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Collages by Anais Nin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.85A transplant from Vienna to Malibu who is driven by her urge to observe and depict those around her, Renate is, as one of her friends describes her, "the freest woman I know." Living in Malibu,... -
D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study by Anais Nin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $14.35In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: "It will not be published and out by... -
Teach the Free Man: Stories by Peter Nathaniel Malae 9780804010993
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11The 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... -
Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin 9780804011471
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.99Although Under a Glass Bell is now considered one of Anais Nin's finest collections of stories, it was initially deemed unpublishable. Refusing to give up on her vision, in 1944 Nin founded her own... -
Staking Her Claim: Life Of Belinda Mulrooney by Melanie J. Mayer 9780804010221 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $4.15If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious,... -
Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940 by Anais Nin
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $32.44The incestuous affair between the writer Anais Nin and her father, the pianist-composer Joaquin Nin, is well documented in the volume of her unexpurgated diary published under the title Incest. What... -
Fire Is Your Water: A Novel by Jim Minick
Booksplease Price: $22.07Sacred chants are Ada Franklin's power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines... -
The Confessions of Senora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories by Natalie L. M. Petesch 9780804010771
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11"Memory, of course, is sometimes like a bucking horse, sometimes a runaway one, and one must control the reins until finally it stops, snorting with exhausted relief," writes Natalie L. M. Petesch in... -
Slow Burn: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804011785
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83Almost two years have passed since Aaron Custer supposedly set a fire at a house in Columbus that killed three college students, including the young woman with whom he had argued just hours before... -
The Third Brother: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804012201
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.07It's a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute he's finishing up some grocery shopping ahead of a custody visit with his sons. The next, he must... -
The Room Within: Poems by Moore Moran 9780804011297 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $2.01The Room Within is a retrospective survey of a poetic career dating back to the late fifties. A student of Yvor Winters at Stanford, Moore Moran has deservedly earned a reputation, along with fellow... -
Maggie Boylan by Michael Henson 9780804012027
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Henson's linked collection tells of a woman's search for her own peculiar kind of redemption, and brings the... -
Frozen In Silver: Life & Frontier Photography Of P. E. Larson by Ronald T. Bailey 9780804010009 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $5.53In 1898 men and women from all over the world converged on Alaska. Gold had been discovered. In the Yukon Territory, all winter long eager gold seekers struggled over the mountain passes connecting... -
How To Identify Plants by H. D. Harrington
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83First issued in 1957 by Swallow Press, this classic guide to the art of plant identification is now familiar to an entire generation of students. Harrington who was Professor of Botany and Curator of... -
Thirsty: A Novel by Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78It is 1883, and all of Klara Bozic's girlish dreams have come crashing down as she arrives in Thirsty, a gritty steel town carved into the slopes above the Monongahela River just outside of... -
On Poets and Poetry by William H. Pritchard 9780804011143
RRP: $64.32Booksplease Price: $50.96William Pritchard's collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin,... -
Small Bird Tell Me: Stories Of Greek Immigrants by Helen Papanikolas 9780804009829
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Helen Papanikolas has been honored frequently for her work in ethnic and labor history. Among her many publications are Toil and Rage in a New Land: The Greek Immigrants in Utah, Peoples of Utah (ed... -
A Gathering of Ways by John Matthias 9780804009454
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93A Gathering of Ways is John Matthias' first collection of poems since the publication of his warmly received Northern Summer collection in 1985. The book consists of three long poems dealing with the... -
Stories from Mesa Country by Jane Candia Coleman 9780804009577
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17An excerpt from Stories from Mesa Country: "They are coming back from the burial ground. I can see them walking, two abreast, along the narrow track by the wash. Tom has his head down, his... -
Upcycling Sheltered Workshops: A Revolutionary Approach to Transforming Workshops into Creative Spaces by Susan Dlouhy 9780804011594
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11At a time when the traditional sheltered workshop model has fallen under rightful criticism, and a new paradigm for disability programming is not yet in place, Upcycling Sheltered Workshops offers a... -
Sarah's Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek by Lenore McComas Coberly 9780804010955
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Situated in a remote outpost in West Virginia at the turn of the last century, the story that Lenore McComas Coberly tells in Sarah's Girls is one of place, people, and unquenchable spirit. In this... -
Sick to Death: An Andy Hayes Mystery Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804012539
