State & Local
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Classic Michigan Food and Drinks: The Stories Behind the Brands
$24.99 Add to cartMichigan is home to an amazing array of food and drink brands, each with a fascinating story behind it.
Ready-to-eat breakfast cereals like Kellogg’s and Post changed how the world eats, and Gerber fi
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Milan, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1467153052
- Language: English
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Up-The-Road Down-The-Road
$18.99 Add to cartIn Up-The-Road Down-The-Road, noted Outer Banks historian Bill Harris has documented the history of Kitty Hawk Village from its beginnings. He explains how Kitty Hawk got its name and who originally s
- Author: Harris, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988017158
- Language: English
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A History of Philadelphia Sandwiches: Steaks, Hoagies, Iconic Eateries & More
$24.99 Add to cartTake a Bite of Philadelphia’s Storied Sandwich History
Philadelphia boasts some of the most delicious original sandwiches and passionate sandwich aficionados. From the classic cheesesteak to the delect
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Madaio, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1467152021
- Language: English
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The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City
$18.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction
From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known- Author: Roberts, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 163973371X
- Language: English
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The Silk Finisher: Bigotry, Murder, and Sacrifice in the Crossroads of America
$18.99 Add to cartWhat happens when toxicity invades a life at every turn?
A 1963 murder leads to a decade-long journey for a son to uncover truths about his family, an American town, and ultimately himself. In the “Cr- Author: Melchior, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South
$32.00 Add to cartA “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore … [more below]
- Author: Schumaker, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605314
- Language: English
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Nocturnal New Orleans
$59.95 Add to cartBehold the mystique of the New Orleans night–that tinge of excitement, that veil of mystery, that sense of danger that emerges during “the witching hour.”
Darkness may unleash the Dionysian in the Cr- Author: Rasi, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182613
- Language: English
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAn “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s g… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601009
- Language: English
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Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion’s Soul Through Science and Story
$24.95 Add to cartLeslie Patten had seen grizzly bears, wolves, coyotes, deer, elk, and many other species in her years living next to Yellowstone National Park. Yet, like most visitors, she had never seen a mountain l… [more below]
- Author: Patten, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238478
- Language: English
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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
$20.99 Add to cartWinner, American Battlefield Trust Prize for History
A “compelling portrait” (Jon Meacham
Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography- Author: Varon, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1982148284
- Language: English
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L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood
$29.95 Add to cartL.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars,” who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, and Natalie Wood. It … [more below]
- Author: Choi, Anne Soon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Killer Women of Michigan
$24.99 Read moreThey used arsenic to obtain chemical divorces and strychnine to settle scores. They bludgeoned husbands to make way for lovers. They flattened love triangles with blunt objects. They murdered for mone
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Buhk, Tobin T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1467156205
- Language: English
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The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History
$24.99 Add to cart“Europe stretches to the Alleghenies, America lies beyond.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They are my people and this is my town and it does my heart good just to be here.” – Art Rooney Sr.
What does it me… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1467157317
- Language: English
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When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia’s Capital City
$19.95 Add to cartOur nation’s first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide elect
- Author: Norman, Linwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1958754935
- Language: English
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Killing Shore: The True Story of Hitler’s U-Boats Off the New Jersey Coast
$34.95 Read moreThe shocking story of Nazi Germany’s naval assault in American waters, told through the eyes of seafarers who experienced it off the Jersey Shore.
It is January 1942. Six weeks after the United States … [more below]
- Author: Nelson, K. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 395
- Publish Date: April 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1955041296
- Language: English
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An Alternative History of Cleveland
$19.95 Add to cartDive into Cleveland’s deep past and return with a new vision for how we should think about the region today.
The land we call “northeast Ohio” was originally forged through eons of glacial pressure, ge
- Author: Wlasiuk, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368794
- Language: English
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The Peril of Remembering Nice Things
$18.99 Add to cartTwenty-five years ago, at 5:00 am, Robert Gibbs left the old hotel in Starke, Florida, wandered down to the train tracks running through the middle of town, and sat on the west rail. He lit up a Winst
- Author: Gibbs, Jeffrey Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1953932290
- Language: English
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Cleveland Then and Now(r)
$22.95 Add to cartCleveland Then and Now matches archive images with contemporary views of the same scenes to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city.
Cleveland, Ohio, was founded in 1796. A prime location
- Series: Then and Now(r)
- Author: DeMarco, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1911595946
- Language: English
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A Town Built by Ski Bums: The Story of Carrabassett Valley, Maine
$29.95 Add to cartLocated 60 country miles from Interstate 95, Carrabassett Valley, Maine doesn’t look like a classic rural New England town. Only a handful of buildings pre-date 1950. Settlement is concentrated in two
- Author: Wright, Virginia M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1684751799
- Language: English
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Red Arrow Across the Pacific: The Thirty-Second Infantry Division During World War II
$40.00 Read moreThe history of WWII’s most battle-tested US Army division and its crucial role in achieving Allied victory in the Pacific
Red Arrow across the Pacific reveals the long-overdue story of the renowned Th- Author: Van Ells, Mark D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1976600332
- Language: English
