Geographic Orientation/Virginia
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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Trout Streams of Virginia: An Angler’s Guide to the Blue Ridge Watershed
$23.99 Add to cartThis new, completely revised edition of Harry Slone’s much praised guide to Virginia’s beloved Blue Ridge watershed offers fly-anglers all they need to know. Slone includes complete information on acc
- Series: Countryman Guide #0
- Author: Slone, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0881507539
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Alexandria
$42.99 Add to cartAlexandria, Virginia, has been witness to events which helped create America. Many of the nation’s founding fathers and well-known historical figures, including George Washington and Robert E. Lee, li… [more below]
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Patton, Julie Ballin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1683369920
- Language: English
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African Americans of Petersburg
$31.99 Add to cartThe city of Petersburg has distinguished itself as a special place for African American history. African Americans in Petersburg have overcome racial and political obstacles placed in their paths. The… [more below]
- Author: Luqman-Dawson, Amina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1531634222
- Language: English
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Phantoms of the South Fork: Captain McNeill and His Rangers
$22.00 Add to cartAt 3 a.m. on February 21, 1865, a band of 65 Confederate horsemen slowly made its way down Greene Street in Cumberland, Maryland. Thinking the riders were disguised Union scouts, the few Union soldier
- Series: Civil War Soldiers and Strategies
- Author: French, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1606354620
- Language: English
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Virginia Simply Beautiful II
$29.95 Add to cart- Series: Simply Beautiful #2
- Author: Gurche, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1560374012
- Language: English
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town’s Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
$21.99 Add to cartJune 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia — population just 3,000 in 1944 — died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day
They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, … [more below]- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: May 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813556
- Language: English
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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
$14.99 Add to cart“A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation’s most influential state.” -Publishers Weekly
George Wythe clung to the mahogany banist
- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1681621053
- Language: English
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Dimestore: A Writer’s Life
$15.95 Add to cart“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“This is Smith at her finest.”–Library Journal, star- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1616206462
- Language: English
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Izzy’s Fire: Finding Humanity In The Holocaust
$19.99 Add to cartThe story of how an impoverished three-member Catholic farm family saved thirteen Jews from the Holocaust in Lithuania, seven of them escapees from Kovno Ghetto. All sixteen lived and as of 2015, five… [more below]
- Author: Beasley, Nancy Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 098618280X
- Language: English
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Hiking and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Only Guide You Will Ever Need, Including Gps, Detailed Maps, and More
$22.00 Add to cartThis comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official National Park Service trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway. But that’s just the beginning: veteran hiker Leonard M. Adkins … [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Adkins, Leonard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1469646978
- Language: English
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Spooky Virginia: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
$17.95 Add to cartPull up a chair or gather ’round the campfire and get ready for thirty-four creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Virginia folklore tradit
- Series: Spooky
- Author: Schlosser, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493069861
- Language: English
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – And Helped Save an American Town
$21.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller about one man’s battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.
The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world’s biggest w- Author: Macy, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 031623141X
- Language: English
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – And Helped Save an American Town
$43.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller about one man’s battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.
The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world’s biggest w- Author: Macy, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0316231436
- Language: English
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The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel
$24.00 Add to cart“Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people’s lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the
- Series: Ballad Novels #8
- Author: McCrumb, Sharyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0312573626
- Language: English
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The Known World
$26.99 Add to cartFrom National Book Award-nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power
Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through t
- Author: Jones, Edward P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0060557540
- Language: English
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Wish You Were Here
$8.99 Add to cartCuriosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy–and her human companion, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen.Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets… [more below]
- Series: Mrs. Murphy #1
- Author: Brown, Rita Mae
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0553287532
- Language: English
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Merlot Murders
$19.99 Add to cart“Finely ladled suspense,” says the Sun-Sentinel about the complex flavor of Ellen Crosby’s debut mystery set in the wealthy Blue Ridge wine country of northern Virginia, where vineyard heiress Lucie M… [more below]
- Series: Wine Country Mysteries (Paperback)
- Author: Crosby, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1501188437
- Language: English
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Murder, She Barked
$8.99 Add to cartTHE FIRST PAWS & CLAWS MYSTERY FROM KRISTA DAVIS–A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The Sugar Maple Inn in Wagtail, Virginia, is the country’s premiere vacation hot spot for pet owners who can’t bear to l- Series: Paws and Claws Mysteries #1
- Author: Davis, Krista
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0425262553
- Language: English
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Milk Glass Moon
$19.00 Add to cartTo unify her family, Ave Maria must harness the power of love and its abiding truth in this lyrical and heartfelt novel, the third installment of the New York Times bestselling Big Stone Gap series
“T… [more below]- Series: Big Stone Gap Novels #3
- Author: Trigiani, Adriana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0345445856
- Language: English
