State & Local
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While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true
- Author: Appelman, J. Reuben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0063346699
- Language: English
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
$32.00 Add to cartThe Instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events o- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250283329
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
$19.95 Add to cartA haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the “old ones” still have powers beyo… [more below]
- Author: Nerburn, Kent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1608680150
- Language: English
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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire
From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982103051
- Language: English
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Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation’s Most Elusive Serial Killer
$10.99 Add to cartRobert Graysmith’s New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California’s unsolved Zodiac murders.
A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer t- Author: Graysmith, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0425212181
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$21.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and the cunni… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0375725601
- Language: English
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New York’s Family Grocer: The Story of d’Agostino Supermarkets
$34.95 Add to cartFrom pushcart to pantry staple in the city that never sleeps
New York’s Family Grocer tells how a neighborhood name became part of the city’s daily rhythm. Patsy and Nicholas D’Agostino arrived from I- Author: Schmitz, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1531513220
- Language: English
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
$23.00 Add to cartThe “enormously entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that “artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off” (The New York T… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0307592219
- Language: English
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San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage
$42.50 Add to cartCharacterizing San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial-era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the mis
- Series: Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San Antonio
- Author: Kitchens, Joel Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1648433405
- Language: English
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Love, Lies, and Murder in Northern Ohio
$24.99 Add to cartLovers of true crime and Ohio history will find themselves riveted by these crimes of passion.
There is a thin line between love and hate, and when intense passion threatens that border, blood will fl
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Koile, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1467155896
- Language: English
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Pittsburgh: A Renaissance City
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover Pittsburgh’s historic sites, modern downtown, famous rivers, recreation, and arts. Witness the city’s progression from an outpost and battleground in the colonial war for the control of North… [more below]
- Author: Gadomski, Michael P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0764349236
- Language: English
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Chinese in Washington: The Legacy of the Chinese Exclusion ACT
$24.99 Add to cartHow the U.S. law targeting Chinese laborers impacted families for generations.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, after the railroads were completed and the gold mines exhausted, an economic downt
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Hackett Nicola, Trish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1467147729
- Language: English
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Been There, Done That: How Our History Shows What We Can Overcome
$31.00 Add to cartProfessor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn’t Suck, proves that while today’s political climate may be dark, these aren’t as unprecedented times as we may think.
Our nation’s past is fu- Author: Jackson, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1668062607
- Language: English
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A Haunted History of Louisiana Plantations
$31.99 Add to cartLouisiana plantations evoke images of grandeur and elegance. Beyond the facade of stately homes are stories of hope and subjugation, tragedy and suffering, shame and perseverance and war and conquest…. [more below]
- Author: White, Cheryl H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1540226611
- Language: English
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Georgetown’s Retail Past: Generations of Shops and Restaurants in One of America’s Great Historic Neighborhoods
$34.95 Add to cartStep back in time and rediscover the bars and restaurants, mom-and-pop shops, and bustling storefronts that shaped historic Georgetown.
Georgetown’s Retail Past is a history of retail stores in the Ge- Author: Peters, Kenneth G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093622
- Language: English
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The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis Is the Story of America
$30.00 Add to cartA revelatory look at one of America’s most progressive cities–Minneapolis–as journalist Justin Ellis returns to his hometown to grapple with the quiet history of white supremacy in the wake of Georg
- Author: Ellis, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063091240
- Language: English
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Amasa Speaker Factory: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartAmasa Speaker Factory wanders Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with a mining helmet, a pickaxe, and a dizzying soundtrack.
Chad Faries sifts through abandoned mines, family history, and the quiet damage of l
- Author: Faries, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: February 23 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896560845
- Language: English
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The Black History of the White House
$19.95 Add to cartThe Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved pe
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865320
- Language: English
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Nazis of Long Island: Sedition, Espionage & the Plot Against America
$24.99 Add to cartIn Yaphank, New York, hid the greatest threat to the United States war effort during World War II: the American Nazi.
Building on racial and ethnic biases, lack of trust in government and a dose of co
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Verga, Christopher C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156493
- Language: English
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Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising
$24.00 Add to cartThe dangers of “progressive policing” as told through a study of Portland, Oregon.
Policing the Progressive City tells the story of how Portland’s “law and order” has been shaped for over two hundred y
- Author: Williams, Kristian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1849354286
- Language: English
