vallée Suite Lisa Rogers 9781662680373
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.35It's 1983, and American artist Joan Mitchell is in her studio outside Paris, transforming her emotions and memories into a symphony of colours and shapes. Inspired by her friend's description of an... -
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.01From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham... -
Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker Zachary Leader 9780674248397
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.76The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century-an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James... -
The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court by Richard J. Lazarus
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.11Winner of the Julia Ward Howe Prize"The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the Supreme Court."-Scott Turow"In the tradition of A Civil Action, this book makes... -
Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein by Brenda Wineapple
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Devoted, eccentric, and compelling, Gertrude and Leo Stein were constant companions, from childhood to adulthood, until, finally, they spoke no more. Americans, expatriates, and virtually orphans,... -
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79"Readers will be captivated by this beautifully written novel about young people who must use their instincts and grit to survive. Padma infuses her story with hope and bravery that will inspire... -
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
Booksplease Price: £14.24The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book... -
Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist David Chanoff 9780820374239
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £22.34Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power... -
Walden Pond: A History by W. Barksdale Maynard 9780195181371
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others... -
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston by Michael Rawson 9780674416833
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.11Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don't think twice about them. But such simple actions are... -
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth's last two human inhabitants, and a girl's journey homeIn an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close... -
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson 9781481400701
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.09Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves you're never too little to make a difference... -
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown 9780674260290
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.41Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Elsa Goveia Book PrizeWinner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race RelationsWinner of the...