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Children of the Storm: The True Story of The Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy

Children of the Storm: The True Story of The Pleasant...

Author: Ariana Harner ,  Clark Secrest
ISBN: 9781682754757
Format: Paperback
$47.39

A story of 33 fateful hours, in which 20 children faced nature's toughest tests.  Read More >>

Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York

Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York

Author: Marin Kosut
ISBN: 9780231186742
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Art Monster takes readers to the margins of the professional art world, populated by unseen artists who make a living...  Read More >>

Cowboy Slang for Modern Day Use

Cowboy Slang for Modern Day Use

Author: Ricky Adams
ISBN: 9798330265619
Format: Hardback
$52.77

Saddle up, partner, and learn some cowboy slang. Were you aware that cowboys in the 1800s had a distinct slang all...  Read More >>

Fighting Irish Football: The Notre Dame Tradition in Photographs

Fighting Irish Football: The Notre Dame Tradition in...

Author: Charles Lamb ,  Elizabeth Hogan
ISBN: 9780268208165
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Arizona Politics and Government: The Quest for Autonomy, Democracy, and Development

Arizona Politics and Government: The Quest for Autonomy,...

Author: David R. Berman
ISBN: 9781496232403
Format: Paperback
$105.60

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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created, Bought,  and Sold the Dream of Los Angeles

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created, Bought,...

Author: Paul Haddad
ISBN: 9781595801272
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angelestraces the improbable rise of Los Angeles...  Read More >>

Old Scottish Country Life

Old Scottish Country Life

Author: David Pettigrew
ISBN: 9781840339703
Format: Paperback
$38.68

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Martha's Vineyard Through Time: Pinkletinks Piping in the Spring

Martha's Vineyard Through Time: Pinkletinks Piping in...

Author: A C Theokas
ISBN: 9781634994958
Format: Paperback
$65.97

This book is written especially for those who wish to visit Martha's Vineyard and learn a little of its rich history....  Read More >>

The Mystery of the Purple Spheres in Arizona

The Mystery of the Purple Spheres in Arizona

Author: Ripley Jones
ISBN: 9781779612076
Format: Paperback
$329.97

On August 18, 2013, Peter G. McCullough was taking a routine stroll through the Sonoran Desert, documenting local...  Read More >>

World War II and Nevada: The Silver State's Contribution to Victory

World War II and Nevada: The Silver State's Contribution...

Author: Charles Weller
ISBN: 9781647791469
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Takes a comprehensive look at the Silver State’s role in the war effort, including the effects of rationing and...  Read More >>

Gem of the Sierra: Schemes and Splendor in Nineteenth-Century Lake Tahoe

Gem of the Sierra: Schemes and Splendor in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Gary Noy
ISBN: 9781496237828
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This anthology features selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents of the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

The Gentle Author’s Cries of London

The Gentle Author’s Cries of London

Author: The Gentle Author
ISBN: 9780957656987
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A choice selection of Cries of London, telling the stories of the artists and traders, and revealing the unexpected...  Read More >>

The Electrocution of Baby Lawrence: A Murder That Shook a New England Town

The Electrocution of Baby Lawrence: A Murder That Shook...

Author: James E. Overmyer
ISBN: 9781538181294
Format: Hardback
$67.99

In September of 1943, six-month old Lawrence Noxon, who had recently been diagnosed with Down Syndrome died mysteriously...  Read More >>

Alabama Railroads

Alabama Railroads

Author: Wayne Cline
ISBN: 9780817361679
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Offers a comprehensive, illustrated history that shows Alabama’s important role in the development of America’s...  Read More >>

When Paper Collar Bandbox Soldiers Fight: A History of the 4th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865

When Paper Collar Bandbox Soldiers Fight: A History...

Author: Philip Hatfield ,  Terry Lowry
ISBN: 9798988902034
Format: Hardback
$92.27

"The 4th Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry stepped into a cauldron of fire and blood during the Civil War....  Read More >>

Theatres of Value: Buying and Selling Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Theatres of Value: Buying and Selling Shakespeare in...

Author: Danielle Rosvally
ISBN: 9781438498348
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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The Boys in Blue: Dublin High School Dukes Football

The Boys in Blue: Dublin High School Dukes Football...

Author: Mason Clark
ISBN: 9798822951839
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Dublin High School ceased to exist as of June in 1974. When the school's era as a high school came to an end many...  Read More >>

Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries

Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries

Author: Stephen Dow Beckham
ISBN: 9780870712593
Format: Paperback
$118.80

After forty years of research and writing on Native Americans and the American West, historian Stephen Dow Beckham...  Read More >>

Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted...

Author: Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens
ISBN: 9780817361662
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and...  Read More >>

Warriors for Social Justice Volume 12: Maria Jimenez of Houston and Mexican American Activists

Warriors for Social Justice Volume 12: Maria Jimenez...

Author: Linda J Quintanilla
ISBN: 9781574419122
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Examines the contributions of Mexican American activists to the nation’s democratic values by concentrating on the...  Read More >>

The Ahern Home of Texarkana

The Ahern Home of Texarkana

Author: Doris Douglas Davis ,  Thomas W. Cutrer
ISBN: 9781648431982
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Focused on an early twentieth-century home in Texarkana, Arkansas, Doris Douglas Davis’s The Ahern Home of Texarkana...  Read More >>

Run for Your Lives!: Gender and the Runaway Scrape

Run for Your Lives!: Gender and the Runaway Scrape

Author: Linda English
ISBN: 9781648432194
Format: Hardback
$105.60

In Run for Your Lives! historian Linda English opens a new window into the Runaway Scrape, exploring the events...  Read More >>

A Centennial Perspective on Texas in the Great War

A Centennial Perspective on Texas in the Great War

Author: Stephen S. Cure
ISBN: 9781648431968
Format: Hardback
$110.88

The First World War was one of the most transformative and important events of world history. A Centennial Perspective...  Read More >>

Tracking the Texas Ranger Historians

Tracking the Texas Ranger Historians

Author: Bruce A. Glasrud ,  Harold J. Weiss, Jr.
ISBN: 9781574419306
Format: Hardback
$105.60

No volume has been published before that covers the various historians of the Rangers and their approaches to the...  Read More >>

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