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The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 9780803217454
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Strange events and an undercurrent of tension permeate The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman. While secretly exploring an old fort on the South Dakota prairie, three Indian girls encounter a stranger. One of... -
Shackleton of the Antarctic by T. H. Baughman 9780803219441
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Twenty-eight men stood on a desolate Antarctic ice floe one thousand miles from the nearest human contact. In a few months the ice would melt. To survive they would have to be safely on land before... -
Beneath Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World by Kevin Grange 9780803234338
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In a remote kingdom hidden in the Himalayas, there is a trail said to be the toughest trek in the world-twenty-four days, 216 miles, eleven mountain passes, and enough ghost stories to scare an... -
A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood by Lisa Catherine Harper 9780803235083
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81There is no denying it: motherhood splits a woman's life forever, into a before and an after. To this doubled life Lisa Catherine Harper brings a wealth of feeling and a wry sense of humor, a will to... -
Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 by Robert Walser 9780803298330
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.93The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place," Robert Walser (1878-1956) is only now finding an audience among... -
Good Bounces and Bad Lies by Ben Wright 9780803298545
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.66One of golf's preeminent commentators with more than fifty years of experience, Ben Wright relates the wealth of experiences he's gained from writing and broadcasting about the world's greatest... -
Lakota Myth by James R. Walker 9780803298606
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43James R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of... -
A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950 by Sally Zanjani 9780803299160
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68From the California gold rush through the mid-twentieth century, a special breed of women played an integral and heretofore unrecognized part in some of the most stirring adventures of the pioneer... -
The Horse and Buggy Doctor by Arthur E. Hertzler 9780803257177
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91"The Horse and Buggy Doctor follows no conventional lines. In larger part it is a book rich in anecdotes, a lively and somewhat rough-and-ready depiction of the country physician's experiences in... -
Hokahey! A Good Day to Die!: The Indian Casualties of the Custer Fight by Richard G. Hardorff 9780803273221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.07Traditionally historians of the Little Big Horn fight have focused on Custer and his troops-on what they were doing and where they died. But as one Miniconjou warrior told a gathering at a 1926... -
Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood by Delphine Red Shirt 9780803289765
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Bead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt... -
Havana Heat: A Novel by Darryl Brock 9780803235892
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.88A former star hurler for John McGraw's brawling Giants, Luther "Dummy" Taylor was also one of Major League Baseball's first deaf players. Havana Heat follows Taylor's life and fortunes when, after a... -
Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers by Susanne George-Bloomfield 9780803259744
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.35Before MP3 players, DVDs, and video games, before even TV and radio, American children entertained themselves by reading. Often what they read were popular magazines aimed at the whole family; a... -
Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West by Joanne Wilke 9780803260191
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.00In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on an extended car-camping trip through six national... -
An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre by John G. Bourke 9780803260856
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre is a crackling, swift-moving narrative of General George Crook's pursuit of Geronimo and other Apache Indians across southern Arizona and New Mexico to the... -
Chip of the Flying U by B. M. Bower 9780803261211
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.87B. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. And what a career it was-more than sixty novels published from 1904 to 1940, the year of her death, and... -
Other Clay: A Remembrance of the World War II Infantry by Charles R. Cawthon 9780803264427
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.80Other Clay is a survivor's account of World War II infantry combat, told by a front-line officer whose 116th Infantry Regiment landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought its way across Europe to the... -
Nebraska 1875: Its Advantages, Resources, and Drawbacks by Edwin A. Curley 9780803264687
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.00Europeans who considered emigrating to the American frontier in the nineteenth century could find little information about the real conditions they would face. And most of what was available-the... -
A Journey to Ohio in 1810 by Margaret van Horn Dwight 9780803265899
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.57In his introduction, Jay Gitlin, a professor of history at Yale University, says more about Margaret Van Horn Dwight's wagon journey in 1810 from New Haven, Connecticut, to Warren, Ohio, where she... -
Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works by Leslie A. Duram 9780803266483
