Cultural Region/Midwest
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Great Plains Forts
$17.95 Add to cartGreat Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains and prai… [more below]
- Series: Discover the Great Plains
- Author: Buckley, Jay H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496207718
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of Michigan Up North
$23.99 Add to cartCenturies ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World.
Subsequent violence and disease all but wiped out the nativ
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Rogers, D. Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138665
- Language: English
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Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park
$18.00 Add to cart“Citizen Kane does Adventureland.” —The Washington Post
The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were ent… [more below]- Author: Mulvihill, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134515
- Language: English
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Carrot Cake Murder
$17.95 Add to cartSummertime has finally arrived in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah Swensen, owner of The Cookie Jar bakery, is looking forward to warm, lazy days, eating ice cream, and sharing picnics with friends. B… [more below]
- Series: Hannah Swensen Mystery #10
- Author: Fluke, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1496731964
- Language: English
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Little Ohio: Small-Town Destinations
$28.00 Read moreWhere can you travel the Erie Canal on a boat pulled by a horse? What is Wapakoneta, and what does it have to do with Neil Armstrong? Where can you eat ice cream at a stop on the Underground Railroad?
- Author: Ammeson, Jane Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0253065100
- Language: English
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Population: 485
$17.99 Add to cart“Part portrait of a place, part rescue manual, part rumination of life and death, Population: 485 is a beautiful meditation on the things that matter.” — Seattle Times
Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0061363502
- Language: English
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Playing for Pizza
$18.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – After providing what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL, third-string quarterback Rick Dockery becomes a national laughingstock. Cut by t… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 23 2011
- ISBN10: 0385344007
- Language: English
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The Voyageur’s Highway: Minnesota’s Border Lake Land
$17.95 Add to cartThis popular guide to Minnesota’s canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way.
- Series: Mysteries & Horror
- Author: Nute, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0873510062
- Language: English
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Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories
$18.95 Add to cartIn this paperback original, new stories by award-winning writer Will Weaver complement selected favorites from his original collection Gravestone Made of Wheat chronicling sweeping changes in Midweste… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0873515560
- Language: English
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Best Garden Plants for Iowa
$15.95 Add to cartWe’ve taken some of the work and a lot of the worry out of your next trip to the garden center. In this book you’ll find over 160 accounts featuring the best plant varieties in nine categories: annual… [more below]
- Author: Porto, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 20 2005
- ISBN10: 1551055201
- Language: English
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Fiction, Classics
$23.95 Add to cartThe book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the de
- Author: Sinclair, Upton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1598183222
- Language: English
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The Monocle Travel Guide to Chicago
$9.90 Add to cartChicago is a city of many different faces. It’s sweltering in the summer and ice-bound in the winter. For every soaring skyscraper there’s a Prairie-style property with a porch. Fine-dining establishm… [more below]
- Author: Monocle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: August 31 2019
- ISBN10: 3899559711
- Language: English
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Stan Tekiela’s Birding for Beginners: Northeast: Your Guide to Feeders, Food, and the Most Common Backyard Birds
$16.95 Add to cartFind Joy in the Beauty and Wonder of Birds
Birding is among the most popular outdoor activities–especially in the Northeast, where hundreds of different bird species can be seen and observed. Now is
- Series: Bird-Watching Basics
- Author: Tekiela, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1647551188
- Language: English
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I Sailed with Magellan
$23.00 Add to cartFollowing his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about Chicago’s fabled and harrowing South Side. Unit
- Author: Dybek, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312424116
- Language: English
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History: Volume 174
$49.95 Add to cartThe Indian history of the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and particularly of the Ohio Valley, is so complex that it can be properly clarified only with the visual aid of maps. Th
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120568
- Language: English
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cart“This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation’s history!”
– Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Northern Minnesota
Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness i
- Author: Babcock, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987319154
- Language: English
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.
In July 1865, “Wild Bill” Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Spr- Series: Frontier Lawmen
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1250178169
- Language: English
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The Flavor of Wisconsin: An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State
$29.95 Add to cartThe Wisconsin Historical Society published Harva Hachten’s The Flavor of Wisconsin in 1981. It immediately became an invaluable resource on Wisconsin foods and foodways. This updated and expanded edit
- Author: Hachten, Harva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 197660012X
- Language: English
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Marshall Field’s: The Store That Helped Build Chicago
$31.99 Add to cartAnyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room’s Great Tree can attest that Chicago’s loyalty to Marshall Field’s is fierce. Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town t… [more below]
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1540223779
- Language: English
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Minnesota Rocks & Minerals: A Field Guide to the Land of 10,000 Lakes
$14.95 Add to cartGet this must-have guide for Minnesota, featuring full-color photographs and information to help you identify rocks and minerals.
Identify and collect rocks and minerals with the perfect guide to the
- Series: Rocks & Minerals Identification Guides
- Author: Lynch, Dan R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1591933021
- Language: English