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98After years of personal and professional turmoil, things are finally looking up for Columbus, Ohio, private eye Andy Hayes. As Sick to Death opens, Andy is relishing his new gig: a drama-free,... -
Making of Legends: More True Stories of Frontier America by Mark Dugan 9780804009966 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $2.55Some of the American West's grandest legends are about people who in reality were remorseless killers, robbers, and bandits. These outlaws flourished during the 1800s and gained notoriety throughout... -
Flight From Fiesta by Frank Waters 9780804008914 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22Frank Waters, whose work has spanned half a century, has continually attempted to depict the reconciliation of opposites, to heal the national wounds of polarization. Flight From Fiesta, Waters'... -
Capitol Punishment: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804011792
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83The job seems simple enough: Reporter Lee Hershey needs protection for a couple of weeks as he pursues the biggest story of his career with all eyes on swing state Ohio in the midst of a presidential... -
Hello, This Is Your Body Talking: A Draw-It-Yourself Coloring Book by Lucia Capacchione
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86With Drawing Your Stress Away and Hello, This Is Your Body Talking, art therapist and educator Dr. Lucia Capacchione presents a new concept in adult coloring: the draw-it-yourself coloring book... -
Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood by Dawn Prince-Hughes 9780804010795 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $3.75The period just prior to the birth of a child is a time of profound personal transformation for expectant parents. Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood is an intimate exploration,... -
Yellow Stonefly: A Novel by Tim Poland 9780804012515
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11In her day job as a nurse, Sandy Holston cares for the elderly and the sick, even as she is haunted by her own questionable past and the deaths that marked it. Her true self resides among the... -
Bad Boys, Bad Times: The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Prewar Years, 1937-1941 by Scott H. Longert 9780804012171
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35How to live with difference-not necessarily in peace, but with resilience, engagement, and a lack of vitriol-is a defining worry in America at this moment. The poets, fiction writers, and essayists... -
Rust Belt Burlesque: The Softer Side of a Heavy Metal Town by Erin O'Brien 9780804012195
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.75The performance art of burlesque, once a faded form, has made a comeback in the twenty-first century, and it has shimmied back to life with a vengeance in Cleveland. Thanks to fans and entrepreneurs,... -
Alone in the House of My Heart: Poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Deeply rooted in respect and compassion for Appalachia and its people, these poems are both paeans to and dirges for past and present family, farmlands, factories, and coal. Kari Gunter-Seymour's... -
All about Flowers: James Vick's Nineteenth-Century Seed Company by Thomas J. Mickey 9780804012294
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.01A nineteenth-century entrepreneur's bold, innovative marketing helped transform flower gardens into one of America's favorite hobbies. "There is much that is hard and productive of sorrow in this... -
I Have Spoken: American History Through the Voices of the Indians by Virginia Irving Armstrong 9780804005302
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35I Have Spoken is a collection of American Indian oratory from the 17th to the 20th century, concentrating on speeches focusing around Indian-white relationships, especially treaty-making negotiations... -
The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art by Erica Curtis 9780804012140
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.66Even the best talk-based practices in parenting can be limiting. How can art help parents temper storms of emotion, defuse sibling conflicts, get teeth brushed, and raise happy, successful kids? In... -
Goshen Road: A Novel by Bonnie Proudfoot 9780804012232
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Goshen Road is an elegiac, unvarnished, and empathetic portrait of one working-class family over two decades in rural West Virginia, with sisters Dessie and Billie Price as its urgently beating heart... -
Way of All the Earth by Anna Akhmatova
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.41Anna Akhmatova is considered one of Russia's greatest poets. Her life encompassed the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and the paranoia and persecution of the Stalinist era: her works embody the... -
ArtBreak: A Creative Guide to Joyful and Productive Classrooms by Katherine K. Ziff 9780804011723
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26Play is the central, universally significant activity of childhood. Self-directed play in which adults have a supporting rather than directing role is critical to the development and well-being of... -
Against a Darkening Sky by Janet Lewis 9780804008662
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11Against a Darkening Sky was originally published in 1943. Set in a semirural community south of San Francisco, it is the story of an American mother of the mid-1930s and the sustaining influence she... -
Good-bye, Son and Other Stories by Janet Lewis 9780804008686
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis's only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the... -
To Possess The Land: A Biography Of Arthur Rochford Manby by Frank Waters 9780804009805 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $2.81Ambitious and only twenty-four years old, Arthur Manby arrived from England to the Territory of New Mexico in 1883 and saw in its wilderness an empire that he believed himself destined to rule. For...