State & Local
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Cincinnati’s Mt. Lookout Neighborhood
$24.99 Read moreWith its undulating hills and sweeping views of the river valleys, located less than eight miles from downtown Cincinnati, Mt. Lookout quickly grew from rural farms to a picturesque suburb that could
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Fitzhugh, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1467161683
- Language: English
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Sail, Steam, and Diesel: Moving Cargo on the Great Lakes
$79.95 Read moreWater transportation has played a key role in the Great Lakes region’s settlement and economic growth, from providing entry into the new lake states to offering cheap transportation for the goods they… [more below]
- Author: Hirsimaki, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1611864445
- Language: English
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Murder in Victorian Dayton: The Tragic Story of Bessie Little
$24.99 Read moreA sad and shocking story of love betrayed
The murder of Bessie Little and the trial of her murderer rocked Victorian Dayton. Believing herself pregnant and desperate to save her reputation, young Bes
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Kaushal, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157740
- Language: English
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Land of Beginnings: The Archaeology of Montana’s First Peoples
$26.95 Read more- Author: MacDonald, Douglas H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 145
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1940527031
- Language: English
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The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine
$32.99 Add to cartOn the 50th anniversary of American Track and Field icon Steve Prefontaine’s tragic death comes an essential reappraisal of his life and legacy, a powerful work of narrative history exploring the forc
- Author: O’Meara, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 63348969
- Language: English
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Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
$19.99 Add to cartConceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to the world–the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films an
- Author: King, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105232
- Language: English
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Lost at Sea: Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America
$32.50 Add to cartA deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the “anchor-outs”–an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats–that explores the struggles and resilience of those sur
- Author: Kloc, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0063061694
- Language: English
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Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River
$17.99 Add to cartAn impassioned meditation on American identity and its ebb and flow through the Capital’s great waterway
As she walks the length of the Potomac River, clambering up its banks and sounding its depths, C
- Author: Fryar, Charlotte Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1954276346
- Language: English
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Water Cries: Uncovering the Slave Auction Houses of Galveston, Texas
$27.95 Add to cartThe Water Cries represents an ambitious search for
the location of the slave auction houses in one of America’s most storied
cities. The author plumbs historical documentation, sifting historical
adverti… [more below]- Series: Afro-Texans
- Author: Griffin, Anthony Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: February 14 2025
- ISBN10: 168283199X
- Language: English
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Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City
$18.95 Add to cartAn updated and expanded new edition of the definitive walking guide to Seattle
One of America’s most walkable cities, Seattle rewards urban trekkers with expansive scenery and architectural and hist
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753579
- Language: English
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Wild in Seattle: Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature
$22.95 Add to cart- More than 40 essays dive into the geology, animals, plants, and architecture that shape Seattle
- Fully illustrated by celebrated local artist Elizabeth Person
- Fun and fascinating sidebars explore regi
- Author: Williams, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1680517651
- Language: English
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Texas: An American History
$35.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today
When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to c- Author: Johnson, Benjamin Heber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300226721
- Language: English
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Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West
$28.99 Add to cart- Author: Huckelbridge, Dane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 63307014
- Language: English
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A Creek, a Hill, & a Forty: The early years of Alaska’s Matanuska Colony, seen through a colonist’s letters home-Margaret Miller’s story
$19.95 Add to cartA Creek, a Hill & a Forty is a firsthand narrative of the early years of Alaska’s Matanuska Colony-with the story told through the personal letters of one colonist, Margaret Miller.
Margaret, along wi
- Author: Bonnell, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1736423665
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Civil War South Carolina
$24.99 Read moreUntold Stories of the War Between the States
All of South Carolina’s history during the Civil War isn’t well known. Author D. Michael Thomas has uncovered fifty accounts of lost history pertaining to t
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Thomas, D. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158070
- Language: English
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The Windsor Locks Canal: Yankee Enterprise & Irish Muscle
$19.95 Add to cartThe Windsor Locks Canal
Yankee Enterprise and Irish Muscle
J. Christopher Kervick’s compelling new book touches all the bases in the making of classic history. It is the story of human enterprise, ambit… [more below]
- Author: Kervick, J. Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0997790792
- Language: English
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Buffalo Soldiers in California: Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry, 1902-1904
$26.95 Add to cartWhen Captain Charles Young and the Ninth U.S. Cavalry stepped ashore in San Francisco in 1902, Young was only one of three Black officers serving in the U.S. Army. He had graduated from West Point as … [more below]
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238516
- Language: English
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Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850-1950
$45.00 Add to cartDiscover of a lost Los Angeles from an era before the freeways in this beautiful coffee table book from iconic architectural photographer Arnold Hylen.
Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era
- Author: Hylen, Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1626401330
- Language: English
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Spooky South: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
$19.95 Add to cartHere we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened–and still do happen–in the collective back yard of the Deep South states. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compellin
- Series: Spooky
- Author: Schlosser, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 149306990X
- Language: English
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Stronger Than The Storm: Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina
$24.99 Add to cartIn September 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, then roared hundreds of miles inland to the mountains of western North Carolina. Record-breaking winds, rain, and floods damaged or destro
- Author: McKechnie, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992203707
- Language: English
