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 Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern ChildhoodBest Price: $2.99 What a sweet, sensuous, evocative book about both the south and childhood as I would like to... |  The Maine Woods: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)Best Price: $10.50 In 1848, 1853,and 1857, Henry David Thoreau travelled to the wilderness -- forests, lakes,... |  40 Acres and No MuleBest Price: $11.74 I purchased this book as a gift for my dad. Janis Holt Giles came to me while doing family... |  Frank Barr: Bush Pilot in Alaska and the Yukon (Caribou Classics)Best Price: $4.79 Meet Frank Barr, who flew every early plane from the Jenny to the Super Cub, carrying passengers... |  Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New MexicoBest Price: $5.16 Stanley Crawford is not a bad writer. He's not. But "Mayordomo" is not a good book. ... |
 Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American MillionaireBest Price: $8.52 So much of our American history is not taught in our schools, so when we become adults, we must... |  Hannah and the Mountain: Notes toward a Wilderness Fatherhood (American Lives)Best Price: $14.50 Hannah is a wise book written by a man with a huge heart. I love how the cabin-building provides... |  New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical StoriesBest Price: $22.95 I really liked this book...The variety of characters that span the generations was... |  Searching for Fannie Quigley: A Wilderness Life in the Shadow of Mount McKinleyBest Price: $12.45 As someone who doesn't live in Alaska and has no knowledge of the Gold Rush, I found... |  Rogue River Journal: A Winter AloneBest Price: $6.85 The book has four themes: journal and musings while in the Oregon wilderness, auto biography,... |
 Fame and ObscurityBest Price: $11.29 I say 4 stars only because of the datedness of some of the material. But the pieces on Frank... |  Dave Rust: A Life in the CanyonsBest Price: $13.57 I picked up this book to read while on a 2 week camping trip in Utah in the Henry Mountains. By... |  Life on the Mississippi (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $5.52 Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life... |  Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-Portrait of Lakeside JapanBest Price: $39.25 This book is a collection if interviews with old Japanese men and women, remembering their life... |  The Last Farmer: An American MemoirBest Price: $7.50 This is a wonderful book that examines a father and son relationship in a Midwestern farming... |
 No Limit: The Rise and Fall of Bob Stupak and Las Vegas' Stratosphere TowerBest Price: $8.74 stories of these types of guys are fascinating. His first hour ever in Vegas and he blows... |  The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old SouthBest Price: $22.95 |  Life in the Leatherwoods (Arkansas Classics)Best Price: $18.82 I originally purchased this book as part of a southern history class in college. At semester's... |  Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and LegendBest Price: $11.94 I am a naturalist and a student of Native American cultures and I love this book. I'm reading it... |  One Time : The Story of a South Central Los Angeles Police OfficerBest Price: $14.95 Author Brian Bentley finally gives us insight into the world of a working Police Officer,... |
 Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina MemoirBest Price: $4.78 I helped teach history classes that used this book and I have to admit: it wasn't universally... |  Barbara Jordan: American HeroBest Price: $0.99 I'm glad that Jordan is not hear to see how the gov't of the people, for the people, by the... |  Sheep: Life On The South Dakota Range (Borealis Books)Best Price: $50.00 For relaxation and enjoyment by a person not directly involved in either sheep growing or... |  Warden: Texas Prison Life and Death from the Inside OutBest Price: $15.43 Long-time correctional administrator Jim Willett and his college roommate, Ron Rozelle, have... |  Waters Dark and Deep: How One Family Overcame Hurricane Katrina's Deadly FuryBest Price: $4.19 At this point, most of us that live outside the areas directly affected by Katrina have moved on... |
 My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin KingBest Price: $16.48 I'll keep this short: My Bloody Life was not a very thoughtful book. I don't want to disparage... |  Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth ValleyBest Price: $6.50 The Sawtooth Valley is located in central Idaho just north of Ketchum and Sun Valley; Stanley is... |  The Life of Daniel BooneBest Price: $26.33 Occasionally a book that has been available for a while deserves another look just because of... |  The Face of a Naked Lady: An Omaha Family MysteryBest Price: $0.01 This was a completely worthless reading experience for me. It seemed like there was the... |  My Life in the NYPD: Jimmy the WagsBest Price: $25.74 I bought this book after reading the Kindle sample and could not put it down. Being a 24 year... |
 Eggs in the Coffee, Sheep in the Corn: My 17 Years As a Farmwife (Midwest Reflections)Best Price: $7.43 I absolutely loved this book. I'm a city girl who at the time I read this book had been... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $23.42 From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic... |  No Turning Back: My Summer With Daddy KingBest Price: $8.91 While I agree with the reviewer who wishes for more of the author's emotional experience in his... |  River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life (New York Times Notable Books)Best Price: $14.83 DuBuys' and Harris' friendship with Jacobo Romero was an education for their minds and spirits... |  My Appalachia: A MemoirBest Price: $28.00 Sidney Saylor Farr grew up in the back hollers of southeastern Kentucky during the depression... |
 Blooming: A Small-Town GirlhoodBest Price: $6.99 Susan Allen Toth first appeared on my radar screen with her three volumes of travel essays on... |  Charles Finney: The Great Revivalist (Heroes of the Faith)Best Price: $11.99 I would recommend any Charles Finney book to anybody who is hungry for more of God. Charles... |  The Gentleman From New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- A BiographyBest Price: $14.69 I found this to be a fascinating biography, which a good author can accomplish regardless of... |  La Salle: Explorer of the North American FrontierBest Price: $11.50 Although I've lived in Canada for quite some time, all I knew about La Salle before reading this... |  The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on PrisonBest Price: $5.50 There have been books describing the subculture of prison life and those withiin it (Hot House,... |
 Charleston Blacksmith: The Work of Philip SimmonsBest Price: $11.99 John Vlach gives us an interesting biographical study of Philip Simmons' blacksmithing in this... |  Appalachian Mountain GirlBest Price: $7.12 I couldn't put this book down. Very well written personal stories and vignettes. The author's... |  21: Every Day Was New Year's EveBest Price: $14.88 The story of New York's 21 Club is the story of American glamour in the twentieth century. |  The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and AbolitionBest Price: $21.95 I read an earlier (1970-something?) publication of this work, and really enjoyed it. The... |  Life Is So GoodLife Is So Good An absolutely fascinating autobiography as told by Mr. Dawson. His experiances... |
 Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive BiographyBest Price: $8.99 During his lifetime, Charles Siringo wrote six or seven books about his life experiences. The... |  My Grandfather's FingerBest Price: $14.50 I stayed up reading this book and then stayed up another night re-reading it. Often, I felt the... |  Quiet StrengthBest Price: $1.36 A little too quiet. There were some nice insights into an amazing and wonderful woman, but they... |  New York DaysBest Price: $3.64 Okay, in reality Mr. