State & Local
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Twenty-One Boxes: Robin’s Story and the Tragedy of the Edenton Seven
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1989, the Little Rascals Day Care in Edenton, North Carolina, was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. One day, the owner’s husband disciplined a boy at naptime, and soon an angry mother su
- Author: Hester, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: March 13 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989715015
- Language: English
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Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
$35.00 Add to cartWe are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brou
- Author: Parkinson, Robert G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091770
- Language: English
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Deckhand: Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes
$27.99 Add to cartThe story of Fleur Wood’s journey from corporate world to creative life woven with generous doses of the practical ways you can bring more creativity into your own life.
Taking cues from the natural- Author: Woods, Fleur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0473679760
- Language: English
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Mississippi Witness: The Photographs of Florence Mars
$27.00 Read moreReporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews must stop a bold poisoner who is targeting the society wives of the Four Hundred in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island . . .
August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rh- Series: Gilded Newport Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1496736214
- Language: English
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Rebel Falls
$28.95 Add to cartWinner of the W.Y. Boyd Literary Novel Award for Excellence in Military Fiction by the Academic Council of the United Nations System.
With Rebel Falls, Tim Wendel takes us to late summer of 1864. The C
- Author: Wendel, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501774883
- Language: English
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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
$32.50 Add to cartA fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary–and often overlooked–adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the
- Author: Bellows, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0063227401
- Language: English
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Bullets for Dead Hoods: An Encyclopedia of Chicago Mobsters, C. 1933
$38.00 Add to cartThis haunting dossier–anonymously assembled and found in a thrift store–gives an unprecedented and intimate lowdown on the Chicago mafia
Writer, curator, and gallerist John Corbett struck thrift gold
- Author: Corbett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1940190266
- Language: English
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The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief
$28.95 Add to cartThe thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high society–and a window into the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the Swinging Sixties.
As a strin- Author: Pederson, Rena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366059
- Language: English
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Nisei Daughter
$19.95 Add to cartWith charm, humor, and deep understanding, Monica Sone tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle’s waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to “relocation” during World War II.
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Sone, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993553
- Language: English
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James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist
$22.95 Add to cartFounded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered Englan
- Author: Thurmond, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820366005
- Language: English
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Parks of Oklahoma City: A History
$39.99 Read moreFrom the founding of Oklahoma City in 1889 to the present day, this ambitious narrative documents the evolution of the city’s parks, public places, and open spaces, illuminating the history of iconic
- Author: Blackburn, Bob L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992359398
- Language: English
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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West
$32.00 Add to cart“A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time.” —Outside
A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West–and a plea- Author: Ketcham, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0735220999
- Language: English
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Spirit of the Bluegrass: Strange, Surprising, and Sentimental Stories from Kentucky
$27.95 Read moreEmmy-Winning Journalist Marvin Bartlett’s 35-year journey through Kentucky’s unique stories.
For thirty-five years, Emmy award-winning television journalist Marvin Bartlett has traveled the state, coll
- Author: Bartlett, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1493086790
- Language: English
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Origins of the Georgia Coast: Retracing the Rich History of the Georgia Lowcountry
$35.00 Read moreNow recognized as a global tourist destination featuring the Forbes Five-Star Sea Island Resort with world-renowned golf courses and fine dining, Georgia’s Golden Isles possess a complex history invo
- Author: Hunt, William P. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 099055029X
- Language: English
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Blackville, Arkansas – Fashioned by a Former Slave: Stories from Individuals Who Remember Blackville
$34.95 Add to cartBlackville, Arkansas, an all-Black self-sufficient thriving community was named after its founder Pickens Black Sr., a former slave. When a young man, he migrated to Jackson County in Northeast Arkans
- Author: Vaughn, Wally G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1977207766
- Language: English
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Princess Cheyenne: My Life as Boston’s Most Famous Stripper
$27.48 Add to cart“Lucy
Wightman’s journey from the blue-blooded culture of Lake Forest, Illinois, to
Boston’s Combat Zone is an unflinching dive into a bygone era. It’s a complex
character study and rare introspective lo… [more below]- Author: Wightman, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1949590879
- Language: English
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Tales of Ohio’s Underground Railroad
$24.99 Read moreAuthors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker separate fact from fiction in the story of Ohio’s Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a macabre sort of dance between good and evil in which
- Author: Meyers, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159166
- Language: English
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Feild Notes on Little Rock: History and Memoir, 1622-2024
$19.95 Add to cartThe title Feild Notes on Little Rock is an “E before I” play on an anachronistic spelling of an old family name. The book weaves that Feild family history, extensive research, and a trove of photos, m
- Author: Feild, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 173531675X
- Language: English
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Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon
$29.95 Read moreThroughout history, humans have sought creation stories to define our identity and affirm our connections with the universe, diverse life forms, and one another. Over the last two centuries, science h… [more below]
- Author: Lago, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1647791952
- Language: English
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Rainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History
$28.00 Add to cartRainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History is an anthology of eighty-five short, easy-to-read essays that originally appeared in Ambush Magazine and French Quarter Journal. Author Frank… [more below]
- Author: Perez, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496857585
- Language: English
