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Teach the Free Man: Stories by Peter Nathaniel Malae 9780804010993
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77The 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... -
New Stories from the Southwest by D. Seth Horton 9780804011075
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77The beauty and barrenness of the southwestern landscape naturallylends itself to the art of storytellers. It is a land of heat and dryness, aland of spirits, a land that is misunderstood by those... -
Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anais Nin by Anita Jarczok 9780804011754
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90Anais Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and... -
The Community Table: Effective Fundraising through Events by Susan Cole Urano 9780804011808
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In resource-challenged Athens County, Ohio, staff and volunteers at the nonprofit Athens County Foundation came up with a daring idea: to host a locally sourced, gourmet dinner for four hundred... -
The Constant Listener: Henry James and Theodora Bosanquet-An Imagined Memoir by Susan Herron Sibbet 9780804011839
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In 1907, in a quiet English village, Theodora Bosanquet answered Henry James's call for someone to transcribe his edits and additions to his formidable body of work. The aging James had agreed to... -
1001 Most Asked Questions American West by Harry E. Chrisman 9780804003834
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66During his more than forty years of newspaper and magazine work, Harry Chrisman has been answering questions about the American West-both the standard and the oddball queries, such as "What is the... -
Sharp and Dangerous Virtues: A Novel by Martha Moody 9780804011419
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.15It's 2047 in Dayton, Ohio. In response to food and water shortages, the U.S. government has developed an enormous, and powerfully successful, agricultural area-the "Heartland Grid"-just north of the... -
Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History by Donna M. DeBlasio 9780804011167
Booksplease Price: £34.10In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories... -
Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin 9780804011471
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Although 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... -
In the Shade of the Shady Tree: Stories of Wheatbelt Australia by John Kinsella 9780804011372
Booksplease Price: £25.25In the Shade of the Shady Tree is a collection of stories set in the Western Australian wheatbelt, a vast grain-growing area that ranges across the southwestern end of the immense Australian interior... -
Devils & Islands: Poems by Turner Cassity 9780804011037
Booksplease Price: £20.19As he approaches eighty, Turner Cassity may finally be out of control. His hatchet has never fallen more lethally, meaning if you have the stomach for him he is more enjoyable than ever. Under the... -
The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake by Elissa Minor Rust 9780804010788
Booksplease Price: £15.84The twelve stories in The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake take place in an affluent suburb of Portland, Oregon, but they could be taken from any number of similar enclaves across the United... -
Build With Adobe by Marcia Southwick 9780804006347
Booksplease Price: £21.93This practical guide to building adobe homes was written from the author's many years of experience with adobe, and it is refreshingly no-nonsense: /u201cWhat can you spend?/u201d /u201cWhere will... -
Newport In Rockies: Life & Good Times Of by Marshall Sprague 9780804008990
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.26In 1871, General William Jackson Palmer, a Civil War cavalry hero, dreamed of a Rocky Mountain resort town where sedate, temperate, wealthy folk could enjoy life in tranquil comfort. From its... -
Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises by Yvor Winters 9780804001304
Booksplease Price: £18.29The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises brings together five essays by Yvor Winters: "Problems for the Modern Critic of Literature," "The Audible Reading of Poetry," "The Poetry of Gerard... -
The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself: 35th Anniversary Edition by Lucia Capacchione
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Originally released in 1980, Lucia Capacchione's The Creative Journal has become a classic in the fields of art therapy, memoir and creative writing, art journaling, and creativity development. Using... -
The Sheep Book: A Handbook for the Modern Shepherd, Revised and Updated by Ron Parker
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98The Sheep Book carries the reader along through a year in a sheep's life during which sheep and shepherd form a symbiosis. A knowledgeable shepherd manages a flock in such a way as to provide an... -
The Trial of Soeren Qvist by Janet Lewis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Originally published in 1947, The Trial of Soeren Qvist has been praised by a number of critics for its intriguing plot and Janet Lewis's powerful writing. And in the introduction to this new... -
Switzerland: Village History by Professor David Birmingham
