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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: £14.51"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... -
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: £15.73Henry 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: £14.91Recently 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... -
Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures by Bryan L. Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.80Mark 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... -
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: £12.56By 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: £14.82A 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... -
Swords from the Sea by Harold Lamb 9780803220362
Booksplease Price: £21.83Vikings, 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... -
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil 9780803298002
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.71Simone 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: £14.91Alexander 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: £16.47Through 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... -
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,... -
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
Booksplease Price: £20.18Deadwood, 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: £13.37The 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: £18.43Gathered 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... -
Buckskin and Blanket Days by Thomas Henry Tibbles 9780803251991
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.87The 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... -
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: £14.91Field 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... -
Poems of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce 9780803261334
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.85Ambrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in American literary history. A writer whose Devil's Dictionary remains the delight of misanthropes and fans of satire throughout the... -
Three Years With Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader by Sylvanus Cadwallader 9780803263697
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.70Sylvanus Cadwallader, a war correspondent for the Chicago Times and later for the New York Herald, was attached to General Grant's headquarters from 1862 to 1865. He enjoyed rare access to... -
Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41 by Michael Seidel 9780803292932
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Streak vividly and poignantly tells the story of "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio's legendary fifty-six-game hitting streak and the last golden summer of baseball before America was engulfed by the maelstrom... -
The Song of the Axe: The Pelbar Cycle, Book Six by Paul O. Williams 9780803298460
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.97Twenty years after the great battle at Northwall, the disparate warring tribes are moving toward a peaceful unity for the first time since before the Time of the Fire. With the comfort of peace, the... -
Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions by S. L. Wisenberg 9780803298668
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.80This bracing and vivid collection of essays gives voice to what some American Jews feel but don't express about their uneasy state of mind. These essays creatively and sometimes audaciously address... -
Scarlet Plume by Frederick Manfred 9780803243644
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota. Enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and... -
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Belle Starr: "The Bandit Queen" by Burton Rascoe 9780803290037
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.26Legendary comrade and consort to train robbers, bootleggers, stagecoach robbers, bushwhackers, bank robbers, horse thieves, cattle thieves, and outlaws of all stripes, Belle Star (1848-89) was born... -
Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession by Sam Moses 9780803210967
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90Sam Moses, a motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated, was assigned to go racing and write about what happened. Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots is a personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of... -
Madah-Sartre: The Kidnapping, Trial, and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir by Alek Baylee Toumi 9780803211155
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89"Hell is other people," Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote in No Exit. The fantastic tragicomedy Madah-Sartre brings him back from the dead to confront the strange and awful truth of that statement. As... -
Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends by Allen Barra 9780803220584
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21On October 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday shot it out with a gang of cattle rustlers near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. It was over in half a minute, but those... -
Bound to Have Blood: Frontier Newspapers and the Plains Indian Wars by Hugh J. Reilly 9780803236271
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41The Plains Indian Wars were always front-page news in frontier newspapers, and it was to such local newspapers that the public invariably turned for information about the fighting. The vivid,... -
Wright Morris Territory: A Treasury of Work by Wright Morris 9780803236585
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Best known for his novels, including the National Book Award winners The Field of Vision and Plains Song, Nebraska-born author Wright Morris has long been regarded as one of America's most gifted... -
Glory Enough for All: Sheridan's Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station by Eric J. Wittenberg 9780803259676
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54After the ferocious fighting at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in June 1864, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered his cavalry, commanded by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, to distract the Confederate forces... -
We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf by Vine Deloria 9780803259850
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.81We Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and... -
Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262041
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65In this sequel to At the Earth's Core, return to the world of Pellucidar-an exotic, savage land at the center of the Earth, an untamed wilderness where the sun never sets. When American explorer...