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The Cereal Killer Chronicles of Battle Creek
$21.99 Read moreAt the convergence of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Rivers lies Cereal City, USA. Named after a bloody battle between Native Americans and land surveyors, Battle Creek is most famously the home of th… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Carpenter, Jenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1467149497
- Language: English
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Something in the Water
$35.00 Add to cartThe history of Macon, Georgia, has an exceptional soundtrack, and SOMETHING IN THE WATER provides a lively narrative of the city’s musical past from its founding in 1823 to 1980. From its pioneer orig… [more below]
- Author: Wynne, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0881468029
- Language: English
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Roswell
$24.99 Read moreBest known as the site of an alleged flying saucer crash in 1947 and the “Roswell Incident,” Roswell began as a humble trading post in the late 1860s along the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail and eventu… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Lemay, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0738558540
- Language: English
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Heaven’s Harsh Tableland: A New History of the Llano Estacado
$42.00 Read moreThe Llano Estacado–dubbed by author Paul H. Carlson as “heaven’s harsh tableland”–covers some 48,000 square miles of western Texas and eastern New Mexico. In this new survey of the region, the story… [more below]
- Series: American Wests, Sponsored by West Texas A&m University
- Author: Carlson, Paul H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1648431542
- Language: English
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The Witch of Mansfield: The Tetched Life of Phebe Wise
$24.99 Read moreMeet one of Richland County’s most colorful citizens.
There are those who thought Phebe Wise was a witch. More thought that the cranky old lady was “tetched,” meaning crazy. And she was crazy–like
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Jordan, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155217
- Language: English
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
$30.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.
During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accom- Author: Adams, Jad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147891
- Language: English
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Murder and Mountain Justice in the Moonshine Capital of the World
$23.99 Read moreA Story of Hard Spirits and Defiant Souls Franklin County, Virginia has long been known as the Moonshine Capital of the World. That history can seem romantic, but the county has a dark and violent pas… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Gibbs, Phillip Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153389
- Language: English
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The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson
$19.95 Read moreAn intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors.
Horace Busby was one of LBJ’s most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship- Author: Busby, Horace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1477327479
- Language: English
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Colorful Characters of Pittsburgh
$24.99 Read moreBeyond the world famous artists, singers, actors and more from Pittsburgh are the city’s celebrities known locally for their quirky style, unique mannerisms, and outlandish behavior.
From Joe Barker, t
- Series: The History Press
- Author: King, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 146714858X
- Language: English
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Legends & Lore of Cape Cod
$21.99 Read moreCape Cod has a rich tradition of local lore, stretching back to a time before the Pilgrims arrived.
Ancient Wampanoag legends like Granny Squannit and Princess Scargo are as familiar as tales of pirate
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Smith-Johnson, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119040
- Language: English
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Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert
$24.95 Read moreOn February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock… [more below]
- Author: Barylick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1611688531
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$32.00 Read moreThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005939
- Language: English
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
$30.00 Read moreA penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics.
Democracy was broken. Or that was what many American- Author: Grinspan, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1635574625
- Language: English
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Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$22.50 Read moreWhere do the tunnels under the Colorado State Capitol go and why were they dug there in the first place? What is the backstory behind Tom’s Baby, the largest piece of gold ever unearthed in Colorado? … [more below]
- Series: Secret
- Author: Peterson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1681061058
- Language: English
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A Block in Time: A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
$28.00 Read moreGotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present.
This is the story of New York City, told through- Author: Bird, Christiane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1632867427
- Language: English
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
$20.00 Read moreIn this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The new
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021802
- Language: English
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Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens: A Landscape of Diversity
$35.00 Add to cartHonoring and embodying the cultural heritages of a region through the beauty of shared outdoor spaces
From their beginnings as private farmland to their current form as monuments to cultural and ethni
- Author: Grabowski, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1606354418
- Language: English
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
$15.95 Read moreForsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and ch
- Author: Phillips, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354733
- Language: English
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Beaufort
$24.99 Read moreBeaufort, South Carolina, the Palmetto State’s second-oldest town, is a paradigm of the Low Country.
Historic mansions overlook the bay with century-old oaks standing sentinel. Visitors to Beaufort fee
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Cooper, Polly Wylly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0738515221
- Language: English
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Legends & Lore of Southwest Virginia
$24.99 Read moreExplore the traditional tales of the hills and hollers of southwestern Virginia. From the infamous Black Sisters of Christiansburg to the ghost of the famed Barter Theatre in Abingdon, the region is f… [more below]
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Simmons, Shane S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155047
- Language: English