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Switzerland: A Village History is an account of an Alpine village that illuminates the broader history of Switzerland and its rural, local underpinnings. It begins with the colonization of the Alps... -
The Untried Life: The Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War by James T. Fritsch
Booksplease Price: £34.90Told in unflinching detail, this is the story of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Giddings Regiment or the Abolition Regiment, after its founder, radical abolitionist... -
Selected Poems by Lee Gerlach
Booksplease Price: £26.95Lee Gerlach's Selected Poems is a rigorous culling from the life's work of a remarkable and prolific poet. Written over a period of fifty years, the poetry of Lee Gerlach is a full spectrum of human... -
The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry by John Dewey
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12More than six decades after John Dewey's death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival. With renewed interest in pragmatism and its implications for democracy in an age of mass... -
Azores: Poems by David Yezzi 9780804011129
Booksplease Price: £24.98Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience-a man mourns the fact that... -
On Poets and Poetry by William H. Pritchard 9780804011143
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.92William 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,... -
A Poet’s Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan by Louise Bogan 9780804010719
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Although best known as a master of the formal lyric poem, Louise Bogan (1897-1970) also published fiction and what would now be called lyrical essays. A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise... -
The Common Lot and Other Stories: The Published Short Fiction, 1908-1921 by Emma Bell Miles 9780804011730
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma... -
The Quick-Change Artist: Stories by Cary Holladay 9780804010924
Booksplease Price: £29.24In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the... -
Higher Elevations: Stories From The West: A Writers’ Forum Anthology by Alexander Blackburn 9780804009713
Booksplease Price: £40.28Higher Elevations: Stories from the West is a rich and varied anthology of fiction from Writers' Forum. As the subtitle promises, it is regional, but these are not all stories from your grandfather's... -
The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree: Stories by Helen Papanikolas 9780804009935
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56The title of Helen Papanikolas' second collection of short stories, The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree, is taken from an old Greek proverb and speaks of the new generation's struggle with the... -
Upcycling Sheltered Workshops: A Revolutionary Approach to Transforming Workshops into Creative Spaces by Susan Dlouhy 9780804011594
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77At 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... -
Duncan’s Colony by Natalie L.M. Petesch 9780804004022
Booksplease Price: £21.58"During the nineteen sixties, following the missile crisis and during the Vietnam War, communitarian societies began to reappear in the United States. Those who were of an invincibly optimistic... -
Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897–1898 Gold Rush by Melanie J. Mayer 9780804009263
Booksplease Price: £38.56Klondike Women is a compelling collection of historical photographs and first-hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields. In... -
Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897-1898 Gold Rush by Melanie J. Mayer 9780804009270
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32Klondike Women is a compelling collection of historical photographs and first-hand accounts of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields. In... -
The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters by Yvor Winters 9780804010313
Booksplease Price: £50.23Poet, teacher, and critic, Yvor Winters was a man of letters in more ways than one. This selection of his personal correspondence spans half a century of literary history and a lifetime of... -
Sarah's Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek by Lenore McComas Coberly 9780804010955
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Situated 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... -
The Message of the City: Dawn Powell's New York Novels, 1925-1962 by Patricia E. Palermo 9780804011679
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are... -
English Lit: Poems by Bernard Clay 9781735224275
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735224275Author Bernard ClayFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Swallow PressPublisher Swallow... -
Belonging: Poems by Dick Davis 9780804010429
Booksplease Price: £25.25There are worlds within our own in which even the smallest victories are hard won, the tender moment is almost unbearable, and the understated rings like a bell. Belonging, a new collection by... -
The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative by Thomas Larson 9780804011013
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller... -
Dune Country: A Hiker'S Guide To The Indiana Dunes by Glenda Daniel 9780804008549
Booksplease Price: £19.71One of our nation's newest parks stretches along Lake Michigan across 14 miles of windswept beach between Gary and Michigan City in Northern Indiana. Dune Country explains for the first time in terms...