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Seasoned in Appalachia: Delicious Recipes from the Mountains and Hollers

Seasoned in Appalachia: Delicious Recipes from the Mountains...

Author: Jimmy Proffitt
ISBN: 9781577155355
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Inspired by home-cooked family meals, Seasoned in Appalachia delivers heartwarming recipes coupled with fun insights...  Read More >>

Lost Cars of the 1960s

Lost Cars of the 1960s

Author: Giles Chapman
ISBN: 9781803999364
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Overlooked & Underrated? Not Any Longer… Presenting 60 forgotten cars of the 1960s  Read More >>

A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865

A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community...

Author: Antwain K. Hunter
ISBN: 9781469689890
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, this book explores how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians...  Read More >>

Renu Recipes: Outstandingly Nutritious and Healthy Vegetarian Cuisine

Renu Recipes: Outstandingly Nutritious and Healthy Vegetarian...

Author: Renu Sood
ISBN: 9781839993787
Format: Paperback
$49.98

Renu's Recipes: Delicious and Diabetic-Friendly DishesDiscover a culinary journey where health meets indulgence...  Read More >>

A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865

A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community...

Author: Antwain K. Hunter
ISBN: 9781469689883
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, this book explores how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians...  Read More >>

The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri

The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in...

Author: John Craig Hammond
ISBN: 9781512828429
Format: Hardback
$104.00

""This book examines how empires, settlers, and enslaved people created, maintained and challenged systems of slavery,...  Read More >>

The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, a Daughter and the Healing Power of Music

The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, a Daughter...

Author: Tamara Saviano
ISBN: 9798349663352
Format: Paperback
$52.80

A heartbreaking yet uplifting memoir, The Most Beautiful Girl opens with a scene at Johnny Cash's funeral when the...  Read More >>

Discovering D'Arensbourg: Unraveling the Legends of a Swedish Officer in the Great Northern War and First Commander of the German Coast in French Louisiana

Discovering D'Arensbourg: Unraveling the Legends of...

Author: Mari Keller Dyer
ISBN: 9798218751494
Format: Paperback
$60.59

An eighteenth century historical and numismatic journey uncovers the Swedish life of Charles d'Arensbourg, first...  Read More >>

Northumbria's Bloody History

Northumbria's Bloody History

Author: Martin Dufferwiel
ISBN: 9781837050512
Format: Paperback
$42.99

This book tells of the great battles, fought upon Northumbrian soil, which changed the course not just of regional,...  Read More >>

Padstow: The History of a Cornish Town

Padstow: The History of a Cornish Town

Author: Catherine Lorigan
ISBN: 9781837050406
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Padstow can trace its history back almost 5,000 years. This is its story.  Read More >>

Who is My Daddy: War baby living with a “beast” who was not my father! (Mother’s terrible secret)

Who is My Daddy: War baby living with a “beast” who...

Author: K. B. Chandler
ISBN: 9781836154037
Format: Paperback
$44.85

A young boy growing up, not knowing who his father was to guide and advise him on the pitfalls of life.  Read More >>

Route 66: 100 Years

Route 66: 100 Years

Author: Jim Hinckley
ISBN: 9780760391488
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Route 66: 100 Years is the definitive celebration of Route 66 authored by a cast of Route 66 experts and historians....  Read More >>

The Little History of Nottinghamshire

The Little History of Nottinghamshire

Author: Julia A. Hickey
ISBN: 9781837050383
Format: Hardback
$39.99

From prehistory to present times, Nottinghamshire has seen Romans, marauding Danes, barons, rebel armies, kings,...  Read More >>

The Saga of the Earls of Orkney

The Saga of the Earls of Orkney

Author: Judith Jesch
ISBN: 9780859767316
Format: Hardback
$67.99

This is a new, readable and more accurate translation of the saga formerly known asOrkneyinga saga.The introduction...  Read More >>

Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism

Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism

Author: Stephen J. Ramos
ISBN: 9781469690100
Format: Hardback
$229.00

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Let's Get Into It: 130+ Comfort Food Recipes for Novice Cooks

Let's Get Into It: 130+ Comfort Food Recipes for Novice...

Author: Davon Moseley
ISBN: 9780593958612
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Make easy and delicious comfort food with a modern twist, sure to inspire the novice home cook, with the debut cookbook...  Read More >>

Presidential Seclusion: The Power of Camp David

Presidential Seclusion: The Power of Camp David

Author: Charles Ferguson
ISBN: 9781493091461
Format: Hardback
$55.99

Behind the gates of Camp David--where presidents find solitude, forge diplomacy, and shape history in absolute secrecy....  Read More >>

Black Rock Dead: True Tales From One of Nevada's Most Treacherous Deserts

Black Rock Dead: True Tales From One of Nevada's Most...

Author: Christopher Brooks ,  Christina Preston
ISBN: 9798218043667
Format: Paperback
$65.97

For nearly two hundred years, compelling characters have appeared in the Black Rock Desert and died in interesting,...  Read More >>

A Culinary Tour of Green Mount Cemetery

A Culinary Tour of Green Mount Cemetery

Author: Kara Mae Harris
ISBN: 9798988261926
Format: Paperback
$39.60

UTA Culinary Tour of Green Mount Cemetery tells the story of Baltimore and its culinary history through recipes...  Read More >>

Alfalfa Bill: A Life in Politics

Alfalfa Bill: A Life in Politics

Author: Robert L. Dorman
ISBN: 9780806196435
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Unlike earlier biographies of Murray, Alfalfa Bill brings issues of race, class, and gender to the forefront, often...  Read More >>

Restoring the Shining Waters: Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana

Restoring the Shining Waters: Superfund Success at Milltown,...

Author: David Brooks
ISBN: 9780806196398
Format: Paperback
$57.99

In Restoring the Shining Waters, David Brooks gives an intimate account of how local citizens--homeowners, university...  Read More >>

The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Moore County, NC

The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Moore County,...

Author: Morgan Jackson
ISBN: 9798993202921
Format: Hardback
$92.40

The Civil War was one of the darkest chapters in American history and took a toll on every family and community...  Read More >>

The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Moore County, NC

The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Moore County,...

Author: Morgan Jackson
ISBN: 9798993202907
Format: Hardback
$184.80

The Civil War was one of the darkest chapters in American history and took a toll on every family and community...  Read More >>

For a Spell: Sissie Collectivism and Radical Witchery in the Southeast

For a Spell: Sissie Collectivism and Radical Witchery...

Author: Jason Ezell
ISBN: 9781469690445
Format: Paperback
$69.99

In the Southeastern United States of the late 97 s, a regional network of radical communal gay households formed...  Read More >>

Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses: A Novel

Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses: A Novel

Author: Cris South ,  Jaime Harker
ISBN: 9781469691152
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Inspired by the horrors of the Greensboro Massacre, Cris South penned Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses as part of...  Read More >>

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