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The Peace Corps in Tanzania: A History by Lawrence E y Mbogoni 9781606354889
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61An examination of one of the earliest Peace Corps programs in Africa In 1961, the first group of Peace Corps volunteers in Tanzania-surveyors, engineers, and geologists-arrived in Dar es Salaam with... -
The First 649 Days: Essays and Other Acts of Love Eric LeMay 9781606355060
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24How do we wrestle with unimaginable loss? How does love open us to new worlds and even new versions of ourselves? In The First 649 Days, Eric LeMay explores the everyday moments and momentous events... -
The Forgotten Battles of the Chancellorsville Campaign: Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Banks' Ford in Spring 1863 Erik F. Nelson 9781606354803
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.72Military operations in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were a significant part of the Chancellorsville Campaign, but they are overshadowed by what occurred in the wilderness of Spotsylvania County, where... -
The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories by 9780873389181
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.12When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a local physician... -
Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves Martin H Bush 9781606354940
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.66The unlikely story of one of baseball's greatest comeback seasons The Boston Braves (the present-day Atlanta Braves) were a bunch of losers and alcohol-soaked whiskey swiggers, buried in last place... -
More Important Than Good Generals: Junior Officers in the Army of the Tennessee by Jonathan Engel 9781606354896
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.07The Union's forgotten mid-level officers and their commitment to the cause More Important Than Good Generals is an in-depth study of the Army of the Tennessee's junior officers--the company and field... -
Reading Hemingway's The Garden of Eden: Glossary and Commentary by Carl P. Eby 9781606354582
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £28.18Close reading and analysis of Hemingway's most ambitious posthumous novel Published in 1986, Ernest Hemingway's novel The Garden of Eden is a literary landmark. Hemingway periodically worked on the... -
A Singular People: Images of Zoar by 9780873387675
Booksplease Price: £25.92The community of Zoar has been a tourist attraction since it was founded in 1817, due in part to its uncommon experiment in Christian communal living, its German heritage, and its location on the... -
The House That Rock Built: How it Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans to Bring the Rock Hall to Cleveland by Norm N. Nite
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.31Featured in Rolling Stone!The behind-the-scenes battle for the Rock Hall.For 25 years, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has defined Cleveland's image as the "Rock and Roll Capital of the World." But... -
Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation Christopher P. Briem 9781606355022
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Learning from one Rust Belt city's postindustrial transition While Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think "eds and meds"),... -
The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875 by Gordon H. Shufelt 9781606354124
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.58An extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century BaltimoreIn 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American... -
Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts by George R. Dekle Sr 9781606353707
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite. His trail of debauched women ended with... -
The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband by Gary Sosniecki 9781606354049
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Albin Ludwig was furious. He had caught his wife, Cecilia, with other men before; now, after secretly following Cecilia one evening in 1906, Albin was overcome with suspicion. Albin and Cecilia... -
Ghosts of an Old Forest: Essays on Midwestern Rural Heritage Deborah Fleming 9781606354933
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In the Ohio counties of the Alleghany Plateau, 9th-century barns hewn from old-growth wood rest near remnant forests, reminders of the state's deep agricultural roots and rich ecological past... -
Cold War Secrets: A Vanished Professor, A Suspected Killer, and Hoover's FBI by Eileen Welsome 9781606354254
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later.A native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, Riha was a popular teacher at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a... -
Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865, Revised and Expanded Edition by J. Gregory Acken
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £36.40The insightful letters of a Harvard-educated staff officer's experience in the Army of the PotomacaCharles J. Mills, the scion of a wealthy, prominent Boston family, experienced a privileged... -
In the Heart of It All: An Unvarnished Account of My Life in Public Service by Richard F Celeste 9781606354452
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Former Ohio governor Richard Celeste's remarkable journey from humble beginnings in northeast Ohio to Yale, Oxford, Washington DC, India, the governor's residence, and beyond"Dick, remember this... -
Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America by Michael J. Megelsh 9781606354674
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £24.37The remarkable life of a noteworthy-yet overlooked-Union general turned Reconstruction-era politician A central figure in Reconstruction-era politics, Adelbert Ames and his contributions during a... -
Redemption in '64: The Champion Cleveland Browns by John M. Harris 9781606353431
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.14The Cleveland Browns set the standard by which all professional football teams were measured in the 1940s and '50s, but when they won the National Football League championship in 1964 it came as a... -
Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey by John Rosegrant 9781606354353
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Tolkien's enchanted worldview as literary form and as psychological struggleFocusing on the themes of enchantment and loss in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, this unique study incorporates elements... -
Black Hair in a White World by Tameka N. Ellington 9781606354568
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.04A critical and nuanced look at societal perceptions of Black hair, past and present Black Hair in a White World is an in-depth study of the cultural history, perceptions, and increasing acceptance of... -
Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers by 9780873388948
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Plunging into one of Jay Baruch's stories is like finding yourself in a busy Emergency Room at two in the morning-here you will meet characters whose lives are urgent and not always what they seem on... -
From the Wilderness to Appomattox: The Fifteenth New York Heavy Artillery in the Civil War by Edward A. Altemos 9781606354643
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32An in-depth look at of a vitally important but little-known heavy artillery regiment of the Civil WarIn early 1864, many heavy artillery regiments in the Civil War were garrisoning the Washington... -
The Madness of John Terrell: Revenge and Insanity on Trial in the Heartland Stephen Terrell 9781606354872
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Cold-blooded murderer or loving father driven insane?In early 1900s Indiana, John Terrell was the wealthiest man in Wells County, thanks to oil discovered on his farm. But when his youngest daughter,... -
What's Left Out by Jay Baruch 9781606352335
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.582015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Award for Short FictionShort stories about the complex maze of health careConventional medical narratives often fail to capture the incoherent, surreal, and... -
The East River Ripper: The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare by George R. Dekle Sr.
