State & Local
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The Shipyard Agent
$26.95 Add to cartAs an undercover investigator, Augusta Clawson was assigned to Portland’s Swan Island Shipyard to join the ranks of female welders in World War II. Meanwhile, she surreptitiously sent reports back to
- Author: Hodgins, Beverly Lionberger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1493087630
- Language: English
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Limitless: Stories from the Neighborhood That Shaped Seattle
$29.95 Add to cartThe people of Seattle’s Central District, forced together by discriminatory housing practices, built a thriving community that felt limitless to those who grew up there. Racist and restrictive policie… [more below]
- Author: Project, Shelf Life Community Story
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1634050851
- Language: English
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Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team
$30.00 Add to cart“Metropolitans expertly unpacks the ‘cruel optimism’ linking the yearning of a fanbase whose suffering is alleviated by sporadic miracles to the genuine dissident legacies that surrounded the team’s c… [more below]
- Author: Gittlitz, A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603002
- Language: English
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This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
$30.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.
Ride along with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage as she tr- Author: Gage, Beverly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1668033100
- Language: English
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Blood Ties: How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy
$24.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. They quickly rose to power
- Author: Kolb, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657885
- Language: English
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Secret Indiana: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Ward, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681065843
- Language: English
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The Parks of Nashville: A History of the Board of Parks and Recreation (1984-2024)
$71.99 Add to cartOn July 4, 1984, Nashville celebrated Independence Day at Riverfront Park for the first time. The park itself was just a year old. Richard Fulton was mayor. The only Athena statue in the Parthenon was
- Author: Gresham, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218702595
- Language: English
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The Great Serpent Mound: An Ancient Ohio Mystery
$24.99 Add to cartAuthor Jeffrey Alan John explores the history, theories and fundamental Serpent Mound questions: What culture made it? Why? And when? Thousands of years ago, people in what would become southern Ohio
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: John, Jeffrey Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159700
- Language: English
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They Said It Couldn’t Be Done: The ’69 Mets, New York City, and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History
$19.00 Add to cart“One of sports’ most storied championship teams gets its proper due” (Tom Verducci) in this definitive history of the 1969 Miracle Mets from the New York Times bestselling author of The Boys of Winter… [more below]
- Author: Coffey, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1524760897
- Language: English
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What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen
$40.00 Add to cartHoosier architect Evans Woollen (1927-2016) made a profound contribution to the built identity of Indianapolis, Indiana. Most recognized for introducing concrete Brutalism to the city, his practice wa
- Author: Cox, Phillip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 025307410X
- Language: English
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Blooming Hollyhocks: Tales of Joy During Hard Times
$16.95 Read moreStep into a bygone era where family, faith, and community turned hardship into unforgettable stories of strength. In Blooming Hollyhocks: Tales of Joy During Hard Times, Duluth journalist Naomi Helen
- Author: Yaeger, Naomi Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1643435108
- Language: English
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Delaware Behaving Badly: First State, True Crimes
$17.95 Add to cartMurder, scandal, betrayal, and deceit-Delaware has never been as quiet as its size suggests. Delaware Behaving Badly opens the case files of the First State and reveals stories of crime, corruption, a
- Author: Tabler, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992166729
- Language: English
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When Santa Lived In Iowa: The True Story of Joy Roberts, Spencer’s Santa Claus
$14.99 Add to cartWhen Santa Lived in Iowa is the inspirational true story of a man whose generosity and unselfish giving convinced several generations of children that he was Santa Claus, and in a very true sense, he
- Author: Fertick, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798993703800
- Language: English
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This Is No Drill: Living Memories of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
$27.00 Add to cartThis fascinating and powerful collection of first-hand accounts–prepared with the assistance of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association–brings to vivid life one of the most fateful days in American h… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0425179168
- Language: English
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Amelia Island
$24.99 Add to cartTiny Amelia Island, in the northeast corner of Florida, was once among the most important ports in the western hemisphere.
Before Florida was granted statehood, the island served as an international ga
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Hicks, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0738552674
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
$21.95 Add to cartDAVID J. WEBER BOOK PRIZE FINALIST: The true–and unsolved–story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed
For re- Author: Cobb, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0807021393
- Language: English
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Spooky Texas: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
$17.95 Add to cartSuitably, hauntings and paranormal happenings in the Lone Star state are larger than life. Included in this must-read collection are tales of the ghost lights of Marfa, the werewolf of Elroy, and the … [more below]
- Series: Spooky
- Author: Schlosser, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149303247X
- Language: English
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Creative Ozone: The Artists of Westbeth
$29.95 Add to cartA captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists’ residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York’s cultural landscape for over fifty years
In 1970, the former Bell Telephone- Author: Chaiken, Miriam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1531511775
- Language: English
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Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin
$22.95 Read moreIndigenous perspectives on sustainability, culture, and community
In this collection of twelve biographies, one from each of the Native nations in Wisconsin, author Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe) intr- Author: Loew, Patty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1976600731
- Language: English
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Heart of American Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier
$21.99 Add to cartWe are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brou
- Author: Parkinson, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123400
- Language: English
