State & Local
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November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
$16.95 Add to cartOn Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings be
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 081668720X
- Language: English
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A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek
$24.00 Add to cartIn the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Ch
- Author: Kelman, Ari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0674503783
- Language: English
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The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage
$24.95 Add to cartRising in quiet grandeur from the earth in an astoundingly engineered arrangement that ancient peoples mapped to the movements of the moon, Ohio’s Newark Earthworks form the largest geometric earthen … [more below]
- Series: Trillium Books
- Author: Weiser, M. Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258700
- Language: English
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American Political History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country’s nation… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Critchlow, Donald T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0199340056
- Language: English
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Oldest Twin Cities: A Guide to Historic Treasures
$22.50 Read more- Series: Oldest
- Author: Severson, Julie Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064340
- Language: English
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Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)
$24.99 Add to cartThrough an extraordinary collection of photographs, Jim Thorpe tells the story of not only the athlete but its famed coal-mining industry.
What was originally named Mauch Chunk, Jim Thorpe was establis
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Drury, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 28 2001
- ISBN10: 738509639
- Language: English
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Boston Bruins: Blood, Sweat & 100 Years
$50.00 Add to cartCelebrate the Boston Bruins’ centennial with this essential coffee table book
In celebration of the Original Six franchise’s 100th season, the Boston Bruins present a visually stunning retrospe- Author:
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1637274742
- Language: English
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A Killing in Amish Country: Lies, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris investigate the 2009 death of an Amish wife and mother found murdered in her own bed.
At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and- Author: Olsen, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1250319706
- Language: English
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Conifers of the New England-Acadian Forest: A Cultural History
$24.95 Add to cartWhy did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does hemlock have to do with making leather? In Conifers of the New England-Acadian
- Author: Keating, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1625347871
- Language: English
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Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature’s Soul in America’s Heartland
$25.00 Add to cartTo know a place deeply means to understand it on several levels, layered almost as if from bedrock to topsoil. Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature’s Soul in America’s Heartland takes readers on a j
- Series: Heartland History
- Author: Koch, Kevin J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0253068843
- Language: English
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The Traitor’s Homecoming: Benedict Arnold’s Raid on New London, Connecticut, September 4-13, 1781
$34.95 Read moreA reexamination of Benedict Arnold’s 1781 raid on New London, Connecticut, dispelling myths and offering a balanced military study.
Almost everyone is familiar with the name of at least one Revolutiona… [more below]
- Author: Reardon, Matthew E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1611216982
- Language: English
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Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard: Inventor, Bootlegger and Psychedelic Pioneer
$21.99 Read moreSeattle has a long tradition of being at the forefront of technological innovation. In 1919, an eager young inventor named Alfred M. Hubbard made his first newspaper appearance with the announcement o… [more below]
- Author: Holden, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1467148067
- Language: English
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New York: An Illustrated History (Revised and Expanded)
$75.00 Read moreAn expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York–with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations–that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city fro… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Ric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 059353414X
- Language: English
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Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism
$29.95 Read more2022 History Book Festival Official Selection.
The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors
- Author: Hanna, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163388676X
- Language: English
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Rumrunning in Suffolk County: Tales from Liquor Island
$21.99 Read moreNicknamed Liquor Island, Long Island was rumrunner’s paradise during Prohibition.
With its proximity to major markets and coastal communities for easy transit, Suffolk County was awash in illegal hooc
- Author: Folk, Amy Kasuga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151610
- Language: English
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Lost Roadhouses of Seattle
$23.99 Read moreProhibition came early to Washington State–in 1916–and kicked off an unforgettable era of nightlife.
Prohibition went national in 1920 and a network of roadside inns, taverns and dancehalls just outs
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Blecha, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150738
- Language: English
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Abandoned Coastal Georgia
$23.99 Read more- Author: Meacham, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1634994108
- Language: English
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In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
$21.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.
In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were l- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0375706909
- Language: English
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
$17.00 Add to cartI tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct t… [more below]
- Author: Kalish, Mildred Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0553384244
- Language: English
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The Citadel and the South Carolina Corps of Cadets
$24.99 Read moreGain insight into one of the nation’s most prestigious military college, The Citadel, and discover the historic past of the South Carolina school.
Since its founding in 1842, The Citadel has provided g
- Series: Campus History
- Author: Buckley, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0738517046
- Language: English
