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The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis by Janet Lewis
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Since the appearance in print of her early poems over seventy-five years ago, the poetry of Janet Lewis has grown in quiet acclaim and popularity. Although she is better known as a novelist of... -
Searching for Fannie Quigley: A Wilderness Life in the Shadow of Mount McKinley by Jane G. Haigh
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.19At the age of 27, Fannie Sedlacek left her Bohemian homestead in Nebraska to join the gold rush to the Klondike. From the Klondike to the Tanana, Fannie continued north, finally settling in Katishna... -
Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History by Donna M. DeBlasio 9780804011174
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories... -
Winter of Artifice: Three Novelettes by Anais Nin 9780804011778
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.54Swallow Press first published Winter of Artifice in 1945, following two vastly different versions from other presses. The book opens with a film star, Stella, studying her own, but alien, image on... -
New Stories from the Southwest by D. Seth Horton 9780804011075
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77The beauty and barrenness of the southwestern landscape naturallylends itself to the art of storytellers. It is a land of heat and dryness, aland of spirits, a land that is misunderstood by those... -
The Community Table: Effective Fundraising through Events by Susan Cole Urano 9780804011808
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In resource-challenged Athens County, Ohio, staff and volunteers at the nonprofit Athens County Foundation came up with a daring idea: to host a locally sourced, gourmet dinner for four hundred... -
Disarming Manhood: Roots of Ethical Resistance by David A. J. Richards 9780804010757 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £6.21Masculine codes of honor and dominance often are expressed in acts of violence, including war and terrorism. In Disarming Manhood: Roots of Ethical Resistance, David A. J. Richards examines the lives... -
The Trial of Soeren Qvist by Janet Lewis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Originally published in 1947, The Trial of Soeren Qvist has been praised by a number of critics for its intriguing plot and Janet Lewis's powerful writing. And in the introduction to this new... -
House of Incest by Anais Nin
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804012263Author Anais NinFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias by Robert Archambeau
Booksplease Price: £77.26The poetry of John Matthias has long been admired by other poets for the way it refuses to be categorized. Lyrical and experimental, cosmopolitan and rooted in place, it challenges our received... -
The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry by John Dewey
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12More than six decades after John Dewey's death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival. With renewed interest in pragmatism and its implications for democracy in an age of mass... -
How to Identify Grasses and Grasslike Plants: Sedges and Rushes by H. D. Harrington 9780804007467
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81There is no easy way to identify grasses. And no one understands this better than H.D. Harrington, who observed thousands of students struggle and learn. His clear, concise, and well-organized guide... -
Time Of Little Black Bird by Helen Papanikolas 9780804010177
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In 1906 a young, semiliterate Greek arrived in America with a fewdollars in his pocket and his people's legacy of proverbs, superstitions, and cultural traits to guide him through the dangers and... -
Swimming At Midnight: Selected Shorter Poems by John Matthias 9780804009850
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Swimming at Midnight collects the short and middle-length poems from John Matthias's earlier books together with twenty poems that have previously appeared only in magazines. It is published... -
The New Effective Voluntary Board of Directors: What It Is and How It Works by William R. Conrad 9780804010344
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68More than one million nonprofit or voluntary organizations have been incorporated in the United States, and there are countless others throughout the world. Although they range in size and purpose... -
One-Smoke Stories by Mary Austin 9780804010610
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.08One-Smoke Stories is a collection of folk tales from Native American, Spanish Colonial, mestizo, and European American peoples of the Southwest retold in the enthralling words of one of the... -
Pilgrimage: A Journey Through Colorado's History and Culture by Professor Stephen May 9780804008839 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.25From Cripple Creek to the Santa Fe Trail, Mesa Verde to the mountain towns of Leadville and Steamboat Springs, Colorado provides travelers and natives with a spectrum of beauty that is both awesome... -
Waste of Timelessness and Other Early Stories by Anais Nin 9780804011822
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.90Written when Anais Nin was in her twenties and living in France, the stories collected in Waste of Timelessness contain many elements familiar to those who know her later work as well as revelatory,... -
How To Identify Plants by H. D. Harrington
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81First issued in 1957 by Swallow Press, this classic guide to the art of plant identification is now familiar to an entire generation of students. Harrington who was Professor of Botany and Curator of... -
