State & Local
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Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
$21.99 Add to cartLionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments — one called the U… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0743244575
- Language: English
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Downtown, Up River: Bangor in the 1970s
$24.95 Read moreCaught at a tipping point between the city it was and the city it could be, in the 1970s Bangor, Maine was undergoing rapid change, both physical and social. As the urban renewal program and the openi… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Emily Stoddard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1952143675
- 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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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Add to cartA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
$20.00 Add to cartIn a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that … [more below]
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078679
- Language: English
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No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC
$29.95 Add to cartA history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse
Washington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American lite
- Author: Gilmore, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 164712655X
- Language: English
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How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
$27.00 Add to cartDismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national embl… [more below]
- Author: Pyne, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140280561
- Language: English
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Historic Lindenwood Cemetery: Fort Wayne, Indiana
$26.99 Read moreLindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is one of the state’s earliest examples of large park-like burial grounds. Established in 1859, it followed in the footsteps of the great “rural” or “garden… [more below]
- Series: Buried America
- Author: Harter, Randolph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1625451709
- Language: English
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Senator Kenneth McKellar: Feudin’ Son of Tennessee
$34.95 Add to cartKenneth McKellar may have been born in Reconstruction-era Alabama, but for most of his life, he was a Tennessean through and through. After graduating from the University of Alabama with bachelor’s, m
- Author: Hill, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1621909468
- Language: English
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center
$27.00 Add to cartIn this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to t… [more below]
- Author: Okrent, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0142001775
- Language: English
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Free Chicago: 50 Years of the Reader
$65.00 Add to cartFree Chicago: 50 Years of the Reader is an oversized coffee table book that tells the incredible story of the nation’s longest surviving free city paper.
In Chicago in 1971, a group of friends gathered
- Author: Hass, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798218515577
- Language: English
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Making Mill City: Flour and Fortune in Minneapolis
$39.95 Add to cartA richly illustrated history of the flour factories that transformed the milling industry worldwide–and forever changed the culture and architecture of Minneapolis
Among the most consequential advanc- Author: Frame III, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0816667608
- Language: English
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Webster Groves: A Walk Through History
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Schoenbeck, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1681066556
- Language: English
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Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic West
$19.95 Add to cartA lyric exploration of the complicated shared legacy of the atomic west through the lens of family history and the aftermath of the Manhattan Project.
Ty Bannerman’s family came to Los Alamos in 1952- Author: Bannerman, Ty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369022
- Language: English
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George Washington and Alexandria: A Founding Friendship
$24.99 Add to cartGeorge Washington and Alexandria recounts and celebrates the life, legacy, and leadership of the city’s hometown hero and the father of the nation.
No other city in America had the impact that Alexand
- Author: Rose, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 146717064X
- Language: English
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Abolitionists of the Northeast: Black Leaders in the Antislavery Movement
$39.95 Add to cart- Author: MacDonald, Gail Braccidiferro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1493098357
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson’s Flowers: Historic Gardens at Monticello
$24.95 Add to cartThe fascinating and innovative horticultural world of the Sage of Monticello
Contemplating the conclusion of his public life in 1809, Thomas Jefferson observed, “I retire to my family, my books and far
- Author: Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0813953510
- Language: English
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Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange
$29.95 Add to cartOffers a panoramic view of New York City in the 1920s, uncovering hidden histories from within entertainment, politics, arts, technology, and the law.
Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fre
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Goldman, Jonathan Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855806212
- Language: English
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The Palms Shore Club: A Brooklyn Legacy by the Bay
$20.00 Add to cartThis is a story about community – about how a single place can shape friendships, love stories, and memories that last a lifetime.
Beginning in 1960s Brooklyn, when ‘travel’ meant visiting the next nei
- Author: Berfond, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1637778651
- Language: English
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Cocked and Boozy: An Intoxicating History of the American Revolution
$29.99 Read moreAmerica’s founding generation drank a staggering amount of alcohol by today’s standards.
It influenced their politics, built and sustained their relationships, and drove the economy. Booze was not a- Author: Barbier, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1641606991
- Language: English
