Cultural Region/Midwest
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Cleveland Browns History
$40.99 Add to cartThere was little fanfare when Art “Mickey” McBride flew into Chicago in 1945 to purchase a professional football team for Cleveland. But that act set in motion a tradition that has brought the city of… [more below]
- Author: Henkel, Frank M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 06 2005
- ISBN10: 1531619738
- Language: English
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Beauty at Short: Dave Bancroft, the Most Unlikely Hall of Famer and His Wild Times in Baseball’s First Century
$9.49 Add to cartThe most unlikely Hall of Famer
Dave Bancroft should not be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He emerged from his Iowa hometown as an undersized shortstop without batting skills. Signed by one of the 300-
- Author: Alesia, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 057837451X
- Language: English
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Dark Side of the Mitten: Crimes of Power & Powerful Criminals in Michigan’s Past & Present
$16.95 Add to cartMichigan’s past has a more sinister side than what’s commonly displayed on roadside historical markers. In Dark Side of the Mitten: Crimes of the Powerful and Powerful Criminals in Michigan’s Past and
- Series: Blood on the Mitten #3
- Author: Carr, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1950659763
- Language: English
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Hiking Nebraska: A Guide to the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures
$24.95 Read moreHiking Nebraska features detailed hike descriptions, miles and directions, trailhead GPS coordinates, and informative maps for 45 of the greatest hikes in the cornhusker state. Hikes will take readers
- Author: Brooks, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493069160
- Language: English
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The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground
$18.00 Add to cartA concise and engrossing account of the Lakota and the battle to regain their homeland.
The Lakota Indians made their home in the majestic Black Hills mountain range during the last millennium, draw- Author: Ostler, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119206
- Language: English
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Tending Roses
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours comes a heartfelt novel about the bonds of family and the power of second chances.
When Kate Bowman t- Series: Tending Roses #1
- Author: Wingate, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0451203070
- Language: English
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Unto a Good Land: The Emigrant Novels: Book II
$27.95 Add to cartConsidered one of Sweden’s greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #02
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513207
- Language: English
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Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois
$27.95 Read moreWINNER, 2023 Underground Railroad Free Press Hortense Simmons Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge!
Uncovering stories of the freedom network in northeastern Illinois Decades before the Ci- Author: McClellan, Larry A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0809339250
- Language: English
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Hudson’s: Detroit’s Legendary Department Store
$31.99 Add to cartFor over a century, the J.L. Hudson’s Department Store on Woodward Avenue was more than just a store–it was a Detroit icon and a world-class cultural treasure. At 25 stories, it was the world’s talle… [more below]
- Author: Weldon, Marianne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1531619142
- Language: English
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St. Paul: An Urban Biography
$18.95 Add to cartA concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota’s capitol city.
How did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is, and what- Series: Urban Biography #3
- Author: Lindeke, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1681342006
- Language: English
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True North
$19.00 Add to cartAn epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family’s desecration of the earth, and his own father’s more personal violations, Jim Harrison’s True North is a beautiful and moving novel that … [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0802142060
- Language: English
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Tree and Shrub Gardening for Minnesota and Wisconsin
$19.95 Read moreWith this beautiful book at your fingertips, you can select, plant and care for the trees and shrubs that suit the conditions present in your garden: * Detailed listings for 75 different species of tr… [more below]
- Author: Engebretson, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 27 2005
- ISBN10: 1551054833
- Language: English
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L Is for Lincoln: An Illinois Alphabet
$17.95 Read moreThe home of one of America’s most revered Presidents is also home to American icons such as the Ferris wheel, Montgomery Ward stores, and John Deere tractors. This latest offering from the award-winni… [more below]
- Series: Discover America State by State (Hardcover)
- Author: Wargin, Kathy-Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 09 2000
- ISBN10: 1585360163
- Language: English
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The Westing Game
$10.99 Add to cartA Newbery Medal Winner
For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin’s Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are- Author: Raskin, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140386645
- Language: English
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Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods
$18.95 Add to cartIn the wilderness, one false step can make the difference between a delightful respite and a brush with death. On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leadin… [more below]
- Author: Griffith, Cary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0873515897
- Language: English
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Lost Lake Erie
$24.99 Read moreSerene one moment and destructive the next, Lake Erie’s moods mirror its tumultuous role in history.
As the site of Cleveland’s Great Lakes Exposition, the lake offered visitors a respite from the Gre
- Series: Lost
- Author: Boresz Engelking, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153737
- Language: English
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Vintage Cavs: A Warm Look Back at the Cavaliers of the Cleveland Arena and Richfield Coliseum Years
$15.95 Add to cartThe Arena and the Coliseum are long gone … but they left behind some great Cavs stories
The Cleveland Arena is long gone. It was dark and decrepit, yet it generated some special memories–as the bir
- Author: Pluto, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: November 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1598511084
- Language: English
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Too Much Sea for Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale
$24.95 Add to cartShipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale
Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicle- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1517912849
- Language: English
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Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota
$25.95 Add to cartMuch of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyo… [more below]
- Author: Westerman, Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518691
- Language: English
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100 Things to Do in Bloomington, Indiana, Before You Die
$18.00 Read more- Series: 100 Things to Do Before You Die
- Author: Ray, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064545
- Language: English
