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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.54Widely heralded as a "masterful" (The Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever... -
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens by Aeschylus
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $22.81One of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, queen Clytemnestra awaits her... -
Collected Poems by Robert Hayden
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.30Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance,... -
Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.27Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women's movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American... -
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.76A genius of literary suspense, known to millions as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. Based on a wealth... -
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $46.23"Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period's most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures", writes Alan Moore. But at the time of his death, Lovecraft... -
Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count by David Daley
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.67With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives began... -
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula David J. Skal 9781631493867
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.72Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as Count Dracula, has remained an enigma. David J. Skal, in a psychological and cultural portrait, exhumes the inner world and strange genius of... -
The River in the Sky: A Poem by Clive James
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.25"Few people read Poetry any more, but I still wish to write its seedlings down, if only for the lull of gathering: no less a harvest season for being the last time," writes Clive James in his epic... -
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson 9781631490828
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $20.63History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a... -
73 Poems E. E. Cummings 9780871401830
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.72Four months after Cummings's death in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new poems. These poems, as well as uncollected poems published only... -
The Drought by J G Ballard 9780871404015
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404015Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell 9781631494932
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.61The gruesome 1947 murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short holds a permanent place in American lore as one of our most inscrutable true-crime mysteries. In a groundbreaking feat of detection hailed... -
Jerusalem by Alan Moore 9781631492433
Booksplease Price: $41.53In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's... -
Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History by Ulrich Raulff 9781631494321
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $31.93Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries... -
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 9780871401731
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.86Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval. Whether his fictions are set centuries past or close to the... -
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail Eric Jay Dolin 9780871404336
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.83Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving... -
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics William J. Cooper (Louisiana State University) 9780871404350
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.94Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs... -
The Last Days of California: A Novel Mary Miller 9780871405883
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.50Fifteen-year-old Jess is on a road trip to the end of the world. Her evangelical father has packed up the family and left their Montgomery, Alabama, home behind to drive west in anticipation of the... -
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Yunte Huang (University of California, Santa Barbara) 9780871404473
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.77Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yunte Huang depicts the twins,... -
The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies by Josef Joffe 9780871404497
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.94Once every decade, it is "decline time" in America. In recent years, it has been the unstoppable rise of China that has spelled "finis America." What the Chinese juggernaut is today, the Soviet Union... -
God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis 9781631494307
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.12Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God's Crucible is a bold portrait of Islamic Spain and the birth of modern Europe from one... -
The Animals: A Novel Christian Kiefer 9781631491498
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals unable to survive in the wild-raptors, a wolf and his beloved bear, Majer, among them. He hopes to marry the local... -
El Paso: A Novel Winston Groom 9781631492242
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.72Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life this period of history in a saga of heroism, injustice and love... -
Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts Davis Miller 9781631491153
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.02In 1988, then struggling writer Davis Miller drove to Muhammad Ali's mother's modest Louisville house, knocked on the door and introduced himself to his childhood idol. Nearly thirty years later, the... -
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts by Philip Kitcher 9781631492839
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.21In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought... -
Rushing to Paradise by J G Ballard 9780871403377
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871403377Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way by Paul Freedman 9781631498169
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.77Hailed as a “grand theory of the American appetite” (Rien Fertel, Wall Street Journal), food historian Paul Freedman’s American Cuisine demonstrates that there is an exuberant, diverse, if not always... -
Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers by Ray Negron 9780871404619
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $22.72If it was not all so true, you'd think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his... -
Hold Still: A Novel by Lynn Steger Strong 9781631491689
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $22.70Maya Taylor, an intense, gifted English professor, has a tendency to retreat when she is needed most, escaping on long morning runs or finding comfort in the well-thumbed novels in her library. But... -
Ordinary People: A Novel by Diana Evans 9781631494819
Booksplease Price: $29.54Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling through a year of marital crisis... -
The Late Parade: Poems by Adam Fitzgerald 9780871406743
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.45Aswirl with waking dreams and phantom memories, The Late Parade is a triumph of poetic imagination. To write about one thing, you must first write about another. In Adam Fitzgerald's debut... -
Erotic Poems by E. E. Cummings
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.07Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love... -
Prophecies on World Events by Nostradamus 9780871401823
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.78Over the past four centuries, Nostradamus's predictions have proven startlingly accurate. Long before their actual invention, mechanical devices such as the periscope, the submarine, and the airplane... -
The Day of Creation by J G Ballard 9780871404046
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404046Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
Millennium People by J G Ballard 9780871404053
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871404053Author J G BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Liveright Publishing... -
The Late Parade: Poems by Adam Fitzgerald 9780871407948
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.36Aswirl with waking dreams and phantom memories, The Late Parade is a triumph of poetic imagination. To write about one thing, you must first write about another. In Adam Fitzgerald's debut... -
Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse by Eric Jay Dolin 9781631492501
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.25In this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing "illuminate[s] the history... -
Shula: The Coach of the NFL's Greatest Generation by Mark Ribowsky 9781631494604
Booksplease Price: $26.77Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Don Shula remains the winningest coach of all time with 347 career victories and the only undefeated season in NFL history. But before he became the architect... -
Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry 9781631493515
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.38In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon...