State & Local
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Colorado Excursions with History, Hikes and Hops
$24.99 Add to cartColorado is replete with natural beauty, award-winning breweries and a history that reflects its wild and rugged character. Author Ed Sealover offers this detailed guide to ten three-day excursions fu… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Sealover, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119806
- Language: English
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The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive
$21.99 Add to cartTraversing the spectacular Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming is an unforgettable experience. The unspoiled mountain scenery along the highway inspired famed news correspondent Charles Kuralt to… [more below]
- Series: Transportation
- Author: Axline, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135798
- Language: English
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Murder in Chisago County: The Unsolved Johnson Family Mystery
$21.99 Add to cartAt 3:30 a.m. on April 11, 1933, neighbors and firefighters arrived at the farmhouse of Albin and Alvira Johnson to find a smoldering heap where a seemingly happy home once stood. Beneath the ruins, in… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Johnson, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1467142336
- Language: English
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Tar Heel Lightnin’: How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation’s most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation’s l… [more below]
- Author: Pierce, Daniel S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1469653559
- Language: English
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
$23.99 Add to cartNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1476709513
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
$21.00 Add to cart“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of… [more below]
- Author: Crouch, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501108204
- Language: English
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Governors Island
$31.99 Add to cartPurchased from the Manhattan tribe of the Wappinger
Confederacy by the Dutch, Governors Island has long been
the secret island in New York’s harbor. Although this pristine island has appeared on maps … [more below]- Author: Glen, Susan L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1531623174
- Language: English
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Opryland USA
$32.99 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, the Ryman Auditorium the fifth home of the Grand Ole Opry was a deteriorating firetrap in a seedy part of Nashville, yet it still attracted thousands of people each weekend to the s… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Stephen W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1531699782
- Language: English
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Fort Niagara: The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America
$28.99 Add to cartFort Niagara is located twelve miles downriver from the world-renowned Niagara Falls, yet few visitors to either site know this was once Iroquois territory and claimed by France. This volume summarize… [more below]
- Author: Utley, William Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1532070659
- Language: English
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Gilded Age Murder & Mayhem in the Berkshires
$31.99 Add to cartMurder and dark deeds shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dressed burglar plundered the massive summer mansions of th… [more below]
- Author: Amelinckx, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1540212483
- Language: English
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Lost Plantations of the South
$40.00 Add to cartThe great majority of the South’s plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diar… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1578069424
- Language: English
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Death Ride: A Little Boy’s Night of Terror
$15.95 Add to cartDeath Ride is a riveting account of the brutal murders of Mike and Frieda Kuntz and the attempted murder of their five-year-old son, Larry, who witnessed the tragic deaths of his parents. This is an a
- Author: And Becky Hattenburg, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: January 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1641382554
- Language: English
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The Gritty Berkshires: A People’s History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass MoCA
$34.00 Add to cartAs The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts’ westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. For generations of working class families who have lived in the
- Author: Seider, Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: April 13 2019
- ISBN10: 188704339X
- Language: English
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44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy and Shattered Love
$15.00 Add to cart44 YEARS IN DARKNESS
A TRUE STORY OF MADNESS, TRAGEDY AND SHATTERED LOVE
BY SYLVIA SHULTSLost in the shadows of Illinois asylums in the nineteenth century is the strange story of Rhoda Derry. Left at
- Author: Shults, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1892523477
- Language: English
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10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.: 57 Walking Adventures
$19.95 Add to cartUpdated and Expanded Second Edition Features Six New Walking Adventures! 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A. is for urban adventurers with a passion for healthy living who are also eager to explore Los Angeles… [more below]
- Author: Haddad, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1595800999
- Language: English
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True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina
$21.99 Add to cartEastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out. A lovelorn war hero or a stalker? Conniving wife or consummate homemaker? Murder or suicide? The answers can be as p… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Pickens, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145114
- Language: English
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Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina
$60.00 Add to cartThis beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina’s contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richnes… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1469661241
- Language: English
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Spirits Along the Columbia River
$21.99 Add to cartThe breathtaking scenery of the Pacific Northwest hides a myriad of dark secrets.
From sightings of the Columbia River Sea Serpent, nicknamed Colossal Claude, to tales of Bigfoot encounters dating back
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150568
- Language: English
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War Trivia Book: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Vietnam War Stories
$11.99 Add to cartThe Vietnam War. From the gory photos captured on the ground, to the protest songs that soundtracked a generation of rebels and radicals, this twenty-year war left a mark on the world that’s not going
- Series: Trivia War Books #VOL.
- Author: O’Neill, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 04 2020
- ISBN10: 164845013X
- Language: English
