Cultural Region/Midwest
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Historic Photos of Christmas in Chicago
$41.99 Add to cartIn Chicago, as wherever Christmas is celebrated, holiday traditions reflect both universal themes and local color, both the spirit of giving and snow-covered State Street. In 1913, Chicago decorated i
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Adams, Rosemary K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1684420687
- Language: English
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The Northern Gardener: From Apples to Zinnias
$26.95 Add to cartGardening in a northern clime has its own unique set of challenges. Yet, despite the shorter growing season, gardening remains a popular passion for millions of green thumbs in Minnesota and the Upper… [more below]
- Author: Schier, Mary Lahr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1681340461
- Language: English
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Haunted Summerwind: A Ghostly History of a Wisconsin Mansion
$21.99 Add to cartBuried deep in the Wisconsin Northwoods, the ruined splendor of the Summerwind Mansion bares the bones of its legendary past. Robert Patterson Lamont purchased the property in 1916 as a country retrea… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Bell, Devon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1626194378
- Language: English
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Minnesota Day Trips by Theme
$16.95 Add to cartThis guidebook is packed with hundreds of Arizona’s best destinations organized by theme, so readers can decide what to do and then find where to do it.
- Series: Day Trip
- Author: Bauer, Mary M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1591935504
- Language: English
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Ghosthunting Ohio
$17.95 Add to cartGo Ghosthunting in the Buckeye State!
Author John B. Kachuba bravely visits more than twenty-five haunted places in Ohio to give readers first-hand frights from the safety of their armchairs. For read
- Series: America’s Haunted Road Trip
- Author: Kachuba, John B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1578601819
- Language: English
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The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie: Recipes, Techniques, and Wisdom from the Hoosier Mama Pie Company
$34.95 Add to cartWhen Paula Haney first opened the Hoosier Mama Pie Company on March 14, 2009 (Pi day, appropriately enough), she worried whether her new business could survive by specializing in just one thing. When … [more below]
- Author: Haney, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1572841435
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Chicago
$35.99 Add to cartMany of Chicago’s greatest or most unusual restaurants are “no longer taking reservations,” but they’re definitely not forgotten. From steakhouses to delis, these dining destinations attracted movie s… [more below]
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1540237060
- Language: English
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The Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit
$31.99 Add to cartChicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood. The crew’s origins predate Prohibition, when C… [more below]
- Author: Luzi, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1540207463
- Language: English
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African Americans in Chicago
$31.99 Add to cartThe story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it all. It began long before the city itself. “The first white man here was a black man,” Potowatami natives reportedly said about Jean Baptiste Poi… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Lowell D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1531659470
- Language: English
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It Happened in Nebraska: Stories of Events and People that Shaped Cornhusker State History
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the organization of the first Arbor Day to the invention of Kool-Aid, It Happened in Nebraska features thirty-sixevents from the history of the Cornhusker State.
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Partsch, Tammy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1493039083
- Language: English
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Springfield’s Celebrated Horseshoe Sandwich
$24.99 Add to cartIn a town famous for its politics, one local favorite moves unchallenged across party lines. Sample secret recipes while delving in to the history of the Horseshoe Sandwich.
Open-faced, piled high with
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Harmon, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1467139882
- Language: English
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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
$21.99 Add to cart“One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn’t merely a book about baseball. It’s a book about heart.” — Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The… [more below]
- Author: Ballard, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1401312667
- Language: English
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Lifting as They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cartAn essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present.
Geographically, histor- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599018
- Language: English
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The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival
$21.95 Add to cart“Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low writes, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by sno… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Low, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236890
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of Indiana
$24.00 Read moreHundreds of millions of years ago, warm, coral-rich seas deposited mud on the ocean floor, and in time it became limestone–the cornerstone of Indiana geology. From the fossil-studded rocks and twisti… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Camp, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: June 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0878423966
- Language: English
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Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper
$22.95 Add to cartThe inside story of the shocking Piper kidnapping: from the abduction and recovery, through the grueling investigation and trials, and into the Pipers’ haunted final years.
- Author: Swanson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519930
- Language: English
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Hmong in Minnesota
$17.95 Add to cartAn engaging history of the arrival of the Hmong in Minnesota in the 1970s, their struggle to build community in a new land, and the challenges they face today.
From bountiful booths at local farmers’- Series: People of Minnesota
- Author: Vang, Chia Youyee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0873515986
- Language: English
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Chippewa Customs
$22.95 Add to cartChippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) I… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Densmore, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0873511425
- Language: English
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Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux
$21.95 Add to cartPerhaps no Indian leader of the mid-nineteenth century was as well known in his time as the great Lakota Sioux Red Cloud. Although his fame later was eclipsed by that of the legendary heroes who crush… [more below]
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #13
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806131896
- Language: English
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Nebraska: An Illustrated History
$36.95 Add to cartA unique history of Nebraska is presented in these pages, drawing on fifty-eight short topical chapters and a rich gallery of illustrations. Professor Frederick C. Luebke’s lifelong commitment to the … [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Luebke, Frederick C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803280424
- Language: English
