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Hidden History of the Finger Lakes
$23.99 Add to cartNew York’s Finger Lakes region is filled with compelling characters, tragic disasters and fascinating mysteries.
Famed daredevil Sam Patch, known as the “Yankee Leaper,” thrilled audiences at Niagara F
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Unvericht, Patti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138193
- Language: English
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The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources
$39.99 Add to cartTools for people seeking to improve their communities
This significant guide puts the tools of democracy into everyone’s hands. Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 20-year experience in developin
- Author: Krile, James F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0940069547
- Language: English
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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
$24.95 Add to cartGeorge R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation’s peoples. More than half a century later, Name… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Stewart, George R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172736
- Language: English
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No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas
$27.99 Add to cartFinalist: Lambda Literary Award for LBGTQ Nonfiction
Winner: Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
A Kansas Notable Book
Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands a
- Author: Janovy, C. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: March 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0700628347
- Language: English
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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
$25.99 Add to cartThe author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly).
In one of his most exotic and adv
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 061865898X
- Language: English
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Prairyerth: A Deep Map
$24.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. By the author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review).
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- Author: Heat Moon, William Least
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 634
- Publish Date: February 15 1999
- ISBN10: 039592569X
- Language: English
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Lost Ohio: More Travels Into Haunted Landscapes, Ghost Towns, and Forgotten Lives
$24.95 Add to cartA fascinating look at Ohio’s forgotten history
Take a leisurely tour across the Buckeye State with author Randy McNutt to a massive swamp that swallowed pioneers’ wagons, a haunted prison, a faded Ger
- Author: McNutt, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0873388720
- Language: English
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Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
$30.00 Add to cartSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting… [more below]
- Author: Trounstine, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1108454984
- Language: English
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Ohio Indian Trails: Third Edition
$24.95 Add to cartA facsimile edition of Wilcox’s classic 1933 pictorial survey of the Indian trails of Ohio
Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and Mingo–tribes great and small, loosely confederated
- Author: Wilcox, Frank N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1606352598
- Language: English
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Murder in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$23.99 Add to cartThis collection of twenty-four legendary murders spans 160 years of Upper Michigan’s history and dispels the notion that murder in the Upper Peninsula is an anomaly.
Residents of the idyllic villages s
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Longtine, Sonny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 162619355X
- Language: English
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Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck
$30.00 Add to cartThis volume explores the deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, drawing out all the brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity as lived by those who experienced it. In less than t… [more below]
- Author: Noy, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1597143847
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Colorado
$22.00 Add to cartColorado�s roads wind through country that is steeped in history, sometimes tracing routes with a history of their own, from the Santa Fe Trail to the Million Dollar Highway. But no matter wher… [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Moulton, Candy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 277
- Publish Date: June 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0878425209
- Language: English
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Sagebrush Empire: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands
$19.95 Read moreSan Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, rich in culture and history. But it’s also long been plagued with racism, bitterness, and politics as twisted as t
- Author: Thompson, Jonathan P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1948814447
- Language: English
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The Last Days of New York: A Reporter’s True Tale
$27.99 Add to cart“Barron cuts through the noise and provides a devastating account of a city’s decline under the delusional leadership of socialists and con men.” — GREG KELLY, host of Newsmax Greg Kelly Reports
THE L
- Author: Barron, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1630061875
- Language: English
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The Gumbo Coalition: 10 Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire, Unite, and Achieve
$19.99 Add to cartIgnore radical social changes by clinging to hopes of restoring a past that can never be revisited or embrace change and find ways to use our new realities to create increased opportunities for all.
Au… [more below]
- Author: Morial, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1400216311
- Language: English
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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
$15.99 Add to cartHow the current epidemic of news deserts and ghost papers threatens democracy
Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. From 2004- Author: Sullivan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1733623787
- Language: English
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Not in My Backyard: How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs
$35.00 Read moreHow a woman-led citizens’ group beat a Southern political machine by enlisting federal bureaucrats and judges to protect their neighborhood from unchecked economic development
This social history of- Author: Balogh, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253788
- Language: English
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The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi’s First Winery
$25.00 Add to cartAfter graduating from Mississippi State University in 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam, found themselves back on their family farm near Merigold, Mississippi, with 350 acres and no real clue what… [more below]
- Author: Rushing, Di
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1496849299
- Language: English
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The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Wilde Anderson, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1501195999
- Language: English
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Backroads & Byways of Michigan
$22.95 Read moreFrom the Chicago and Territorial roads, home of a historic and scenic railroad, to the Lower Peninsula’s Chain of Lakes area, Backroads & Byways of Michigan is the shortest route a visitor can take to
- Author: Forster, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1682687074
- Language: English
