State & Local
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Mysterious San Juan Island
$18.99 Add to cartFew places could hope to rival the rich history of Washington’s San Juan Island. From the famed Pig War to the secretive “kingdom” at Roche Harbor, the island has played host to countless remarkable s
- Author: Reigel, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218614393
- Language: English
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All Roads Lead to Hastings-on-Hudson: A History of the Lower Hudson River Valley and New York City
$32.99 Add to cartA definitive history of Hastings-on-Hudson, reflecting the triumphs and challenges of progress within America for over 400 years.
Despite its modest footprint, Hastings-on-Hudson mirrors the growth of
- Author: Lillard, Jonathan Foster
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822977921
- Language: English
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New York Fairies: A History of the Little People of the Empire State
$24.99 Read moreDutch, Irish and Native American residents of New York State have long told tales about mysterious Little People occupying the region’s hills and forests. An exhausted man in 1880s Brooklyn reported t
- Author: Warburton, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159735
- Language: English
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
$19.99 Add to cartNominated for the 2017 Hillman Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing y
- Author: Barry, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0062372149
- Language: English
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Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945
$37.50 Add to cartAppalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a … [more below]
- Author: Eller, Ronald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0813142466
- Language: English
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Urban Republican Mayor: My Story
$30.00 Add to cartA midwestern urban Republican mayor reveals the success of his moderate approach to governing.
Throughout his eight years as mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard did what he thought was right, looking o
- Author: Ballard, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0253073197
- Language: English
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Fabulous Fountains of New York
$44.95 Add to cartA stunning exploration of New York’s most enchanting fountains
New York City’s fountains are more than just decorative features–they are historical landmarks, cultural icons, and dynamic works of ar- Author: Azzarone, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 153151183X
- Language: English
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Ten Thousand Central Parks: A Climate-Change Parable
$34.95 Add to cartA visionary look at Central Park’s creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate action
Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes,- Author: Brown Morris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1531511643
- Language: English
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Heyday: 50 Years of California Publishing
$25.00 Add to cart- Author: Anklam, Emmerich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146536
- Language: English
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Berea College: An Illustrated History
$52.50 Read moreThe motto of Berea College is “God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth,” a phrase underlying Berea’s 150-year commitment to egalitarian education. The first interracial and coeducational un
- Author: Wilson, Shannon H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0813123798
- Language: English
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Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness
$32.95 Add to cartIn 1851, two aspiring landscape artists, Jervis McEntee and Joseph Tubby, set out for the Adirondacks on a sketching expedition that would test not only their mettle as artists but as outdoorsmen. Hea
- Series: New York State
- Author: Pitts, Edward I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0815611765
- Language: English
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The Murder of Dorothy Milliken: Cold Case in Maine
$24.99 Add to cartOn November 5, 1976, twenty-seven-year-old Dorothy Milliken left her rural home in Sabattus, Maine, to go to an all-night laundromat. The following morning, her body was found slumped against the outs
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Kitchens, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159441
- Language: English
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Ryder Cup Rivals: The Fiercest Battles for Golf’s Holy Grail
$32.00 Add to cartVeteran journalist and author Hank Gola takes readers on a tour of the most consequential clashes in the history of the biennial matches. Since the first meeting between the United States and Great Br… [more below]
- Author: Gola, Hank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 395
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992215007
- Language: English
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Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover
$24.95 Add to cartThe biography of one of Minnesota’s most beloved nature writers, from her career in the city to her rustic cabin on Gunflint Lake
During the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Helen Hoover’s storie
- Author: Hakensen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1517911680
- Language: English
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Philadelphia: A Walk Through History
$17.00 Add to cart- Author: Pompilio, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681066106
- Language: English
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You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song
$29.95 Add to cartIn You Are My Sunshine, Robert Mann weaves together the birth of country music, Louisiana political history, World War II, and the American civil rights movement to produce a compelling biography of o
- Author: Mann, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183504
- Language: English
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The Murdaugh Murders Case
$15.99 Add to cartFor the first time in his life, attorney Alex Murdaugh–the scion of a long line of lawyers and prosecutors–stands before a jury at the Colleton Courthouse, not as a practitioner of law, but rather a… [more below]
- Series: 50 States of Crime #5
- Author: Cerf, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 161316694X
- Language: English
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Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945
$45.00 Add to cart- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0199384517
- Language: English
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Bitter Creek: An Epic Poem
$18.95 Add to cartBitter Creek, a lyric Chinese epic of the American West, reveals the devastating realities of the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre.
In September of 1885, the Chinese coal miners who were brought in as strike
- Author: Goh, Teow Lim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798890920133
- Language: English
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North of Main: Spartanburg’s Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College
$25.95 Add to cartNew neighborhoods began emerging north of Main Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina in the 1870s as emancipated Black men and women spent their hard-won post-slavery wages to purchase lots and build
- Series: Hub City Writers Project
- Author: Pryce, Brenda Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798885740401
- Language: English
