Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic
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Hell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry Between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers
$29.95 Add to cartHell with the Lid Off looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent seventies. The roots of their rivalry dated back to the 1972 playoff g… [more below]
- Author: Gruver, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496214676
- Language: English
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II
$30.00 Add to cartThe year is 1942, and while America is reeling from the first blows of WWII, Osgood is just a nine-year-old boy living in Baltimore. As the war rages somewhere far beyond the boundaries of his hometow… [more below]
- Author: Osgood, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: November 30 2007
- ISBN10: 1401300235
- Language: English
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The Stork Club Cookbook and Bar Book: Throw A Stork Club Party
$19.95 Add to cartRelive the glory days of New York’s poshest night spot with recipes and drinks you can prepare at your own home!
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Billingsley, Sherman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1438490941
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
$24.99 Read moreBy an acclaimed historian, a sweeping history of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: a defining American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great cit… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745511
- Language: English
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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
$28.00 Add to cartIn the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire
- Author: Most, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250061350
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Ann Bailey: The Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley
$9.95 Add to cartBack in print after more than a century, this book is the only major biography in existence on Ann Bailey. Newly indexed and containing supplemented images and a map, it is also important for genealog… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Virgil E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0966724607
- Language: English
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Newark Airport
$24.99 Read moreNewark Airport was the first major airport in the New York metropolitan area.
It opened on October 1, 1928, occupying an area of filled-in marshland. In 1935, Amelia Earhart dedicated the Newark Airpor
- Series: Images of Aviation
- Author: Holden, Henry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 13 2009
- ISBN10: 738565229
- Language: English
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Would I Lie to You: A Gossip Girl Novel
$13.99 Add to cartWelcome to New York City’s Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep – sometimes with each other. We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bath
- Series: Gossip Girl Novels (Paperback) #10
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0316011835
- Language: English
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Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
$24.99 Add to cartIn this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal and the memorable characters who turned a visionary … [more below]
- Author: Koeppel, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0306818620
- Language: English
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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Benny Martinez walks into the offices of the Philadelphia Daily News in 2008 to speak with reporter Wendy Ruderman, the paper is on the brink of bankruptcy. What he tells Wendy and her colleague
- Author: Ruderman, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 006208545X
- Language: English
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The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
$40.50 Add to cartAn NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work–Non Fiction
James Beard award-winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1469647672
- Language: English
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American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
$18.99 Add to cart“American Ramble is a dazzling mixture of travelogue, memoir, and history. At times profound, funny, and heartbreaking, this is the story of a traveler intoxicated by life. I couldn’t put it down.” —
- Author: King, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063352443
- Language: English
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First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York
$21.95 Add to cartA concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world’s most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sal
- Author: Grumet, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141638
- Language: English
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You’re the One That I Want
$14.99 Add to cartThe wickedly funny sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the new series coming to HBO Max’s Spring 2020 launch season (alongside hit series … [more below]
- Series: Gossip Girl Novels (Paperback) #6
- Author: Von Ziegesar, Cecily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316735167
- Language: English
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Let Me Finish
$19.99 Add to cartWidely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiogra… [more below]
- Author: Angell, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2007
- ISBN10: 015603218X
- Language: English
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History Lover’s Guide to Baltimore
$43.99 Add to cartNeither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation’s first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War … [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Jensen, Brennen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1540247988
- Language: English
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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
$21.95 Add to cartAn unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today
America’s most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has- Author: Campanella, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0691208611
- Language: English
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Pennsylvania Scrapple: A Delectable History
$23.99 Add to cartJoin author Amy Strauss as she traces the sizzling history and culture of a beloved and sustaining Pennsylvania Dutch iconic dish, scrapple.
The name may remind you of a certain word-based board game,
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Strauss, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 162585885X
- Language: English
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Philadelphia Phillies
$31.99 Add to cartThe Philadelphia Phillies, one of the oldest teams in Major League Baseball, have maintained a strong, loyal fan base for over 125 years. Despite historic set backs, the franchise has proven resilient… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Seamus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1531648835
- Language: English
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House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address
$19.99 Add to cart“Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more c… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1451666209
- Language: English
