Geographic Orientation/Virginia
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
$23.00 Add to cartVita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West’s marr… [more below]
- Author: Nicolson, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226583570
- Language: English
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Vcla Communications and Literacy Assessment Teacher Certification Test Prep Study Guide
$64.95 Add to cartDesigned for beginning teachers, this comprehensive study guide from XAMonline is your must-have resource to prepare for the Virginia Communication and Literacy Assessment (VCLA) certification exam. T… [more below]
- Series: XAMonline Teacher Certification Study Guides
- Author: Wynne, Sharon A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1607871084
- Language: English
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Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
$31.99 Add to cartThe Blue Ridge Parkway began as a dream in the late 1800s and became reality in 1983 when the 469-mile scenic highway was completed. Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began in September 1935 at C… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Karen J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 15 2007
- ISBN10: 153163320X
- Language: English
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The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family
$25.00 Add to cartA truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one family’s journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading. –Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America
The Blueberry Years is a mouth-watering an- Author: Minick, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250011582
- Language: English
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To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864
$49.95 Add to cartWith his third book, To the North Anna River, Gordon Rhea resumes his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864. May 13 to 25, a p
- Series: Jules and Frances Landry Award
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0807125350
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$34.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: February 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177288
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
$21.95 Add to cartThomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, “the most valuable of my possessions.” For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyd
- Author: Heath, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062993
- Language: English
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Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal
$19.95 Add to cartAnyone with an interest in national parks or the history of the state of Virginia or travelers to Shenandoah or Skyline Drive will appreciate this book. –Rachel Owens, Library Journal
For fifteen yea
- Author: Eisenfeld, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803238304
- Language: English
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The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James
$25.43 Add to cartThe River Where America Began takes readers on a journey along the James River from the earliest days of civilization nearly 15,000 years ago through the troubled English settlement at Jamestown and f… [more below]
- Author: Deans, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 742551733
- Language: English
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series
$19.00 Add to cartCamilla Townsend’s stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were–in th
- Series: American Portraits
- Author: Townsend, Camilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0809077388
- Language: English
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The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England’s Maids for Virginia
$34.99 Add to cartJamestown, England’s first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger — from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates we… [more below]
- Author: Potter, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0190942630
- Language: English
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Mammals of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland
$31.00 Add to cartThe only volume to deal specifically with the mid-Atlantic region, this practical guide describes in detail the 88 terrestrial mammals found there as well as the 33 marine species that inhabit the off… [more below]
- Author: Webster, Wm David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 24 2004
- ISBN10: 0807855421
- Language: English
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Great Dismal: A Carolinian’s Swamp Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartJust below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America’s most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventu… [more below]
- Series: Chapel Hill Books
- Author: Simpson, Bland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0807847526
- Language: English
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
$32.95 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 perc
- Author: Thompson, Mary V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0813941849
- Language: English
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The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle
$14.99 Add to cartThe second book in the New York Times bestselling series by L.J. Smith.
This special paperback TV tie-in edition of the second book in L.J. Smith’s New York Times bestselling The Vampire Diaries series
- Series: Vampire Diaries #2
- Author: Smith, L. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0061963879
- Language: English
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A History of Virginia Wines: From Grapes to Glass
$32.99 Add to cartGo beyond the bottle and step inside the minds, and vines, of Virginia’s burgeoning wine industry in this groundbreaking volume. Join grape grower and industry insider Walker Elliott Rowe as he guides… [more below]
- Author: Rowe, Walker Elliott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1540220028
- Language: English
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Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping: The Essential Green Guide
$45.00 Add to cartWhat if, one step at a time, we could make our gardens and landscapes more eco-friendly? Barbara W. Ellis’s colorful, comprehensive guide shows homeowners, gardeners, garden designers, and landscapers… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Barbara W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1469620979
- Language: English
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion
$17.99 Add to cart“A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York Times
The definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion in history and the af
- Author: Oates, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062656554
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
$32.00 Add to cartThe inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs
In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestsell
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675630
- Language: English
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Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
$37.50 Add to cartIn the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. A remarkable drama unfolded in the… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Ash, Stephen V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1469650983
- Language: English
