Cultural Region/Upper Midwest
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Wright 3
$8.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling team behind Chasing Vermeer comes another thought-provoking art mystery featuring Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie house–now in After Words paperback
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- Author: Balliett, Blue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0439693683
- Language: English
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The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs: A Decade-By-Decade History
$40.00 Read moreThe Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs is a decade-by-decade look at one of baseball’s most beloved if hard-luck teams, starting with the franchise’s beginnings in 1876 as the Chicago White Stoc… [more below]
- Author: Chicago Tribune
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1572842172
- Language: English
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Compact Guide to Kansas Birds
$13.95 Add to cartThis book gives detailed accounts of 105 species of birds that can be expected in Kansas on an annual basis. As well as showing the identifying features of the bird, each species account also describe… [more below]
- Series: Compact Guide
- Author: Cable, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 9768200251
- Language: English
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Shoeless Joe
$18.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the beloved film Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella is the story about the beauty and history of baseball, and the power and endurance of a dream.
“A moonlit novel abo
- Author: Kinsella, W. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0395957737
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
$19.99 Add to cartSyrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her Af… [more below]
- Author: Kahf, Mojha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0786715197
- Language: English
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Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-To-Kitchen Guide
$24.95 Read moreLavishly illustrated with nearly three hundred gorgeous full-color photos, this engaging guidebook carefully describes forty different edible species of wild mushrooms found around Illinois and surrou
- Series: Field-To-Kitchen Guides
- Author: McFarland, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0252076435
- Language: English
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The Litigators
$10.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg, a self-descr… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 034553056X
- Language: English
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Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders
$16.95 Read more“An unnerving true crime story of murder, terror, and justice.” –Dallas Morning News
Updated with the latest DNA findings and a new foreword by Gregg Olsen! The definitive book on John Wayne Gacy, wr- Author: Sullivan, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542403
- Language: English
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Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
$12.95 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated by Remington, Roosevelt’s celebration of the Old West recounts his adventures in the Dakota Badlands of the 1880s, from roundups to Indian encounters to hunting bighorn sheep.
A… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0486473406
- Language: English
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From Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis gives readers an invaluable insider’s look into the lives and culture of our Somali neighbors and the important challenges they face.
- Author: Ibrahim, Hudda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1737931265
- Language: English
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Spooky Wisconsin: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
$17.95 Add to cartWisconsin folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and through artist Paul G. Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. You’ll meet ghosts and witch
- Series: Spooky
- Author: Schlosser, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493044915
- Language: English
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Landscaping with Native Plants of Wisconsin
$24.95 Add to cartAimed at beginners and veteran gardeners alike, this book is designed to help Wisconsin gardeners find, plant, and maintain the best native species for their specific sites, however modest or lavish.
- Author: Steiner, Lynn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0760329699
- Language: English
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The Black Book
$19.99 Add to cartThe “thrilling” #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller (Karin Slaughter): when three bodies are found in a Chicago bedroom, a black book goes missing . . . and the city has never been more dangero… [more below]
- Series: A Billy Harney Thriller #1
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1455542679
- Language: English
