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Tanum: A Story of Bumping Lake and the William O. Douglas Wilderness
$36.99 Add to cartThe riotous abundance of an ancient forest can hide many secrets. In the remote Bumping River Valley, a surprisingly rich past is quietly disappearing as the artifacts marking bygone lives and labors
- Author: Summit Cyr, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: February 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0578985306
- Language: English
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Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon
$25.00 Add to cartLike Plato’s fictional island kingdom, most of Bayocean sank below the sea long ago. The rest lies buried beneath the shore pine, salal, and beach grass covering the four-mile-long spit that protects
- Author: Sutherland, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987346303
- Language: English
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Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story
$19.95 Add to cartThese days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people atte… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826501761
- Language: English
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The Empire State Building
$25.95 Add to cartThe Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and construction of the build
- Author: Tauranac, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0801479398
- Language: English
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Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
$29.99 Read moreA modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap–a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscar… [more below]
- Author: Coscarelli, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 198210788X
- Language: English
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The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice
$20.00 Add to cartA 2020 New York Times notable book One of the Chicago Tribune‘s best nonfiction books of 2020
Complex, turbulent, as haunting as a pedal steel solo –Jonathan Miles, The New York Times Book Review (Edi- Author: Hill, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1250782740
- Language: English
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I Love(ish) New York City: Tales of City Life
$16.95 Add to cartA humorous and relatable look into the joys and pitfalls of living in New York City.
There is no city quite like New York City, for better or worse. I Love(ish) New York is a hilarious relatable colle- Author: Solomon, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1797216554
- Language: English
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Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West
$28.99 Add to cart“Beautifully observed. . . This jewel of a book belongs on the shelf with our best Western writers–Norman MacLean, Pam Houston, and Annie Proulx.”–John Vaillant, bestselling author of The Tiger and
- Author: Andrews, Bryce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0358468272
- Language: English
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All Present and Accounted For: The 1972 Alaska Grounding of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis and the Heroic Efforts that Saved the Ship
$19.95 Add to cartIt was late November–one of the coldest periods to be on a ship near Alaska. The Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis had run aground during a severe storm and was taking on water. The engine room flooded, disa
- Author: Craig, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1555719643
- Language: English
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Harvard Square: A Love Story
$27.95 Add to cart“Harvard Square isn’t what it used to be.” Spend any time there, and you’re bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same thing for well over a century. So what does it really m
- Author: Turco, Catherine J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231209282
- Language: English
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Death on Katahdin: And Other Misadventures in Maine’s Baxter State Park
$18.95 Add to cartThis fascinating addition to the North Woods canon looks at the variety of ways people have met their death on Maine’s highest and most remote mountain. It’s all here, from falls, exposure, and cardia… [more below]
- Author: Minetor, Randi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1608934179
- Language: English
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The War of the Copper Kings: Greed, Power, and Politics
$22.95 Add to cartThe famous account of the greedy battles between the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana.
- Author: Glasscock, C. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1931832218
- Language: English
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Off the Hook: Off-Beat Reporter’s Tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.)
$21.95 Add to cartBack in 1981, publisher Ed Danner took a chance, hiring Nancy Besonen, a rookie reporter from Chicago’s South Side, for his weekly newspaper, the L’Anse Sentinel. Her humor column, “Off the Hook,” was
- Author: Besonen, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997482
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley
$30.00 Add to cartThe incendiary story of conquest, racism, warfare, and historical amnesia at one of the world’s most celebrated and ostensibly enlightened public universities.
“This is a land acknowledgment.” —Ruth W
- Author: Platt, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1597146218
- Language: English
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Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
$36.99 Add to cartIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the A… [more below]
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257002
- Language: English
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The Blackwater Fire and the Men Who Fought It: How Firefighters Turned Tragedy into New Beginnings
$15.95 Add to cartAt 3:30 p.m. on August 21, 1937, the Blackwater Fire “blew up” west of Cody, Wyoming, on the Shoshone National Forest. Fifteen firefighters perish in the conflagration and more than forty are injured.
- Author: Brauneis, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 28 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Make It Go in the Snow: People and Ideas in the History of Snowmobiles
$21.95 Add to cartThrough the years, the challenge of powered transportation in the snow has been met with ideas from explorers, creative inventors and small companies, all with new ideas – often unique and sometimes s
- Author: Jorgensen, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998144
- Language: English
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Motor City Famous: Celebrity Homes, Graves and Little-Known Locales
$24.99 Add to cartMost know Detroit as the hometown of Motown legends like Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. And they’re all here! But beyond the well-known list of famous Detroiters awaits a veritable who’s w
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Platto, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 146715721X
- Language: English
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Letters from Country Life: Adolphe Pons, Man O’ War, and the Founding of Maryland’s Oldest Thoroughbred Farm
$24.95 Add to cartIn Letters from Country Life, Josh Pons, a third-generation horseman and owner of Country Life Farm, depicts a century of life inside the horse business, written from inside the fences of Maryland’s o
- Author: Pons, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 149308139X
- Language: English
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Finding the First Greeks of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1914-1955: A Walking Tour of Downtown
$19.95 Add to cartFrom 1914 to 1955 there were at least forty-eight Greek immigrant-owned businesses located in and around downtown Santa Fe. These businesses were mainly restaurants and caf?s, but they also included c
- Author: Pomonis, Katherine M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1632936755
- Language: English
