Geographic Orientation/Connecticut
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Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State
$26.95 Add to cartWalt Woodward, a gifted story-teller, brings the history we thought we knew to life in new ways, from the nearly forgotten early presence of the Dutch, to the time when Connecticut was New England’s f… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Walter W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493047027
- Language: English
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University of Connecticut
$24.99 Read moreIn a 50-room building that housed Connecticut’s Civil War orphans, the University of Connecticut began in the fall of 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. From this beginning comes a rich history o… [more below]
- Series: Campus History
- Author: Roy, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 073850856X
- Language: English
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A Guide to Historic New Haven, Connecticut
$21.99 Read moreNew Haven was the first planned city in the United States, and thus, it has an incredible array of buildings from every point in time from American history.
Not only does New Haven have time on its sid
- Series: History & Guide (History Press)
- Author: Caplan, Colin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1596292458
- Language: English
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The Best Bike Paths of New England: Safe, Scenic, and Traffic-Free Bicycling
$15.00 Add to cartIn The Best Bike Paths of the New England, Wendy Williams has done you the favor of finding paved bike paths, free of cars, red lights, and exhaust fumes.
Organized by state, The Best Bike Paths of Ne- Author: Williams, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 04 1996
- ISBN10: 0684813998
- Language: English
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The Circus Fire
$16.95 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism–the great Hartford circus fire of 1944.
It was a midsumm- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0385496850
- Language: English
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Newtown: An American Tragedy
$20.00 Add to cartA journalist for The Daily News (New York) offers a “meticulous account of the Newtown massacre and its aftermath….it’s been a year, and this harrowing book might be a reminder that the debate needs… [more below]
- Author: Lysiak, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 147675375X
- Language: English
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A History of the Greenwich Waterfront: Tod’s Point, Great Captain Island and the Greenwich Shoreline
$31.99 Add to cartThe historic community of Greenwich is nestled along Connecticut’s famed Gold Coast. The shores and waves of Long Island Sound draw people to its unique seaside, which also maintains a peaceful “resid… [more below]
- Author: Jewell, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: June 21 2011
- ISBN10: 154020569X
- Language: English
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Devil’s Rooming House: The True Story of America’s Deadliest Female Serial Killer
$19.95 Add to cartThe Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid
- Author: Phelps, M. William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493050125
- Language: English
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
$17.99 Add to cart*Now a major motion picture–Rob Peace–starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1476731918
- Language: English
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Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World’s Most Profitable Casino
$18.00 Add to cartThe Mashantucket Pequots have had a long and proud history, enduring for centuries even after colonists and historians believed them to have been exterminated by the British in 1637. By the early 1970… [more below]
- Author: Eisler, Kim Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803267452
- Language: English
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Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
$16.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE
“Perkins’ richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender equity has ne
- Author: Gardiner Perkins, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1728234611
- Language: English
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Trout Streams of Southern New England: An Angler’s Guide to the Watersheds of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
$22.99 Add to cartWithin the confines of southern New England there are more trout streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds than any one angler can fully appreciate in a lifetime. The variety of waters in itself is quite asto
- Series: Trout Streams #0
- Author: Fuller, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 088150470X
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of Connecticut and Rhode Island
$26.00 Add to cartConnecticut and Rhode Island may be small, but they contain some of the most interesting geology on earth � 1.2-billion-year-old rocks, parts of at least six former continents, volcanic island … [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Skehan, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0878425470
- Language: English
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Connecticut Ghost Stories and Legends
$19.99 Read moreFull of mystery, magic, and stories stranger than fiction, discover local legends, lore, and tales of the supernatural that will keep you up at night.
The emerald sheen illuminating the Sabbatarian bur
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: D’Agostino, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491815
- Language: English
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Two Little Girls in Blue
$9.99 Add to cartQueen of Suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling writer Mary Higgins Clark brilliantly weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother’s search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead in this “rive… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Mary Higgins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1982169001
- Language: English
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Bittersweet
$9.99 Read moreIn Bittersweet, Danielle Steel has written a novel for our times, a story of choices and new beginnings.
India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-ro- Author: Steel, Danielle
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0440224845
- Language: English
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Goodnight Nobody
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s unforgettable story of adjusting to suburbia–and all the surprises hidden behind its doors.For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, subur… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0743470125
- Language: English
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Child of the Dream (a Memoir of 1963)
$16.99 Read moreAn incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement.
In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares o… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1338282808
- Language: English
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My Brother Sam Is Dead (Scholastic Gold)
$8.99 Add to cartThe classic story of one family torn apart by the Revolutionary War
All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam’s smart and brave — and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not… [more below]
- Series: Point
- Author: Collier, James Lincoln
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 1985
- ISBN10: 059042792X
- Language: English
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Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
$20.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States–Greenwich, CT;- Author: Osnos, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858755
- Language: English
