United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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Lost Bar Harbor
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue the simple life on a grand scale. Eighty-six … [more below]
- Author: Helfrich, G. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1608936023
- Language: English
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Maine Nursing: Interviews and History on Caring and Competence
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: L’Heureux, Juliana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1540203417
- Language: English
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Wicked Salem: Exploring Lingering Lore and Legends
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s no surprise that the historic Massachusetts seaport’s history is checkered with violence and heinous crimes. Originally called Naumkeag, Salem means “peace.” However, as its historical legacy dic
- Author: Baltrusis, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1493037110
- Language: English
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Newport: The Artful City
$44.95 Add to cartAs one of the most historically intact cities in North
America, Newport, Rhode Island, has a cultural
and architectural heritage of national significance.
Each of the city’s districts has its own dist… [more below]- Author: Tschirch, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1911282697
- Language: English
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One August Morning
$18.00 Add to cartONE AUGUST MORNING THE TRUE STORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN BY TROY TAYLOR LIZZIE BORDEN TOOK AN AXE… OR DID SHE? Lizzie Borden is a name that has lived in infamy. As everyone knows, she’s the young woman wh… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1892523957
- Language: English
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It Happened in Connecticut: Stories of Events and People That Shaped Nutmeg State History
$16.95 Add to cartIt Happened in Connecticut tells twenty-seven true tales of famous–and infamous–people and events from the state’s past, ranging from witchcraft trials to the Wiffle ball, from mass murder for profi
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: McCain, Diana Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149307038X
- Language: English
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New Hampshire Book of the Dead:: Graveyard Legends and Lore
$21.99 Add to cartNew Hampshire’s historic graveyards, from Portsmouth to North Conway, have bizarre and eerie stories to offer their visitors. Graveyards often invoke fear and superstition among the living, but the de… [more below]
- Author: Zwicker, Roxie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1609497562
- Language: English
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The Myth and Reality of Slavery in Eastern Connecticut: The Brownes of Salem and Absentee Land Ownership
$21.50 Add to cartThe Myth and Reality of Slavery in Eastern Connecticut: The Brownes of Salem and Absentee Land Ownership tells the story of absentee landlords and slavery in the region prior to the American Revolutio
- Author: Stark, Bruce P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218000899
- Language: English
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Marblehead Myths, Legends and Lore
$21.99 Add to cartFind stories of magic and witches, sailors, pirates and shipwrecks and more in this book filled with folks with great stories and interesting lives.
Author and Marblehead Museum & Historical Society di
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Matthias Peterson, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 1596292563
- Language: English
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Forgotten Tales of Vermont
$14.99 Add to cartThere’s more to Vermont than maple syrup and covered bridges. A book about Vermont’s history will likely bring to mind such topics as Abenaki Indians, the Green Mountain Boys and the state’s famed cov… [more below]
- Series: Forgotten Tales
- Author: Alexander, William M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1596294655
- Language: English
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God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England
$18.99 Add to cartThe tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses f… [more below]
- Author: Warren, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1501180428
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time, The Mad River Valley
$23.99 Add to cartMore than a book, this is a time capsule of simpler times in the Mad River Valley. Photos of tiny villages, how we lived, buildings and the people of a bygone era will tug at nostalgic hearts and enli
- Author: Eurich, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989510603
- Language: English
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David Thomson: First Yankee
$12.00 Add to cartA man of many talents, Thomson was a builder, an explorer, a businessman and an apothecary. In 1620, when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, Thomson had already made numerous trips to the coast of
- Author: Newall, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1950381323
- Language: English
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The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England
$34.00 Add to cartForages through New England’s most famous foods for the truth behind the region’s culinary myths
Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Sto- Series: Washington Mews Books
- Author: Muckenhoupt, Meg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1479882763
- Language: English
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The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket
$26.99 Add to cartEven before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider’s sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glacie
- Author: Schneider, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805067345
- Language: English
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Edith Wharton’s Lenox
$24.99 Add to cartAn insider’s glimpse of the suprirsing, scandalous time famed novelist Edith Wharton called Lenox home.
In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her
- Author: Gilder, Cornelia Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1467135178
- Language: English
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Marking Stockbridge’s Past
$45.95 Add to cartStockbridge, Massachusetts, a small town located in the southern portion of Berkshire County, has a varied and fascinating history. Some of which are found in the form of monuments, plaques, and marke
- Author: Carr, Maria L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: March 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885054768
- Language: English
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It Happened in Vermont: Stories of Events and People That Shaped Green Mountain State History
$16.95 Add to cartFrom a cross-border Confederate attack to the underdressed men from Maple Corner, It Happened in Vermont looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Green Mountain State
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Bushnell, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493041363
- Language: English
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England
$25.95 Add to cartShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, … [more below]
- Author: Hardesty, Jared Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1625344570
- Language: English
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Read moreA 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
