Local interest, family history & nostalgia books

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Chasing Steam in 1966: A Teenager in Pursuit of the Disappearing Steam Locomotive

Chasing Steam in 1966: A Teenager in Pursuit of the...

Author: Keith Widdowson
ISBN: 9781803995199
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A nostalgic look back at a year in the life of a teenage steam chaser at the end of British steam: steam-chasing...  Read More >>

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption, and Hope

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption,...

Author: Cary Clack ,  Joe Holley
ISBN: 9781595342713
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A nationally loved columnist reflects on life in Texas and the times we live in  Read More >>

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill...

Author: Tom Maxwell
ISBN: 9780306830587
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like...  Read More >>

Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco

Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice...

Author: Lindsey Dillon
ISBN: 9780520396227
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point,...  Read More >>

Low Country: A Southern Memoir

Low Country: A Southern Memoir

Author: J. Nicole Jones
ISBN: 9781646221233
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco

Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice...

Author: Lindsey Dillon
ISBN: 9780520396210
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point,...  Read More >>

The Victorio Peak Mystery: A Search for the Greatest Lost Treasure Cache in America

The Victorio Peak Mystery: A Search for the Greatest...

Author: W.C. Jameson
ISBN: 9781493076390
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak. In a cavern...  Read More >>

The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest Times

The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest...

Author: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781780278919
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans

War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans

Author: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781780278698
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores...  Read More >>

The Little History of Glasgow

The Little History of Glasgow

Author: Neil Robertson
ISBN: 9781803995021
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The Little History of Glasgow explores the city’s slow and steady economic rise, its calamitous collapse and its...  Read More >>

Indians of Coo-Yu-Ee Pah (Pyramid Lake): The History of the Pyramid Lake Indians in Nevada

Indians of Coo-Yu-Ee Pah (Pyramid Lake): The History...

Author: Nellie Shaw Harnar
ISBN: 9781953055323
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Nellie Shaw Harnar offers this unique insight into the history of the Pyramid Lake tribe and its beautiful culture...  Read More >>

The Amusement Park at Sloan's Lake: The Lost History of Denver's Manhattan Beach

The Amusement Park at Sloan's Lake: The Lost History...

Author: David Forsyth
ISBN: 9781493076970
Format: Paperback
$50.99

Operating from 1890 to 1914, Manhattan Beach Amusement Park was the first true amusement park in Denver and was...  Read More >>

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration...

Author: John Bardes
ISBN: 9781469678184
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted...  Read More >>

Thomas Jefferson From Boy to Man

Thomas Jefferson From Boy to Man

Author: Jayne D'Alessandro-Cox
ISBN: 9798822929432
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Dive into the Early Life of Thomas Jefferson: Uncover the Childhood, Influences, and Journey to Adulthood of America's...  Read More >>

Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and the Civil War

Liberty Street: A Savannah Family, Its Golden Boy, and...

Author: Jason K. Friedman
ISBN: 9781643364698
Format: Paperback
$71.25

Delving into the lives of an extraordinary Southern Jewish family, Liberty Street meditates on the uses of memory...  Read More >>

Navigating Rocky Terrains: Stories from a Texas Hill Country Landscape

Navigating Rocky Terrains: Stories from a Texas Hill...

Author: Laurie Roath Frazier
ISBN: 9781595342881
Format: Paperback
$34.99

In Navigating Rocky Terrainheal following a disturbance? How does life flourish in the shadow of an uncertain future?...  Read More >>

California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California Folk Music Project

California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the WPA California...

Author: Catherine Hiebert Kerst ,  Library of Congress
ISBN: 9780520391314
Format: Hardback
$57.95

California Gold offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of...  Read More >>

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery,...

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty
ISBN: 9781479830985
Format: Paperback
$47.99

"""Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future...  Read More >>

Before Ishi

Before Ishi

Author: Steve Schoonover
ISBN: 9781935807735
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This book is an attempt to reconstruct the history of the Yahi Indians of Northern California, a history the author...  Read More >>

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City...

Author: Adam J. Criblez
ISBN: 9781501773938
Format: Hardback
$84.35

"""During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the circumstances facing the New York Knicks of the National Basketball...  Read More >>

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s...

Author: Davida Siwisa James
ISBN: 9781531506148
Format: Hardback
$68.99

Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood...  Read More >>

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula...

Author: Raymond Luczak
ISBN: 9781615997930
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"Sometimes the best way to learn about a unique region is to listen to the stories told by those who've actually...  Read More >>

The Nebraska Sandhills

The Nebraska Sandhills

Author: Monica Norby ,  Judy Diamond
ISBN: 9781496235831
Format: Hardback
$92.27

The Nebraska Sandhills features nearly forty essays about the history, people, geography, geology, ecology, and...  Read More >>

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