State & Local
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Death Ride: A Little Boy’s Night of Terror
$15.95 Add to cartDeath Ride is a riveting account of the brutal murders of Mike and Frieda Kuntz and the attempted murder of their five-year-old son, Larry, who witnessed the tragic deaths of his parents. This is an a
- Author: And Becky Hattenburg, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: January 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1641382554
- Language: English
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The Gritty Berkshires: A People’s History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass MoCA
$34.00 Add to cartAs The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts’ westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. For generations of working class families who have lived in the
- Author: Seider, Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: April 13 2019
- ISBN10: 188704339X
- Language: English
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44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy and Shattered Love
$15.00 Add to cart44 YEARS IN DARKNESS
A TRUE STORY OF MADNESS, TRAGEDY AND SHATTERED LOVE
BY SYLVIA SHULTSLost in the shadows of Illinois asylums in the nineteenth century is the strange story of Rhoda Derry. Left at
- Author: Shults, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1892523477
- Language: English
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10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.: 57 Walking Adventures
$19.95 Add to cartUpdated and Expanded Second Edition Features Six New Walking Adventures! 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A. is for urban adventurers with a passion for healthy living who are also eager to explore Los Angeles… [more below]
- Author: Haddad, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1595800999
- Language: English
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True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina
$21.99 Add to cartEastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out. A lovelorn war hero or a stalker? Conniving wife or consummate homemaker? Murder or suicide? The answers can be as p… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Pickens, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145114
- Language: English
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Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina
$60.00 Add to cartThis beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina’s contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richnes… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1469661241
- Language: English
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Spirits Along the Columbia River
$21.99 Read moreThe breathtaking scenery of the Pacific Northwest hides a myriad of dark secrets.
From sightings of the Columbia River Sea Serpent, nicknamed Colossal Claude, to tales of Bigfoot encounters dating back
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150568
- Language: English
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City
$17.95 Read moreIt may come as a shock, especially to anyone who has come to regard Portland as a haven for enlightened progressive thought, light rail, and lattes for all, not that long ago — in fact as recently as… [more below]
- Author: Stanford, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 1627310630
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War Trivia Book: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Vietnam War Stories
$11.99 Add to cartThe Vietnam War. From the gory photos captured on the ground, to the protest songs that soundtracked a generation of rebels and radicals, this twenty-year war left a mark on the world that’s not going
- Series: Trivia War Books #VOL.
- Author: O’Neill, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 04 2020
- ISBN10: 164845013X
- Language: English
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A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309
$19.95 Add to cartRadical subcultures in an unlikely place
Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists
- Author: Cometbus, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0813068525
- Language: English
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Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next
$31.00 Add to cartThis informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Hurricane… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1469666308
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910
$38.00 Add to cartAn expansive exploration of The Gilded Age in New York City, from of the extravagant lifestyles and magnificent mansions of the ultra-rich to the daily doings of the wretchedly poor who lived in the s
- Author: Crain, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0316353663
- Language: English
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Breathing Stone: Living Small in a Southwest Village
$17.00 Add to cartFor almost four years in the early 1990s, writer, artist, and backcountry hiker Betsy James rented part of an old adobe near the center of a New Mexican village. She had worked for years with cultures
- Author: James, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1956375155
- Language: English
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The Real Rainbow Row: Explorations in Charleston’s LGBTQ History
$34.95 Add to cartThough Charleston has a reputation for holding onto the past longer than most other places, it could not avoid the shock of change. Much has been written of the city’s history of civil rights, and its
- Author: Greene, Harlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 21 2022
- ISBN10: 192964776X
- Language: English
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Grounded: A Senator’s Lessons on Winning Back Rural America
$19.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening memoir from Montana’s three-term democratic senator showing how Democrats can reconnect with rural voters
Jon Tester is the only United States senator with a full-time job outside of the
- Author: Tester, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0062977490
- Language: English
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The Everglades: River of Grass
$18.95 Add to cartBefore 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a “river of grass,” most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world’s attention to the need to preserve The Everglades.
- Author: Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1683342941
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
$19.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it
Between October 8-10,
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159125
- Language: English
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The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800, 197: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People
$21.95 Add to cartBefore European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake Champlain and Connecticut River valleys.
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #197
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0806125683
- Language: English
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Secret North Shore Chicago
$27.00 Read more- Series: Secret
- Author: Shubart, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 168106488X
- Language: English
