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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

    $38.49 CAD

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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

    $5.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alaska Days with John Muir

    by Samuel Hall Young ...
    "Alaska Days with John Muir" is a captivating narrative that chronicles the adventures of naturalist John Muir in the Alaskan wilderness, as recounted by Samuel Hall Young. The book offers a vivid portrayal of Muir's explorations, highlighting his deep connection with nature and his passionate advocacy for the preservation of the environment. Young's storytelling brings to life the breathtaking ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD 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

    $25.59 CAD

  • 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 CAD

  • 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

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grandfather's Chair

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    by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
    Grandfather’s Chair is a short story collection written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864).To the literary student "Grandfather's Chair" presents two points deserving notice: one, the fact that the incident of Endicott's cutting the red cross from the banner of England, which furnished the motive for a Twice-Told Tale, is here treated in a manner quite different; the other, that ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LEGENDS OF HAWAIIAN VOLCANOES - 20 Legends about Hawaii's Volcanoes

    by Anon E. Mouse, compiled and retold W. D. Westervelt ...
    Herein are 20 legends of Hawaii’s volcanoes and the demigods which occupy them. Many of these legends are about Pele who according to Polynesian myth lives in Kilauea. The story of Pele’s arrival and occupation of Kilauea can be found in the very first story, “AI-LAAU, THE FOREST EATER.” Ai-laau lived in the volcano spewing forth his fire from the great crater when Pele came to the seashore far ... Read more

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  • 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

    $14.39 CAD

  • 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

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • Ozarks Ghosts and Hauntings

    by Bud Steed ...
    Series Book 1 - America's Ghosts
    The rocky hills and dark valleys of the Ozark Mountains hold many secrets for those bold enough to go in search of them. From the grieving ghost of the Ozark's Madonna to the dangerous apparition who haunts the Irish Wilderness, ghosts and legends abound in the Ozarks. A long settled land, the Ozarks has seen its fair share of tragedy and turmoil; from accidents to civil war battles the Ozarks ... Read more

    $5.06 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus