State & Local
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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 Add to cartThe 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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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 Read moreFrom 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
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Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill
$24.95 Add to cartGalloping Gourmet explores an unfamiliar side of a familiar character in American history, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. In this entertaining narrative Steve Friesen explores the evolving role of ea… [more below]
- Author: Friesen, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236807
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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River Notes: Drought and the Twilight of the American West — A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
$17.95 Read moreAt a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers “both a love song and a paean of regret to America’s most spectacular river” (Denver Post) and “a
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1778401422
- Language: English
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Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide
$17.95 Add to cartOne of America’s most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills of the Pacific Northwest in search of Bigfoot–and finds the wildness within ourselves.
“A unique book in the bigfoot literatu- Author: Pyle, Robert Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1619029375
- Language: English
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In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
$16.95 Add to cartBefore embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew … [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1631493531
- Language: English
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Heaven on the Half Shell: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Add to cartHeaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest’s beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and c
- Author: Gordon, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0295750782
- Language: English
