State & Local
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Interstate ’85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series
$34.95 Add to cartFor 40 years now, the 1985 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals has been largely overlooked, save for the enduring notoriety of umpire Don Denkinger’s infamous missed ca… [more below]
- Series: Sports and American Culture
- Author: Garvey, Marshall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0826223273
- Language: English
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I Don’t Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
$19.99 Add to cart“Reading Nick Corasaniti’s delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories.”—Rolling Stone,
- Author: Corasaniti, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0062950797
- Language: English
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Fishes of the Chicago Region: A Field Guide
$35.00 Add to cart“A treasure of hardcore fish intelligence and delightful tidbits of fish history.”–Dale Bowman, Chicago Sun-Times
Fish don’t heed state boundaries, and neither does this comprehensive, photo-filled g- Author: Veraldi, Francis M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0226837351
- Language: English
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Hazel Was a Good Girl: Solving the Murder That Inspired Twin Peaks
$18.95 Add to cartThe tragic and mysterious death of Hazel Drew that inspired the cult hit TV show Twin Peaks, is finally solved by Dr. Jerry C. Drake.
The legend of Hazel Drew spread through stories of her ghost haunt
- Author: Drake, Jerry C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 196098859X
- Language: English
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Frommer’s Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque
$22.95 Add to cartFrommer’s books aren’t written by committee or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. Our authors are passionate local experts like Erin Vivid Ril
- Series: Complete Guide
- Author: Riley, Erin Vivid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1628876417
- Language: English
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Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth
$19.95 Add to cartThe iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while… [more below]
- Author: Wendl, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 025208876X
- Language: English
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Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont
$15.95 Add to cartAbout the Book:
Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont features the work of six New England cartoonists drawing on the rich personal and family stories of the remark
- Author: Francis Bordeleau, Marek Bennett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0916718018
- Language: English
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Plums or Nuts: Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor
$18.95 Add to cartA master Ojibwe storyteller shares twenty-five stories–often bawdy, full of mischief and misbehavior–in Ojibwe and English.
Larry Amik Smallwood had the gift of making people laugh. Of all the teach- Author: Smallwood, Larry Amik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342669
- Language: English
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George Valentine Dureau: Life and Art in New Orleans
$50.00 Read moreNew Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930-2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Howard Philips
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: March 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1496853830
- Language: English
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Napa: The Story of an American Eden
$21.99 Add to cartJames Conaway’s remarkable bestseller delves into the heart of California’s lush and verdant Napa Valley, also known as America’s Eden. Long the source of succulent grapes and singular wines, this reg
- Author: Conaway, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0618257985
- Language: English
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Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages
$34.95 Add to cartRichard Campanella’s Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences tells the epic story of human settlement in Louisiana, unearthing the original geographical rationales for the formation of hundreds of cities
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185108
- Language: English
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Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids: The Scandalous 1916 Murder Plot
$31.99 Add to cartWith his boyish good looks, Arthur Warren Waite charmed into marriage the daughter of wealthy Grand Rapids business tycoon John E. Peck in 1916. He then wasted no time executing what he believed to be… [more below]
- Author: Buhk, Tobin T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1540211614
- Language: English
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High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West
$24.95 Add to cartNestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West
- Author: Bach, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645282
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks of the San Juans: A History of Maritime Disaster in the San Juan Islands
$16.99 Add to cartMariners have long dreaded the labyrinth of the San Juan Islands. Bounded by the howling straits of Georgia, Rosario, Haro, and Juan de Fuca, the islands have proved the resting place of many an unluc
- Author: Reigel, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218490942
- Language: English
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February House
$21.99 Add to cartFebruary House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers — and the country’s best-known burlesque performer — in a hous
- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2006
- ISBN10: 061871197X
- Language: English
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Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen
$39.95 Add to cartExplore Gilded Age New York through the lens of Alice Austen, who captured the social rituals of New York’s leisured class and the bustling streets of the modern city. Celebrated as a queer artist, sh
- Author: Yochelson, Bonnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509509
- Language: English
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Wicked Women of New Mexico
$31.99 Add to cartNew Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect setting in which to seize wealth. Many wicked women on t… [more below]
- Author: Birchell, Donna Blake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1540208745
- Language: English
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Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Mi?oso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams
$22.95 Read moreOn May 1, 1951, Orestes “Minnie” Mi?oso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two years later. Th… [more below]
- Author: Zminda, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088492
- Language: English
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009
$25.00 Add to cartNew York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she’s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered–all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, bu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
- Author: Carpenter, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0812974255
- Language: English
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The Big Story: The Oral History of Philadelphia TV News
$35.00 Read more“He was much like the Walter Cronkite of Philadelphia.”—Ed Rendell, former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor, about Jim Gardner, the trusted voice of WPVI’s Action News for 47 years
“We we- Author: Grzybowski, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1439921822
- Language: English
