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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt Publisher Comments In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Staff Pick "Rebecca Solnit's marvelous new book of essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, is about the spaces between stability and risk, solitude, and the occasional claustrophobia of ordinary life. She explores the mysterious without puncturing the mystery, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Colossus: The Turbulent, Thrilling Saga of the Building of Hoover Dam by Michael Hiltzik Publisher Comments As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among Americas most awe-inspiring, if dubious, achievements. This epic story of the dam—from conception to design to construction—by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today (National Geographic) by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments On a map, the Mississippi River cuts America neatly in half coursing from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and separating East from West. But the Mississippi is in fact the “spine of our nation,” says Stephen Ambrose. It knits the nation... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $7.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The West by Geoffrey Ward Publisher Comments Shorn of the 400-plus images that illustrated the TV tie-in edition, the text of The West is an outstanding work of scholarly synthesis and a feat of storytelling. It is a book that will enthrall readers of popular history as well as students of the... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradoxunwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, Well Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships and Faith in Small-Town Alaska by Heather Lende Publisher Comments The Alaskan landscape - so vast, dramatic, and unbelievable - may make it easier to believe that something or someone greater is in charge. Haines resident Heather Lende wonders whether that's why people in her town (population 2,400) so often discuss... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $6.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral shaped how future generations came to view the old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Ruined Time by Robert Briggs Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Poetry. RUINED TIME is a memoir, a personal cultural anthology of the Great Depression, World War II and the 1950s...of Hiroshima, the military-industrial complex, and the Beat Generation. "RUINED TIME is the book within the book, the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Old Man and the Swamp: A True Story about My Weird Dad, a Bunch of Snakes, and One Ridiculous Road Trip by John Sellers Staff Pick Another winner from John Sellers, author of Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life. This true story about his swampy snake-wrangling adventure with his aging father is hilarious and heartwarming.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Truck: A Love Story (P.S.) by Michael Perry Publisher Comments The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and...gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. "All I wanted to do was fix my old... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart by Clyde Ii Milner Publisher Comments Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill (Papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody) by Charles E Griffin Publisher Comments William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the entertainment industrys first international celebrity, achieving worldwide stardom with his traveling Wild West show. For three decades he operated and appeared in various incarnations of “the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Timeline History of New York City by David Playne Publisher Comments New York City is more than just a city and The Timeline History of New York City is more than just a book. It's a hands-on presentation of New York's history. It features: * a 14 ft. timeline that folds out to show the history of NY since the early 16th... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia [With CD (Audio)] by Tim Barnwell Publisher Comments Tim Barnwell's photography has documented the people of Appalachia for over three decades, capturing a way of life and work that has changed little in the past hundred years. Now with sensitivity and grace he honors the music and handcrafts of the region,... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City by John Miller Synopsis Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Noto by Tyler Anbinder Publisher Comments All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. While it... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann Publisher Comments Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.24 Sale - Hardcover
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Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride by Michael Wallis Publisher Comments In this revisionist biography, award-winning historian Michael Wallis re-creates the rich anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a young man who became a legend in his time and remains an enigma to this day. In an extraordinary evocation of the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life by Nancy Lord Publisher Comments For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place in America “big and wild enough to hold the intact... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Hardcover
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