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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
by Bill Bryson  Publisher Comments Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of...
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson 
Publisher Comments Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests...
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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...
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness
by James Campbell Publisher Comments Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve out a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles Korth's amazing life and adventures, creating a...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the...
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All Over But the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
From Powells.com By the time he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1996, New York Times correspondent Rick Bragg had already received nearly every award available to an American journalist, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award...
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Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
by Michael Perry
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The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America
by Larry Mcmurtry Publisher Comments In this sweeping dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures: Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley....
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West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise
by Tara Bray Smith Publisher Comments This literary debut is a devastating memoir about one young woman's search for her homeless mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of the paradise from which she hails: Hawaii....
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
Publisher Comments The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America — majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you're going to take a hike, it's probably the place to go. And Bill...
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River-Horse: Across America by Boat
by William Least Heat-Moon Publisher Comments Since hitting the American roads in "Blue Highways", William Least Heat-Moon has been following another calling--to traverse America by its rivers. From the waterways of his 5,000-mile voyage, Least Heat-Moon shares a sharp and stirring vision of America....
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A Walk Across America
by Peter Jenkins Publisher Comments Chapter OneTalkin' by a Wood Stove “ Stop right there, son. You ain't goin' nowhere in this blizzard. Now sit down!” The huge man blocked the narrow door of the snow-covered country store. I had just thawed out from the heat of the wood stove...
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American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
by Richard Grant Publisher Comments Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fifteen years wandering throughout the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place and getting to know America's nomads, truckers, tramps...
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The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
Publisher Comments The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In...
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It Happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (It Happened in)
by Erin H Turner Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-110) and index....
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The Real Deadwood
by John Ames Publisher Comments A fascinating and accessible loot at the true history behind the people and places that populate HBO's popular hit series "Deadwood"...
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Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness
by Robert Specht Publisher Comments The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920's to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there....
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
by John Berendt Publisher Comments Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks...
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
by David Laskin Publisher Comments The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,...
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Custer's Luck
by Edgar I Stewart Publisher Comments This is undoubtedly a remarkable book on a period of American history about which much has been written — the period of the Indian wars in the Northwest, from the close of the Civil War until the Custer disaster on the Little Big Horn. It presents...
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