Local interest, family history & nostalgia books

Free Chicago: 50 Years of the Reader is an oversized coffee table book that tells the incredible story of the nation's...  Read More >>

By: Albert Bruce Pruitt, Pub. 1999, reprinted 2026, 162 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-0-94499-235-7. Greenville...  Read More >>

This book contains a reproduction of the personal property tax lists for Richmond County, Virginia for the years...  Read More >>

The inspiration for this book, Colonial Maryland Commissions, Appointments, and Other Proceedings, 1726-1776, came...  Read More >>

This is the Northampton County Personal Property Tax List for 1910. The original and the microfilm copy in the Library...  Read More >>

This is the ninth volume in a series of land tax records, which offers a wealth of valuable genealogical data presented...  Read More >>

This is the tenth volume in a series of land tax records, which offers a wealth of valuable genealogical data presented...  Read More >>

This work offers a series of sketches about Harford County, its activities and industries. ""These rolling hills...  Read More >>

Almost four years are covered in the two original court order books included in this volume of abstracts: Volume...  Read More >>

This book brings an amazing past to life by chronicling the lives of the maharajas. It presents the largest selection...  Read More >>

A narrative retelling of the life of a horse girl who moved west and started one of the nation's longest running...  Read More >>

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Covering a brief history of the Scottish witch trials, the role of an obsessed king, and how it all came to an end,...  Read More >>

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Rediscover the capital through the eyes of the Queen of Crime  Read More >>

This is the full history of the county of Wicklow, covering pre-Christian sites all the way up to modern times,...  Read More >>

Henry B. Motty's A Desperate Fight views Civil War Louisiana through the lens of its soldiers' experiences—and interdependence—with...  Read More >>

From the Bridegrooms and Giants to the Mets and Yankees, discover 136 years of epic clashes that made the Subway...  Read More >>

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann Woodward was a historian of singular...  Read More >>

John A. Broadus (1827–95) was a highly influential Southern Baptist leader, preacher, scholar, and educator during...  Read More >>

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

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This revised and updated edition of Texas Then and Now features the most prominent locations from around the state,...  Read More >>