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Jesse James Was His Name; or, Fact and Fiction concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri by William A. Settle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.23"Jesse James," said Carl Sandburg, "is the only American bandit who is classical, who is to this country what Robin Hood or Dick Turpin is to England, whose exploits are so close to the mythical and... -
Alex Posey: Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist by Daniel F. Littlefield
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.49Most of Alexander Posey's short and remarkable life was devoted to literary pursuits. Through a widely circulated satirical column published under the pseudonym Fus Fixico, he did much to document... -
The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy by Henry Ossian Flipper
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.28Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the nineteenth-century West's most remarkable individuals. The first African American graduate of West Point, he served four years in the West as a cavalry officer but... -
Castro's Curveball by Tim Wendel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.13Recently widowed and now retired, Billy Bryan is "coming to the end of many things." Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past-and beckons him and his grown daughter on a... -
A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home by Phoebe Goodell Judson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.17Phoebe Judson was a young bride in 1853 when she and her husband crossed the plains from Ohio to the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory. She was ninety-five when this book was first published... -
Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures by Bryan L. Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Mark 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... -
Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56In the twenty-first century, a battered world is ruled by a crafty old tyrant, Genghis II Mao IV Khan. The Khan is ninety-three years old, his life systems sustained by the skill of Mordecai... -
Microfictions by Ana Maria Shua
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Cinderella's sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince's love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A... -
Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey by Roland Lazenby
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42Mindgames follows the journey of Phil Jackson to the top of basketball's coaching hierarchy, a rise that took him from obscurity in the Continental Basketball Association to nine championship rings... -
Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 by Hugo Gernsback
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.45By the year 2660, science has transformed and conquered the world, rescuing humanity from itself. Spectacular inventions from the farthest reaches of space and deep beneath the earth are available to... -
Before Adam by Jack London
Booksplease Price: £14.41A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of... -
The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65On the island of Ponape in the South Pacific, the cold light of a full moon washes over the crumbling ruins of an ancient, vanished civilization. Unleashed from the depths is the Dweller, a... -
Out of Their League by Dave Meggyesy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Dave Meggyesy had been an outside linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals for seven years when he quit at the height of his career to tell about the dehumanizing side of the game-about the fraud and... -
My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir by Betty Fussell 9780803220973
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Although My Kitchen Wars is a war story, this time the warrior is a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Her weapons-the batterie de cuisine of grills and squeezers and knives-evoke a lifetime's... -
Swords from the Sea by Harold Lamb 9780803220362
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.87Vikings, 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... -
Wovoka and the Ghost Dance by Michael Hittman 9780803273085
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The religious fervor known as the Ghost Dance movement was precipitated by the prophecies and teachings of a northern Paiute Indian named Wovoka (Jack Wilson). During a solar eclipse on New Year's... -
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil 9780803298002
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La... -
The Home Ranch by Ralph Moody 9780803282100
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on... -
Joe Meek: The Merry Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal 9780803252066
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37"A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of man, full... -
The Surgeon and the Shepherd: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France by Meg Ostrum 9780803236417
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Of the thousands of people who escaped through the Pyrenees during World War II, at least one hundred owe their lives to a daring scheme that Belgian Charles Schepens masterminded in Mendive, a... -
Journal of a Lady of Quality by Janet Schaw 9780803259539
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Alexander 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... -
Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke by Philip Jose Farmer 9780803269217
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.19Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography... -
Forever Valley by Marie Redonnet 9780803289512
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81This mesmerizing novel is about a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a rectory and works in a dance hall. Gradually she embarks upon a "personal project": she digs pits in the rectory garden and... -
Death on the Prairie: The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western Plains by Paul Iselin Wellman 9780803297210
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Death on the Prairie is a sweeping narrative history of the Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862,... -
Triumph by Philip Wylie 9780803260139
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.41In the world's upper hemisphere, only one small group has survived World War III: fourteen people, sheltered deep within a limestone mountain in Connecticut and with enough supplies and equipment to... -
Soccer Stories: Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore, and Amazing Feats by Donn Risolo 9780803230149
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Arguably the world's most popular sport, soccer has its own colorful lore, still little known in a nation only now beginning to give the game its due. This book offers the perfect opportunity to... -
Deadwood: The Golden Years by Watson Parker 9780803287020
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Deadwood, South Dakota, has been a source of American legend for over one hundred years. European exploration, Indian wars, gold booms and busts, presidential visits, frontier shootouts, and the... -
Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene by James Henry 9780803276192
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56The eighteen essays in this collection show Henry James (1843-1916) in a new and unexpected light-as a political commentator and social reformer. His acute powers of observation, his unerring feel... -
Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later by O. E. Rolvaag 9780803289062
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.48Peder Victorious, the sequel to Roelvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the... -
The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories by Miles John Breuer 9780803215870
Booksplease Price: £17.91Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer's first publication, "The Man with the Strange Head"; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first... -
The Plain Sense of Things by Pamela Carter Joern 9780803216198
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.21In prose as clean and beautiful as the stark prairie setting, The Plain Sense of Things tells the stories of three generations of a western Nebraska family. These tales of sorrow and hope are... -
Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-Torn Career of an All-Star Shortstop by Robert J. Kirkpatrick 9780803224759
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Biography of Cecil Travis, whose baseball career was interrupted by World War IIBiography of Cecil Travis, whose baseball career was interrupted by World War IIAbout the AuthorRob Kirkpatrick is a... -
The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection by Dorothy Hoobler 9780803234321
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.20Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. But the City of Light was also a violent place. Criminals eagerly took advantage of the inventive nature of the age-the... -
A Regiment of Slaves: The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866 by Edward G. Longacre 9780803237940
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.19The 4th United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiment saw considerable action in the eastern theater of operations from late 1863 to mid-1865. The regiment-drawn largely from freedmen and liberated... -
The Gila: River of the Southwest by Edwin Corle 9780803250406
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.67In the words of Edwin Corle, author of Desert Country, who has chronicled the story of the Gila River, "There is no other stream that even resembles it"-and the pages of this book bear him out. A... -
Prelude to Empire: Portugal Overseas before Henry the Navigator by Bailey W. Diffie 9780803250499
Booksplease Price: £28.22Prelude to Empire spotlights and brings into focus the events and developments in European history which prepared the way for Henry the Navigator and the age of the Great Discoveries. "Henry's just... -
Buckskin and Blanket Days by Thomas Henry Tibbles 9780803251991
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.72The earliest memories of Thomas Henry Tibbles (1840-1928) were of adventure and danger as his pioneer family followed the frontier west from Ohio to Bleeding Kansas, where young Tibbles volunteered... -
In Reach by Pamela Carter Joern 9780803254831
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.08In writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of... -
By Cheyenne Campfires by George Bird Grinnell 9780803257467
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.37Here are the folk tales of the Cheyenne--stories of their heroes, their wars, their relationships with supernatural powers--as told to George Bird Grinnell during the winter months in Cheyenne tipis... -
Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition by Neil DeMause 9780803260160
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.58Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires...