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A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist O, The Oprah Magazine "Best Books of Summer" selection "Magnetic nonfiction." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Remarkable insight ...[a] unique... -
The Measure of Darkness by Liam Durcan 9781942658047
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.00Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner National Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection "A deft exploration of the heart and mind that offers the pathos of a Sam Shepard... -
Jerzy: A Novel by Jerome Charyn 9781942658146
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.85"Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." --Michael Chabon "One of our finest writers." --Jonathan Lethem "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." --O, The... -
Love Among the Particles by Norman Lock 9781934137642
Booksplease Price: $22.68"Topical, astonishing and provocative ...a masterful collection." --Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review) "[Lock's stories] are gems, rich in imagination and language ...For all their... -
Mortal and Immortal DNA: Science and the Lure of Myth by Gerald Weissmann 9781934137161
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.71"Once again, Gerald Weissmann, with a firm and easy knowledge of everyone who matters from Auden to Zola, bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and... -
Pale Faces: The Masks of Anemia by Charles L. Bardes 9781934137109
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.11Who would have thought that something so commonplace as iron deficiency would lead to prehistoric ochre, Egyptian amulets, Renaissance alchemy, Victorian projections of maidenhood, and the... -
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb by David C. Cassidy
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.94"A fascinating, well-documented biography." --New York Times Book Review "A monumental effort." --New York Review of Books "An excellent piece of science writing...Cassidy does not so much... -
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life by Colin Ellard 9781942658009
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.33Library of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine "What to Read" selection "A really great book." IRA FLATOW, Science Friday "One of the finest science writers I've ever read." Los... -
Are You Here For What I'm Here For? by Brian Booker 9781942658122
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.00Readers will be intrigued by the way these stories transgress the boundaries of the uncanny and the real, incorporating the ever-present threat of global pandemics (including encephalitis lethargica,... -
Not Long Ago Persons Found by J. Richard Osborn 9781954276406
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06A forensics team investigates the murder of a child and is drawn into a chilling international coverupThe body of a young boy is found floating in a city river with pollen in his lungs from a warm... -
Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century by Jonathan D. Moreno 9781934137437
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48"One of the most important thinkers describes the literally mind-boggling possibilities that modern brain science could present for national security." --LAWRENCE J. KORB, former US Assistant... -
Autopsy of a Father Pascale Kramer 9781942658245
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.70"[Kramer's body of work is] precise and sumptuous . . . a song of emotion, but with a great lucidity about the humanity of simple people."-Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Swiss Grand Prize for... -
Like the Appearance of Horses by Andrew Krivak 9781954276314
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Now in paperback from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak—a novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecomingRooted in the small,... -
Inukshuk by Gregory Spatz 9781934137420
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.40"An elaborate tale of family and the paths people take to understanding." --Seattle Times "[This] mix of well-researched history and contemporary fiction makes for a fine, sad read." --Minneapolis... -
Sleeping Mask: Fictions by Peter LaSalle 9781942658184
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.04"LaSalle's [stories] transcend their particulars to show people with dreams, dilemmas, and disappointments that will move any reader." --Jhumpa Lahiri, Harvard Review "Haunting and... -
Hap and Hazard and the End of the World by Diane DeSanders 9781942658368
Booksplease Price: $25.76"Diane DeSanders writes the sort of prose that gives that telltale tingle down the spine, prose that paints vivid pictures in the mind and presents an entire, unique world: the Lone Star State, the... -
The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America by Jonathan D. Moreno 9781934137383
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.19A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and Scientific American Book Club selection "Moreno pulls apart the debates on eugenics, abortion, end-of-life decisions, embryonic stem-cell research,... -
Bob Stevenson by Richard Wiley 9781942658160
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.38"A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale... -
The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss 9781934137543
Booksplease Price: $29.82"The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political... -
As If by Magic by Edgard Telles Ribeiro 9781954276505
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Nothing is as it seems in the sinuous tales of Brazilian master Edgard Telles RibeiroA son embarks on a journey involving a disappearing suitcase, secret police, and a strange letter, while pursuing... -
Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become Lynne Jones 9781934137666
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48"Remarkable insight and sensitivity ...deepen[s] our understanding of human resilience and how people rebuild their lives from tragic circumstances." --KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director, Human Rights... -
Awkward: A Detour by Mary Cappello 9781934137017
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.20Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Mary Cappello['s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed." MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and... -
I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair by Charlee Brodsky 9781934137093
Booksplease Price: $39.16"Evocative images, eloquent testimony-a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness."-Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to... -
Wolf Season by Helen Benedict 9781942658306
Booksplease Price: $25.64"No one writes with more authority or cool-eyed compassion about the experience of women in war both on and off the battlefield than Helen Benedict. In Wolf Season, she shows us the complicated ways... -
The Odditorium: Stories by Melissa Pritchard 9781934137376
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.71O, The Oprah Magazine "Title to Pick Up Now" & Oprah.com Book of the Week San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year Library Journal Best Stories Collection of the Year "Emotionally rich." --New... -
In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song Jerome Charyn 9781942658429
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06"Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -Michael Chabon"Whatever milieu [Charyn] chooses to inhabit . . . his sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice... -
Freud's Trip to Orvieto: The Great Doctor's Unresolved Confrontation with Antisemitism, Death, and Homoeroticism; His Passion for Paintings; and the Writer in His Footsteps by Nicholas Fox Weber 9781942658269
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $36.21"[An] unusual meditation on sex, death, art, and Jewishness. . . . Weber weaves in musings on his own sexual and religious experiences, creating a freewheeling psychoanalytic document whose approach... -
A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice by William E. Glassley 9781942658344
Booksplease Price: $26.05"Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful... -
The Fevers of Reason: New and Selected Essays by Gerald Weissmann 9781942658320
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.90"Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer, Lewis Thomas . . . Weissmann is in this noble tradition." Los Angeles Times "[Weissmann] is a man of wide culture, a captivating and graceful writer." New Yorker ... -
Ghost Moth by Michele Forbes 9781934137604
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.92During the summer of 1969, Northern Ireland, found itself on the brink of civil war as Irish Catholic Republicans and Protestant Loyalists clashed violently in what has become known as "The Troubles... -
A Fugitive in Walden Woods by Norman Lock 9781942658221
Booksplease Price: $25.76"A Fugitive in Walden Woods manages that special magic of making Thoreau's time in Walden Woods seem fresh and surprising and necessary right now. Norman Lock tells the story of Samuel Long, an... -
Aaron's Leap by Magdalena Platzova 9781934137703
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.73"Told in clear and beautiful prose, Aaron's Leap is a deeply moving portrait of love, sacrifice, and the transformative power of art in a time of brutal uncertainty." SIMON VAN BOOY, author of The... -
The Child by Pascale Kramer 9781934137550
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.38"Intense and bravely uncompromising. An adult study of pain, thwarted affection, and guarded privacies in a world at the edge of violent public breakdown. An impressive achievement."... -
Tacoma Stories by Richard Wiley 9781942658542
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.20"Richard Wiley is one of our best writers. These stories satisfy in the way that brilliant short fiction always satisfies; one feels as if one has absorbed the expansive vision and drama of a... -
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.20"The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait,... -
Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science by Gerald Weissmann 9781934137390
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.71"[Weissmann] has emerged in the last three decades as America's most interesting and important essayist. He has achieved this status both epigenetically and through Twitter, word of mouth, so to... -
Trondheim by Cormac James 9781954276239
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954276239Author Cormac JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bellevue Literary PressPublisher... -
The Business of Naming Things by Michael Coffey 9781934137864
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.16"Riveting ...vibrant and unsparing." --Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) "Superb...Startlingly original." --Library Journal (starred review) "Once I started reading these stories, I... -
Boltzmann's Tomb: Travels in Search of Science by Bill Green 9781934137352
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $34.16A selection of the Scientific American book club Recommended by MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, & American Association for the Advancement of Science's SB&F magazine "This wonderful scientific... -
A Proper Knowledge by Michelle Latiolais 9781934137116
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.56"Every passionate reader lives for that first page of a book that alerts her, straightaway, she'll be sorry when the book ends. So it is with Michelle Latiolais' astonishing, sparklingly intelligent...