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The Net Beneath Us by Carol Dunbar 9781250826879
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $27.03He promised her he would never let go. She's willing to risk everything to hold on. In the aftermath of her husband's logging accident, Elsa has more questions than answers about how to carry on... -
King Ranch: A Legacy in Art by William E. Reaves 9781623499525
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $46.52Covering 825,000 acres in the Coastal Plain and Brush Country of South Texas, King Ranch, established in 1853, looms large in Texas and American history. Its place in the popular imagination shows... -
Cupido Cupido: A Novel Emily Grandy 9781682832806
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.04When sixteen-year-old Ignatius "Egg" Girard is told he'll be spending the next three months on his estranged grandfather's failing farm in Hale Creek, Kentucky, getting the place ready to sell, he... -
Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State by Susan Edmunds 9780195338539
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $69.30In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as... -
The Anatomy of Dreams: From the bestselling author of THE IMMORTALISTS Chloe Benjamin 9781472261328
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84The bewitching first novel from the bestselling author of THE IMMORTALISTS'Benjamin is a gifted writer, a creator of quiet asides and haunting images' Financial Times'Matches the subtle surrealism of... -
Sinclair Lewis Remembered by Gary Scharnhorst
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $71.30Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing and intimate portrait of this complex and... -
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance by J. E. Smyth 9781496802552
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of... -
A Winter's Rime by Carol Dunbar 9781250826909
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.47A harrowing and emotional novel set in rural Wisconsin-A Winter's Rime explores the impact of generational trauma, and one woman's journey to find peace and healing from the violence of her past. ... -
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance by J. E. Smyth 9781617039645
Booksplease Price: $197.88Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of... -
A Mile Above Texas by Jay B. Sauceda
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $67.47"Jay B. Sauceda is creating a new kind of literature for the state, a visual literature that is as significant and powerful as John Graves's Goodbye to a River, Robert Caro's The Path to Power, Edna... -
The Galveston That Was by Howard Barnstone 9781623492472
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $59.22In a 1963 novel, Edna Ferber compared the city of Galveston to Miss Havisham, the grey, mournful abandoned bride of Dickens' Great Expectations. A thriving port city in the nineteenth century,... -
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Jack Zipes 9780691201252
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.30A collection of radical political fairy tales-some in English for the first time-from one of the great female practitioners of the genreHermynia Zur Muhlen (1883-1951), one of the twentieth century's... -
Bob Kleberg and the King Ranch: A Worldwide Sea of Grass by John R. Cypher 9780292711877
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Ranching on the vast scale that Texas is famous for actually happened at King Ranch, a sea of grass that ultimately spread its pastures to countries around the globe under the fifty-year leadership... -
Hollywood and the American Historical Film by J. E. Smyth 9780230230934
Booksplease Price: $77.32How do Hollywood filmmakers construct and interpret American history? Is film's visual historical language inherently different from the traditions of written history? This definitive collection of... -
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 by Melissa R. Klapper 9780814747803
Booksplease Price: $190.83Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published-or even read-to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls' adolescent... -
The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick 9781493049448
Booksplease Price: $27.64"That is the thing about New York," wrote Dorothy Parker in 1928. "It is always a little more than you had hoped for. Each day, there, is so definitely a new day." Now you can journey back there, in... -
Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood by J. E. Smyth 9780190840822
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $50.30Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were... -
Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930 by Jean Marie Lutes 9780801474125
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $34.59The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like... -
The white negress: Literature, minstrelry and the Black-Jewish imaginary by Lori Harrison-Kahan 9780813547831
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $51.66During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an attraction to African American culture. Until now, the debate about whether... -
The Covenant of Water: An Oprah’s Book Club Selection by Abraham Verghese 9781804710456
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.86OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023'One of the best books I've... -
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $45.78The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and... -
The Immortalists: If you knew the date of your death, how would you live? Chloe Benjamin 9781472245007
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45'Once I started reading The Immortalists, I resented every moment I had to spend away from the book until I'd finished' Stylist'A compelling and utterly absorbing read with virtuoso storytelling on... -
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"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age by Anthony Slide 9780231167086
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.10Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the...