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Craig Pittman
Welcome to Florida

A much-loved Florida writer chronicles the quirky, touching, and thought-provoking stories of the Sunshine State todayIn Welcome to Florida, award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bests…

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Miriam Chaiken
Creative Ozone

A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists' residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York's cultural landscape for over fifty yearsIn 1970, the former Bell Telephone Labora…

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Dan Young,
When the Bosque Ran Clear

When the Bosque Ran Clear: Life Along the River from Prehistory to the Civil War presents a history of early people and their environments along the Bosque River valley in North Central Texas. Spanning fr…

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Alexander D Hyres
Protest and Pedagogy

Protest and Pedagogytraces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between pro…

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Michael Hiltzik
Golden State

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring RevolutionFrom…

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Bernard Bailyn
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

Winner of the National Book Award The classic political biography that reimagined Revolutionary history--in a new edition to honor America's 250th year.Thomas Hutchinson, governor of Massachusetts Bay dur…

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Vincent T Davis
The Front Porch

Throughout his nearly thirty-year career at theSan Antonio Express-News , Vincent T. Davis has perfected his craft of finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives. The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of…

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Alan Mikhail
Newcomers

A man thought to be Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid are hardly the image we have of America's founders. In Newcomers , Alan Mikhail upends the traditional story of American beginnings through the…

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Tim Hollis
Vintage Louisiana Signs

Author Tim Hollis takes readers across Louisiana for a celebration of signs that have wormed their way into the collective memory.Many Louisianans have never stopped to realize how many of their fond memo…

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Kathleen Bryant
The Four Corners

A visual tour of Hopi and Navajo homelands from the Southwest's best photographers

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Charles Delgadillo, Jason Stacy
Heartland Utopia

For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous, happy community built on equality, opportunity, and neighborly generosity. This antholo…

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Richard Brust
Chambers V. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

This book explores the history and enduring legacy of Chambers v. Florida, a landmark ruling that banned confessions obtained through mental or physical coercion in criminal trials and contributed to what…

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Joseph Mannard
The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt

The first biography of the remarkable historical figure who challenged perceptions of women's experiences in the early American RepublicIn 1831 Sister Gertrude Wightt, the directress of Georgetown Academy…

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David Cook
Dark Tales of the Eno River

Mayhem on the Eno RiverVisitors to the Eno River don't expect to encounter haunted houses, train wrecks or fun outings that turn into tragedy, but some of them have experienced just that. In 1771, a few o…

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Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Frank Thompson
The First Movie Studio in Texas

The story of the Star Film Ranch and its pioneering crew, who created the first "authentic" Westerns filmed in Texas.

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Mark Archuleta
The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr

In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr w…

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Ellen M Snyder-Grenier
The House on Henry Street

""The House on Henry Street" is a critical exploration of the enduring life of a Lower East Side settlement"--

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Barry M Goldenberg
Strength Through Diversity

In Strength Through Diversity, Barry M. Goldenberg traces the inspiring, uncharted history of Harlem Prep, a unique multicultural institution that became an educational phenomenon in the iconic Black neig…

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Barry M Goldenberg
Strength Through Diversity

In Strength Through Diversity, Barry M. Goldenberg traces the inspiring, uncharted history of Harlem Prep, a unique multicultural institution that became an educational phenomenon in the iconic Black neig…

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Randy Krehbiel
Tulsa, 2021

"An account of a city under inordinate pressure, Tulsa, 2021 offers a behind-the-scenes view of how Tulsans and Americans met a cluster of overlapping crises - COVID-19, a combustible presidential vi…

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