Regional Studies
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The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
$17.99 Add to cartIn this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and th
- Author: Kurczy, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0062945505
- Language: English
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The Afghans: Three Lives Through War, Love, and Revolt
$35.00 Add to cart“An astonishing feat of writing and reporting and one of the finest books written on Afghanistan in a generation.”–Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amity and Prosperity
From the inter- Author: Seierstad, Ã…sne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1639736263
- Language: English
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100 Mitos de la Historia de M?xico 1 / 100 Myths of the History of Mexico 1
$16.95 Add to cartLa historia de M?xico no es como te la contaron…
Con la pluma filosa y espl?ndidamente documentada que lo caracteriza, Francisco Mart?n Moreno indaga en la deslumbrante historia de M?xico y sus zo… [more below]- Author: Mart?n Moreno, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 6073848447
- Language: Spanish
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To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers
$27.95 Add to cart- Series: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
- Author: Garringer, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1985901838
- Language: English
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Lost at Sea: Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America
$32.50 Add to cartA deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the “anchor-outs”–an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats–that explores the struggles and resilience of those sur
- Author: Kloc, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0063061694
- Language: English
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Nowville: The Untold History of Nashville’s Contemporary Art Scene
$24.95 Add to cartThis is the origin story of Nashville’s surging contemporary art scene told by the ones who were there before anyone else. Not a story about commercial spaces or official institutions–this is the sto… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0826507395
- Language: English
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER
From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory. “A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about t- Author: Kendzior, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1250189993
- Language: English
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
$28.99 Add to cart2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the r
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction- Author: Harkins, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1946684791
- Language: English
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Belonging: A Culture of Place
$40.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong?
These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cu
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 20 2008
- ISBN10: 041596816X
- Language: English
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The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
$24.99 Read more“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻ
- Series: Biography Monographs
- Author: Goodyear-Ka’ōpua, Noelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0824889185
- Language: English
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
$30.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South–and thus of America–by an esteemed daughter of
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0063090767
- Language: English
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Sunshine State: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay – Finalist for the Southern Book Prize
A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A N
- Author: Gerard, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 006243487X
- Language: English
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The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
$26.95 Read moreFor generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders–some call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now Bill and Evelyn Wright, parents
- Author: Branch, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0393292347
- Language: English
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
$26.95 Read moreThe arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn’t stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at f
- Author: Hesse, Monica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1631490516
- Language: English
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City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined
$18.00 Add to cartAn engaging account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los Angeles
How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century l- Author: Lunenfeld, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0525561951
- Language: English
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The Tar Heel State: A New History of North Carolina
$29.99 Read moreWhen first released in 2005, The Tar Heel State was celebrated as a comprehensive contribution to North Carolina’s historical record. In this revised edition historian Milton Ready brings the text up
- Author: Ready, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1643360981
- Language: English
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
$20.00 Add to cartA gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy
“A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”–The New… [more below]- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0812988116
- Language: English
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We Are Aztlán!: Chicanx Histories in the Northern Borderlands
$29.95 Add to cartMexican Americans/Chicana/os/Chicanx form a majority of the overall Latino population in the United States. In this collection, established and emerging Chicanx researchers diverge from the discipline
- Author: García, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: March 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223474
- Language: English
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The Italians
$19.00 Add to cartWashington Post bestseller
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also p
Los Angeles Times bestseller- Author: Hooper, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 014312840X
- Language: English
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Hipbillies: Deep Revolution in the Arkansas Ozarks
$29.95 Read moreCounterculture flourished nationwide in the 1960s and 1970s, and while the hippies of Haight-Ashbury occupied the public eye, a faction of back to the landers were quietly creating their own haven off… [more below]
- Series: Ozarks Studies
- Author: Phillips, Jared M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1682260909
- Language: English
