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Aminadab by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98The world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction... -
Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.50Generations before the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery wintered in the northern Plains, the Mandan Indians farmed along the banks of rivers. The traditional world of the Mandans comes vividly to... -
A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed by Douglas H. Chadwick
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86"In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Pressing hard against the upper limit of life's possibilities, it exists... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.94The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons,... -
![Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin 9780803218833](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1567441/1567021/9780803218833__93554.1706198207.jpg?c=1 "Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin 9780803218833")
Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin 9780803218833
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Lt. Gen. George S. Patton remarked that the "45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best division that the American army has ever produced." Such praise, however, came at a steep... -
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt 9780803236394
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.47As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and... -
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 by Francis French 9780803226395
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.38It was a time of bold new technology, historic moments, and international jousting on the final frontier. But it was also a time of human drama, of moments less public but no less dramatic in the... -
Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland 9780803270589
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a... -
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 by Francis French 9780803229792
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.47In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon... -
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay 9780803280045
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and... -
Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life by Nancy Lord 9780803240001
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place... -
The Wow Boys: A Coach, a Team, and a Turning Point in College Football by James W. Johnson 9780803276321
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92In 2002 ESPN rated football's shift to the modern T-formation offense as the second best sports innovation of all time-just behind baseball's free agency. The story behind the move to the T-formation... -
Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women by Barbara Alice Mann 9780803260429
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite... -
The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz 9780803291607
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne tribe in the 1830s, she... -
The Adventures of The Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart by Susanne George-Bloomfield 9780803270428
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Generations of readers have delighted in Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915), among the most engaging accounts of life in the American... -
Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny by Robert J. Miller 9780803215986
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.54Native America, Discovered and Conquered takes a fresh look at American history through the lens of the Doctrine of Discovery-the legal basis that Europeans and Americans used to lay claim to the... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272965
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Some of the women traveling west in the late 1850s were strong advocates of equal rights for their sex. On the trail, Julia Archibald Holmes and Hannah Keziah Clapp sensibly wore the "freedom... -
Shelby's Folly: Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the Shakedown of a Montana Boomtown by Jason Kelly 9780803240049
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.83In 1923, not long after oil had started gushing from northern Montana fields, declining real-estate sales in nearby Shelby were dimming the little town's prospects of becoming the "Tulsa of the West... -
The Home Place by Dorothy Thomas 9780803282520
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers. This... -
Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians by Frank Raymond Secoy 9780803292093
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Frank Raymond Secoy wrote this classic work while at Columbia University in the early 1950s. In his introduction, John C. Ewers considers the influence of Secoy's book on scholars since its original... -
Trauma at Home: After 9/11 by Judith Greenberg 9780803271081
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98The terrorist attacks of September 11 brought the effects of trauma home to millions in America and throughout the world. Initially the attacks created a sense of paralysis and a narrative void. Now... -
Lost on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262195
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Lost! Space adventurer Carson Napier made a grievous miscalculation and became stranded on dangerous, mist-shrouded Venus. But Napier refused to quit. He won the love of the beautiful Duare, princess... -
Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies by Jason Vest 9780803218604
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining American authors of the last half of the twentieth century. The cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction have generated so... -
The Saga of Tom Horn: The Story of a Cattlemen's War by Dean F. Krakel 9780803277670
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92An epidemic of cattle rustling in southern Wyoming in the 1890s and the desperate straits of stockmen set the stage for this saga of Tom Horn, a former Pinkerton detective, an expert hunter and dead... -
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In These Hills by Ralph Beer 9780803262096 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $1.74After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In... -
Perfect Murders by Horace Leonard Gold 9780803233591
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Perhaps best known for editing the popular post-World War II magazines Galaxy Science Fiction and Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Horace L. Gold also wrote comic-book scripts for DC Comics and penned... -
The Blizzard Voices by Ted Kooser 9780803259638
Booksplease Price: $16.012007 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten selection 2007 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for Poetry, honoring Tom Pohrt (Illustrator) This book is a collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on... -
Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days by Nancy Plain 9780803235205
Booksplease Price: $23.13Once President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D... -
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Shantytown Kid by Azouz Begag 9780803262584 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $11.86One day an illiterate Algerian immigrant in Lyon gave his son, Azouz Begag, a book, saying, "This book is a bird." How Begag took flight on the wings of learning is one of the stories that unfolds in... -
Cowgirls: Women of the American West by Teresa Jordan 9780803275751
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she rides and ropes, understands land and stock, and... -
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers by Brian Swann 9780803293144
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92I Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and... -
Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures by Bryan L. Jones 9780803275928 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $2.01Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures is a collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. Anecdotes on small-town baseball and the polio... -
The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds by Pete Axthelm
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Pete Axthelm follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes... -
Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story by Cindy Thomson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92On October 8, 1908, Mordecai Brown clutched a half-dozen notes inside his coat pocket. The message of each was clear: we'll kill you if you pitch and beat the Giants. A black handprint marked each... -
Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories by Boris Vian
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Ten of Vian's best jazzy, outrageous short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night lifeTen of Vian's best jazzy, outrageous short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night... -
Butch Cassidy: A Biography by Richard Patterson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances, and writers after his... -
Bataan Death March: A Survivor's Account by William E. Dyess 9780803266339
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the... -
Love Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts, Second Edition by Martha Gellhorn 9780803226777
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Written in the aftermath of World War II, Love Goes to Press opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg and ration cards, today it is a... -
Swords from the Sea by Harold Lamb 9780803220362
Booksplease Price: $29.25Vikings, pirates, heroes, rogues, and explorers . . . all have heard the siren call of the sea, and master storyteller Harold Lamb chronicled some of their most daring exploits. This single volume... -
Journal of a Lady of Quality by Janet Schaw 9780803259539
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish...