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The Gospel of Barbecue by The Kent State University Press 9780873386739
Booksplease Price: $22.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
My Greatest Day in Football by Murray Goodman 9780873389297
Booksplease Price: $28.31First published in 1948, My Greatest Day in Football is a collection of reminiscences and stories from football's early stars. College football games were the most memorable moments for many of these... -
Classic Bengals: The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Bengals History by Steve Watkins 9781606353608
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.40Who can forget the famous 'Freezer Bowl' AFC championship victory over the San Diego Chargers or the heart-stopping Super Bowl classic against the San Francisco 49ers and Joe Montana? Watkins and... -
Classic Pens: The 50 Greatest Games in Pittsburgh Penguins History by David Finoli 9781606353073
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.40In the first edition of Classic Pens readers were reminded of the franchise's most memorable contests, from its beginnings in the 1960s through the 2010s. is new edition brings the team's standout... -
Roses in December: A Story of Love and Alzheimer's by Tom Batiuk 9781606352342
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $33.36Since its debut in 1987, Crankshaft has engendered reader loyalty and affection with its wry wit, engaging storylines, and identifiable characters. Created by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Chuck Ayers, the... -
Lincoln's Lover: Mary Lincoln in Poetry by Jason Emerson 9781606353066
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.40In his Poetics, Aristotle said a historian and a poet do not differ from each other-one simply writes in verse and the other in prose. In fact, history and poetry have a long connection; much of what... -
I've Been Collecting This to Tell You by Lisa Ampleman 9781606351109
Booksplease Price: $9.56In the old story of love and loss, Lisa Ampleman's I've Been Collecting This to Tell You cuts to the core of the matter with concision and subtlety. Hearts are laid bare, dissected, even grown anew... -
Kardiac Kids: The Story of the 1980 Cleveland Browns by 9780873387613
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29A heart-pounding journey through the most exciting season in Cleveland Browns' historyEvery longtime Cleveland sports fan knows about "Red Right 88," the play that ended the Browns' 1980 season... -
A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction by Robert Dunne 9781606352267
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29The first extensive treatment of Sherwood Anderson's work from a postmodern perspectiveSherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the... -
Punctum by Lesley Jenike 9781606353332
Booksplease Price: $9.56"In Punctum:, Lesley Jenike's new collection, she writes, `It's our language: what can we call a thing / that is and is not.' These poems are haunted by a `non-child,' a child who was not to be born,... -
Even Years by Christine Gosnay 9781606353325
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.34"The poems in Christine Gosnay's first book, Even Years, speak with a voice that animates and astonishes us as they delineate and explore, trace and explode, the 'order of shapes in the light'-the... -
Hell's Wasteland: The Pennsylvania Torso Murders by James Jessen Badal 9781606351536
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.40Did the Mad Butcher of Cleveland also strike in Pennsylvania? From 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city's safety director,... -
Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths by Heikki Seppa 9780873382120
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29A master artist and teacher of metalwork presents a bold new approach to creative expression in metal. Believing that the time has come for the artist to free himself from the functional forms that... -
Tracks to Murder by 9780873388252
Booksplease Price: $31.27On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prizewinning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman... -
The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf 9781606352113
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $18.34It s a joy. . .to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the lives of those who are engaged in the complex project of transforming their own gender... Oliver Bendorf... -
A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie by Verlyn Flieger 9780873386999
RRP: $51.28Booksplease Price: $44.10J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion have long been recognized as among the most popular fiction of the twentieth century, and most critical analysis of Tolkien has... -
The Killing of Julia Wallace by Jonathan Goodman 9781606353110
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $31.29The brutal murder of Julia Wallace in 1931 became one of Britain's great unsolved murders. People began arguing about the case almost immediately and continue to do so to this day.Julia was the... -
The Promise of LeBron James: The Rise, Fall from Grace, and Redemption of Ohio's Own Bill Livingston 9781606354841
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29The story of LeBron James through the eyes of a Cleveland sports insider LeBron James has been a polarizing yet beloved figure for sports fans around the world, possibly nowhere more so than in... -
From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre by 9780873389051
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.69This is a noteworthy history of Cleveland's showcase for touring shows. Built by Daniel R. Hanna as a tribute to his theater-loving father, Marcus Hanna, the Hanna Theatre opened its doors on March... -
The Next of Us is About to be Born: The Wick Poetry Series Anthology in Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center by 9781606350218