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.81Over the past decade, organic products have become the fastest growing sector of agriculture, with an annual increase of at least 20 percent. This book explains why organic production and consumption... -
The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place by Mindy Thompson Fullilove 9780803269064
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.18Mindy Thompson Fullilove offers a series of meditations on her remarkable family and the places where they have lived. She lovingly recalls her parents: her father, a black leader of the labor... -
The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History by Richard G. Hardorff 9780803273252
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white... -
The Quality of Courage: Heroes in and out of Baseball by Mickey Mantle 9780803282599
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.20As a man who played baseball brilliantly despite near-constant pain from a succession of injuries, Mickey Mantle knew something about courage. In The Quality of Courage we find Mickey's opinion on... -
Our Voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon by James Ruppert 9780803289840
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.32Storytelling is a precious, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North. Collected here for the first time are stories from the communities of interior Alaska and the Yukon Territory... -
The Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies by Janet Robertson 9780803289956
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a... -
Paper Tiger by Olivier Rolin 9780803289994
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Their generation was anything but lost, at least in the beginning. Filled with fiery ambition and idealistic to a fault, they found their voice in the Paris of 1968 and were intent on exposing the... -
The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy by Francis Stevens 9780803292987
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Slithering from these pages are never-before-collected tales of suspense and wonder by the woman who invented modern-day dark fantasy: A man goes quietly to bed aboard the doomed Lusitania and... -
Twilight of the Long-ball Gods: Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball by John Schulian 9780803293274
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.23A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take readers to the places where the spirit of America's game resides. These... -
Silence on the Shores by Leila Sebbar 9780803292765
Booksplease Price: £28.38Silence on the Shores depicts the final day in the life of a Maghrebian immigrant in France. Having crossed the Mediterranean to "the other shore" as a young man to find work, he ultimately remained... -
Call Me Magdalena by Alicia Steimberg 9780803292826
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.95Erotic entanglements, startling revelations, a furtive intruder, even a possible murder? Not at all what the students of Mind Control class envisioned when they gathered on a ranch outside Buenos... -
On the Ceiling by Eric Chevillard 9780803263963
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.17On the Ceiling tells the story of a young man who wears a chair upside down on his head. He falls in love with a young woman named Meline, and soon he and his friends move in with her and her family... -
Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather 9780803258631
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11Willa Cather's first published novel, set in Boston, London, and Paris, is the story of a man unable to resolve the contradictions in his own nature. The central figures are Bartley Alexander, a... -
Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs 9780803215856
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.11More than two hundred years later, the "voyage of discovery"-with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery-continues to draw us along the Lewis and... -
A Good Man: The Pete Newell Story by Bruce Jenkins 9780803228184
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.80Pete Newell is considered one of the finest basketball minds in the sport's history. His death in 2008 spawned tributes from around the country, including legendary UCLA coach John Wooden and Bob... -
My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas by Tracy Seeley 9780803230101
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Sure, there's no place like home-but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father's... -
The Indian Agent: A Novel by Dan O'Brien 9780803235885
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Dan O'Brien's earlier award-winning novel The Contract Surgeon introduced readers to Valentine McGillycuddy, a friend of the great war chief Crazy Horse. Through McGillycuddy's eyes, the novel... -
Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption by Jerald Walker 9780803240957
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Street Shadows recounts Jerald Walker's renunciation of the "thug life" he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the education and middle-class life his parents had... -
High Country Empire: The High Plains and Rockies by Robert G. Athearn 9780803250086
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.52"It will make excellent supplementary reading for students of the American West, complementing the work of Bernard De Voto and Carl F. Kraenzel."—Walter Prescott Webb, New York Times Book ReviewBook... -
The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska by Alan Boye 9780803259683
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76The second edition of The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska represents a major enlargement and revision of the first edition, making this the most comprehensive guide to the state ever written. The... -
War Elephants by John M. Kistler 9780803260047
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. Asian armies boasted of their pachyderm power, while the Romans fielded elephants alongside their legendary legions but were...