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Trauma at Home: After 9/11 by Judith Greenberg 9780803271081
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74The terrorist attacks of September 11 brought the effects of trauma home to millions in America and throughout the world. Initially the attacks created a sense of paralysis and a narrative void. Now... -
Wells Fargo by Ralph Moody 9780803283039
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.48Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service along the Erie Canal in the 1840s. In 1852 they incorporated Wells,... -
Lost on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262195
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91Lost! Space adventurer Carson Napier made a grievous miscalculation and became stranded on dangerous, mist-shrouded Venus. But Napier refused to quit. He won the love of the beautiful Duare, princess... -
The Twinkle Tales by Frank L. Baum 9780803262423
Booksplease Price: €14.58L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), author of The Wizard of Oz and thirteen more Oz books, created many other appealing fantasies for children. Writing under the pseudonym of Laura Bancroft, Baum related the... -
Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies by Jason Vest 9780803218604
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining American authors of the last half of the twentieth century. The cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction have generated so... -
Ten Years on the Rock Pile: A Collection of Stories, Some Hilarious, Some Tragic, about Life at the Summit of Mount Washington by Lee Vincent 9780803234130
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €16.48Mount Washington, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is the highest peak in the northeastern United States. It is often cited-by its inhabitants, no less-as the home of the country's... -
Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs by Thomas Henry Tibbles 9780803294264
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.47Standing Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government... -
The Saga of Tom Horn: The Story of a Cattlemen's War by Dean F. Krakel 9780803277670
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91An epidemic of cattle rustling in southern Wyoming in the 1890s and the desperate straits of stockmen set the stage for this saga of Tom Horn, a former Pinkerton detective, an expert hunter and dead... -
Old Home Town by Rose Wilder Lane 9780803279179
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91In Old Home Town, Rose Wilder Lane has recreated small-town society of pre-World War I America with a precise feeling for decorum, dress, and kitchen dialogue. Like Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg,... -
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In These Hills by Ralph Beer 9780803262096 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €4.83After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In... -
Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight: A Source Book by Richard G. Hardorff 9780803273115
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.05Only six Cheyenne Indians (but thirty-two Sioux) died in the fighting at the Little Bighorn River that wiped out the command of General George Custer. Brave Wolf, the son of the prophet Old Brave... -
Perfect Murders by Horace Leonard Gold 9780803233591
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14Perhaps best known for editing the popular post-World War II magazines Galaxy Science Fiction and Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Horace L. Gold also wrote comic-book scripts for DC Comics and penned... -
Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life by John D. Billings 9780803261112
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.91Includes six color plates of corps badges and more than 200 black and white illustrations Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give... -
The Blizzard Voices by Ted Kooser 9780803259638
Booksplease Price: €14.132007 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten selection 2007 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for Poetry, honoring Tom Pohrt (Illustrator) This book is a collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on... -
Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days by Nancy Plain 9780803235205
Booksplease Price: €20.42Once President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D... -
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Shantytown Kid by Azouz Begag 9780803262584 [USED COPY]
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €10.53One day an illiterate Algerian immigrant in Lyon gave his son, Azouz Begag, a book, saying, "This book is a bird." How Begag took flight on the wings of learning is one of the stories that unfolds in... -
The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds by Pete Axthelm
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Pete Axthelm follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes... -
Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story by Cindy Thomson
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91On October 8, 1908, Mordecai Brown clutched a half-dozen notes inside his coat pocket. The message of each was clear: we'll kill you if you pitch and beat the Giants. A black handprint marked each... -
The Getaway and Other Stories by Dorothy Thomas
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.22Despite the rustic charm of their settings, the bitingly humorous short stories of Dorothy Thomas (1898-1990) challenge stereotypes of good-hearted country people-a harried woman tries to rid herself... -
Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories by Boris Vian
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.48Ten of Vian's best jazzy, outrageous short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night lifeTen of Vian's best jazzy, outrageous short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night... -
Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures by Bryan L. Jones
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.42Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures is a collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. Anecdotes on small-town baseball and the polio... -
Microfictions by Ana Maria Shua
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91Cinderella's sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince's love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A... -
Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing by Ted Kooser
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.75Sometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and... -
Before Adam by Jack London
Booksplease Price: €17.75A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of... -
Butch Cassidy: A Biography by Richard Patterson
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances, and writers after his... -
Bataan Death March: A Survivor's Account by William E. Dyess 9780803266339
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the... -
Love Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts, Second Edition by Martha Gellhorn 9780803226777
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91Written in the aftermath of World War II, Love Goes to Press opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg and ration cards, today it is a... -
Swords from the Sea by Harold Lamb 9780803220362
Booksplease Price: €25.07Vikings, pirates, heroes, rogues, and explorers . . . all have heard the siren call of the sea, and master storyteller Harold Lamb chronicled some of their most daring exploits. This single volume... -
Journal of a Lady of Quality by Janet Schaw 9780803259539
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish... -
Soccer Stories: Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore, and Amazing Feats by Donn Risolo 9780803230149
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.21Arguably the world's most popular sport, soccer has its own colorful lore, still little known in a nation only now beginning to give the game its due. This book offers the perfect opportunity to... -
The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide by Steve Marantz 9780803234345
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74In the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the Rhythm Boys, captured who they were and what they did... -
Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later by O. E. Rolvaag 9780803289062
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.80Peder Victorious, the sequel to Roelvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the... -
Pirates of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803261839
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.39The shimmering, cloud-covered planet of Venus conceals a wondrous secret: the strikingly beautiful yet deadly world of Amtor. In Amtor, cities of immortal beings flourish in giant trees reaching... -
To Hell and Back: The Life of Samira Bellil by Samira Bellil 9780803213562
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91Every now and then violence erupts in the banlieues of France allowing the world a glimpse into the grimmest corners of these multiethnic suburban ghettos. From such a corner comes the story of... -
The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories by Miles John Breuer 9780803215870
Booksplease Price: €21.93Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer's first publication, "The Man with the Strange Head"; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first... -
Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition by Neil DeMause 9780803260160
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires... -
The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 2 by Hiram Martin Chittenden 9780803263215
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85The American Fur Trade of the Far West is the premier history of its subject. Its publication in 1902 invited historians and general readers to look more closely at the intricate connec-tions of the... -
Drinking Dry Clouds: Stories From Wyoming by Gretel Ehrlich 9780803267541
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.43Drinking Dry Clouds is Gretel Ehrlich's storytelling in full swing. This inspired collection opens during World War II with the stories of cowboys, waitresses, and bartenders along with Japanese... -
Onitsha by J. M. G. Le Clezio 9780803279667
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he... -
Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions by S. L. Wisenberg 9780803298668
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.85This bracing and vivid collection of essays gives voice to what some American Jews feel but don't express about their uneasy state of mind. These essays creatively and sometimes audaciously address...