State & Local
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Unc A to Z: What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University
$28.00 Add to cartIn this revised and expanded edition, UNC A to Z offers more Carolina history than ever before. Covering everything from the Old Well and the Confederate monument to the COVID-19 pandemic and Roy Will… [more below]
- Author: Graham, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1469684489
- Language: English
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Nightshining
$20.00 Add to cart“Jennifer Kabat’s Nightshining sifts a riveting expos? of the Cold War technocratic fantasy-state through lyrical family memoir. Her superb investigation calls to mind those of Rebecca Solnit and Erro… [more below]
- Author: Kabat, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1639550704
- Language: English
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Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure
$32.99 Add to cartDrawing on historic sources as well as present-day interviews, Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing is a story about systemic racism, environmental injustice, and the failure of government.
In 2016, 1,100
- Author: Boiarsky, Carolyn R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1612499473
- Language: English
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Ivey Badge 44
$15.99 Add to cartIvey, Badge 44 is a heartfelt tribute to a loving family man and police officer, who gave all to protect the city he loved. The aftermath would leave two families to process the effects of dealing wit
- Author: Norton, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992002607
- Language: English
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Bayou of Pigs
$14.50 Add to cartIn 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from Canada and the United States set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean country, overthrow its government in a coup d’
- Author: Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1443427640
- Language: English
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Language and Life on Ocracoke: The Living History of the Brogue
$25.00 Add to cartIn this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet. Many visitors ar… [more below]
- Author: Reaser, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685299
- Language: English
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The Bears of Grand Teton: A Natural and Cultural History
$26.95 Add to cartThe Bears of Grand Teton is the first comprehensive history of bears, black and grizzly, and their interactions with people in Grand Teton National Park and the surrounding area of Jackson Hole, Wyomi… [more below]
- Series: America’s Public Lands
- Author: Consolo-Murphy, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: April 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1496236270
- Language: English
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The Bird Cage Theater: The Curtain Rises on Tombstone, Arizona’s National Treasure
$34.95 Add to cartTombstone, Arizona, is forever associated with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, and the legendary OK Corral gunfight that made it a cultural symbol of the Old West. The town’s most iconic and
- Author: Mihaljevich, Michael Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 157441948X
- Language: English
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Shipwreck Rescues of the Outer Banks: Sensational Wrecks and Heroic Rescues by the United States Life-Saving Service
$27.95 Add to cartAlong North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where thousands of ships met their doom, the brave surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service braved raging seas, defied death itself, and saved countless lives from c
- Author: Charlet, James D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087703
- Language: English
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Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West
$21.95 Read moreIn these new and selected essays, Mark Sundeen recounts two decades of political activism, outdoor exploration, and empathetic curiosity. He was both witness to and active participant in pivotal cultu
- Author: Sundeen, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 082636764X
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South
$35.00 Add to cartGeorgann Eubanks offers readers a tour of the seasonal joys of ecosystems in the Southeast. The ordinary destinations and events she explores are scattered across seven states and include such wonders… [more below]
- Author: Eubanks, Georgann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685922
- Language: English
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Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness
$28.00 Add to cartThrough stories of nature near at hand, a South Florida
writer offers a unique view of humans and the environment amid
development and change
Wings
and talons clatter against a windowpane. Fox- Series: Co-Published with Florida Humanities
- Author: Furman, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0813080967
- Language: English
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Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories
$24.95 Add to cartTales of ambition, terror, rivalry, adventure, endurance, friendship, and love on the waters of the Mississippi River and beyond.
In this collection, award-winning writer Frank Bures tells true stories
- Author: Bures, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1681343126
- Language: English
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William Trent: Factor of Ambition
$34.95 Add to cartOn December 1st, 1784, along a cold and wintry Fourth Street in Philadelphia, Major William Trent sputtered his last breath surrounded by friends and family and soon became forgotten in history.
The so
- Author: Cherry, Jason A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888191859
- Language: English
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Florida Spectacular: Extraordinary Places and Exceptional Lives
$26.95 Add to cartDiscover Florida in a new light through little-known moments from its fascinating history
If when you think “Florida” you don’t think “spectacular,” Cathy Salustri is determined to change your mind- Author: Salustri, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 081308069X
- Language: English
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Welcome to Florida: True Tales from America’s Most Interesting State
$28.00 Add to cartA much-loved Florida writer chronicles the quirky, touching, and thought-provoking stories of the Sunshine State today
In Welcome to Florida,
award-winning investigative journalist and New Yo- Author: Pittman, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0813080940
- Language: English
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Geology of the Lake Tahoe Basin: History and Features
$24.99 Read more“Readers will learn about the many prominent points of geologic interest and discover their location and creation processes. …a must-read for scientists, nature enthusiasts, visitors and curious min… [more below]
- Author: Antonucci, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1625451202
- Language: English
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Murder in Rockport, Massachusetts: Terror in a Small Town
$24.99 Add to cartCold Case Clues
On May 21, 1932, Arthur Oker, a mild-mannered Finnish tailor, was brutally murdered in his shop in the small seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts.
While this unsolved crime terrified
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Soini, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156310
- Language: English
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The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim’s Journey on the Great Wagon Road
$32.00 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail and Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic, The Road That Made America is a lively, epic account of one of the greatest untold stories … [more below]
- Author: Dodson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1476746745
- Language: English
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Saving Stuyvesant Town: How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History
$34.95 Add to cartFrom city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class community defeated the largest residential real estate dea
- Author: Garodnick, Daniel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501754378
- Language: English
