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The Narrative of Primus: A Lineage Woven into American History
$19.99 Add to cartThe Narrative of Primus uncovers the remarkable, nearly forgotten story of a ten-year-old boy taken from his mother’s bedside in West Africa and forced aboard a slave ship bound for America. That boy,
- Author: Mills, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798994411827
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt in California: The Presidential Adventure That Saved the Wilderness
$24.99 Add to cart“There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.” –Theodore Roosevelt
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on one of the most audacious journeys in presidential his
- Series: Narrative
- Author: Epting, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1467171123
- Language: English
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Ghostly Tales of Ohio
$9.95 Add to cartRead 24 chilling ghost stories, from two paranormal investigators, about reportedly true encounters with the supernatural in Ohio.
Ghostly inmates stalk the darkened corridors of the Ohio State Reforma
- Series: Hauntings, Horrors & Scary Ghost Stories
- Author: Freeburg, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1647555426
- Language: English
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Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence
$26.95 Add to cartDiscover how Miami’s local art community transformed the city into a hub of global artistic exchange
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Visual Arts
Step into the vibrant heartbeat of Miami’s art scene
- Author: Turner, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081211
- Language: English
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The Ritz of the Bayou: The New Orleans Adventures of a Young Novelist Covering the Trials of the Governor of Louisiana, with Digressions on Smoldering
$24.00 Add to cartIn this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This 40th anniversary ed
- Author: Lemann, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798885740708
- Language: English
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River of Ghosts: Haunted Legends Along the Mississippi River
$16.99 Add to cartRiver of Ghosts: Haunted Legends Along the Mississippi
From the bluffs of Minnesota to the Gulf’s last blue horizon, the Mississippi carries more than water. It carries memory. In this immersive journe
- Author: Turek, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798349590467
- Language: English
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American Uprising
$15.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Breathtaking. [Rasmussen’s] scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance, but it also tells us something about history itself–about how
- Author: Rasmussen, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0061995223
- Language: English
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New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City
$34.95 Add to cartIntended for general readers, Charles D. Chamberlain’s New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City offers a broad, reliable overview of the city’s history. Although many excellent books are
- Author: Chamberlain, Charles D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 080718487X
- Language: English
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Killing the Kingfish: The Huey Long Assassination
$40.00 Add to cartOn September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot in a back corridor of the Louisiana state capitol. Although the most widely accepted theory hol… [more below]
- Author: McGuire, Jack B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: March 18 2026
- ISBN10: 1496861353
- Language: English
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Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest
$45.00 Add to cartDemonstrates what made Modernist art in the Puget Sound region unique
In the early twentieth century, the Puget Sound region was home to a progressive artistic and cultural scene shaped by the region’
- Author: Papanikolas, Theresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0295754842
- Language: English
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A Place for Us: Gay Life at Chicago’s Belmont Rocks
$24.95 Add to cartBelmont Rocks: Where Chicago Went Queer in Broad Daylight
A Place for Us: Gay Life at Chicago’s Belmont Rocks by Owen Keehnen is a vivid work of LGBTQ+ history, queer Chicago history, and oral history
- Author: Keehnen, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1968983023
- Language: English
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The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief
$19.95 Add to cartThe thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high society–and a window into the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the Swinging Sixties.
As a strin- Author: Pederson, Rena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1639368744
- Language: English
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The University of Central Florida Trivia Book
$22.95 Add to cartThe unofficial guide to the home of the Knights!
The University of Central Florida Trivia Book features a wealth of historic and recent facts, with over 650 questions (with answers!) and quotations sp
- Series: College Trivia
- Author: Rubin, Mary A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1493075519
- Language: English
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New York’s Family Grocer: The Story of d’Agostino Supermarkets
$34.95 Add to cartFrom pushcart to pantry staple in the city that never sleeps
New York’s Family Grocer tells how a neighborhood name became part of the city’s daily rhythm. Patsy and Nicholas D’Agostino arrived from I- Author: Schmitz, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1531513220
- Language: English
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
$23.00 Add to cartThe “enormously entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that “artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off” (The New York T… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0307592219
- Language: English
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San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage
$42.50 Add to cartCharacterizing San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial-era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the mis
- Series: Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San Antonio
- Author: Kitchens, Joel Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1648433405
- Language: English
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Love, Lies, and Murder in Northern Ohio
$24.99 Add to cartLovers of true crime and Ohio history will find themselves riveted by these crimes of passion.
There is a thin line between love and hate, and when intense passion threatens that border, blood will fl
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Koile, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1467155896
- Language: English
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Pittsburgh: A Renaissance City
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover Pittsburgh’s historic sites, modern downtown, famous rivers, recreation, and arts. Witness the city’s progression from an outpost and battleground in the colonial war for the control of North… [more below]
- Author: Gadomski, Michael P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0764349236
- Language: English
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Chinese in Washington: The Legacy of the Chinese Exclusion ACT
$24.99 Add to cartHow the U.S. law targeting Chinese laborers impacted families for generations.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, after the railroads were completed and the gold mines exhausted, an economic downt
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Hackett Nicola, Trish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1467147729
- Language: English
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Been There, Done That: How Our History Shows What We Can Overcome
$31.00 Add to cartProfessor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn’t Suck, proves that while today’s political climate may be dark, these aren’t as unprecedented times as we may think.
Our nation’s past is fu- Author: Jackson, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1668062607
- Language: English
