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Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
$19.99 Add to cartNow a major film by Academy Award winner Errol Morris
“The seminal book on the child-separation policy.” –Rachel Maddow
Award-winning NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff lays bare the full truth behi
- Author: Soboroff, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0062992201
- Language: English
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Amazing Girls of Arizona: True Stories of Young Pioneers
$14.95 Add to cartGrowing up can be hard enough, but when you are a teenage girl on the western frontier every day is a lesson in survival. From being held captive by a Native American tribe (like Olive Ann Oatman), to… [more below]
- Author: Cleere, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 076274135X
- Language: English
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The Last True Clipper: Western Shore – the Oregon Clipper
$15.00 Add to cartThe last United States-built clipper ship was constructed in 1874 in the small shipbuilding town of North Bend Oregon. Hailed for its record-breaking speed from Astoria to Liverpool, its journeys ende
- Author: Wagner, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: September 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79833E+12
- Language: English
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
$21.00 Add to cartA National Bestseller – A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 – Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker – One of Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List Picks – Named a Notable Book by New York Time… [more below]
- Author: Blitzer, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1984880829
- Language: English
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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch,
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 393881164
- Language: English
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Massachusetts State Police Salisbury Beach
$24.95 Read more- Author: Guilmette, Ronald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1956027424
- Language: English
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
$18.95 Add to cart“All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the hear… [more below]
- Author: MacDonald, Michael Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020532
- Language: English
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Pacific Northwest Legends & Lore
$24.99 Add to cartWith its sweeping vistas and rugged beauty, the Pacific Northwest is a natural setting for the extraordinary.
Strange tales of paranormal phenomena and other wild stories thrive among the tree
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146715783X
- Language: English
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Classic Michigan Food and Drinks: The Stories Behind the Brands
$24.99 Add to cartMichigan is home to an amazing array of food and drink brands, each with a fascinating story behind it.
Ready-to-eat breakfast cereals like Kellogg’s and Post changed how the world eats, and Gerber fi
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Milan, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1467153052
- Language: English
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Up-The-Road Down-The-Road
$18.99 Add to cartIn Up-The-Road Down-The-Road, noted Outer Banks historian Bill Harris has documented the history of Kitty Hawk Village from its beginnings. He explains how Kitty Hawk got its name and who originally s
- Author: Harris, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988017158
- Language: English
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A History of Philadelphia Sandwiches: Steaks, Hoagies, Iconic Eateries & More
$24.99 Add to cartTake a Bite of Philadelphia’s Storied Sandwich History
Philadelphia boasts some of the most delicious original sandwiches and passionate sandwich aficionados. From the classic cheesesteak to the delect
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Madaio, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1467152021
- Language: English
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The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City
$18.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction
From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known- Author: Roberts, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 163973371X
- Language: English
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The Silk Finisher: Bigotry, Murder, and Sacrifice in the Crossroads of America
$18.99 Add to cartWhat happens when toxicity invades a life at every turn?
A 1963 murder leads to a decade-long journey for a son to uncover truths about his family, an American town, and ultimately himself. In the “Cr- Author: Melchior, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South
$32.00 Add to cartA “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore … [more below]
- Author: Schumaker, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605314
- Language: English
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Nocturnal New Orleans
$59.95 Add to cartBehold the mystique of the New Orleans night–that tinge of excitement, that veil of mystery, that sense of danger that emerges during “the witching hour.”
Darkness may unleash the Dionysian in the Cr- Author: Rasi, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182613
- Language: English
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAn “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s g… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601009
- Language: English
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Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion’s Soul Through Science and Story
$24.95 Add to cartLeslie Patten had seen grizzly bears, wolves, coyotes, deer, elk, and many other species in her years living next to Yellowstone National Park. Yet, like most visitors, she had never seen a mountain l… [more below]
- Author: Patten, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238478
- Language: English
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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
$20.99 Add to cartWinner, American Battlefield Trust Prize for History
A “compelling portrait” (Jon Meacham
Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography- Author: Varon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1982148284
- Language: English
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L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood
$29.95 Add to cartL.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars,” who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, and Natalie Wood. It … [more below]
- Author: Choi, Anne Soon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Killer Women of Michigan
$24.99 Read moreThey used arsenic to obtain chemical divorces and strychnine to settle scores. They bludgeoned husbands to make way for lovers. They flattened love triangles with blunt objects. They murdered for mone
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Buhk, Tobin T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156205
- Language: English