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Innocent or guilty, or a more nuanced truth, in this Ripper-style killingShortly after NYPD Chief of Detectives Thomas Byrnes publicly criticized the London police for failing to capture Jack the... -
Witnessing the American Century: Via Berlin, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, and the Straits of Florida by Capt Allen Colby Brady Usn
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37A US Naval Aviator's odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century historyThe rise of Adolf Hitler, America's Great Depression in the heartland, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, American life following... -
The Man Who Shot J. P. Morgan: A Life of Arsenic, Anarchy, and Intrigue Mary Noé 9781606354957
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The thrilling, true story of a prolific criminal's many identities and exploits On the morning of July 3, 1915, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., one of the most famous names in finance, was entertaining... -
Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio's Natural Landscape by Deborah Fleming 9781606354186
Booksplease Price: £16.40Winner, 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.An impassioned call for recognizing and preserving the ecological wonders of the Allegheny PlateauYosemite National Park,... -
The Deep Blue of Neptune by Terry Belew 9781606354988
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Winner of the 2024 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize The Deep Blue of Neptune is a striking, meditative collection of poems by Terry Belew, which reminds readers of the necessity of empathy in the midst... -
Opium and Ambergris by Colin Dekeersgieter 9781606354834
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Winner of the 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeOpium and Ambergris is the haunting debut collection by poet Colin Dekeersgieter, whose lyric poems scrutinize a family's history with addiction,... -
Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black by Arlene Keizer 9781606354681
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeFraternal Light: On Painting While Black: Poems for Beauford Delaney is a lyric evocation of the life and work of the great African American artist... -
Playhouse Square and the Cleveland Renaissance by John Vacha 9781606354742
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.01How five beloved Cleveland theaters escaped the wrecking ball and inspired city-wide urban renewal Shortly after World War I ended, five new theaters were constructed in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, all... -
The Wife of the Left Hand by Nancy Kuhl 9781905700066
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27In her first full-length collection of poems, The Wife of the Left Hand, the poet Nancy Kuhl explores the lyric possibilities found within the sometimes narrow space of the domestic interior, caught... -
The Violence Volcano: Reducing the Threat of Workplace Violence by 9781607523437
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.87The Violence Volcano is for managers and workers in all types of business and government organizations, including law enforcement and other first-responders. Its purpose is to assist all... -
The Violence Volcano: Reducing the Threat of Workplace Violence by 9781607523444
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £67.30The Violence Volcano is for managers and workers in all types of business and government organizations, including law enforcement and other first-responders. Its purpose is to assist all... -
Suspend by Nancy Kuhl 9781848610866
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27'Taking place within a lunar month, and likewise, within a menstrual cycle, "Suspend" is deeply concerned with pregnancy, sexual desire, self and self-doubled and doubling. In this collection of... -
Where All Good Flappers Go: Essential Stories of the Jazz Age by Various
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.38Featuring short stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston and more Edited and Introduced by David M. Earle Vivacious, charming, irreverent: a flapper is a... -
American Foreign Policy Since World War II by Steven W. Hook 9781544326856
Booksplease Price: £118.01American Foreign Policy since World War II has long set the standard in guiding students through the complexities of the field. This twenty-first edition features three new chapters that examine the... -
Billy Budd by Herman Melville 9780810111134
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £78.99The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, Billy Budd, Sailor is often treated as a...