United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO,ND,NE,OH,SD,WI
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Minnesota’s Most Notorious Mobster: The Making and Breaking of Kid Cann
$24.99 Read more“Ninety percent of [what] was written about me is bullshit”
Isadore Blumenfeld, aka Kid Cann, came to Minnesota as a toddler when his family emigrated from Romania. In Prohibition-era Minneapolis, a ci
- Series: True Crime
- Author: de Beaulieu, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158933
- Language: English
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Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
$16.95 Add to cartStories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster
On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorol
- Author: Griffith, Cary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915570
- Language: English
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Murder in Victorian Dayton: The Tragic Story of Bessie Little
$24.99 Add to cartA sad and shocking story of love betrayed
The murder of Bessie Little and the trial of her murderer rocked Victorian Dayton. Believing herself pregnant and desperate to save her reputation, young Bes
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Kaushal, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157740
- Language: English
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’70s Chicagoland Rock Concerts
$24.99 Add to cartA Portal to Rock ‘N’ Roll History
During the 1970s, Chicagoland venues hosted an eclectic mix of legendary rock ‘n’ roll acts that thrilled audiences. Fans flocked to historic venues like the Auditori
- Author: Plotnick, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146715685X
- Language: English
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A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Hand Accounts of Abraham Lincoln
$22.50 Add to cart- Author: White, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065452
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Amarugia: The True Story of Missouri’s Country Kings
$14.99 Add to cartFifty miles south of Kansas City lies a rural community whose history makes it different than any other in the United States. The residents of this small Missouri hamlet were once ruled by a king.
The … [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: June 28 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987429730
- Language: English
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Murder in Chisago County: The Unsolved Johnson Family Mystery
$21.99 Add to cartAt 3:30 a.m. on April 11, 1933, neighbors and firefighters arrived at the farmhouse of Albin and Alvira Johnson to find a smoldering heap where a seemingly happy home once stood. Beneath the ruins, in… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Johnson, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1467142336
- Language: English
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44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy and Shattered Love
$15.00 Add to cart44 YEARS IN DARKNESS
A TRUE STORY OF MADNESS, TRAGEDY AND SHATTERED LOVE
BY SYLVIA SHULTSLost in the shadows of Illinois asylums in the nineteenth century is the strange story of Rhoda Derry. Left at
- Author: Shults, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1892523477
- Language: English
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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Secret North Shore Chicago
$27.00 Read more- Series: Secret
- Author: Shubart, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 168106488X
- Language: English
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The Women Who Built Omaha: A Bold and Remarkable History
$22.95 Add to cart2023 Nebraska Book Award
During the 1930s the Federal Writers’ Project described Omaha as a “man’s town,” and histories of the city have all but ignored women. However, women have played major roles- Author: Wirth, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496228642
- Language: English
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
$20.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, the New York Times bestselling story of the taming of the Wild West, set in Dodge City, the most depraved and criminal town in the nation.
The instant New York Times bestseller Dodg- Series: Frontier Lawmen
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160561
- Language: English
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Motor City Famous: Celebrity Homes, Graves and Little-Known Locales
$24.99 Add to cartMost know Detroit as the hometown of Motown legends like Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. And they’re all here! But beyond the well-known list of famous Detroiters awaits a veritable who’s w
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Platto, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 146715721X
- Language: English
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Classic Michigan Food and Drinks: The Stories Behind the Brands
$24.99 Read moreMichigan is home to an amazing array of food and drink brands, each with a fascinating story behind it.
Ready-to-eat breakfast cereals like Kellogg’s and Post changed how the world eats, and Gerber fi
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Milan, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1467153052
- Language: English
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The 1906-1910 Cubs Dynasty: Rowdy Times and Rugged Men in Cutthroat Chicago
$24.99 Read moreA Cubs dynasty founded on fastballs and fisticuffs.
Unlike today’s Chicago Cubs, the Cubs of 1906-1910 were not at all lovable, and certainly did not always display traits customarily linked with a wi
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Santella, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156795
- Language: English
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Killer Women of Michigan
$24.99 Add to cartThey used arsenic to obtain chemical divorces and strychnine to settle scores. They bludgeoned husbands to make way for lovers. They flattened love triangles with blunt objects. They murdered for mone
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Buhk, Tobin T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156205
- Language: English
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Memories of a Mackinac Island Native: Life on the Island from 1940s to 2020s
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Chambers, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998314
- Language: English
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This Day in St. Louis History: The Famous, Infamous, and Everything in Between
$28.50 Add to cart- Author: Sonderman, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065118
- Language: English
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An Alternative History of Cleveland
$19.95 Add to cartDive into Cleveland’s deep past and return with a new vision for how we should think about the region today.
The land we call “northeast Ohio” was originally forged through eons of glacial pressure, ge
- Author: Wlasiuk, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368794
- Language: English
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Wildsam Field Guides: Iowa Prairie
$24.00 Add to cartWildsam Field Guides: Iowa Prarie leads travelers through the Hawkeye State, with guidance from trusted locals. Contributors include noted faculty from the Iowa Writers Workshop, including Ethan Canin… [more below]
- Series: Wildsam American Pursuits
- Author: Bruce, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1467199788
- Language: English
