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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend
RRP: $26.12Booksplease Price: $18.44In November 1519, Hernando Cortes walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has... -
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Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of "moby-Dick" by Richard J King
Booksplease Price: $36.15Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet... -
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times' Best Books of the Year'Startlingly timely, authoritatively researched, and... -
Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS by Celia Farber
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.03'Farber [is] a lucid and courageous witness to the power-play behind the first "scamdemic," . . . [Her] work is journalism at its best-solid, lucid, and humane, attacking wrongs that few dare touch,... -
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir Trish O'Kane 9780063223165
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly... -
Horse by Geraldine Brooks 9781408710128
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history'I loved this book so much' ANN PATCHETT'Brilliantly varied and with a galloping pace' MAIL... -
A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice by Max Leonard 9781526631190
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing... -
Sweet and Southern: Classic Desserts with a Twist by Ben Mims 9780789334381
Booksplease Price: $22.86With the assured authority of an experienced baker and the easy wit of a natural storyteller, Ben Mims guides readers through the techniques and traditions of classic Southern desserts. Time-wasting... -
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall Zeke Faux 9781399611367
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED | LA TIMES | FINANCIAL TIMES | WASHINGTON POST | GLOBE AND MAILUSED IN EVIDENCE IN THE TRIAL OF SAM BANKMAN-FRIEDIn 2021, cryptocurrency goes mainstream. Giant investment... -
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah
Booksplease Price: $20.31In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist... -
The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Jessica Whyte
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework... -
Ancient Futures, 3rd Edition by Helena Norberg-Hodge 9780692530627
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $18.13A moving portrait of tradition and change in Ladakh, or "Little Tibet," Ancient Futures is also a scathing critique of the global economy and a rallying call for economic localization. When Helena... -
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness Kenn Kaufman 9781668007600
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers in this fascinating "blend of history, science, art, biography, and... -
This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.99This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians... -
The Wild Book by Juan Villoro 9781632061478
Booksplease Price: $21.15From one of Mexico's foremost authors comes a wondrous adventure story of a boy who goes to live with his kooky, book-obsessed uncle in a library where books have a supernatural power all their own... -
The Girls in Navy Blue: A Novel by Alix Rickloff
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $14.34A gripping and compelling dual timeline novel about three women who joined the Navy during WWI to become yeomanettes and the impact their choices have on one of their descendants in 1968.1918 -... -
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir by Trish O'Kane 9780063223141
Booksplease Price: $33.53In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane never expected to be a birder. She was a... -
The Life Cycle: 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike Kate Rawles 9781785788673
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51'A gripping read for anyone who cares about what we're doing to the planet and how we can change it' DAVID SHUKMAN, FORMER BBC NEWS SCIENCE EDITOR'Searing observations focused on our need to protect... -
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.55NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes-this one." -The Washington Post * "Dazzling." -The New York Times Book Review From the New York... -
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: $23.44Booksplease Price: $18.43Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.18A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning... -
An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity by Wes Jackson 9780268203665
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.98Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by... -
Live Like a Viking: Discovering the Secrets of the Vikings by Claire Saunders 9781787081376
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.62The Vikings have a fearsome reputation as warriors. In reality, they were much more than that. From farmers and craftsmen to musicians and explorers, Viking society and culture has left a lasting... -
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Oscar Martinez
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.83El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people-men, women, and children-flee these... -
Tomboyland by Melissa Faliveno
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home. Flyover country,... -
We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezon Camara 9780811238618
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $15.87Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he's... -
Welcome Home, Stranger: A Novel Kate Christensen 9780063299719
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10"Kate Christensen's new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always,... -
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ... _______________ FOYLES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award _______________ 'An amazing... -
Broadway Butterfly: A Thriller by Sara DiVello 9781662510151
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.88New York in the Roaring Twenties-a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics, and secrets conspire to bury the truth. ... -
Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe 9780063249431
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $11.10USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Wade into the Lowcountry of South Carolina with Mary Alice Monroe's sweeping Southern epic."-People"This is book club fiction at its finest!" -Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times... -
Red Nile: The Biography of the World's Greatest River by Robert Twigger
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES.So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all... -
The Noma Guide to Fermentation (Foundations of Flavor) by Rene Redzepi
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $34.30The world's most influential chef redefines the possibilities of a restaurant cookbook by sharing new techniques for fermentation-the "secret sauce" behind every dish at Noma, the world's leading... -
Wild Nights Out: The Magic of Exploring the Outdoors After Dark Chris Salisbury 9781603589932
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07[Wild Nights Out] is a wonderful invitation to rediscover the dark and all the thing that cry, creep or glow there. Chris Packham from the Foreword [Wild Nights Out] is about reframing our... -
Invitation to a Banquet: A History of Chinese Food by Fuchsia Dunlop 9781324105190
Booksplease Price: $20.09Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of... -
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark by Craig Fehrman 9781982174248
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $30.00NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise offers a fresh and more accurate account of one of... -
David Bellamy's Arctic Light: An Artist's Journey in a Frozen Wilderness by David Bellamy
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $19.38This book is the culmination of various expeditions made by well-known artist and bestselling author David Bellamy to his beloved Arctic. His descriptions of his travels, written from an artist's... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara... -
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.65'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara...