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The Complete 'Funky Winterbean', Volume 1 (1972-1974) by Tom Batiuk 9781606351123
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.85Tom Batiuk was a junior high school art teacher in Elyria, Ohio, when he created a comic panel aimed at teens for the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. That panel was the precursor to what became Batiuk's... -
Darling Ro and the Benet Women by Evelyn Helmick Hively 9781606350966
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26The first book-length study of a gifted American writer and her life during the 1920sThe Benet name immediately evokes Stephen Vincent and his older brother William Rose, Pulitzer Prize-winning poets... -
Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862 by Joseph L. Harsh 9781606353844
Booksplease Price: £30.18In this reexamination of Confederate war aims, Joseph L. Harsh analyzes the military policy and grand strategy adopted by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in the first two years of the Civil War... -
Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won by Perry Bush 9781606351178
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.05Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the latest plant closings and politicians slam each other... -
White Coats: Three Journeys through an American Medical School by Jacqueline Marino 9781606351307
Booksplease Price: £25.72Although we rely on physicians, calling on them at birth and death and every medical event in between, rarely do we consider the personal challenges faced by doctors-to-be. In 2005 author Jacqueline... -
Ohio Hill Country: A Rewoven Landscape by Carolyn V. Platt 9781606351345
Booksplease Price: £21.71A fascinating survey of the geologic, environmental, and human history of southeastern Ohio The southeastern third of Ohio is quite different from the flat or gently rolling portions of the state,... -
Cuyahoga Valley National Park Handbook by Carolyn V. Platt 9781606352854
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.60Stretching between Cleveland and Akron in heavily urban northeastern Ohio, Cuyahoga Valley National Park has been called a "Green-Shrouded Miracle," preserving precious green space and offering a... -
![Forging the ""Bee Line"" Railroad, 1848-1889: The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique by Andrew Olson Arthur 9781606352823](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2795358/2794694/9781606352823__82996.1714851842.jpg?c=1 "Forging the ""Bee Line"" Railroad, 1848-1889: The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique by Andrew Olson Arthur 9781606352823")
Forging the ""Bee Line"" Railroad, 1848-1889: The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique by Andrew Olson Arthur 9781606352823
Booksplease Price: £37.74In the 1830s, as the Trans Appalachian economy began to stir and Europe's Industrial Revolution reached its peak, concerned Midwesterners saw opportunities and risks. Success of the Erie Canal as a... -
World War I in American Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories by Scott D. Emmert 9781606351963
Booksplease Price: £45.59Overshadowed by the so-called Good War that followed, the Great War-the First World War-captured the imagination of American writers both while the conflict was underway and during the decades that... -
The Dead Eat Everything by Michael Mlekoday 9781606351895
Booksplease Price: £12.10This book is a document of a particular world, real, wrenched from the poet's life, as if written with a gun to his head or a spike through his heart. Reading it is like opening a damp newspaper... -
As Ohio Goes: Life in the Post-Recession Nation by Rana B. Khoury 9781606352809
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and security. America is changing in profound ways, but we... -
Retired, Rehabbed, Reborn: The Adaptive Reuse of America’s Derelict Religious Buildings and Schools by Robert A. Simons 9781606352564
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £29.72Each year in the United States, hundreds of religious buildings and schools become vacant or underutilized as congregations and populations merge, move, or diminish. These structures are often well... -
The Brilliance of Charles Whittlesey: Geologist, Surveyor, Military Engineer, Civil War Strategist by Stanley M. Totten 9781606354360
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78An essential biography of one of Ohio's most influential-but overlooked-historical figuresThe Brilliance of Charles Whittlesey offers the first full-length biography of one of the most outstanding... -
No Place for Glory: Major General Robert E. Rodes and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg by Robert J. Wynstra 9781606354100
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08A scrupulous analysis of Rodes's conduct during the Battle of Gettysburg Over the years, many top historians have cited Major General Robert E. Rodes as the best division commander in Robert E. Lee's... -
Finding the Numinous: An Ecocritical Look at Dune and the Lord of the Rings by Willow Wilson DiPasquale 9781606354926
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354926Author Willow Wilson DiPasqualeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176 -
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World by 9780873387446
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was... -
Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe by 9780873389242
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32Tom Batiuk spent several years as a middle school art teacher before creating the comic strip Funky Winkerbean in 1972. Originally a ""gag-a-day"" comic strip that portrayed life in high school,... -
Any Kind of Excuse by 9780873387576
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.03These quasi-autobiographical poems and prose poems range from topics such as clairvoyant grandmas, roosters of questionable pedigree, one-armed farmhands, and a girl obsessed with holding her breath... -
My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America, 1840-1860 by 9780873388375
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £44.20During the nineteenth century - a time of great technical and cultural change - fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one's social status, geographic... -
Above the Thunder: Reminiscences of a Field Artillery Pilot in World War II by 9780873389808
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.19The son of a Kentucky tobacco farmer, Raymond Kerns dropped out of high school after the eighth grade to help on the farm. He enlisted in the Army in 1940 and, after training as a radio operator in... -
Teaching Hemingway and Race by Gary Edward Holcomb 9781606353578
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Teaching Hemingway and Race provides a practicable means for teaching the subject of race in Hemingway's writing and related texts-from how to approach ethnic, nonwhite international, and tribal... -
Teaching Hemingway and War by Alex Vernon 9781606352571
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £29.42In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that "the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds... -
The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival by Jacqueline Lapidus 9781606352045
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12The Widows' Handbook is the first anthology of poems by contemporary widows, many of whom have written their way out of solitude and despair, distilling their strongest feelings into poetry or memoir... -
Sundays in the Pound: The Heroics and Heartbreak of the 1985-89 Cleveland Browns by 9780873388665
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.11A look at the last championship seasons of the BrownsBefore Art Modell moved the team to Baltimore, and before the frustrating expansion years and countless front office mistakes of the twenty-first... -
Democracy and the American Civil War: Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century by Kevin Adams 9781606352694
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12In 1865, after four tumultuous years of fighting, Americans welcomed the opportunity to return to a life of normalcy. President Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation decree in January 1863 and had... -
A Fraction of a Point: A Gymnastics Dynasty on the Line Nina Mandell 9781606355077
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.39When the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team competes in the Ohio High School Athletic Association state gymnastics meet, they’re expected to win. That’s because they’ve won... -
The Next of Us is About to be Born: The Wick Poetry Series Anthology in Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center by 9781606350218
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The Next of Us Is About to Be Born is an anthology of fifty-five poets published in the ""Wick Poetry Series"" celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State... -
Fort Laurens, 1778-79: The Revolutionary War in Ohio by The Kent State University Press 9780873382403
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873382403Author The Kent State University PressFormat PaperbackImprint -
Sounding the Shallows: A Confederate Compendium for the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by The Kent State University Press 9780873386418
Booksplease Price: £31.04A companion volume to ""Taken at the Flood"", this work identifies areas of research and in-depth source material for studies of the Maryland Campaign of 1862.Book InformationISBN 9780873386418Author... -
Classic Tribe: The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Indians History by 9781606350171
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.36A countdown of the Cleveland Indians' greatest gamesIt's far too easy to allow the national media and disparaging fans to undermine Clevelanders' views of their professional sports teams. While the... -
![Reading Hemingway's ""Men without Women: Glossary and Commentary by 9780873389433](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9568635/10602470/9780873389433__53175.1776059454.jpg?c=1 "Reading Hemingway's ""Men without Women: Glossary and Commentary by 9780873389433")
Reading Hemingway's ""Men without Women: Glossary and Commentary by 9780873389433
Booksplease Price: £25.47In their close line-by-line annotations of and commentaries on Ernest Hemingway's major works, the volumes in the ""Reading Hemingway Series"" provide up-to-date, factual information and interpretive... -
Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer's Disease by 9781606350072
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.61This is a literary collection that illumines the darkness of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is now estimated to affect one in two persons over the age of eighty and is being diagnosed in... -
One Nation Divided by Slavery: Remembering the American Revolution While Marching Toward the Civil War by Michael F. Conlin 9781606352403
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.70In the two decades before the Civil War, free Americans engaged in "history wars" every bit as ferocious as those waged today over the proposed National History Standards or the commemoration at the... -
![Ambrose Bierce's ""Civilians and Soldiers"" in Context: A Critical Study by 9780873387781](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9629331/10656521/9780873387781__83498.1780897747.jpg?c=1 "Ambrose Bierce's ""Civilians and Soldiers"" in Context: A Critical Study by 9780873387781")
Ambrose Bierce's ""Civilians and Soldiers"" in Context: A Critical Study by 9780873387781
Booksplease Price: £23.95Donald T. Blume rejects the view that ""In the Midst of Life"", the second volume of Bierce's collected works, is his most important literary work. Instead, he posits that Bierce's original 1892... -
Capturing the Fugitive: The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder by 9780873387705
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.10Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant and mother of a toddler son, was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in the early morning of July fourth, 1954. The cause of death was 27 blows... -
Outlaws of the Purple Cow and Other Stories by Lester Goran 9780873386395
Booksplease Price: £23.38In this, his third collection of stories, Lester Goran moves us again through the times and places indelibly stamped with his wit and insight about people and events lost to history. Outlaws of the... -
Feel the Bonds That Draw: Images of the Civil War at the Western Reserve Historical Society by Christine Dee 9781606350911
Booksplease Price: £28.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606350911Author Christine DeeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Trains in the Distance by 9780873387965
Booksplease Price: £14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBorn in Canton, Ohio, Paul Zimmer worked for forty years in the book business. He is now retired and lives... -
Democratic Narrative, History and Memory by Carole A. Barbato 9781606351192
Booksplease Price: £30.42The essays in this volume explore the complex relationships among events, memory, and portrayal of those events and the deepest questions of human experience, all viewed through a range of... -
Yours Affectionately, Osgood: Colonel Osgood Vose Tracy's Letters Home from the Civil War, 1862-1865 by Sarah Tracy Burrows 9781606354407
Booksplease Price: £55.73An abolitionist Civil War soldier and prisoner of war reflects on life during wartimeMore than 3 million men served in the American Civil War. In Yours Affectionately, Osgood, editors Sarah Tracy...