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  • Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland

    Edited by Michael E. Birdwell, W. Calvin Dickinson ...
    Tennessee History Book Award Finalist The Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, has a far richer history and culture than has been documented. The contributors to Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland discuss an extensive array of subjects, including popular music, movies, architecture, folklore, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach

    An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

    by Tomás O'Crohan ...
    Translated by Gary Bannister, David Sowby ...
    This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read. Here is the first complete translation of Tomás O'Crohan's autobiography An tOileánach, first published in 1929. This edition is based on Professor ... Read more

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  • Alaska Days with John Muir

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    by Samuel Hall Young, Clara Easton ...
    In "Alaska Days with John Muir," Samuel Hall Young offers an evocative and richly detailed narrative recounting his experiences alongside the renowned naturalist John Muir in Alaska. Through a blend of personal anecdotes and vivid descriptions of the Alaskan Wilderness, Young employs a lyrical prose style that encapsulates both the beauty and the challenges of life in this remote environment. The ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sleuthing the Alamo:Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution

    Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution

    by James E. Crisp ...
    Series series New Narratives in American History
    In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of the past two centuries. Beginning with a very personal prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Hillbilly Women

    Struggle and Survival in Southern Appalachia

    by Skye Moody ...
    “This book tells what it means to be a woman when you are poor, when you are proud, and when you are a hillbilly.”First published in 1973, Skye Moody’s Hillbilly Women shares the stunning and raw oral histories of nineteen women in twentieth-century Southern Appalachia, from their day-to-day struggles for survival to the personal triumphs of their hardscrabble existence. They are wives, widows, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ghosts of 42nd Street

    A History of America's Most Infamous Block

    by Anthony Bianco ...
    Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street.Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area wastransformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub unlike any in theworld. No place has ever evoked the glamour and romantic possibility of bigcity nightlife as vividly as did 42nd Street. It was the ... Read more

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  • The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair

    Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
    In "The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair," Nathaniel Hawthorne crafts a richly layered narrative that intertwines personal history with the broader tapestry of American experience. Through the lens of a sentimental piece of furniture, Hawthorne explores themes of memory, legacy, and the passage of time, employing a blend of whimsical storytelling and historical analysis. The book'Äôs literary ... Read more

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  • Hawaiian Legends Of Volcanoes

    by W. D. Westervelt ...
    Hawaiian Legends Of Volcanoesby W. D. WesterveltRead about the powerful Hawaiian Fire Goddess Pele, who lives in a volcano and surfs on lava. A old Hawaiian saying: "never mistreat an old woman, she might be Pele in disguise". Polynesian.Still popular nearly a century after its original publication, W.D. Westervelt's Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes, is well written and well-paced. Especially ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Endangered Dreams

    The Great Depression in California

    by Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story than Kevin Starr, in his acclaimed series of gripping social and cultural histories. Now Starr carries ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Ferguson's Gang

    by Polly Bagnall, Sally Beck ...
    Britain’s heritage is vanishing. Beautiful landscapes are being bulldozed. Historic buildings are being blown up. Stonehenge is collapsing.Enter Ferguson’s Gang, a mysterious and eccentric group of women who help the National Trust to fight back. The Gang raise huge sums, which they deliver in delightfully strange ways: Victorian coins inside a fake pineapple, a one hundred pound note stuffed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Granny Curse, The

    And Other Ghosts and Legends from East Tenessee

    by Randy Russell, Janet Barnett ...
    Witches who fly down chimneys. A chair that won’t release its occupant until a drop of blood stains the floor. A mountain that grew—and continues to grow—from the grave of a woman who was larger than life. The ghost of a woman who jumps on the bumpers of cars driving past the graveyard where she is buried. An apple tree that growls at people who pick its fruit. A woman who rose from her grave each ... Read more

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  • Making Home from War

    Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement

    Edited by Brian Komei Dempster ...
    The sequel to the award-winning From Our Side of the Fence—personal stories of life after the WWII internment camps from twelve Japanese Americans.Many books have chronicled the experience of Japanese Americans in the early days of World War II, when over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were taken from their homes along the West Coast and imprisoned ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus