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Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor by Stephen Harding
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.27On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the Army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway... -
To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.06At last, the authorized biography of Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), who wrote such unforgettable songs as Pancho & Lefty" and If I Needed You." Born to a wealthy oil family in Ft. Worth, Texas,... -
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.83Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials,... -
When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy... -
First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit by Patrick O'Donnell
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.83In the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men united to form an exceptional unit. Known as the Maritime Unit, it comprised America's first swimmer-commandos- an elite breed of warrior-spies... -
Satchmo by Louis Armstrong
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.39"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd... -
The Devil's Music: A History Of The Blues by Giles Oakley
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Superbly researched and vividly written, The Devil's Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003: The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country & More by Matt Groening
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.83It's here: the fourth and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music reading fix. The 2003 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture... -
The Quantum Universe: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does) by Brian Cox
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.58In The Quantum Universe , Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible,and... -
Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation by Harlow Giles Unger
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70Dr. Benjamin Rush was the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot or ignored--an America of women, African-Americans, Jews, Quakers, Roman Catholics, indentured workers, and... -
Hannibal: Enemy Of Rome by Leonard Cottrell
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.06In the year 216 B.C., Hannibal of Carthage, faced with an opposing Roman army twice the size of his own, outwitted the enemy at Cannae by means of a strategy which has become a classic of its kind... -
Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan by Leslie Gourse
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.33Sarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy , Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, defines and celebrates Vaughan's vital... -
Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.95Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century,... -
They Fight Like Devils: Stories From Lucknow During The Great Indian Mutiny, 1857-58 by D. A. Kinsley
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.35Vastly outnumbered, British soldiers and civilians were threatened with extermination in their most valued colonial possession. As the vaunted Victorian army began a counteroffensive, the key to... -
The Spotsylvania Campaign: May 7-21, 1864 by John Cannan
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.15A detailed examination of one of the Civil War's most tragic battles pitting Robert E. Lee against Ulysses S. GrantBook InformationISBN 9780306812897Author John CannanFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Goodbye 20th Century by David Browne
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.01Rising from the drug-infested streets of '80s New York City, the incomparable Sonic Youth recorded some of the most important albums in alternative music history and influenced an entire generation... -
Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces by Cory MacLauchlin
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.39The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces , Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for... -
Art Isn't Easy: The Theater Of Stephen Sondheim by Joanne Gordon
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.06The musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim probes deeply into the most disturbing issues of contemporary life. By challenging his audience with intricate music, biting wit, and profound themes, he... -
Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story by Tony Scherman
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.84There he is, drumming on "Tutti Frutti," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl... -
Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography by Sidney Bechet 9780306811081
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $20.83A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) played with such fellow jazz legends as Louis Armstrong,... -
Lost Over Laos: A True Story Of Tragedy, Mystery, And Friendship by Horst Faas 9780306812514
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball, killing four top combat photographers: Larry Burrows of... -
Best of Rivals: Joe Montana, Steve Young, and the Inside Story behind the NFL's Greatest Quarterback Controversy by Adam Lazarus 9780306822636
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06In this revealing, in-depth look at the NFL's greatest quarterback controversy, Adam Lazarus takes readers into the locker room and inside the huddle to deliver the real story behind the rivalry... -
A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 9780306821431
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.39"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."-Syd Barrett's last interview, Rolling Stone, 1971 Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett... -
A Continent Of Islands: Searching For The Caribbean Destiny by Mark Kurlansky 9780201622317
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.27In this richly detailed portrait of the individual countries and peoples of the Caribbean, Mark Kurlansky brings to life a society and culture often kept hidden from foreigners,the arts, history,... -
Mingus: A Critical Biography by Brian Priestley 9780306802171
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for the hurricane power of his work as a... -
Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography And Discography by Barry Tepperman 9780306805240
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15In his tragically short life (1928-1964), Eric Dolphy was a titanic force in the development of the sixties avant-garde (or "new thing") from the hard bop of the late fifties. The searing... -
The Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie 9780306810466
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.86The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and speculation. At a screening at Cannes in May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola said simply, "There wasn't a... -
Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story Of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Niece by Joan Schenkar 9780306810794
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.13Born a scant three months after her uncle Oscar's notorious arrest, raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth century, Dolly Wilde attracted people of taste and talent... -
Stealth Patrol: The Making Of A Vietnam Ranger by Bill Shanahan 9780306813856
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.83From Stealth Patrol :"He spoke in a sort of clipped cadence, his words tumbling out quickly, one on top of the other and his voice was deep and throaty, the way a bear might sound, if he could talk,... -
Lightning Man: The Accursed Life Of Samuel F.B. Morse by Kenneth Silverman 9780306813948
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $27.85This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and historical... -
Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-- Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man by David Fridtjof Halaas 9780306814105
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $19.96This is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent-a "halfbreed" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our... -
The Bee Gees: The Biography by David Meyer 9780306820250
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $31.53The first narrative biography of the Bee Gees, the phenomenally popular vocal group that has sold more than 200 million records worldwide- sales in the company of the Beatles and Michael Jackson. ... -
Calming Your Fussy Baby: The Brazelton Way by T. Berry Brazelton 9780738207810
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.15Sleepless nights, wailing babies, and defiant toddlers-these are universal issues for new parents. Now beloved pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton and his esteemed colleague the child psychiatrist Joshua... -
Iron Coffins: A Personal Account Of The German U-boat Battles Of World War II by Herbert A. Werner 9780306811609
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.36The former German U-boat commander Herbert Werner navigates readers through the waters of World War II, recounting four years of the most significant and savage battles. By war's end, 28,000 out of... -
Genesis Of A Music: An Account Of A Creative Work, Its Roots, And Its Fulfillments, Second Edition by Harry Partch 9780306801068
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.91Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901-1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized... -
The Noel Coward Diaries by Noel Coward 9780306809606
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $31.77Noel Coward is remembered as the most witty and elegant of theatrical personalities. He left behind over fifty plays, twenty-five films, hundreds of songs, and several books. Fortunately, he also... -
Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy J. Schoenberger 9780306811876
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.23You can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of whom poet Robert Lowell writes in The Dolphin (and he was... -
The Antietam Campaign: August-September 1862 by John Cannan 9780938289913
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.15September 17, 1862, over 25,000 men became casualties in the battle of Antietam, on the Civil War's single bloodiest day. Confederate and Federal infantry and artillery faced each other at close... -
Help, Comfort, And Hope After Losing Your Baby In Pregnancy Or The First Year by Hannah Lothrop 9780738209654
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.43Through her own experience with miscarriage as well as through the voices of other parents who have suffered the devastation of their baby's death, psychologist Hannah Lothrop guides parents through... -
The Negro In The Civil War by Benjamin Quarles 9780306803505
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBenjamin Quarles (1904-1996) was a noted author, editor, and historian and the first African American to be...