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A Classic Adirondack Paddle: Including a Visit with Noah John Rondeau the Hermit of Cold River Flow

A Classic Adirondack Paddle: Including a Visit with...

Author: William J. O'Hern
ISBN: 9781493078912
Format: Hardback
$61.99

Travel with Paoli Boy Scout Troop 1 on its 1956 paddle from Old Forge to Saranac Lake as documented in its recently...  Read More >>

Sawdust in Your Pockets: A History of the North Carolina Furniture Industry

Sawdust in Your Pockets: A History of the North Carolina...

Author: Eric Medlin
ISBN: 9780820365510
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Provides the first survey of North Carolina’s furniture industry from its cabinetmaking beginnings to its digital...  Read More >>

Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness

Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness

Author: Barry Babcock
ISBN: 9798987319154
Format: Paperback
$47.39

"""This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation's history!"" - Leo Soukup,...  Read More >>

Cemetery John: The Undiscovered MasterMind Behind the Lindbergh Kidnapping

Cemetery John: The Undiscovered MasterMind Behind the...

Author: Robert Zorn ,  Sean Runnette
ISBN: 9798874633882
Format: Audio
$124.05

Robert Zorn's meticulous and authoritative account of the Lindbergh kidnapping reveals, for the first time, the...  Read More >>

Cemetery John: The Undiscovered MasterMind Behind the Lindbergh Kidnapping

Cemetery John: The Undiscovered MasterMind Behind the...

Author: Robert Zorn ,  Sean Runnette
ISBN: 9798874633899
Format: Audio
$110.85

Robert Zorn's meticulous and authoritative account of the Lindbergh kidnapping reveals, for the first time, the...  Read More >>

A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs, California: Revised and Enlarged Edition

A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs,...

Author: Ronald Isetti
ISBN: 9781977256485
Format: Paperback
$118.67

"This is a revised and enlarged version of A Troubled Oasis: A Critical History of Palm Springs. The key chapter...  Read More >>

From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution

From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment...

Author: Robert Geake ,  Lorén Spears
ISBN: 9781594164156
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Known as the ""Black"" Regiment, the Story of the First Continental Army Unit Composed of African American and Native...  Read More >>

The Green Bough

The Green Bough

Author: Mary Larcom Dow
ISBN: 9789357903646
Format: Book
$35.56

Ce livre classique a été initialement publié il y a des décennies sous le titre "" Old Days at Beverly Farms . Il...  Read More >>

The Green Beret

The Green Beret

Author: Mary Larcom Dow
ISBN: 9789357904711
Format: Book
$35.80

Dieses klassische Buch wurde ursprünglich vor Jahrzehnten veröffentlicht als Old Days at Beverly Farms . Es wurde...  Read More >>

Moygara Castle, County Sligo, and the O'Garas of Coolavin

Moygara Castle, County Sligo, and the O'Garas of Coolavin...

Author: Kieran O'Conor
ISBN: 9781846827976
Format: Hardback
$103.50

This study of Moygara Castle marshals various fields of expertise - history, archaeology, architecture, geography,...  Read More >>

Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka: The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska

Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka: The Meaning and...

Author: Ann Fienup-Riordan ,  Alice Rearden
ISBN: 9780295751740
Format: Paperback
$92.00

""Based on nearly two decades of the authors' conversations with Yup'ik sewing groups in southwestern Alaskan communities...  Read More >>

No Grass Grows Under Our Feet: A Southern Legacy

No Grass Grows Under Our Feet: A Southern Legacy

Author: Jeffrey Davis Page
ISBN: 9781960146700
Format: Hardback
$89.63

No Grass Grows Under Our Feet is an homage to family legacy, Southern culture, and the many paths that led us to...  Read More >>

The Scandal of Cal Lib/E: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley

The Scandal of Cal Lib/E: Land Grabs, White Supremacy,...

Author: Tony Platt ,  Jonathan Yen
ISBN: 9798212935326
Format: Audio
$176.85

"The University of California, Berkeley--widely known as ""Cal""--is admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation...  Read More >>

A Walker in the City Lib/E

A Walker in the City Lib/E

Author: Alfred Kazin ,  Steven Jay Cohen
ISBN: 9798874673239
Format: Audio
$176.85

"A literary icon's ""singular and beautiful"" memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville,...  Read More >>

Glen White, PA: The Town that was Forgotten in the Allegheny Mountains

Glen White, PA: The Town that was Forgotten in the Allegheny...

Author: Kevin Stiver
ISBN: 9798218966850
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Ever Go to the Horseshoe Curve? How about through the tunnel at said Curve? On the other side of that tunnel, the...  Read More >>

Apalachicola: Resilience and Adaptation of a Native American Community on the Chattahoochee River

Apalachicola: Resilience and Adaptation of a Native...

Author: H. Thomas Foster II
ISBN: 9781032201269
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is a synthesis of research spanning archaeology, geology, geography, history, ecology, and ethnography....  Read More >>

Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change

Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change

Author: Lynne B. Sagalyn
ISBN: 9780262048545
Format: Hardback
$95.00

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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t

The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What...

Author: Steven Conn
ISBN: 9780226826905
Format: Hardback
$47.95

A new history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.   It seems everyone has an opinion about...  Read More >>

Hegewisch

Hegewisch

Author: Cynthia L Ogorek
ISBN: 9781467160667
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Founded in 1884 as the company town of the United States Rolling Stock Company, Hegewisch became Chicago's most...  Read More >>

The Attic and ME: History encountered in a Maine attic

The Attic and ME: History encountered in a Maine attic...

Author: Norma K Salway
ISBN: 9781088198001
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Norma K. Salway repurposed her family artifacts to illustrate inspirational stories connected to her roots and experiences....  Read More >>

Heartland Heartbeats: A Country Heritage Story Collection

Heartland Heartbeats: A Country Heritage Story Collection...

Author: Beth Gibbons
ISBN: 9798887754932
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Vidalia Onions: A History of Georgia's State Vegetable

Vidalia Onions: A History of Georgia's State Vegetable...

Author: Lee Lancaster
ISBN: 9781467154932
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Author Lee Lancaster unearths the delectable history and classic recipes of the Peach State's top vegetable. The...  Read More >>

Italo Balbo's Flight to the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

Italo Balbo's Flight to the 1933 Chicago World's Fair...

Author: Don Fiore
ISBN: 9781467155342
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Trace the monumental story of a transatlantic flight to the Century of Progress Exposition. In an era when transatlantic...  Read More >>

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

Author: Grace Elizabeth Hale ,  John Grisham
ISBN: 9780316564748
Format: Hardback
$76.56

"Winner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award In this ""courageous and compelling ... essential...  Read More >>

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