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Folklore of Kent Fran Doel 9781803997780
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.40Kentish folklore reflects the curious geography and administrative history of Kent, with its extensive coastline and strong regional differences, which are reflected in distinctive cultural... -
Grasshopper Pilot: A Memoir by Julian William Cummings 9781606352670
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.04During World War II the ability of American ground forces to advance in the face of fierce resistance was largely dependent on the precision of artillery barrages. Aerial observation was frequently... -
Speak English!: The Rise of Latinos in Baseball by Rafael Hermoso 9781606351673
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €16.04Latinos dominate baseball today, leading off the lineups of the best teams, making contenders strong up the middle, or helping to anchor pitching staffs. Vladimir Guerrero, Omar Vizquel, and Mariano... -
The Dead Eat Everything by Michael Mlekoday 9781606351895
Booksplease Price: €14.56This book is a document of a particular world, real, wrenched from the poet's life, as if written with a gun to his head or a spike through his heart. Reading it is like opening a damp newspaper... -
Classic Cavs: The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Cavaliers History by Jonathan Knight 9781606352816
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.04This brand-new edition of Classic Cavs counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Cavaliers games, from their 67-loss inaugural NBA season in 1970-71 through the franchise's renaissance following the... -
Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1962 by Joseph L. Harsh 9781606351888
Booksplease Price: €54.00Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and... -
Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre by 9780873384766
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had... -
The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time by 9780873386838
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.32What would the world be like if history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this interesting question. The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time... -
Any Kind of Excuse by 9780873387576
RRP: €7.19Booksplease Price: €6.04These quasi-autobiographical poems and prose poems range from topics such as clairvoyant grandmas, roosters of questionable pedigree, one-armed farmhands, and a girl obsessed with holding her breath... -
Letters to Lalage: Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims by 9780873383981
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873383981Author The Kent State University PressFormat PaperbackImprint -
Civil War Prisons by William Best Hesseltine 9780873381291
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.10First published in 1962 as a special edition of Civil War History journal, Civil War Prisons remains the standard on the topic. Editor Hesseltine tackles the historiography of northern and southern... -
The Local World by Mira Rosenthal 9781606351055
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €11.58"Mira Rosenthal's The Local World incorporates deeply lived experience and mystery in a fluent shape-shifting that can take you anywhere- and bring you back, changed. The poems are beautifully... -
Lethal Witness: Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Honorary Pathologist by Andrew Rose 9781606350195
Booksplease Price: €39.16This book features the man who brought forensic pathology out of the laboratory. Sir Bernard Spilsbury was an early-twentieth-century British forensic pathologist who gained fame by testifying in... -
CIRCUS PARADE by 9781606350010
Booksplease Price: €19.62A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life"Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and '30s. He gained this position with... -
The Chicago White Sox by 9780873388955
Booksplease Price: €17.96Warren Brown's team history of the Chicago White Sox originally appeared in 1952 as part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G. P. Putnam. With their colorful prose... -
Small Comforts: Essays at Middle Age by 9780873389464
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.10This is a reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older.""Small Comforts"" is a work of creative nonfiction that quietly probes the mysteries of an ordinary life when reviewed at middle... -
Secessia Kent Wascom 9780802124968
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops. Twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, putting his mother Elise into a panic and... -
Band Of Brothers by Alexander Kent
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.99Richard Bolitho returns in this captivating page-turner set on the high seas from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent. Fans of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester will not be disappointed!'One of... -
Heart Of Oak by Alexander Kent
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.99It is February 1818, and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage and a safe personal harbour. But with so much of Britain's fleet redundant, he knows he is fortunate to be offered H.M.S. Onward, a new 38-gun... -
The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14In The Tie That Binds, his critically acclaimed first novel, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough. Narrated by her neighbour, Edith's tragedies unfold: a tough... -
Though Murder Has No Tongue: The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher by James Jessen Badal 9781606350621
