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Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure by Stuart Stevens 9780871133618
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €14.61Introducing the life cycles of the main animal groups, this series provides an overview of key physical characteristics and covers the life cycle from birth, or hatching, to death, looking at growing... -
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon: A Novel by Tom Spanbauer 9780802136633
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.68In this title, the plot twists around the questions of humanity in a comic contemporary novel that portrays the trials of Shed, a half-breed, bisexual boy who works at a Victorian whorehouse in the... -
Untouchable: A Biography of Robert De Niro by Andy Dougan 9781560254690
Booksplease Price: €21.68From his amazing feature film performances to his roles as producer and director to his many notable guest appearances, De Niro started his career as early as 1965 and has since dominated the world... -
A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and by Harold Courlander 9781569245019
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €22.66In A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore, editor Harold Courlander brings together an extensive and unique collection of tales, recollections, epics, traditions, beliefs, myths, historical chronicles,... -
Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra by Alan Vanneman 9780786711253
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.66With a case as confounding as any in the original Holmes canon and a tale so terrifying it lay hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson's dispatch box, Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of... -
She's a Bad Motorcycle by Geno Zanetti 9781560253174
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.60Why do people ride motorcycles? Thomas Krens, curator of The Art of the Motorcycle, the most popular exhibition ever mounted at the Guggenheim Museum, writes: "For much of society, the... -
Ghost Town by Robert Coover 9780802136664
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.50A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out... -
Boys' Life: A Comedy by Howard Korder 9780802131706
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802131706Author Howard KorderFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint Avalon Travel... -
The Farrakhan Factor: African-American Writers on Leadership, Nationhood, and Minister Louis Farrakhan by Amy Alexander 9780802135971
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.27The Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan is undeniably one of the most controversial and oft-maligned figures in American social and cultural politics. Now, for the first time, leading... -
A Question of Mercy: A Play Based on the Essay by Richard Selzer by David Rabe 9780802135490
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.33David Rabe is one of America's finest dramatists. In A Question of Mercy, he explores the controversial and emotional issue of euthanasia, delving deep into the ties that bind friends and lovers... -
The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Kleima 9780802136015
Booksplease Price: €17.93When a beautiful married woman walks into Pastor Daniel Vedra's life and conjures up memories of his first wife, Jitka, he struggles with the chaos the affair creates for his wife, his children, his... -
Goose and Tomtom by David Rabe 9780802151933
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.96The author of Hurlyburly again explores the struggle between hope and anguish in the human spirit in this story of two small-time jewel thieves united in a strangely unsettling friendship and the... -
Wicked Women: Stories by Fay Weldon 9780871137371
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €15.47Here we meet nuclear scientist Defoe Desmond, a post Cold War irrelevancy, who is ineptly drawn to a youthful, wily, husband-stealing New Age journalist; three sisters named Edwina, Thomasina, and... -
The First Year: Lupus: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed by Nancy C. Hanger
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €14.02Lupus affects an estimated 1.5 million people in the U.S.,90 percent of whom are women,but due to the diversity of its symptoms and severity, it remains one of the most difficult conditions to... -
100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802130723Author E. E. CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Avalon Travel... -
Why Can't You Read My Mind? by Jeffrey Bernstein, Ph.D.
