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Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein by Brenda Wineapple
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Devoted, eccentric, and compelling, Gertrude and Leo Stein were constant companions, from childhood to adulthood, until, finally, they spoke no more. Americans, expatriates, and virtually orphans,... -
The Orange Tree by Mildred Walker
Booksplease Price: £11.15As in Chekhov's play The Three Sisters, the characters in Mildred Walker's Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class lives-and yet from such a seemingly... -
Aminadab by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The 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... -
Light from Arcturus by Mildred Walker
Booksplease Price: £12.00Stuck in the middle of Nebraska in the late nineteenth century, Julia Hauser felt restless. "The four walls of her parlor bound her world too securely," writes Mildred Walker. But what could she do?... -
Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance by Azouz Begag
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. Only months earlier Azouz Begag, France's first minister for equal opportunities and... -
Roots of Change: Nebraska's New Agriculture by Mary Ridder
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.96Among the vast corporate and smaller family-sized farms and agribusinesses of Nebraska, the old pioneering spirit of entrepreneurship is rising again, this time in the form of sustainable and organic... -
White Spirit by Betsy Wing
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37After answering a classified ad placed by an import-export company looking for energetic young men willing to take on responsibilities for its African branches-no diploma required-Victor finds... -
A Short Season: Story of a Montana Childhood by Donald M. Morehead
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A Short Season is Don Morehead's bittersweet story of growing up on a Montana ranch during the 1940s. In 1941 his parents eagerly took up residence on a ten-thousand-acre sheep ranch in northern... -
Brother Bill's Bait Bites Back and Other Tales from the Raton by Ricardo L. Garcia
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.94Much of the literature about northeastern New Mexico depicts range wars, bandits, labor union strife, and Indian depredations. This collection of twelve modern folktales describes events that never... -
Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.54Generations 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... -
Flowers in the Snow: The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison by Gwyneth Hoyle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American... -
The Life of High Countess Gritta von Ratsinourhouse by Bettine von Arnim
Booksplease Price: £24.83Appearing for the first time in English, this delightful story of the adventures of twelve young girls will appeal to readers of all ages. Gritta, neglected by her father, is uprooted when her new... -
The Year 3000: A Dream by Paolo Mantegazza 9780803230323
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young... -
Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir by Charles B. Gatewood 9780803218840
Booksplease Price: £20.49Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked... -
Artemisia by Anna Banti 9780803262133
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history. She could neither read nor write, and she was... -
Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition) by Thomas B. Marquis 9780803282889
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle... -
The Power of Solitude: My Life in the German Resistance by Peter Hoffmann 9780803299153
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.04"Dearly beloved Child of my Heart, we are probably standing at the end of our beautiful and rich life together. Because tomorrow the People's Court intends to sit in judgment on me and others. I hear... -
The Kingdom of God Is within You by Leo Tolstoy 9780803294042
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.67First published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in Russia, The Kingdom of God Is within You reveals Tolstoy's world outlook after his conversion to Christianity. He argues that the kingdom of... -
The Savage Gentleman by Philip Wylie 9780803234604
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Betrayed by his wife, Stephen Stone spirits his son, Henry, away to a remote tropical island and trains him to be an ideal physical specimen and a perfect gentleman. After years of isolation, Henry... -
Indian Boyhood by Charles A. Eastman 9780803267190
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Indian Boyhood (1902) was the literary debut of Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), a Santee Sioux whose eleven books aimed at bringing whites and Indians closer together. The favorable reception of the... -
Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories by Jane Holden Kelley 9780803277748
Booksplease Price: £12.28The four life histories collected here-personal accounts of the Yaqui wars, deportation from Sonora in virtual slavery, life as soldaderas with the Mexican Revolutionary army, emigration to Arizona... -
The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man by John Myers 9780803258341
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Before his most fabulous adventure (celebrated by John G. Neihardt in The Song of Hugh Glass and by Frederick Manfred in Lord Grizzly), Hugh Glass was captured by the buccaneer Jean Lafitte and... -
The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp by Frank Waters 9780803258389
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.44The Earp Brothers of Tombstone and the famous fight at the O. K. Corral are well known to American history and even better known to American legend. This composite biography of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil,... -
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 by Francis French 9780803226395
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21It 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... -
A Surgeon in Khaki: Through France and Flanders in World War I by Arthur Anderson Martin 9780803234925
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Considered by critics to be an accurate portrayal of frontline medical conditions, A Surgeon in Khaki is New Zealand surgeon Arthur Anderson Martin's account of his experiences in 1914, early in... -
The Last Man by Mary Shelley 9780803293502
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Taken from an ancient text found abandoned in a cave, The Last Man ends in 2100, "the last year of the world." A devastating worldwide plague has annihilated all of humanity except for one man, who... -
Death in the Desert: The Fifty Year's War for the Great Southwest by Paul Iselin Wellman 9780803297227
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.29The Apache Indians and the white settlers came face to face after the Mexican War, when the migrations across the continent reached the Southwest. In depicting the long, bitter resistance of the... -
The Days Are Gods by Liz Stephens 9780803243545
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91"I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bulletin, and these gentlemen came to help," Brady, the real estate agent, says. Welcome to Wellsville, Utah... -
Dakota Texts by Raymond J. DeMallie 9780803266605
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Ella Deloria (1889-1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained... -
Land of the Spotted Eagle by Luther Standing Bear 9780803293335
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this... -
Lana's Lakota Moons by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 9780803260283
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.89This charming and poignant contemporary story about two Lakota girls and their Laotian friend illuminates for children and adults the Lakota meaning of family, friendship, life, and death. In the... -
Bliss and Other Short Stories by Ted Gilley 9780803232617
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.87Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this daring collection of nine stories introduces readers to an edgy vision and a world in which certainties are tested and found wanting. A... -
The Wonder by J. D. Beresford 9780803261624
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Nothing will ever mystify or challenge the Wonder. He masters entire libraries and languages with little effort. No equation, no problem is too difficult to solve. His casual conversations with... -
The Global Game: Writers on Soccer by John C. Turnbull 9780803210783
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Includes "The Empty Pleasure" by 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Mario Vargas Llosa The world's most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the planet's prevalent cultural expressions,... -
Swords from the East by Harold Lamb 9780803219496
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.56Their conquest was measured not in miles but in degrees of longitude. They smashed the gates of empires, overthrew kingdoms, diverted rivers, and depopulated entire countries. They were the Mongols... -
The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire, Second Edition by Mari Sandoz 9780803226562
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.67Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham's Fork, in what is now... -
Dark Heart of the Night by Leonora Miano 9780803228238
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.77What is Africa's own "heart of darkness"? It is what confronts Ayane when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an "outsider" with foreign ways... -
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 by Francis French 9780803229792
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.77In 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... -
Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A. by Edward G. Longacre 9780803230088
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.13As the grandson of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and the nephew of Robert E. Lee, Fitzhugh Lee-nicknamed "Fitz"-was born into one of Virginia's most distinguished families. Upon graduation from West... -
The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody 9780803232914
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42What we know of Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917) is more myth than man. Yet the stage persona that took audiences by storm was based on the very real encounters of William F. Cody with the American West...