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Harvard Square: A Love Story
$27.95 Add to cart“Harvard Square isn’t what it used to be.” Spend any time there, and you’re bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same thing for well over a century. So what does it really m
- Author: Turco, Catherine J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231209282
- Language: English
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Death on Katahdin: And Other Misadventures in Maine’s Baxter State Park
$18.95 Add to cartThis fascinating addition to the North Woods canon looks at the variety of ways people have met their death on Maine’s highest and most remote mountain. It’s all here, from falls, exposure, and cardia… [more below]
- Author: Minetor, Randi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1608934179
- Language: English
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The War of the Copper Kings: Greed, Power, and Politics
$22.95 Add to cartThe famous account of the greedy battles between the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana.
- Author: Glasscock, C. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1931832218
- Language: English
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Off the Hook: Off-Beat Reporter’s Tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.)
$21.95 Add to cartBack in 1981, publisher Ed Danner took a chance, hiring Nancy Besonen, a rookie reporter from Chicago’s South Side, for his weekly newspaper, the L’Anse Sentinel. Her humor column, “Off the Hook,” was
- Author: Besonen, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997482
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley
$30.00 Add to cartThe incendiary story of conquest, racism, warfare, and historical amnesia at one of the world’s most celebrated and ostensibly enlightened public universities.
“This is a land acknowledgment.” —Ruth W
- Author: Platt, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1597146218
- Language: English
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Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
$36.99 Add to cartIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the A… [more below]
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257002
- Language: English
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The Blackwater Fire and the Men Who Fought It: How Firefighters Turned Tragedy into New Beginnings
$15.95 Add to cartAt 3:30 p.m. on August 21, 1937, the Blackwater Fire “blew up” west of Cody, Wyoming, on the Shoshone National Forest. Fifteen firefighters perish in the conflagration and more than forty are injured.
- Author: Brauneis, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 28 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Make It Go in the Snow: People and Ideas in the History of Snowmobiles
$21.95 Add to cartThrough the years, the challenge of powered transportation in the snow has been met with ideas from explorers, creative inventors and small companies, all with new ideas – often unique and sometimes s
- Author: Jorgensen, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998144
- Language: English
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Motor City Famous: Celebrity Homes, Graves and Little-Known Locales
$24.99 Add to cartMost know Detroit as the hometown of Motown legends like Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. And they’re all here! But beyond the well-known list of famous Detroiters awaits a veritable who’s w
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Platto, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 146715721X
- Language: English
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Letters from Country Life: Adolphe Pons, Man O’ War, and the Founding of Maryland’s Oldest Thoroughbred Farm
$24.95 Add to cartIn Letters from Country Life, Josh Pons, a third-generation horseman and owner of Country Life Farm, depicts a century of life inside the horse business, written from inside the fences of Maryland’s o
- Author: Pons, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 149308139X
- Language: English
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Finding the First Greeks of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1914-1955: A Walking Tour of Downtown
$19.95 Add to cartFrom 1914 to 1955 there were at least forty-eight Greek immigrant-owned businesses located in and around downtown Santa Fe. These businesses were mainly restaurants and caf?s, but they also included c
- Author: Pomonis, Katherine M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1632936755
- Language: English
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Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
$19.99 Add to cartNow a major film by Academy Award winner Errol Morris
“The seminal book on the child-separation policy.” –Rachel Maddow
Award-winning NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff lays bare the full truth behi
- Author: Soboroff, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0062992201
- Language: English
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Amazing Girls of Arizona: True Stories of Young Pioneers
$14.95 Add to cartGrowing up can be hard enough, but when you are a teenage girl on the western frontier every day is a lesson in survival. From being held captive by a Native American tribe (like Olive Ann Oatman), to… [more below]
- Author: Cleere, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 076274135X
- Language: English
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The Last True Clipper: Western Shore – the Oregon Clipper
$15.00 Add to cartThe last United States-built clipper ship was constructed in 1874 in the small shipbuilding town of North Bend Oregon. Hailed for its record-breaking speed from Astoria to Liverpool, its journeys ende
- Author: Wagner, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: September 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79833E+12
- Language: English
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
$21.00 Add to cartA National Bestseller – A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 – Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker – One of Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List Picks – Named a Notable Book by New York Time… [more below]
- Author: Blitzer, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1984880829
- Language: English
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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch,
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 393881164
- Language: English
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Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation
$30.00 Add to cartFor the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell unearths the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia.
No episode in NYPD h- Author: Cannell, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250817781
- Language: English
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Massachusetts State Police Salisbury Beach
$24.95 Read more- Author: Guilmette, Ronald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1956027424
- Language: English
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
$18.95 Add to cart“All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the hear… [more below]
- Author: MacDonald, Michael Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020532
- Language: English
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Pacific Northwest Legends & Lore
$24.99 Add to cartWith its sweeping vistas and rugged beauty, the Pacific Northwest is a natural setting for the extraordinary.
Strange tales of paranormal phenomena and other wild stories thrive among the tree
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146715783X
- Language: English
