State & Local
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Lost Towns of North Carolina
$24.99 Add to cartForgotten History in the Tar Heel State
Take an adventure through ruins of ghost towns and lost communities in the Old North State. Explore isolated settlements like Lost Cove, hidden so deep in the mo
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Leah, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1467159794
- Language: English
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Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal: A History and Guide
$24.95 Add to cartHow one canal reshaped Seattle’s history, economy, and environment
Seattle’s waterways are central to the city’s identity, and none more so than the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard (Hiram M. Ch
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 029575494X
- Language: English
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American Slavery, American Freedom
$21.99 Add to cartIn the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and equality. George Washington led Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in dec
- Author: Morgan, Edmund S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105208
- Language: English
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The Chicago Way: An Oral History of Chicago Dining
$36.00 Add to cart“[A] must-read for Chicago’s foodies.”— Publishers Weekly
The untold stories behind Chicago’s globally celebrated culinary scene–from revolutionary chefs to kitchen disasters to public uproars to Mic
- Author: Gebert, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 580
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1572843608
- Language: English
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The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing
$22.99 Add to cartIn this alarming book, reporter Jayna Davis tells of her amazing journey leading from the smoking rubble of the Murrah Federal Building to the sleazy haunts of John Doe #2, the mysterious Middle East
- Author: Davis, Jayna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1595552367
- Language: English
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Genius Unbroken: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles R. Drew
$29.95 Add to cartThe first comprehensive biography of the “Father of the Blood Bank” and a champion of civil rights and equal health care
Genius Unbroken is the first comprehensive biography to bring the extraordinary
- Author: Miller, Craig A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1647126118
- Language: English
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New York. Portrait of a City
$23.33 Add to cartFrom the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the slums of the Lower East Side to magnificent art deco skyscrapers, New York’s remarkable rise, reinvention, and grow
- Author: Golden, Reuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 10 2025
- ISBN10: 3836578964
- Language: English
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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
$18.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an iti
- Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
- Author: Bulosan, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0295993537
- Language: English
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Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest
$24.95 Add to cartHow do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology… [more below]
- Author: Oler, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088972
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$25.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book, Overground Railroad is a compelling and illuminating exploration of the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for Black motorists used fo
- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1419786210
- Language: English
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Grand Canyon National Park
$24.99 Add to cartArizona is proud to have one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World–the Grand Canyon. With the arrival of the Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroad in the early 20th century, the development of the … [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Ratz, Thomas Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0738578568
- Language: English
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The Subway Series: New York City’s Illustrious Baseball Tradition
$22.95 Add to cartFrom the Bridegrooms and Giants to the Mets and Yankees, discover 136 years of epic clashes that made the Subway Series a legendary rivalry.
For nearly thirty years, the modern-day tradition of the Su- Author: Laughland, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493092731
- Language: English
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Furman University, 1826-2026: A Bicentennial History
$74.99 Add to cartFurman University: A Bicentennial History, 1826-2026 is a beautiful, hardbound, full-color coffee table book published in commemoration of Furman’s bicentennial. Featuring a foreword from President El… [more below]
- Author: Tollison, Courtney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1478033460
- Language: English
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The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado’s Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance
$35.00 Add to cartBy the bestselling author of Astoria, a thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of the Conquistador Francisco Coronado’s expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast uncharted North American interior
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0063383888
- Language: English
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
$44.95 Add to cartThe poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkans
- Author: Gray, Laguana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0807157686
- Language: English
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A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
$20.00 Add to cartFor more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward‘s legendary advice column, “A Bintel Brief” (“a bundle of letters”) dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1… [more below]
- Author: Metzker, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 21 1990
- ISBN10: 0805209808
- Language: English
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Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force–The NYPD
$20.99 Add to cartChristopher Dickey takes us inside the best and most ambitious anti-terror operation in the country, the seat-of-the-pants intelligence operation of the NYPD–with undercover resources all over the wo… [more below]
- Author: Dickey, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1416552413
- Language: English
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The 50 Greatest Athletes in Boston Sports History
$24.95 Add to cartIn The 50 Greatest Athletes in Boston Sports History, Martin Gitlin ranks the top 50 superstars in Boston’s rich sports history with legends like Tom Brady, Bill Russell, Bobby Orr, Ted Williams, and
- Author: Gitlin, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1493084941
- Language: English
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Into the Night: A Jailbreak and Double Homicide on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
$35.00 Add to cartOn Sunday, December 8th, 1968, Joseph J. Bartholomey, Jr., a 21-year-old troubled delinquent from Baltimore, sat in the Wicomico County Jail in Salisbury, Maryland. Armed and dangerous, he was plottin… [more below]
- Author: Fowler, Stephanie L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: November 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1628064595
- Language: English
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New England Sweets: Doughnuts, Bonbons & Whoopie Pies
$24.99 Add to cartA chocolate mill opened in Boston in the late 1700s, setting the stage for New England’s enduring love affair with sweets. Over the following centuries, the region has become home to an extraordinary
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Bregman, Susan Mara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157481
- Language: English