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat. Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the... -
The Plants of Middle-earth: Botany and Sub-creation by Dinah Hazell 9781606352656
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €18.04A new path for exploring the culture and values of Tolkien's Middle-earth."Rather than inventing an alien world into which human and familiar characters are introduced, as in science fiction, Tolkien... -
Lisa's Legacy Trilogy, 3 Volume Set by Tom Batiuk 9781606353271
RRP: €80.40Booksplease Price: €69.97Prelude is a collection of the early comic strips that bring Lisa and Les together. Introduced to readers of Funky Winkerbean in late 1984 as she experiences SAT test anxiety, Lisa becomes Les... -
The Supernatural Murders: Classic True Crime Stories (True Crime History (Kent State)) by Jonathan Goodman 9781606350836
Booksplease Price: €19.39Sure to capture the imagination of devotees of true crime and the occultThis anthology of thirteen true crime stories includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, who was found slashed and... -
Safirka: An American Envoy by 9780873386586
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €19.08Peter S. Bridges's service as American Ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foregin Service. This text presents a frank description of his experiences in... -
General Grant by 9780873385244
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €8.81This text reproduces Arnold's essay of 1886 on Grant, and Twain's rejoinder to the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut. Arnold's essay praised Grant, but to many Americans its tone seemed patronizing... -
Salt by 9781606350140
Booksplease Price: €6.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLiz Tilton was awarded her Ph.D. in English literature in June 2008 from the University of Cincinnati,... -
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology by Verlyn Flieger 9780873388245
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.04An eagerly awaited exploration of Tolkien's SilmarillionThe content of Tolkien's mythology, the Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis for many years, but the... -
Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey by Robert Kuhn McGregor 9781606353004
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €24.14Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator,... -
Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era by David Blight 9780873389518
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76In Union and Emancipation, seven leading historians offer new perspectives on the issues of race and politics in American Society from the antebellum era to the aftermath of Reconstruction. The... -
Founding 49ers: The Dark Days before the Dynasty by Dave Newhouse 9781606352540
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €20.98The San Francisco 49ers are among the most dynamic franchises, not only in the National Football League but in all of professional sports. They have won five Super Bowl titles and have produced some... -
The Memorial Art and Architecture of Vicksburg National Military Park by Michael W. Panhorst 9781606352199
Booksplease Price: €19.79In the heyday of Civil War commemoration at the turn of the twentieth century, Mississippi's Vicksburg National Military Park was considered "the art park of the South." By 1920, more than 160... -
Johnson's Island: A Prison for Confederate Officers by Roger Pickenpaugh 9781606352847
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.10In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union's sole... -
As Ohio Goes: Life in the Post-Recession Nation by Rana B. Khoury 9781606352809
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.04For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and security. America is changing in profound ways, but we... -
Anuta: Polynesian Lifeways for the Twenty-First Century, Second Edition by Richard Feinberg 9781606351390
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76Revised to stimulate and engage an undergraduate student audience, Feinberg's updated account of Anuta opens with a chapter on his varied experiences when he initially undertook fieldwork in this... -
Arms and the Self: War, the Military, and Autobiographical Writing by 9780873389105
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €20.02War, armed conflict, and military service have likely inspired more textual testimonies than any other human event. With contributing authors such as Lynn Z. Bloom, Margaretta Jolly, Robert... -
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World by 9780873387446
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.27J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was... -
The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing by 9781606350034
Booksplease Price: €19.14Winner of the 2013 Evergreen Book Award Bronze Medal for Health and Wellness The joys, fears, intimacies, and transcendent moments shared by a nurse and her patients"The Heart's Truth should be... -
Guerrilla Daughter by 9780873389495
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76This title presents the experiences of an American family in the Philippines during World War II.Just nine days before her seventh birthday, Virginia (Ginger) Hansen heard about the attack on... -
Seven Boxes for the Country After by Janet McAdams 9781606352960
Booksplease Price: €6.04"Seven Boxes for the Country After is a book about a way-making and way-finding. It is a journey, both internal and external, across a map, over borders, through a life, and in a body. It is passage...