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29The Next of Us Is About to Be Born is an anthology of fifty-five poets published in the ""Wick Poetry Series"" celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State... -
Company ""A"" Corps of Engineers, U.S.A., 1846-1848, in the Mexican War, by Gustavus Woodson Smith 9780873387071
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.34This important memoir illuminates life within the Regular Army of the antebellum years. The U.S. Company of Sappers, Miners, and Pontooniers, which Congress authorized on May 13, 1846, quickly became... -
Fort Laurens, 1778-79: The Revolutionary War in Ohio by The Kent State University Press 9780873382403
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $23.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873382403Author The Kent State University PressFormat PaperbackImprint -
House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler by Robert Sberna 9781606351864
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.40The perverse world of a sexual sadist who terrorized women on Cleveland's East SideTo his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine who... -
Kent State - May Four: Echoes Through a Decade by 9780873383608
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29The reverberations of the rifle shots that killed four students on May 4, 1970 echoed across the nation and beyond. Nowhere, perhaps, did they echo with more persistence and poignancy than at the... -
Cadence by Hannah Stephenson 9781606353509
Booksplease Price: $9.56Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already-fraught human experience of time is... -
The New Ray Bradbury Review, Number 5, 2016 by Phil Nichols 9781606352748
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $31.29As a highly visual writer, Ray Bradbury's works have frequently been adapted for film and television. One of the most stylized and haunting dramatizations is Francois Truffaut's 1966 film adaptation... -
Fugue Figure by Michael McKee Green 9781606353561
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.34The book states plainly that both its speaker and the speaker's mother have suffered neardeadly head injuries ("when I woke up in the hospital thirty years after you did," "my head: / rotting pear"),... -
When the Nurse Becomes a Patient: A Story in Words and Images by Cortney Davis 9781606352304
Booksplease Price: $30.82In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patients, underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a series of... -
The Christmas Murders by Jonathan Goodman 9781606350829
Booksplease Price: $30.53A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Here are ten murder cases of "the old-fashioned sort"-evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction-that all took place during the festive... -
Guilt by Popular Demand: A True Story of Small-Town Injustice by Bill Osinski 9781606351338
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $31.29Murder and miscarriage of justice in a rural community The townsfolk of Logan, Ohio, a mined-out area of the Appalachian foothills, cheered as an innocent man was convicted and sent to death row... -
Classic Steelers: The 50 Greatest Games in Pittsburgh Steelers History by David Finoli 9781606351987
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.40When it came to football in the 1930s, the college sport was king. But in 1933, former boxer and minor league baseball player Art Rooney, who had quarterbacked the squad at Duquesne University,... -
The Good-bye Door by 9780873388740
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $26.87Nicknamed ""the Blonde Borgia,"" Anna Marie Hahn was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. When the State of Ohio strapped its... -
Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered by 9780873388023
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $25.40I approached the study of historical and contemporary nurses with my sleeves rolled up, pencil sharpened, and camera loaded. What draws a person to those who are ill and keeps us at the bedside?... -
Intaglio by 9780873388917
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $18.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorA native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Ariana-Sophia M. Kartsonis received an M.F.A. from the University of... -
Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War by Anna Gibson Holloway 9781606353141
Booksplease Price: $66.46On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads-the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one... -
Growing Up with Clemente by 9780873389822
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $30.36Growing Up With Clemente is a personal history of the hardscrabble life of Pittsburgh's South Side during the city's post - World War II renaissance. It is also the intimate story of an American boy... -
Most Succinctly Bred by The Kent State University Press 9780873388559
Booksplease Price: $27.40This is an ""essayistic"" memoir on being a soldier. Alex Vernon's most succinctly bred explores war by exploring around war, by operating in the margins. Vernon records his ongoing relationship with... -
The Age of the Flower by 9780873385015
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.34This latest collection of personal and autobiographical poems by Helga Sandburg includes new works as well as many previously published. She brings to them a lifetime of rich and varied experiences -... -
Poachers Were My Prey: Eighteen Years as an Undercover Wildlife Officer by R.T. Stewart
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.86"You ain't no damn game warden, are ya?" the poacher snarled. I looked him straight in the eye and lied. "Game warden . . . ? I ain't no game warden!"The poacher paused, mulling over my answer, and... -
Prelude: Lisa's Story Begins by Tom Batiuk 9781606353240
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.73Prelude is a collection of the early comic strips that bring Lisa and Les together. Introduced to readers of Funky Winkerbean in late 1984 as she experiences SAT test anxiety, Lisa becomes Les...