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The Princeton University Trivia Book
$22.95 Add to cartThe quintessential source of information about Princeton, one of the world’s most respected universities, with more than 650 questions (and answers!), perfect for current and prospective students, alu
- Series: College Trivia
- Author: Van Rossum, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 149307430X
- Language: English
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Becoming the Twin Cities: Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries
$27.95 Add to cartWhether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have failed. This book explains why.
Why haven’- Author: Ross, Drew M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1681343231
- Language: English
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A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park
$19.95 Add to cartINSIDE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: Discover the epic history of the first US national park in this historical adventure for fans of American history, the Wild West, and the hit show
Explore how Yellows- Author: Wilson, Randall K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1640097333
- Language: English
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Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss
$24.95 Add to cartNotable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1517916771
- Language: English
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon: A Living Legacy
$28.99 Add to cartThe Civilian Conservation Corps transformed Oregon’s landscapes, building lasting parks, roads, trails, and forest infrastructure.
Amid the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt … [more below]
- Author: Voelz, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1634995279
- Language: English
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Murder in Rockport, Massachusetts: Terror in a Small Town
$24.99 Add to cartCold Case Clues
On May 21, 1932, Arthur Oker, a mild-mannered Finnish tailor, was brutally murdered in his shop in the small seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts.
While this unsolved crime terrified
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Soini, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156310
- Language: English
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Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries
$24.95 Read more“A must buy for anyone interested in the Great Lakes.”
—Frederick Stonehouse, maritime historianIn 1892, the Ann Arbor Car Ferries shook the transportation world by doing what was then deemed impossi
- Author: Brown, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0472050494
- Language: English
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Mississippi Bear Hunter Holt Collier: Guiding Teddy Roosevelt and a Lifetime of Adventure
$24.99 Read moreAuthor Mark Neaves guides readers on an incredible tale through the life of one of America’s greatest adventurers.
Born into slavery in the Mississippi Delta in 1847, Holt Collier was taught to hunt
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Neaves, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 146715458X
- Language: English
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Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine.
$18.95 Read moreSo, you think you know Maine? Think again It’s not just the woods, waters, mountains, lobsters and lighthouses that define Maine. From Kittery to Eastport, from Fort Kent to Monhegan, Maine is home t… [more below]
- Author: Brechlin, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1944762809
- Language: English
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Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
$21.99 Add to cartLionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments — one called the U… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0743244575
- Language: English
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Downtown, Up River: Bangor in the 1970s
$24.95 Read moreCaught at a tipping point between the city it was and the city it could be, in the 1970s Bangor, Maine was undergoing rapid change, both physical and social. As the urban renewal program and the openi… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Emily Stoddard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1952143675
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
$21.00 Add to cart“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of… [more below]
- Author: Crouch, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501108204
- Language: English
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Add to cartA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
$20.00 Add to cartIn a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that … [more below]
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078679
- Language: English
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No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC
$34.95 Add to cartA history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse
Washington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American lite
- Author: Gilmore, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 164712655X
- Language: English
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How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
$27.00 Add to cartDismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national embl… [more below]
- Author: Pyne, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140280561
- Language: English
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Historic Lindenwood Cemetery: Fort Wayne, Indiana
$26.99 Read moreLindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is one of the state’s earliest examples of large park-like burial grounds. Established in 1859, it followed in the footsteps of the great “rural” or “garden… [more below]
- Series: Buried America
- Author: Harter, Randolph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1625451709
- Language: English
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Senator Kenneth McKellar: Feudin’ Son of Tennessee
$34.95 Add to cartKenneth McKellar may have been born in Reconstruction-era Alabama, but for most of his life, he was a Tennessean through and through. After graduating from the University of Alabama with bachelor’s, m
- Author: Hill, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1621909468
- Language: English
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center
$27.00 Add to cartIn this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to t… [more below]
- Author: Okrent, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0142001775
- Language: English
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Free Chicago: 50 Years of the Reader
$65.00 Add to cartFree Chicago: 50 Years of the Reader is an oversized coffee table book that tells the incredible story of the nation’s longest surviving free city paper.
In Chicago in 1971, a group of friends gathered
- Author: Hass, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798218515577
- Language: English