Booksplease Price: €17.42Most people think that poor communication is the reason why so many relationships end, but it's actually the way we learn to think about our partners and our problems that kills trust, erodes... -
Funeral Rites by Jean Genet 9780802130877
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.55Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to... -
Why Marijuana Should Be Legal by Steve Kubby 9781560254812
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.90Marijuana hit mainstream America over 30 years ago and has been accepted by a large segment of society ever since. Despite government efforts to isolate and eliminate its use, it is more popular now... -
A Slender Thread by Stephen Venables 9781560252986
Booksplease Price: €17.87Stephen Venables and three companions made the first ascent of Panchu Chuli V--a remote Himalayan peak on the borders of India, Nepal and Tibet. A rappel anchor failed on the descent, pitching... -
Annapurna South Face by Sir Chris Bonington 9781560253150
Booksplease Price: €21.85In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet... -
Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems by Bruce Weigl 9780802136077
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.95With Song of Napalm, Bruce Weigl established himself as a poet of incomparable power and lyric fury whose work stands as an elegy to the countless lives dramatically altered by war. Archeology of the... -
Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities by Ray Oldenburg 9781569246122
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.90Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg... -
The Perfect War by James William Gibson 9780871137999
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.79This title provides a critique of American failures in the war in Vietnam which focuses on the US love affair with the technology of destruction and the failure to admit how effective the enemies... -
The Flax Cookbook: Recipes and Strategies for Getting the Most from the Most Powerful Plant on the Planet by Elaine Magee 9781569245071
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.90Flaxseed has been around for centuries, but its pleasant flavor and unsurpassed health benefits have been largely overlooked until now. In The Flax Cookbook, nutritionist Elaine Magee introduces the... -
A Lifetime of Peace: Essential Writings by and about Thich Nhat Hanh by Jennifer Willis 9781569244418
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.97A Lifetime of Peace follows the successful model established by A Lifetime of Wisdom: Essential Writings by and about the Dalai Lama. It draws on dozens of sources to collect the very best writing by... -
Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age by Dr. George Carlo 9780786709601
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.66Essential reading for the 100 million Americans currently using wireless phones, this thoroughly researched and documented cautionary work stands alongside of such classics as Silent Spring and The... -
Within the Context of No Context by George W.S. Trow 9780871136749
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.31Written originally for a special issue of The New Yorker and reissued here with a new forward by the author, Within the Context of No Context is George W. S. Trow's brilliant exposition on the state... -
The Sweet Smell of Pyschosis by Will Self 9780802136473
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €12.90I received William Burroughs's seminal (in more sense than one!) novel Naked Lunch as a form prize when I was fifteen. I read it with a distinct sense of horripilation, as if the vile secretions it... -
Garden Next Door by Jose Donoso 9780802133687
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €13.27A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not... -
The Death of James Dean by Warren Newton Beath 9780802131430
Booksplease Price: €12.05Just before sunset on September 20, 1955, James Byron Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder collided with Donald Gene Turnupseed's Ford Tudor on California Highway 46. At age twenty-four, America's newest screen... -
The Judas Kiss by David Hare 9780802135728
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.33Oscar Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas has inspired contemporary writers for decades. In his account of love tested to destruction, David Hare presents his powerful interpretation of... -
Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe 9780871131423
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €15.21Kommandant van Heerden, the chief of police of Piemburg, terrorizes true Englishmen and even truer Zulus in his search for a perfect South Africa, while Luitenant Verkramp and Dr. von Blimenstein try... -
Cousins ; and, the Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of the Orphans' Home Cycle by Horton Foote 9780802131522
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.84A family is a remarkable thing, isn't it? You belong. And then you don't. It passes you by. Unless you start a family of your own. The last two plays of Horton Foote's Orphans' Home Cycle both expand... -
Shadow Catcher by Szczypiorski 9780802135650
Booksplease Price: €14.55Andrzej Szczypiorski is one of the major figures in world literature. In The Shadow Catcher, he tells the story of a boy who comes of age as the world around him begins to fall apart. At fifteen,... -
View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn 9780871132123
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €12.96Presented for the first time aregs from the tinderboxes across the political horizons of Castro's Cuba, the chambers of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and a small Mississippi town... -
The Lap of Luxury: A Novel by William Hamilton 9780871133427
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €14.29Vincent Booth, a drifter in Manhattan's cafe society, searches for sex, money, power, and a way to maintain his marriage to a wealthy wife, his relationship with a mistress, and a cushy job at the... -
Eat the Rich by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €13.32America's favorite political humorist leads readers on a hysterical whirlwind tour, from the "good capitalism" of Wall Street to the "bad socialism" of Cuba, in search of an... -
Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto by Anneli S. Rufus
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €16.51The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, all,along with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it... -
Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur by Armond White 9781560254614
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.78The ever-controversial Shakur offers a great occasion for a close, passionate reading of rap and ghetto culture. White's understanding of Tupac's art will uncork the bottled up rage and confusion... -
The Art of Screenwriting by William Packard 9781560253228
Booksplease Price: €18.74Writing for the stage and screen presents artistic challenges to aspiring dramatists everywhere. Through practical, proven methods, playwright and poet William Packard leads readers past personal and...