Thirsty: A Novel by Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.71It is 1883, and all of Klara Bozic's girlish dreams have come crashing down as she arrives in Thirsty, a gritty steel town carved into the slopes above the Monongahela River just outside of... -
On Poets and Poetry by William H. Pritchard 9780804011143
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.03William Pritchard's collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin,... -
Small Bird Tell Me: Stories Of Greek Immigrants by Helen Papanikolas 9780804009829
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Helen Papanikolas has been honored frequently for her work in ethnic and labor history. Among her many publications are Toil and Rage in a New Land: The Greek Immigrants in Utah, Peoples of Utah (ed... -
A Gathering of Ways by John Matthias 9780804009454
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65A Gathering of Ways is John Matthias' first collection of poems since the publication of his warmly received Northern Summer collection in 1985. The book consists of three long poems dealing with the... -
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets by David Yezzi 9780804011211
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently... -
Stories from Mesa Country by Jane Candia Coleman 9780804009577
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56An excerpt from Stories from Mesa Country: "They are coming back from the burial ground. I can see them walking, two abreast, along the narrow track by the wash. Tom has his head down, his... -
Upcycling Sheltered Workshops: A Revolutionary Approach to Transforming Workshops into Creative Spaces by Susan Dlouhy 9780804011594
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77At a time when the traditional sheltered workshop model has fallen under rightful criticism, and a new paradigm for disability programming is not yet in place, Upcycling Sheltered Workshops offers a... -
Capitol Punishment: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804011792
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81The job seems simple enough: Reporter Lee Hershey needs protection for a couple of weeks as he pursues the biggest story of his career with all eyes on swing state Ohio in the midst of a presidential... -
Sarah's Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek by Lenore McComas Coberly 9780804010955
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Situated in a remote outpost in West Virginia at the turn of the last century, the story that Lenore McComas Coberly tells in Sarah's Girls is one of place, people, and unquenchable spirit. In this... -
Sick to Death: An Andy Hayes Mystery Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804012539
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91After years of personal and professional turmoil, things are finally looking up for Columbus, Ohio, private eye Andy Hayes. As Sick to Death opens, Andy is relishing his new gig: a drama-free,... -
Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947 by Anais Nin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.42Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be "the... -
Secure the Shadow: A Novel by Michael Henson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Set in an unnamed midwestern city and told from multiple perspectives, Henson's latest novel about addiction and the power of community offers an unseen portrait of the far-reaching and sometimes... -
An Empty Grave: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Private eye Andy Hayes's mission seems clear: locate a man who shot a Columbus police officer forty years earlier, then disappeared without a trace. But soon, Hayes discovers a years-long string of... -
Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anais Nin by Anita Jarczok 9780804011761
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Anais Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and... -
Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella by Cary Holladay 9780804012041
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart. In the title story,... -
Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940 by Anais Nin
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76The incestuous affair between the writer Anais Nin and her father, the pianist-composer Joaquin Nin, is well documented in the volume of her unexpurgated diary published under the title Incest. What... -
Fire Is Your Water: A Novel by Jim Minick
Booksplease Price: £16.47Sacred chants are Ada Franklin's power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines... -
The Confessions of Senora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories by Natalie L. M. Petesch 9780804010771
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77"Memory, of course, is sometimes like a bucking horse, sometimes a runaway one, and one must control the reins until finally it stops, snorting with exhausted relief," writes Natalie L. M. Petesch in... -
Slow Burn: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804011785
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Almost two years have passed since Aaron Custer supposedly set a fire at a house in Columbus that killed three college students, including the young woman with whom he had argued just hours before... -
You Will Hear Thunder by Anna Akhmatova 9780804011914
Booksplease Price: £16.39Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) had a life that spanned prerevolution Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism. Throughout it all, she maintained a restrained, graceful, yet muscular style that could grab a... -
The Third Brother: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804012201
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99It's a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute he's finishing up some grocery shopping ahead of a custody visit with his sons. The next, he must...