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Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial...

Author: Laura Meckler
ISBN: 9781250834409
Format: Paperback
$55.44

Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In this searing and...  Read More >>

Blighty or Bust: The daring 2,000 mile escape of WWII prisoner of war, Raymond Bailey, in his own words

Blighty or Bust: The daring 2,000 mile escape of WWII...

Author: Raymond Bailey ,  David Wilkins
ISBN: 9781839527937
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Blighty or Bust is Private Raymond Bailey’s own account of his dramatic escape in 1940 from a Nazi prisoner-of-war...  Read More >>

The Book of Montacute

The Book of Montacute

Author: Clarence Bradley ,  Philip S Hodges
ISBN: 9780857043115
Format: Hardback
$64.66

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Bletchingley and the Grange: A Pictorial and Social History of a Quintessentially English Village

Bletchingley and the Grange: A Pictorial and Social...

Author: David John McCleave
ISBN: 9781739254995
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Bletchingley's historic properties and businesses (from manor house to farm, hospital to workhouse) with previously...  Read More >>

Migration, Mill Work, and Portuguese Communities in New England

Migration, Mill Work, and Portuguese Communities in...

Author: Cristiana Bastos ,  Bela Feldman-Bianco
ISBN: 9781951470272
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A century after the publication of the controversial Two Portuguese Communities in New England, Migration and Mill...  Read More >>

Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803

Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman,...

Author: Bob Frishman
ISBN: 9781606180099
Format: Hardback
$158.40

""This book details the life and work of Edward Duffield, a clockmaker in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. The present...  Read More >>

The Crinan Canal: 'Britain's most beautiful shortcut'

The Crinan Canal: 'Britain's most beautiful shortcut'...

Author: Marian Pallister
ISBN: 9781839830617
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Known as 'Britain's most beautiful shortcut', the Crinal Canal runs from Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne nine miles across...  Read More >>

Meanderings: Experiences

Meanderings: Experiences

Author: Jack R Russell
ISBN: 9798218464707
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Shared experiences and philosophies which have contributed to a life well lived.  Read More >>

Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico

Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism...

Author: K. Maria D. Lane
ISBN: 9780226833958
Format: Paperback
$57.95

An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico's modern water management system. Maria Lane's Fluid...  Read More >>

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's...

Author: Jacqueline Jones ,  Leon Nixon
ISBN: 9798228248717
Format: Audio
$153.09

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A ""sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive"" portrait of Black workers and...  Read More >>

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's...

Author: Jacqueline Jones ,  Leon Nixon
ISBN: 9798228248731
Format: Audio
$153.09

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A ""sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive"" portrait of Black workers and...  Read More >>

The Little Book of Ballsbridge

The Little Book of Ballsbridge

Author: Hugh Oram
ISBN: 9781803996844
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A treasure trove of information about Ballsbridge, new in paperback  Read More >>

Elstree Aerodrome: 90 Years in Pictures

Elstree Aerodrome: 90 Years in Pictures

Author: Grant Peerless ,  Richard Riding
ISBN: 9781803995984
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The aircraft, events and personalities that have shaped Elstree Aerodrome over 90 years  Read More >>

Never Mind the Canaries 2: Another Ultimate Norwich City Quiz Book

Never Mind the Canaries 2: Another Ultimate Norwich...

Author: Edward Couzens-Lake
ISBN: 9781803992518
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The next instalment of the Norwich City quiz book that will test your knowledge of the Canaries to its limit!  Read More >>

Street Talk: The Great Flood and Other Stories from a River City

Street Talk: The Great Flood and Other Stories from...

Author: Dan M Luzadder
ISBN: 9781956216189
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Street Talk, (The Great Flood and Other Stories from a River City), is a collection of columns and stories written...  Read More >>

The Real Two Hearted: Life, Love, and Lore Along Michigan's Most Iconic River

The Real Two Hearted: Life, Love, and Lore Along Michigan's...

Author: Bob Otwell ,  Kaye Krapohl
ISBN: 9781961302792
Format: Hardback
$65.87

"One hundred years after Ernest Hemingway's short story elevated the myth of the Two Hearted River into the public...  Read More >>

The Neighborhood Gang: Memoirs of the 70s: A Decade of Change

The Neighborhood Gang: Memoirs of the 70s: A Decade...

Author: D L Tracey
ISBN: 9798218248352
Format: Paperback
$44.85

The Neighborhood Gang A Tale of Fifteen Friendships from the Seventies, a Decade of Change.  Read More >>

Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico

Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism...

Author: K. Maria D. Lane
ISBN: 9780226294827
Format: Hardback
$173.95

An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico's modern water management system. Maria Lane's Fluid...  Read More >>

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark...

Author: Katie Singer
ISBN: 9781978833531
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark explores Newark’s Krueger-Scott African-American Cultural Center...  Read More >>

Runaways and the Last of the Guale

Runaways and the Last of the Guale

Author: Jack Anderson
ISBN: 9781959563266
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Inside these pages lies an epic tale, hidden in metaphorical clay vessels, hidden in word of mouth. Set on Tybee...  Read More >>

Huron

Huron

Author: MS Littlefield ,  MS Van Poll
ISBN: 9781467161732
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony

I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone...

Author: Nick Corasaniti
ISBN: 9780062950789
Format: Hardback
$60.00

A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury...  Read More >>

100 Reasons to Celebrate Welsh History

100 Reasons to Celebrate Welsh History

Author: Virginia Butler ,  Chris Butler
ISBN: 9781803995298
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Welsh history and achievements to glory in rather than grizzle about  Read More >>

The Little History of Galway

The Little History of Galway

Author: Colm Wallace
ISBN: 9781803997070
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The entire history of Galway in one little book!  Read More >>

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