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Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina by Randy Russell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95For centuries, the mountains of western North Carolina have inspired wonder and awe. It was only natural that man, after gazing at such scenic wonders, would turn some of the mystery he felt into... -
The Baddest Girl on the Planet Heather Frese 9781949467161
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.36WINNER of the LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE "This sun-and-salt-kissed coming-of-age story reads like a wry, honest chat with a close friend." -Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf Awareness Evie Austin, native of... -
Touring the Shenandoah Valley Backroads by Andrea Sutcliffe
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Shenandoah-most often translated as "Daughter of the Stars"-is one of the loveliest names in the language. Backroads travelers will find that it fits the Valley perfectly. Most people know the... -
To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation's Oldest Public University by Geeta N. Kapur 9781949467529
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.29Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of... -
Bullets and Bandages: The Aid Stations and Field Hospitals at Gettysburg by James Gindlesperger
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.43At Gettysburg, PA, during three days of July 1863, 160,000 men fought one of the most fierce and storied battles of the US Civil War. Nearly one in three of those men ended up a casualty of that... -
COVID-19 HELPERS: A story for kids about the coronavirus and the people helping during the 2020 pandemic Beth Bacon 9781949467611
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Winner of the 2020 Emory Global Health Institute Competition. Here's a book that provides children honest yet positive information about Coronavirus (Covid-19). COVID-19 HELPERS gives kids the... -
Helping Our World Get Well: COVID Vaccines by Beth Bacon 9781949467741
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.35Kids can do their part to help heal the world and stop the pandemic by getting a COVID vaccine. After months of wearing masks, washing hands, and social distancing, kids have another way to help... -
Exploring North Carolina's Lookout Towers: A Guide to Hikes and Vistas by Peter J. Barr
Booksplease Price: £35.57A hiking guide and photography book on North Carolina's lookout towers. In the 1920s and 1930s, forestry organizations built dozens of lookout structures in Western North Carolina as the backbone... -
Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland by Jeremy B. Jones
Booksplease Price: £13.09Across the Blue Ridge Mountains stretches a world both charming and complicated. Jeremy Jones and his wife move into a small house above the creek where his family had settled 200 years prior. He... -
Covid-19 Helpers: A Story for Kids about the Coronavirus and the People Helping During the 2020 Pandemic by Beth Bacon 9781949467604
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Winner of the 2020 Emory Global Health Institute Competition. Here's a book that provides children honest yet positive information about Coronavirus (Covid-19). COVID-19 HELPERS gives kids the... -
Woodsmoke by Wayne Caldwell
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.60Woodsmoke is a poetry collection that renders the experience of living out life in a single, exquisite place-"in the shadow of the mountain my father said was mother to us all"-Mount Pisgah in the... -
Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery by Patrick Minges 9780895873231
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42De massa call me and tell me, "Woman, I's pay big money for you, and I's done dat 'cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I's put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn't want... -
North Carolina Waterfalls by Kevin Adams 9780895876539
Booksplease Price: £29.97In this third edition of his classic photography/ hiking guide, Adams showcases his own beautiful color photographs. This complete compendium lists 1,000 waterfalls, and Adams specifically highlights... -
Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina: The Mountains by William R. Trotter 9780895870872
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Bushwhackers recounts hundreds of incidents that brought the Civil War home to the mountains of the Old North State. Some are violent, some humorous; some are heroic, some shameful. From the opening... -
Voices From the Trail of Tears by Vicki Rozema 9780895872715
Booksplease Price: £15.25During the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced... -
Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown by Jackie Eileen Behrend 9780895872104
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.09Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown comprise Virginia's historic triangle. Some of the most important chapters of America's history unfolded in these settlements. The region has been the scene of... -
Granny Curse, The: And Other Ghosts and Legends from East Tenessee by Randy Russell 9780895871855
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.54Witches who fly down chimneys. A chair that won't release its occupant until a drop of blood stains the floor. A mountain that grew-and continues to grow-from the grave of a woman who was larger than... -
Tales of the South Carolina Low Country by Nancy Rhyne 9780895870278
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.79According to archivists at the Library of Congress, South Carolina is richer in folklore than any other state. After traveling almost every back road in several South Carolina counties, Nancy Rhyne... -
Haunted Inns of the Southeast by Sheila Turnage 9780895872340
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Whether you like sleeping among spirits or simply enjoy reading a good ghost story, Haunted Inns of the Southeast is your guide to ninety mysterious places across nine states. At the Don Cesar Resort... -
Rules for Being Dead Kim Powers 9781949467857
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"Kim Powers's haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold and Fannie Flagg." -STARRED Review, Shelf Awareness ... -
