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Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
$18.00 Add to cartIn this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang
life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth
portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigati… [more below]- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163327
- Language: English
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Last Days of Last Island: The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana’s First Great Storm
$20.00 Read moreLast Days of Last Island is the most comprehensive account of the great 1856 Isle Derniere hurricane, its aftermath, and its legacy. Dixon includes a complete listing of victims and survivors, numerou… [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1887366881
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$31.99 Add to cartWhat came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 1492 landfall in the New World. Chicago beat out New York City, St…. [more below]
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1531664059
- Language: English
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Haunted Hikes: Spine-Tingling Tales and Trails from North America’s National Parks
$27.95 Add to cartGhosts! Curses! Hoaxes! Unsolved mysteries! Paranormal events! Take a walk on the creepy side of North America’s National Parks! Andrea Lankford, a 12-year veteran ranger with the National Park Servic… [more below]
- Author: Lankford, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1595800093
- Language: English
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It Happened in Montana: Remarkable Events That Shaped History
$16.95 Add to cartAuthor James A. Crutchfield has mined thirty-seven of the most colorful episodes from Montana’s provocative past–from the first glimpse of French explorers of the “Shining Mountains” in 1743 to the a… [more below]
- Series: It Happened in the West
- Author: Crutchfield, James a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0762771941
- Language: English
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The Mayor Married Who? A Look at the Lighter Side of a 40-Year Career in City Management
$19.95 Add to cartThe Mayor Married Who?
Who would have thought that managing a city could be so funny? The Mayor Married Who? provides a fun insider’s look at the daily challenges, unexpected curve balls, occasionally
- Author: Casey, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 197722833X
- Language: English
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Mayor: The Best Job in Politics
$29.95 Add to cartIn 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he l
- Series: City in the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Nutter, Michael A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0812250028
- Language: English
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The Wild Bunch at Robber’s Roost
$16.95 Add to cartRobbers Roost was a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. The impenetrable wastes and wilds of this high desert country in southeastern Utah, cut through by ca… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Pearl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1989
- ISBN10: 080326089X
- Language: English
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Everyone Counts: Could Participatory Budgeting Change Democracy?
$4.99 Add to cartThe Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the
- Series: Brown Democracy Medal
- Author: Lerner, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: October 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0801456657
- Language: English
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Tar Heel History on Foot: Great Walks through 400 Years of North Carolina’s Fascinating Past
$32.00 Add to cartThis lively collection of 34 of the best history walks in North Carolina highlights the richness and diversity of the state’s history, from the time of its first settlement to the present. Veteran gui… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Setzer, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1469608901
- Language: English
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Rivers of the Eastern Shore, 2nd Edition: Seventeen Maryland Rivers
$29.99 Read moreA must-have for all those devoted to the character and culture of the Eastern Shore, a coastal region of eclectic small towns and pristine natural beauty. Originally published in 1944, this second edi… [more below]
- Author: Horton, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0764363662
- Language: English
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Outer Banks Tales to Remember
$19.95 Read moreNearly every time he visits the Outer Banks, the author hears a new tale or another version of an old one and gets “that itch” to write it down for everyone to enjoy. That itch produced the seventeen … [more below]
- Author: Whedbee, Charles Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: January 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0895870444
- Language: English
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Washington Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$16.95 Add to cartTales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, legends of lost treasure, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts fro… [more below]
- Series: Legends of the West
- Author: Bragg, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1493016032
- Language: English
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Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
$16.95 Read more“This book will inspire people to work with and for their neighbors in all kinds of ways!” –Bill McKibben, author of Falter
Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take an activ- Author: Lende, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1643751409
- Language: English
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Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof
$21.99 Add to cartBefitting its role as Wisconsin’s thumb, Door County has its own unique pulse. It is the “Door of the Dead,” which some historians blame for more shipwrecks than any other body of freshwater in the wo
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 03 2011
- ISBN10: 160949234X
- Language: English
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It Happened Right Here: America’s Pop Culture Landmarks
$24.95 Read moreAuthor Chris Epting established a new genre in book publishing when a trio of titles in the early 2000s–James Dean Died Here: The Locations of America’s Pop Culture Landmarks, Elvis Presley Passed He
- Author: Epting, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1595801200
- Language: English
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Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
$29.95 Add to cartProspectors lured to the West in hopes of striking rich settled a thousand towns in the Colorado mountains. The cry of “Gold!” or “Silver!” or a few flecks of color in a tin cup sent them to remote, o
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120843
- Language: English
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Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
$24.95 Read moreBlack Lives Matter at School connects thousands of educators around the country who are fighting racial and economic inequality in schools.
- Author: Hagopian, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1642592706
- Language: English
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Sustainovation: Building sustainable innovation in government, one wildly creative idea at a time.
$17.95 Add to cartUnlock your creativity and move your innovation
initiative forward with this enlightening guide from
civic innovation superhero Nick Kittle. You’ll learn
why innovation is hard (especially in governme- Author: Kittle, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1732666709
- Language: English
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A Guide to Haunted New England: Tales from Mount Washington to the Newport Cliffs
$19.99 Add to cartVisitors and New England natives alike will see a new side of the region through Thomas D’Agostino’s eerie road trip guidebook.
He captures the reader’s imagination with folklore and anecdotes, plus re
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: D’Agostino, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159629597X
- Language: English
