State & Local
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Sisters, Oregon–Five Decades of Quilting in America
$39.95 Add to cartExplore the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show through stunning visuals and compelling stories!
Renowned as the world’s largest outdoor quilt show, the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show in Sisters, Oregon, attracts m
- Author: Wells, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1644035464
- Language: English
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Wildsam Field Guides: Maine Coast
$24.00 Read moreThis volume features a dedicated section on Maine’s extraordinary boatbuilding tradition, while also covering Acadia National Park, famed artists, legendary shipwrecks, Portland’s booming culinary sce… [more below]
- Series: American City Guide
- Author: Bruce, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1467199729
- Language: English
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Mississippi Witness: The Photographs of Florence Mars
$40.00 Add to cartIn June 1964, Neshoba County, Mississippi, provided the setting for one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: the Klan-orchestrated murder of three young voting-rights workers, James C… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496820908
- Language: English
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True Tales of the Olympic Peninsula
$24.99 Add to cartA magnificent landscape of rugged peaks, impenetrable rainforest and wild coastlines, Washington’s Olympic Peninsula makes a perfect setting for the unexpected.Dive into the stories of pioneers who cr
- Author: Turner, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154628
- Language: English
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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack and the Fight for Survival in Early America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes “a vivid account” (The Wall Street Journal) of a forgotten chapt… [more below]
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1501108174
- Language: English
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Big Safe: The Milwaukee Crew and the Reno Redfield Heist
$24.99 Read moreSome say it was the biggest theft in American history. Maybe it was.
The multimillion-dollar burglary at eccentric gambler LaVere Redfield’s Reno mansion was an endless comedy of errors. A target who h
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Schmitt, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156639
- Language: English
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Deckhand: Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes
$22.95 Read moreLong before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women—the unsung heroes of the job world—toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of tho
- Author: Haydamacker, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0472033255
- Language: English
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World War II Hawaii
$24.99 Read moreIn World War II Hawaii, experience the untold stories of Hawaii at war where children worked the pineapple fields and women served in armed volunteer units. Makeshift bomb shelters were constructed, t
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Buckingham, Dorothea N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1467161772
- Language: English
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Carolina Beach Music Compilation Albums: The Classics
$24.99 Add to cartThe Stories Behind the Albums
Carolina beach music–those often-soulful songs about the beach, parties, that special love, dancing or just relaxing in the sun–has long been a mainstay of culture in th
- Author: Simmons, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157724
- Language: English
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Frommer’s Washington D.C. Day by Day
$17.95 Add to cartThis is the fifth edition of our bestselling Frommer’s Washington, D.C. day by day guidebook, and Meredith Pratt, a Washington, D.C. resident for over a decade, has been the author of all but one of t… [more below]
- Series: Day by Day
- Author: Pratt, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1628876255
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Flathead Lake
$24.99 Add to cartWhen asked about the greatest accomplishment of his 34-year congressional career, Mike Mansfield, one of America’s revered political figures, offered a simple reply– “Saving Flathead Lake.”
The large
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Larcombe, Butch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154741
- Language: English
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Texian Exodus: The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy
$39.95 Read moreA narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas.
Two events in Texas history shine so brigh
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1477330054
- Language: English
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Detroit’s Lost Stove Industry: From Open Hearth to Cast Iron
$24.99 Read moreCasting a legacy
Long before automobiles made Detroit the Motor City, the city boasted a flourishing and diverse industrial economy, albeit on a more modest scale. Among the myriad industries that defi
- Series: Lost
- Author: Van Dusen, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 146715699X
- Language: English
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Brunswick
$24.99 Add to cartBrunswick, Georgia, was laid out from a plan by Gen. James Oglethorpe in 1771. Growing quickly after the Civil War, Brunswick became a thriving Gilded Age port for naval industries and shipping as wel
- Series: Past and Present
- Author: Hurley, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467162078
- Language: English
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Heart Mountain Chronicles: The History of a Japanese Relocation Center
$36.00 Read moreThis is the story of a city. The Heart Mountain Relocation Center, located in northwest Wyoming, was one of ten Japanese-American internment camps built by government in the summer of 1942 to hold per
- Author: Murphy, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 678
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 173348972X
- Language: English
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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation
$29.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea–the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy–told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslave… [more below]
- Author: Parten, Bennett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668034689
- Language: English
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Secret Bend, Oregon: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Savage, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1681065584
- Language: English
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Grass of the Earth: The Story of a Norwegian Immigrant Family in Dakota
$19.95 Add to cartAn engaging, richly detailed biography of a family of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in eastern North Dakota in the late 1800s. Educator and world traveler Aagot Raaen wrote this reminiscence late i… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Raaen, Aagot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0873512952
- Language: English
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Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape in Text and Images
$34.95 Add to cartEnhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country’s beauty and expanse, starting with its First Peoples. Depending on the season, the four Plateau
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1638640262
- Language: English
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Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s
$27.00 Add to cartOn July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu… [more below]
- Author: Silver, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1469682869
- Language: English