Ghosts of Georgetown by Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf 9780895871220
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Georgetown County, located between Myrtle Beach and Charleston, South Carolina, is steeped in tales of dynamic men and women who once lived and prospered here. Though these men and women have now... -
Seaside Spectres by Daniel W. Barefoot 9781949467178
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.30Seaside Spectres collects ghost stories from the coastal region of North Carolina as part of the Haunted North Carolina series. This book includes stories told around beach campfires, in grandma's... -
Haints of the Hills Daniel W. Barefoot 9781949467154
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Haints of the Hills collects ghost stories from North Carolina's mountainous west as part of the Haunted North Carolina series. This book includes stories told around campfires, in grandma's attic,... -
Georgetown Mysteries and Legends by Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf 9780895873408
Booksplease Price: £10.58Elizabeth Huntsinger, the author of two popular Low Country ghost-story collections, returns with a third volume of 18 stories. In this collection, she moves beyond local haints and tells about eerie... -
Ghost Cats of the South by Randy Russell 9780895875570
Booksplease Price: £14.42Award-winning "ghostlorist" Randy Russell admits to being flummoxed by cats. Some cats will give you whisker kisses or sit with you when you're sick. Others will invite you to rub them, then take a... -
Still & Barrel: Craft Spirits in the Old North State by John Francis Trump 9780895876836
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.80Although legal spirits in the Tar Heel state only go back about ten years, making liquor in North Carolina is not new. Wilkes County, which was once dubbed the "Moonshine Capital of the World," was... -
Woody Durham: A Tar Heel Voice by Woody Durham 9780895875778
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.55From 1971 to his retirement in 2011, Woody Durham was the "Voice of the Tar Heels," the radio play-by-play man for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this autobiography, Woody takes... -
First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North Carolina by Stephen Kirk 9780895871275
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.57When Wilbur and Orville Wright arrived on North Carolina's Outer Banks in the year 1900, they were unknown bicycle mechanics who dreamed of powered flight. Even after they achieved the first... -
Hatteras Light: A Novel by Philip Gerard 9780895871664
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.40Set off the treacherous Outer Banks of North Carolina during the final days of the First World War, Hatteras Light is the compelling story of the dedicated keepers of the Hatteras lighthouse and... -
Piedmont Phantoms Daniel W. Barefoot 9781949467147
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.52Piedmont Phantoms collects ghost stories from the populous central region of North Carolina as part of the Haunted North Carolina series. This book includes stories told around campfires, in... -
On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Georgia by Andrew Waters 9780895872289
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52During the Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project engaged jobless writers and researchers to interview former slaves about their experiences in bondage. Most of the interviewees were by then... -
Prayin' to Be Set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi by Andrew Waters 9780895872562
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.87In his introduction to Prayin' to Be Set Free, Andrew Waters likens the personal accounts of former Mississippi slaves to the music of that state's legendary blues artists. The pain, the modest... -
The Andy Griffith Show by Richard Kelly 9780895870438
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895870438Author Richard KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint -
Life of General Francis Marion, The: A Celebrated Partisan Officer, in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia by Brigadier General P. Horry 9780895871961
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.31After the fall of Charleston during the American Revolution, South Carolina was devoid of any organized resistance to the British army. It was under these circumstances that Francis Marion organized... -
Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories by May-lee Chai
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story... -
Jamestown Adventure, The: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614 by Ed Southern 9780895873026
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In December 1606, three ships carrying 144 passengers and crew sailed from London bound for a land that had already claimed more than its share of English lives. In May of the following year, little... -
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill 9780895876751
Booksplease Price: £13.38Five thousand years out of the labyrinth, the Minotaur finds himself in the American South, living in a trailer park and working as a line cook at a steakhouse. No longer a devourer of human flesh,... -
North Carolina in the 1940s: The Decade of Transformation Philip Gerard 9781949467826
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This book is the first in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State... -
The Baddest Girl on the Planet by Heather Frese 9781949467840
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42WINNER of the LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE "This sun-and-salt-kissed coming-of-age story reads like a wry, honest chat with a close friend." -Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf Awareness Evie Austin, native of... -
Cape Fear Rising by Philip Gerard 9781949467024
Booksplease Price: £19.35In August 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a mecca for middle-class black citizens. Many of the city's lawyers, businessmen, and other professionals were black, as were all the tradesmen and...