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Guide To Colorado Ghost Towns: And Mining Camps by Perry Eberhart
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.75"This is not a history book. Rather it is a directory of towns, and compilation of known information about those towns. In undertaking the stud, I was amazed at the amount of legend and contradictory... -
Stampede To Timberline: Ghost Towns & Mining by Muriel Sibell Wolle
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £17.99This book includes the story of 240 of Colorado's mining camps, with emphasis on the human side. The men who swarmed to the mountains to find precious metal came in successive waves from the late... -
New Stories from the Midwest by Jason Lee Brown
Booksplease Price: £28.57New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature. The editors solicited... -
Hatred at Home: al-Qaida on Trial in the American Midwest by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14One day in 2002, three friends-a Somali immigrant, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, and a hometown African American-met in a Columbus, Ohio coffee shop and vented over civilian casualties in the war in... -
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... -
Discovering Eve: Short Stories by Jane Candia Coleman 9780804009645
Booksplease Price: £30.20This collection of stories by award-winning write Jane Candia Coleman is about women coming of age. In each one, the protagonist discovers facets, truths about herself and the world that she has not... -
Making of Legends: More True Stories of Frontier America by Mark Dugan 9780804009966
Booksplease Price: £25.94Some of the American West's grandest legends are about people who in reality were remorseless killers, robbers, and bandits. These outlaws flourished during the 1800s and gained notoriety throughout... -
Politics Of Compassion: And Transformation by Dick Simpson 9780804009041
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of /u201cprogress,/u201d we might expect to look with confidence to the... -
You Will Hear Thunder by Anna Akhmatova 9780804011914
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.93Anna 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... -
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,... -
5 Plays 5 by James Schevill 9780804009683
Booksplease Price: £30.62In 1970 Adrian Hall's production of Lovecraft's Follies by the Trinity Repertory Company was praised in The New York Times as a "hilarious extravaganza - with music - that is also an earnest attempt... -
Immigrant Train & Other Stories by Natalie L. M. Petesch 9780804009928
Booksplease Price: £20.04In this short story collection, acclaimed author Natalie Petesch reaffirms for us our enduring debt to millions of immigrants who helped build America. Inspired by her own parents' journey at the... -
Fathers by Allen Tate 9780804001083
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81The Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time. Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a... -
An Abundance of Flowers: More Great Flower Breeders of the Past by Judith M. Taylor 9780804011938
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Walk into any nursery, florist, or supermarket, and you'll encounter displays of dozens of gorgeous flowers, from chrysanthemums to orchids. At one time these fanciful blooms were the rare trophies... -
Maggie Boylan by Michael Henson 9780804012010
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Henson's linked collection tells of a woman's search for her own peculiar kind of redemption, and brings the... -
The Room Within: Poems by Moore Moran 9780804011297
Booksplease Price: £20.78The Room Within is a retrospective survey of a poetic career dating back to the late fifties. A student of Yvor Winters at Stanford, Moore Moran has deservedly earned a reputation, along with fellow... -
Body Story by Julia Knowlton De Pree 9780804010641
Booksplease Price: £20.54Something other than a memoir of a life well lived, Body Story conveys Julia K. De Pree's troubling journey from adolescence to adulthood and from anorexia to health. For De Pree, between being a... -
English Language Criticism Foreign Novel: 1965-1975 by Harriet Semmes Alexander 9780804009072
Booksplease Price: £69.00Critical interest in foreign novels, especially the Latin American and African novel, has burgeoned in the past two decades. The purpose of this reference bibliography is to provide easier access to... -
The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative by Thomas Larson 9780804011006
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller... -
The Little Lion of the Southwest: A Life of Manuel Antonio Chaves by Marc Simmons 9780804006330
Booksplease Price: £25.25Manuel Antonio Chaves' life straddled three eras of New Mexican history: he was born (1818) at the tag end of the Spanish colonial period, he grew to manhood in the rough and heady days of the Santa... -
A Trick of Sunlight: Poems by Dick Davis 9780804010894
Booksplease Price: £20.78In his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with-travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the... -
All Flesh is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming by Gene Logsdon 9780804010689
Booksplease Price: £39.73Amidst Mad Cow scares and consumer concerns about how farm animals are bred, fed, and raised, many farmers and homesteaders are rediscovering the traditional practice of pastoral farming. Grasses,... -
Golden Treasures Of San Juan by Temple H. Cornelius 9780804006361
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Golden Treasures of the San Juan contains fabulous stories of lost mines, bullion, and valuable prospects of one of the most beautiful mountain areas of the United States. Many of the stories are... -
Capitol Punishment: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804011716
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.95The 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... -
Fourth Down and Out: An Andy Hayes Mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 9780804011525
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.95The job seems easy enough at first for private investigator Andy Hayes: save his client's reputation by retrieving a laptop and erasing a troublesome video from its hard drive. But that's before... -
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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... -
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... -
Staking Her Claim: Life Of Belinda Mulrooney by Melanie J. Mayer
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious,... -
All Flesh is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming by Gene Logsdon
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Amidst Mad Cow scares and consumer concerns about how farm animals are bred, fed, and raised, many farmers and homesteaders are rediscovering the traditional practice of pastoral farming. Grasses,... -
The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron by Janet Lewis
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.26This historical novel is the third and final book in American poet and fiction writer Janet Lewis's Cases of Circumstantial Evidence series, based on legal case studies compiled in the nineteenth... -
Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955 by Anais Nin
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Anais Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented. It was not until decades later, when the diaries were published in their... -
The Quick-Change Artist: Stories by Cary Holladay
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.23In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the... -
Thirsty: A Novel by Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.31It 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... -
Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias by Robert Archambeau
Booksplease Price: £75.44The 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... -
In the House of Wilderness: A Novel by Charles Dodd White
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Rain is a young woman under the influence of a charismatic drifter named Wolf and his other "wife," Winter. Through months of wandering homeless through the cities, small towns, and landscape of... -
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... -
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 Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship by Linda Schierse Leonard 9780804003971
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Linda Schierse... -
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...