State & Local
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Shipwrecks of the San Juans: A History of Maritime Disaster in the San Juan Islands
$16.99 Read moreMariners have long dreaded the labyrinth of the San Juan Islands. Bounded by the howling straits of Georgia, Rosario, Haro, and Juan de Fuca, the islands have proved the resting place of many an unluc
- Author: Reigel, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218490942
- Language: English
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February House
$21.99 Add to cartFebruary House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers — and the country’s best-known burlesque performer — in a hous
- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2006
- ISBN10: 061871197X
- Language: English
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Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen
$39.95 Add to cartExplore Gilded Age New York through the lens of Alice Austen, who captured the social rituals of New York’s leisured class and the bustling streets of the modern city. Celebrated as a queer artist, sh
- Author: Yochelson, Bonnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509509
- Language: English
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Wicked Women of New Mexico
$31.99 Add to cartNew Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect setting in which to seize wealth. Many wicked women on t… [more below]
- Author: Birchell, Donna Blake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1540208745
- Language: English
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Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Mi?oso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams
$22.95 Add to cartOn May 1, 1951, Orestes “Minnie” Mi?oso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two years later. Th… [more below]
- Author: Zminda, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088492
- Language: English
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009
$25.00 Add to cartNew York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she’s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered–all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, bu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
- Author: Carpenter, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0812974255
- Language: English
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The Big Story: The Oral History of Philadelphia TV News
$35.00 Read more“He was much like the Walter Cronkite of Philadelphia.”—Ed Rendell, former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor, about Jim Gardner, the trusted voice of WPVI’s Action News for 47 years
“We we- Author: Grzybowski, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1439921822
- Language: English
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The Christmas Tree Shops: Don’t You Just Love a Bargain?
$24.99 Read moreThe Christmas Tree Shops, founded in 1970, became a beloved New England icon for unique bargains.
The Christmas Tree Shops was an icon of New England, with stores that offered a diverse assortment of m… [more below]
- Author: Sammarco, Anthony M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1625451628
- Language: English
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Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History
$34.95 Read moreThe entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spaces
From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know
- Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Author: Biehler, Dawn Day
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 295753196
- Language: English
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Golden State: The Making of California
$32.50 Add to cart“Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation.”–Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution
From Pulitzer Prize winner Mic
- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 035853934X
- Language: English
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Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
$30.00 Add to cartA poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America–written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfu… [more below]
- Author: Bardenwerper, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0385549652
- Language: English
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Inventing Niagara
$21.99 Add to cartAmericans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the Falls aren’t very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized and landscape redes… [more below]
- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 141654657X
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Little Lithuania
$24.99 Read moreWhen visiting a church such as Holy Cross in Back of the Yards or Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary in Marquette Park, it is easy to stand in awe of what generations of Lithuanians in Chicago have accompli
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Riskus, Justin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1467161977
- Language: English
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Settling the Mississippi Territory: The Origin of Two States
$24.99 Add to cartThe Territory That Built Two States
The Mississippi Territory existed as a political entity for nearly two decades. It stretched from the Tennessee border southward to the Gulf of Mexico and was boun
- Author: Bunn, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158798
- Language: English
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Kansas Baseball
$24.99 Read moreBaseball has long been synonymous with Kansas. Go back to the late 1800s and the birth of Walter Johnson and George Sweatt, Humboldt kids who played baseball at the highest level but in different leag
- Series: Sports
- Author: Travis, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158747
- Language: English
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Retracing the Keowee Trail: A Deep Map of the Cherokee Path in the History of the Carolinas
$32.00 Add to cartIn Retracing the Keowee Trail, the author tells the story of the Cherokee Path that connected the low country of colonial Carolina with the mountain homeland of the Cherokee Nation. The Keowee Trail w… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: November 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79839E+12
- Language: English
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Lost Columbia County, New York
$24.99 Read moreColumbia County Past Revealed
People have been drawn to Columbia County, New York, for years. Beyond the region’s picturesque streams, lakes and mountains, the county is filled with the magic of histor
- Series: Lost
- Author: Marchese, Allison Guertin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158003
- Language: English
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A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family
$15.95 Add to cartA captivating, unfiltered account of growing up on a ranch, where every decision defines character
A Sometimes Paradise is a poignant personal journey into the rugged beauty and hardscrabble challenges
- Author: Miller, Mark E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1954861168
- Language: English
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Tasunka
$19.95 Add to cartCuriosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal. It leads him far from home, but at last he finds a herd of the strange new creatures. They are horses that shimmer with color and run swift as th… [more below]
- Author: Montileaux, Donald F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0985290528
- Language: English
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The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim
$34.95 Add to cartIn 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a
- Author: Palmer, Hannah S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181897
- Language: English
