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The Spaces of Violence by James Giles
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell... -
Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America by Paul Durica 9780810129092
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.12Showcasing the first Ferris wheel, dazzling and unprecedented electrification, and exhibits from around the world, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was Chicago's chance to demonstrate that it... -
Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories by Reginald Gibbons
Booksplease Price: $36.33Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety... -
Chicago: A Biography Dominic A. Pacyga 9780226644288
Booksplease Price: $41.63Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a 'City on the Make.' Carl Sandburg dubbed it the 'City of Big Shoulders.' Upton Sinclair christened it the 'Jungle,' while New... -
Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression by William Solomon 9780521813433
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $159.32Literature, Amusement and Technology examines the exchange between literature and recreational practices in 1930s America. William Solomon argues that autobiographical writers like Edward Dahlberg... -
Generation of Swine Hunter S. Thompson 9780008778842
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84The second volume of Hunter S. Thompson's legendary 'Gonzo Papers'. Thompson at his apocalyptic best - covering emblematic events from the 1980s. In this collection of columns... -
Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States by Josh Lukin 9781617033285
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Were the 1950s an oppressive or a liberating time? Some scholars argue that the Red Scare, newly institutionalized discrimination against gays, and a public discourse saturated with sexism left... -
Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953 by Frederik Byrn Kohlert 9788763536721
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $33.52The Chicago Literary Experience is a concise literary history of the city of Chicago. Taking as its thematic starting point the city's famous World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the book provides... -
The Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Simone de Beauvoir 9780007203949
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.02A Harper Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this unflinching examination of post-war French intellectual life, and an amazing chronicle of love, philosophy and politics from one of the most... -
Signs of the Signs: The Literary Lights of Incandescence and Neon by William Brevda 9781611480429
Booksplease Price: $221.15This book is a study of signs in American literature and culture. It is mainly about electric signs, but also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. The "sign" is... -
The Best Advice Ever Given, New and Updated by Steven Price 9781493033782
Booksplease Price: $23.63In need of a bit of good advice? Well here is the best advice ever recorded--a compendium of personal tips, traditional proverbs, and clever observations from the literary, political, and... -
Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman by Toril Moi 9780199238712
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $151.30In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became Simone de Beauvoir, the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the... -
Between Mothers and Sons: Women Writers Talk About Having Sons and Raising Men by Patricia Stevens 9780684850726
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41"The challenge for mothers of sons is to realize that because we do not share a sexual identity, that because we have not grown up in a male body, we cannot presume to understand everything there is... -
Blue Running Lori Ann Stephens 9781919618746
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75In the new Republic of Texas, guns are compulsory and nothing is forgiven. Blue Running is a gripping coming-of-age thriller set in post-secessionist Texas. For fans of Station Eleven and Thelma and... -
Time for Frankie Coolin: A Novel by Bill Granger
Booksplease Price: $32.66Known as much for his journalistic reporting as for the fiction he wrote under a variety of pen names, Bill Granger combined his divergent talents in his powerful novel Time for Frankie Coolin. With... -
Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image Caxton Club 9780226468501
Booksplease Price: $61.17Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair's... -
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank 9781405973762
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07'Longevity is the only indicator of literature that really matters, and this book is built to last' Nick HornbyOne of the most beloved coming-of-age tales ever written, The Girls' Guide to Hunting... -
Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab by Dmitry Samarov
Booksplease Price: $36.33Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night... -
LeRoy Neiman: The Life of America’s Most Beloved and Belittled Artist Travis Vogan 9780226820071
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $45.30The untold story of an American hustler who upset the art world and became a pop culture icon, cutting a swath across twentieth-century history and culture. LeRoy Neiman-the cigar-smoking and... -
Division Street America by Studs Terkel 9781595580726
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41Division Street, Studs Terkel's first book of oral history, established his reputation as America's foremost oral historian and as "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and... -
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac 9781573225052
Booksplease Price: $30.34The classic autobiographical novel, "one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature" (Time), from acclaimed author Jack Kerouac "If the Pulitzer Prize were given for the... -
Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman by Toril Moi 9780199238729
RRP: $71.16Booksplease Price: $56.78In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became Simone de Beauvoir, the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the... -
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is the New York Times bestselling novel by Melissa Bank and part of the Penguin Essentials, a series which spotlights... -
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards 9780143037149
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $23.34A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of loveKim Edwards's stunning... -
Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: The Two Dylans by K G Miles 9780857162328
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97There are so many strange and wonderful connections and coincidences; shared passions and associations that tie these two cultural icons - BOB DYLAN and DYLAN THOMAS together. This provides a rich... -
My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes 9780241342305
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is... -
The Tenderest of Strings by Steven Schwartz
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $24.65In search of a new life, Reuben and Ardith Rosenfeld and their two children move from Chicago to the small town of Welton, Colorado, looking for all the hope that the burgeoning West has to offer-its... -
New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars by William J. Maxwell
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $45.88Howard "Stretch" Johnson, a charismatic Harlemite who graduated from Cotton Club dancer to Communist Party youth leader, once claimed that in late 1930s New York "75% of black cultural figures had... -
Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons by Peter Trachtenberg 9780738217291
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30From a genuine American Dostoevsky" ( The Washington Post ): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal. When his favourite cat Biscuit goes... -
Teach the Free Man: Stories by Peter Nathaniel Malae 9780804010993
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.90The twelve stories in Teach the Free Man mark the impressive debut of Peter Nathaniel Malae. The subject of incarceration thematically links the stories, yet their range extends beyond the prison's... -
The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons by Donald Dewey 9780814720158
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $61.002008 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design A comprehensive history of American political cartooning, complete with over 200 illustrations The Art of Ill Will is a... -
Teach the Free Man: Stories by Peter Nathaniel Malae 9780804010986
Booksplease Price: $58.89The twelve stories in Teach the Free Man mark the impressive debut of Peter Nathaniel Malae. The subject of incarceration thematically links the stories, yet their range extends beyond the prison's... -
A People's History Of Chicago by Kevin Coval
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $24.96Named Best Chicago Poet by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history. Known variously as the Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders or Chi-Raq,... -
Sonata in Wax by Edward Hamlin 9781963101003
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.26"Sonata in Wax is a terrific novel-immersive, compelling, smart, the story propelled by a cast of complex, full-bodied characters and the author's absolute mastery of the musical worlds he conjures..... -
Too Much Midnight by Krista Franklin
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.38Krista Franklin draws on Pan African histories, Black Surrealism, Afrofuturism, pop culture, art history, and the historical and present-day micro-to-macro violence inflicted upon Black people and... -
Jinwar and Other Stories by Alex Poppe
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.26Alex Poppe's characters celebrate the fragile grandeur of living an independent life in the aftermath of violence. Deeply rooted in place, these stories are about identity, hope, and redemption as... -
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age Michael Wolraich 9781454948025
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $33.72"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye... -
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age Michael Wolraich 9781454956921
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48The riveting story of how the murder of prostitute Vivian Gordon brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and an end to the dominance of Tammany Hall."Propulsive. . . . Unlike the...