State & Local
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The Christmas Tree Shops: Don’t You Just Love a Bargain?
$24.99 Add to cartThe Christmas Tree Shops, founded in 1970, became a beloved New England icon for unique bargains.
The Christmas Tree Shops was an icon of New England, with stores that offered a diverse assortment of m… [more below]
- Author: Sammarco, Anthony M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1625451628
- Language: English
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Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History
$34.95 Read moreThe entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spaces
From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know
- Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Author: Biehler, Dawn Day
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 295753196
- Language: English
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Golden State: The Making of California
$32.50 Add to cart“Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation.”–Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution
From Pulitzer Prize winner Mic
- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 035853934X
- Language: English
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Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
$30.00 Add to cartA poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America–written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfu… [more below]
- Author: Bardenwerper, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0385549652
- Language: English
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Inventing Niagara
$21.99 Add to cartAmericans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the Falls aren’t very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized and landscape redes… [more below]
- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 141654657X
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Little Lithuania
$24.99 Read moreWhen visiting a church such as Holy Cross in Back of the Yards or Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary in Marquette Park, it is easy to stand in awe of what generations of Lithuanians in Chicago have accompli
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Riskus, Justin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1467161977
- Language: English
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Settling the Mississippi Territory: The Origin of Two States
$24.99 Add to cartThe Territory That Built Two States
The Mississippi Territory existed as a political entity for nearly two decades. It stretched from the Tennessee border southward to the Gulf of Mexico and was boun
- Author: Bunn, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158798
- Language: English
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Kansas Baseball
$24.99 Read moreBaseball has long been synonymous with Kansas. Go back to the late 1800s and the birth of Walter Johnson and George Sweatt, Humboldt kids who played baseball at the highest level but in different leag
- Series: Sports
- Author: Travis, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158747
- Language: English
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Retracing the Keowee Trail: A Deep Map of the Cherokee Path in the History of the Carolinas
$32.00 Add to cartIn Retracing the Keowee Trail, the author tells the story of the Cherokee Path that connected the low country of colonial Carolina with the mountain homeland of the Cherokee Nation. The Keowee Trail w… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: November 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79839E+12
- Language: English
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Lost Columbia County, New York
$24.99 Read moreColumbia County Past Revealed
People have been drawn to Columbia County, New York, for years. Beyond the region’s picturesque streams, lakes and mountains, the county is filled with the magic of histor
- Series: Lost
- Author: Marchese, Allison Guertin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158003
- Language: English
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A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family
$15.95 Add to cartA captivating, unfiltered account of growing up on a ranch, where every decision defines character
A Sometimes Paradise is a poignant personal journey into the rugged beauty and hardscrabble challenges
- Author: Miller, Mark E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1954861168
- Language: English
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Tasunka
$19.95 Read moreCuriosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal. It leads him far from home, but at last he finds a herd of the strange new creatures. They are horses that shimmer with color and run swift as th… [more below]
- Author: Montileaux, Donald F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0985290528
- Language: English
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The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim
$34.95 Add to cartIn 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a
- Author: Palmer, Hannah S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181897
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Montana
$20.00 Add to cartRoadside History of Montana goes well beyond cowboy stories to tell of the struggles of dryland farmers, the rowdy antics of mining- town denizens, and the heroism of smoke jumpers and park rangers. A… [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Spritzer Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 449
- Publish Date: June 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0878423958
- Language: English
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Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
$32.00 Add to cartThe sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco and the trial that epitomized the city’s transformation from raucous frontier town into mode… [more below]
- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593444213
- Language: English
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No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
$22.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labo… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607023
- Language: English
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Murder of the Jujube Candy Heiress: A Coronado Cold Case
$24.99 Add to cartOne candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects.
The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired libra
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Kiland, Taylor Baldwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1467150584
- Language: English
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Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
$29.95 Read moreWinner, T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical Commission
Summerfield G. Roberts Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas
Honorable Mention, Certificate of Commendation, American Association for- Series: Texas Classics
- Author: Hardin, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0292731027
- Language: English
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Love Letter to Ramah: Living Beside New Mexico’s Trail of the Ancients
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1998 Tim and Lucia Amsden left their familiar lives in Kansas City and moved to the Ramah Valley in northwestern New Mexico. Love Letter to Ramah recounts their two decades of experiences there, ne
- Author: Amsden, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0826366589
- Language: English
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Hats
$14.95 Add to cartAlthough a short read of only seven chapters in his first book debut, Hats will go down in history as the most informative and controversial book in modern times. As a pure-blooded artist, author, war
- Author: Morales, J. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: November 13 2024
- ISBN10: 9798894850931
- Language: English
