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Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of...

Author: Peter Marshall
ISBN: 9780008394394
Format: Hardback
$45.00

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If...  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

"J. Nicole Jones is the only daughter of a prominent South Carolina family, a family that grew rich building the...  Read More >>

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 >>

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball...

Author: Chris Holaday
ISBN: 9781469678856
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Offers readers the first book-length history of baseball’s integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady...  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 >>

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the...

Author: Erika Bolstad
ISBN: 9781728280349
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await...  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 >>

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 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Thomas Jefferson From Boy to Man: Revised Edition

Thomas Jefferson From Boy to Man: Revised Edition

Author: Jayne D'Alessandro-Cox
ISBN: 9798822929432
Format: Paperback
$63.33

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The Old Franciscan Missions of Caifornia

The Old Franciscan Missions of Caifornia

Author: George Wharton James
ISBN: 9798869290465
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Step into the captivating history of California's iconic Franciscan missions with George Wharton James. In this...  Read More >>

Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life

Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power,...

Author: Saara Kekki
ISBN: 9780806193908
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Timely in its implications for debates over immigration and assimilation, Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain presents...  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 >>

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 >>

Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

Hell Put To Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and...

Author: Earl Swift
ISBN: 9780063265387
Format: Hardback
$65.00

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative...  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 >>

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