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The Largest Sea Island: A History of Johns Island amid an Evolving America
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Glover, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798318800887
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Counterfeiters: The Wisconsin Gang That Funded the Union and Started the Chicago Mob
$24.99 Add to cartA captivating tale of corruption and crime
In need of cash to finance the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln turned to the nation’s leading counterfeiters, including a band of enterprising criminals based in
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Nolen, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157082
- Language: English
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Mackinac Island: Holidays, Tourists, and Trivia
$21.95 Add to cartIn Mackinac Island: Holidays, Tourists, and Trivia, lifelong island resident Tom Chambers shares heartfelt memories and quirky insights from over 70 summers and 50 winters on Michigan’s most iconic is
- Author: Chambers, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896560579
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Smoky Mountains: A Travel Guide for Your Next Spooky Journey
$23.99 Add to cartMonsters and legends roam the mists of the Great Smoky Mountains!
This old mountain range holds many secrets in its dark hollers and twisting coves. This guide will help you traverse the haunted roads
- Series: Eerie Travels Presents #1
- Author: Eerie Travels
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: August 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798823208482
- Language: English
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon: A Living Legacy
$28.99 Add to cartThe Civilian Conservation Corps transformed Oregon’s landscapes, building lasting parks, roads, trails, and forest infrastructure.
Amid the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt … [more below]
- Author: Voelz, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1634995279
- Language: English
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Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car
$27.95 Add to cartFrontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place
- Author: Wilke, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 149624222X
- Language: English
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Monsters of the Pacific Northwest: Stories about Bigfoot, Sea Serpents, and Other Legendary Creatures
$9.95 Add to cartRead 22 chilling stories, written by two paranormal investigators, about reportedly true encounters with monsters in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
A pastor’s afternoon hike takes a horrifying turn whe
- Series: Hauntings, Horrors & Scary Ghost Stories
- Author: Freeburg, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1647554721
- Language: English
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Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us about the Weather, Climate, and Protecting What We Cherish
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Boustead, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1941813615
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$9.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1804, Lewis and Clark set out on a voyage launched by Thomas Jefferson, to explore the wilderness between the Missouri River and the Pacific coast. This volume contains the vivid dail… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Bakeless, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531884
- Language: English
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Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2025 Gotham Book Prize
Ian Frazier’s magnum opus: a love song to New York City’s most heterogeneous and alive borough.
Ian Frazier, one of our best observers and describers, has been wal- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390591
- Language: English
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Secret Tacoma: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Read more- Author: Staudinger, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681066173
- Language: English
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Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy
$29.95 Add to cartWrecked links the story of America’s most infamous shipwreck to the story of an even larger disaster–the wreck of the American industrial economy. When the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a Lake Super… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1611865417
- Language: English
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Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters
$29.99 Add to cartAt the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence: Americans based their grievances against Parliament on their rights as British subjects. By the end of 1776, ind
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324078979
- Language: English
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A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore
$30.00 Add to cartA comprehensive narrative history of Mt. Rushmore, written in light of recent political controversies, and a timely retrospective for the monument’s 100th anniversary in 2025
“Well, most people want t- Author: Davis, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250285100
- Language: English
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New York City Monuments of Black Americans: A History and Guide
$24.99 Add to cartNew York City is blessed with an incredible array of public sculptures.
One overlooked aspect of this collection is its monuments of Black Americans, each with its own remarkable story. The first appe
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Felsen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159050
- Language: English
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Texas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office
$45.00 Read moreA comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas.
The Texas General Land Office’s map collection contains over 45,000 maps, some dating from the sixteenth century, making it one of the most impor
- Author: Lambert, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1477330925
- Language: English
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The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War
$28.95 Add to cartHow do good people find the courage to resist and end the greatest evil in their country? An untold story of the Civil War Era: pacifists in Boston who led the fight to end slavery without violence an
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1567927653
- Language: English
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The Plight of Southeastern Native American Indian Tribes: Fighting Systemic Eracism
$28.99 Add to cartErasing Indigenous Identity: Chief Creel’s Fight for Recognition of Native American Tribes Amidst Systemic Bias in US Records & Documentation.
In this captivating account, Chief John Glenn Creel, the
- Author: Creel, John Glenn Creel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822983977
- Language: English
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Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture
$37.00 Add to cartA comprehensive, first-of-its-kind book about Chicago’s residential architecture and the stories that shaped it. This is an entertaining and precisely illustrated story of Chicago homes from the city’
- Author: Bruni, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1572843578
- Language: English
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Princess Cheyenne: My Life as Boston’s Most Famous Stripper
$34.99 Read more“It’s a riotous, raucous story, and Wightman is particularly adept at bringing the people around her to life . . . An often exhilarating ride.”-Kirkus Reviews
How did a debutante from Lake
Forest, Illin… [more below]- Author: Wightman, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1949590860
- Language: English
