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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$17.99 Add to cartErik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their deaths. Co… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 689
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1594136246
- Language: English
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We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$19.95 Read moreWITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY–Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed in… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Phyllis Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1611864208
- Language: English
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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
$17.95 Read moreOn September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on t… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1493022008
- Language: English
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Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
$0.00 Read moreStories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster
On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorol
- Author: Griffith, Cary J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915562
- Language: English
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Cleveland Christmas Memories: Looking Back at Holidays Past
$19.95 Add to cartWhat made Christmas extra-special to a Cleveland kid? Come relive some of your fondest moments …
Seeing Mr. Jingeling (the keeper of Santa’s keys) on TV or in person at Halle’s. Gazing at the giant S
- Author: Bellamy, Gail Ghetia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1938441087
- Language: English
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Secret Milwaukee: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Read moreOften referred to as a “big small town” or “Smallwaukee,” you might think that Mllwaukee does not have any secrets. Milwaukee’s image is one of quaint nostalgia, of beer, bratwurst, bowling, and telev… [more below]
- Series: Secret
- Author: Nelsen, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064901
- Language: English
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The Children’s Blizzard
$19.99 Add to cart“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . . . This is a book best read wit
- Author: Laskin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060520760
- Language: English
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The Jayhawk: The Story of the University of Kansas’s Beloved Mascot
$32.99 Add to cartThe Jayhawk, the University of Kansas’s legendary and unique mascot, has represented the university for more than one hundred years and is recognizable around the world. In The Jayhawk, Rebecca Ozier
- Author: Schulte, Rebecca A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0700635394
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes: Tragedies and Legacies from the Inland Seas
$19.95 Add to cartSubmerged stories from the inland seas
The newest addition to Globe Pequot’s Shipwrecks series covers the sensational wrecks and maritime disasters from each of the five Great Lakes. It is estimated t- Author: Lardinois, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 149305855X
- Language: English
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Wisconsin Supper Clubs: An Old-Fashioned Experience
$38.00 Add to cartSupper club guru Ron Faiola is back with updated chronicles and beautiful new photographs from the clubs that captured the attention of readers in Wisconsin Supper Clubs, and also features several new
- Series: Wisconsin Supper Clubs
- Author: Faiola, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1572843314
- Language: English
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To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota
$19.95 Add to cartThe largely untold story of the Ho-Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents sought to expel all indigenous people from the region and deny Native claims to some of the richest farmla
- Author: Coats, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342553
- Language: English
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Missouri Weird and Wonderful
$22.50 Read moreMissouri Weird and Wonderful is a fast-paced, fact-filled collection of the most fascinating parts of life in our state, with a kid’s-eye point of view. Learn the many wild nicknames of our famous nat… [more below]
- Author: Zettwoch, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064820
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$32.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
Two men, each- Series: Illinois
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 11, 2003
- ISBN10: 0609608444
- Language: English
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Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival
$35.00 Read moreThe untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital.
Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters, gospel s- Author: Guarino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 022611094X
- Language: English
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Stumped: The Legacy of the Great Pine Harvest in Mid-Michigan
$15.95 Add to cartWhen Michigan joined the Union, in 1837, it acquired nearly 14 million acres of land from the 1836 treaty. It took several years to survey the land, at which point the complex process of land “disposa
- Author: Schupbach, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1961302101
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1501168703
- Language: English
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: A National Book Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cartThis National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history–the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of th
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0618773479
- Language: English
