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The Franciscans in Medieval Bury St Edmunds

The Franciscans in Medieval Bury St Edmunds

Author: Francis Young
ISBN: 9781837651016
Format: Hardback
$155.25

Chronicles the conflict between Franciscan friars and Benedictine monks in medieval Bury St Edmunds and the subsequent...  Read More >>

Lemont

Lemont

Author: Kevin Barron ,  Jason Berry
ISBN: 9781467160582
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Located within the Des Plaines River valley in Illinois, Lemont became a village in 1873. The Illinois and Michigan...  Read More >>

Winter Park in the 1960s

Winter Park in the 1960s

Author: Gary White ,  Nick White
ISBN: 9781467160810
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Winter Park, a vibrant city in Central Florida reminiscent of a New England village, witnessed the following exciting...  Read More >>

Case Files of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society Volume 1

Case Files of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research...

Author: Robert Lewis ,  Bryan Bonner
ISBN: 9781961827004
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research society presents true stories from their quarter-century of case files. Perfect...  Read More >>

Psychedelic Wild Child: Coming of Age in The Source Family Cult{ure}

Psychedelic Wild Child: Coming of Age in The Source...

Author: Dawn Hurwitz
ISBN: 9798988513025
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Child of the '60s, Dawn uproots from Chicago seeks spirituality, joins the Source Family in LA. They move to Hawaii...  Read More >>

Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder,...

Author: Richard White (Stanford University)
ISBN: 9781324064428
Format: Paperback
$32.95

A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University...  Read More >>

A Ramble About Tallaght: History, People, Places

A Ramble About Tallaght: History, People, Places

Author: Albert Perris ,  Michael O'Brien
ISBN: 9781788493369
Format: Hardback
$72.42

The fascinating history of an ancient place utterly transformed by progress and modernity, a place unrecognisable...  Read More >>

Lost Ludlow: A collection of rare and early photographs

Lost Ludlow: A collection of rare and early photographs...

Author: Ralph Beardmore
ISBN: 9781910839669
Format: Paperback
$43.96

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Hometown Kid City Kid

Hometown Kid City Kid

Author: Jim Dimick
ISBN: 9781959483847
Format: Paperback
$44.85

A true story of demographic change in a northern inner ring suburb... A WINNING BASKETBALL TEAM THAT REFLECTED...  Read More >>

Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America

Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across...

Author: Jack Nisbet ,  Chris Abernathy
ISBN: 9798212935104
Format: Audio
$110.85

The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North America In this...  Read More >>

Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America

Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across...

Author: Jack Nisbet ,  Chris Abernathy
ISBN: 9798212935098
Format: Audio
$110.85

The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North America In this...  Read More >>

Yorkshire's Prehistoric Monuments

Yorkshire's Prehistoric Monuments

Author: Adam Morgan Ibbotson
ISBN: 9781803991061
Format: Paperback
$54.99

A beautifully presented exploration into the prehistoric monuments of Yorkshire, explaining where, when, and why...  Read More >>

The Little Book of Manchester

The Little Book of Manchester

Author: Stuart Hylton
ISBN: 9781803994284
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Fun facts and trivia about Manchester, new in paperback  Read More >>

St. Louis Trailblazer Erma Bergmann: From Pitcher's Mound to Patrol

St. Louis Trailblazer Erma Bergmann: From Pitcher's...

Author: Mrs Patricia Treacy
ISBN: 9781467155373
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Breaking Glass Ceilings in St. Louis Erma Mary Bergmann was a generation ahead of her time. She was born in a...  Read More >>

The Death of a Library: An American Tragedy

The Death of a Library: An American Tragedy

Author: Patricia Vaccarino
ISBN: 9781736546260
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The Yonkers Carnegie Library was commonly held to be the most beautiful building in the city. No one seemed to know...  Read More >>

Beacon in the West: A Hundred Years of the Stornoway Trust

Beacon in the West: A Hundred Years of the Stornoway...

Author: Roger Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781839830501
Format: Hardback
$37.99

From 1918 to the modern day, Roger Hutchinson tells the story of the Stornoway Trust, and of the people who guided...  Read More >>

Teaching in the Rain: The Story of North Cascades Institute

Teaching in the Rain: The Story of North Cascades Institute...

Author: Miles C John
ISBN: 9780999527825
Format: Paperback
$60.69

This is the story of how the North Cascades Institute grew from humble beginnings to become a model nonprofit environmental...  Read More >>

New Mexico's Magnificent Sandia Mountain (Hardcover): The Complete Geological Story

New Mexico's Magnificent Sandia Mountain (Hardcover):...

Author: Dirk Van Hart
ISBN: 9781632936509
Format: Hardback
$132.00

The complete geologic story of New Mexico's magnificent Sandia Mountain.  Read More >>

Days of Reckoning: Players Punching Their Ticket Out of Pittsburgh during the Barney Dreyfuss Era

Days of Reckoning: Players Punching Their Ticket Out...

Author: Ronald T Waldo
ISBN: 9798888191033
Format: Paperback
$84.35

From Waddell to Bartell, Ronald T. Waldo shares why many of the greatest players in Pittsburgh Pirates history were...  Read More >>

Connecticut Cryptids: A Field Guide to the Weird and Wonderful Creatures of the Nutmeg State

Connecticut Cryptids: A Field Guide to the Weird and...

Author: Patrick Scalisi ,  Valerie Ruby-Omen
ISBN: 9798218244682
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Writer Patrick Scalisi and artist Valerie Ruby-Omen explore Connecticut cryptid stories from the 1600s to the 2020s...  Read More >>

Salt in the Veins

Salt in the Veins

Author: Mary E McDermott
ISBN: 9781961864023
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Find out what life was like on old Cape Cod with Mary E. MCDermott. Her poignant stories of Cape Cod yesteryears...  Read More >>

The Never-Ending Lives of Liver-Eating Johnson

The Never-Ending Lives of Liver-Eating Johnson

Author: D. J. Herda
ISBN: 9781493074426
Format: Paperback
$47.99

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A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics and Race in Texas

A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics...

Author: Bill Minutaglio
ISBN: 9781477328583
Format: Paperback
$48.99

A new look at the last 150 years of Texas’s contentious political history, told decade by decade through the prism...  Read More >>

The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture...

Author: Frank Andre Guridy
ISBN: 9781477328576
Format: Paperback
$48.99

The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements,...  Read More >>

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