State & Local
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Blackville, Arkansas – Fashioned by a Former Slave: Stories from Individuals Who Remember Blackville
$34.95 Add to cartBlackville, Arkansas, an all-Black self-sufficient thriving community was named after its founder Pickens Black Sr., a former slave. When a young man, he migrated to Jackson County in Northeast Arkans
- Author: Vaughn, Wally G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1977207766
- Language: English
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Princess Cheyenne: My Life as Boston’s Most Famous Stripper
$21.99 Add to cart“Lucy
Wightman’s journey from the blue-blooded culture of Lake Forest, Illinois, to
Boston’s Combat Zone is an unflinching dive into a bygone era. It’s a complex
character study and rare introspective lo… [more below]- Author: Wightman, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1949590879
- Language: English
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Tales of Ohio’s Underground Railroad
$24.99 Read moreAuthors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker separate fact from fiction in the story of Ohio’s Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a macabre sort of dance between good and evil in which
- Author: Meyers, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159166
- Language: English
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Feild Notes on Little Rock: History and Memoir, 1622-2024
$19.95 Add to cartThe title Feild Notes on Little Rock is an “E before I” play on an anachronistic spelling of an old family name. The book weaves that Feild family history, extensive research, and a trove of photos, m
- Author: Feild, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 173531675X
- Language: English
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Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon
$29.95 Read moreThroughout history, humans have sought creation stories to define our identity and affirm our connections with the universe, diverse life forms, and one another. Over the last two centuries, science h… [more below]
- Author: Lago, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1647791952
- Language: English
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Rainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History
$28.00 Read moreRainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History is an anthology of eighty-five short, easy-to-read essays that originally appeared in Ambush Magazine and French Quarter Journal. Author Frank… [more below]
- Author: Perez, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496857585
- Language: English
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Interstate ’85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series
$34.95 Add to cartFor 40 years now, the 1985 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals has been largely overlooked, save for the enduring notoriety of umpire Don Denkinger’s infamous missed ca… [more below]
- Series: Sports and American Culture
- Author: Garvey, Marshall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0826223273
- Language: English
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I Don’t Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
$19.99 Add to cart“Reading Nick Corasaniti’s delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories.”—Rolling Stone,
- Author: Corasaniti, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0062950797
- Language: English
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Fishes of the Chicago Region: A Field Guide
$35.00 Add to cart“A treasure of hardcore fish intelligence and delightful tidbits of fish history.”–Dale Bowman, Chicago Sun-Times
Fish don’t heed state boundaries, and neither does this comprehensive, photo-filled g- Author: Veraldi, Francis M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0226837351
- Language: English
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Hazel Was a Good Girl: Solving the Murder That Inspired Twin Peaks
$18.95 Add to cartThe tragic and mysterious death of Hazel Drew that inspired the cult hit TV show Twin Peaks, is finally solved by Dr. Jerry C. Drake.
The legend of Hazel Drew spread through stories of her ghost haunt
- Author: Drake, Jerry C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 196098859X
- Language: English
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Frommer’s Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque
$22.95 Add to cartFrommer’s books aren’t written by committee or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. Our authors are passionate local experts like Erin Vivid Ril
- Series: Complete Guide
- Author: Riley, Erin Vivid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1628876417
- Language: English
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Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth
$19.95 Add to cartThe iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while… [more below]
- Author: Wendl, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 025208876X
- Language: English
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Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France
$25.00 Add to cartIn this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through… [more below]
- Author: Pierce, Daniel S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1469609916
- Language: English
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Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont
$15.95 Add to cartAbout the Book:
Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont features the work of six New England cartoonists drawing on the rich personal and family stories of the remark
- Author: Francis Bordeleau, Marek Bennett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0916718018
- Language: English
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Plums or Nuts: Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor
$18.95 Add to cartA master Ojibwe storyteller shares twenty-five stories–often bawdy, full of mischief and misbehavior–in Ojibwe and English.
Larry Amik Smallwood had the gift of making people laugh. Of all the teach- Author: Smallwood, Larry Amik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342669
- Language: English
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George Valentine Dureau: Life and Art in New Orleans
$50.00 Read moreNew Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930-2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Howard Philips
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: March 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1496853830
- Language: English
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Napa: The Story of an American Eden
$21.99 Add to cartJames Conaway’s remarkable bestseller delves into the heart of California’s lush and verdant Napa Valley, also known as America’s Eden. Long the source of succulent grapes and singular wines, this reg
- Author: Conaway, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0618257985
- Language: English
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Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages
$34.95 Add to cartRichard Campanella’s Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences tells the epic story of human settlement in Louisiana, unearthing the original geographical rationales for the formation of hundreds of cities
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185108
- Language: English
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Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids: The Scandalous 1916 Murder Plot
$31.99 Add to cartWith his boyish good looks, Arthur Warren Waite charmed into marriage the daughter of wealthy Grand Rapids business tycoon John E. Peck in 1916. He then wasted no time executing what he believed to be… [more below]
- Author: Buhk, Tobin T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1540211614
- Language: English
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High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West
$24.95 Add to cartNestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West
- Author: Bach, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1962645282
- Language: English
