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Something Big: The True Story of the Brown’s Chicken Massacre, a Decade-Long Manhunt, and the Trials That Followed
$18.99 Add to cartSomething Big tells the story of the infamous Brown’s Chicken massacre, a brutal case that captivated Chicagoland after remaining unsolved for nearly a decade.
Customers know Brown’s Chicken for its c- Author: Wohl, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888459003
- Language: English
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Mackinac Island
$31.99 Add to cartFrom historical richness to unparalleled natural beauty, Michigan’s Mackinac Island is the crown jewel of the Great Lakes, unique in America. Native American visitors preceded French explorers and mis… [more below]
- Author: North, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1531656315
- Language: English
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Mackinac Bridge
$31.99 Add to cartOn November 1, 1957, traffic officially opened on the Mackinac Bridge. That was the culmination of 70 years of talking and dreaming about a bridge across
the Straits of Mackinac, of discouraging attem… [more below]- Author: Fornes, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 29 2007
- ISBN10: 1531631649
- Language: English
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When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders
$19.99 Add to cartInstant New York Times Bestseller
“Compelling. . . . Blum capably maintains the suspense and thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story.”–Ki
- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063349299
- Language: English
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The Turtle, The Mitten, and An Epic History of Michigan
$15.99 Add to cartPart travel, part history, part adventure, and 100% Pure Michigan, The Turtle, The Mitten, and An Epic History of Michigan tells the irresistible story of the Wolverine State from the receding glacier
- Author: Helman, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798314940532
- Language: English
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A History of Sautee Nacoochee
$34.95 Add to cartVirtually every landscape is a palimpsest, created by the imprint, however ephemeral, that people have left everywhere they have been. As one peels back layers of history, the true nature of a place c
- Author: Jones, Tommy Hart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820369586
- Language: English
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Midnight Cry: A Shooting on Sand Mountain
$27.95 Add to cartClose to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger’s home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve, the bootlegger lay dead in front of the house he s
- Author: Shaul, Lesa Carnes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1588385337
- Language: English
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Murder on Montana’s Hi-Line
$24.99 Add to cartCapturing Montana’s Most Elusive Fugitive
During an intense spring blizzard in 1951, affable Clarence Pellett picked up a teenaged hitchhiker along Montana’s Hi-Line. Soon, blood from seven bullet hol
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Pellett, Clem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158380
- Language: English
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Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies & Simple Pleasures
$31.99 Add to cartEatonville, Florida native Zora Neale Hurston’s early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing emphasizes the essentials of food in Florida through simple dishes and recipes. It considers f… [more below]
- Author: Opie, Frederick Douglass
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1540213110
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Fine Arts Building: Music, Magic, and Murder
$50.00 Add to cartLet Keir Graff take you inside Chicago’s Fine Arts Building – a building that hides worlds behind its doors.
Exploring the Fine Arts Building’s warren of hallways is like stepping into a time machine.
- Author: Graff, Keir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1951963334
- Language: English
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Enduring Legacies: People of the 1926 Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster
$26.95 Add to cartOn November 3, 1926, catastrophe struck the Barnes-Hecker mine near the small town of Ishpeming in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In less than fifteen minutes, the mine caved in when a torrent of mud, wa
- Author: Tippett, Mary V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: June 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896560302
- Language: English
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Walk Around Annapolis: 52 Places to Hike with Your Dog (and Other Best Friends)
$27.50 Add to cartTo wilderness guru John Muir, the forest was a temple, and he advised that we “saunter” through it with reverence. No hiking, thank you.
Walks Around Anne Arundel is a collection of newspaper columns i
- Author: Holland, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988299851
- Language: English
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House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home
$30.00 Add to cartThe author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search … [more below]
- Author: Edge, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593241029
- Language: English
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Our Blood Runs Black McClure #1 Mine Explosion
$25.00 Add to cartAuthors Marsha Sutherland Self and Rebecca Riner White document personal accounts of coal mining families and how their lives changed on June 21, 1983.
On June 21, 1983, a devastating explosion rocked
- Author: Self, Marsha Sutherland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1962561704
- Language: English
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Rooted at the Edge: Ranching Where the Old West and New West Collide
$24.95 Add to cartRooted at the Edge paints a portrait of a ranching community in a threatened landscape steeped in history, conflict, and beauty. In this narrative nonfiction work, Donna L. Erickson explores the hilly… [more below]
- Author: Erickson, Donna L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 149624043X
- Language: English
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The Flavor of Upstate New York: Iconic Dishes, Delicious History & Reinvented Recipes
$24.99 Add to cartAcclaimed author June Hersh presents the iconic dishes, fascinating stories and mouthwatering history behind Upstate New York’s culinary heritage, featuring delicious recipes of reinvented classics.
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- Series: American Palate
- Author: Hersh, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1467170062
- Language: English
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It Happened in Yellowstone: Stories of Events and People That Shaped America’s First National Park
$16.95 Add to cartThis book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of Yellowstone Park. Read about the making of “Wonderland” over 600,000 years ago. Try to piece toge
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Turner, Erin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088564
- Language: English
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Enmity and Empathy: Japanese Americans in Minnesota During World War II
$34.95 Add to cartThe experiences of Japanese Americans and their allies fighting discrimination in wartime Minnesota demonstrate how diverse groups stood together amidst the turmoil–a legacy relevant in today’s divis
- Author: Wong, Ka F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 168134310X
- Language: English
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Pirates In The Mists
$16.99 Add to cartNorth Carolina has always loved pirates. From Blackbeard to Stede Bonnet, from the Golden Age of Piracy to present day, we are infatuated with the tales of pirate legends, ghostly ships that sailed th
- Author: Sledge, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988017165
- Language: English
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Everyday Life in Early America
$17.99 Add to cart“In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers.”–Publishers We… [more below]
- Series: Everyday Life in America Series
- Author: Hawke, David F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060912510
- Language: English
