Cultural Region/South
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The Bell Witch in Myth and Memory: From Local Legend to International Folktale
$19.95 Add to cartApparently, slumber parties in the mid-South 1970s were plied with a strange ritual. At midnight attendees would gather before a mirror and chant “I don’t believe in the Bell Witch” three times to se
- Author: Gregory, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1621908372
- Language: English
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Weren’t No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama
$16.95 Add to cartFrom 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), a part of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration, hired writers, editors, and researchers to interview as many former slaves as they could
- Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
- Author: Williams, Horace Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0895872846
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Texas
$24.00 Add to cartTexas history reaches far back in time by North American standards. It is fascinating by anyone’s measure. Modern Texas is woven from the frayed but still firm-and always colorful-strands of its rich … [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Metz, C. Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0878422943
- Language: English
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The Southern Gardener’s Book Of Lists: The Best Plants for All Your Needs, Wants, and Whims
$17.95 Add to cartThe ideal plants for all of your specific needs, wants, and whims are identified in over 250 lists that end costly plant-choice mistakes.
- Author: Chaplin, Lois Trigg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0878338446
- Language: English
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The First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America, 1584-1590
$16.00 Add to cartSixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and drawings by John White offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization of the New World by the Engli… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, David Beers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: January 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0865261954
- Language: English
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Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
$21.95 Add to cartCharles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry–an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this bri
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #21
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141956
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the record of a people whose forced migration from their ancestral homes in the South to w… [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) #06
- Author: Debo, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: January 15 1961
- ISBN10: 0806112476
- Language: English
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North Carolina Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
$15.95 Add to cartThe definitive collection of North Carolina’s odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for North Carolina residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
Auth… [more below]
- Series: Curiosities
- Author: Priestley, Kent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2011
- ISBN10: 076275995X
- Language: English
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North Carolina Lighthouses and Lifesaving Stations
$23.99 Add to cartPresenting the tales behind North Carolina’s historic lighthouses and saving stations – illuminated in both words and images
Since the earliest days of European exploration, mariners have heard tales
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Hairr, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 16 2004
- ISBN10: 0738515205
- Language: English
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman
$22.00 Add to cartBorn into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a … [more below]
- Author: East, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671785036
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$19.00 Add to cartFashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0375759379
- Language: English
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Mardi Gras Beads
$22.95 Add to cartBeads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman’s trumpet. They are Louisiana’s version of the Hawaiian lei, strung around tou
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Maccash, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177091
- Language: English
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Bread Baking for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Baking Kneaded Breads, No-Knead Breads, and Enriched Breads
$24.99 Add to cartThe guidance you need to go from absolute beginner to artisanal bread baker
Discover how anyone can combine flour, yeast, water, and salt to create hot and delicious bread in the comfort of your own k
- Author: Ohara, Bonnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1638788057
- Language: English
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Top Trails: Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 50 Must-Do Hikes for Everyone
$22.95 Add to cartDiscover classic destinations and lesser-known jewels of Great Smoky Mountains National Park through 50 incomparable hikes.
With its secluded mountain waterways, awe-inspiring views from grassy balds,
- Series: Top Trails
- Author: Molloy, Johnny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1643591002
- Language: English
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My Family: A Window into the Secrets, Successes, and Sins of Early New Orleans and Beyond
$17.99 Add to cartMy Family: A Window into the Secrets, Successes, and Sins of Early New Orleans and Beyond is a collection of complex life stories that interweave and meander through the ever-changing world of eightee
- Author: Prather, Michelle Freret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1737592681
- Language: English
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Travels on the St. Johns River
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens an… [more below]
- Author: Bartram, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0813080444
- Language: English
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Take Our Advice: A Handbook for Gardening in Northern Virginia
$29.00 Add to cartWhat’s different about Northern Virginia? What are your neighbors’ secrets to a flourishing garden? In this second edition, over 90 gardeners and naturalists teach us how to create an aesthetic habita… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0985009012
- Language: English
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Daily Devotions for Die-Hard Fans Oklahoma Sooners
$19.99 Add to cartDaily Devotions for Die-Hard Fans: Oklahoma Sooners combines the great passion of the Sooners fan with the grand passion of the fan of Christ in one set of devotions. The result is a book that is fun
- Author: McMinn, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0984637796
- Language: English
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Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
$22.95 Add to cartBeulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed the id… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0978915038
- Language: English
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Haunted Inns of the Southeast
$18.95 Add to cartGrouped by state, Turnage tells 5 to 18 stories about haunted inns in each of the Southeastern states .
- Author: Turnage, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 089587234X
- Language: English
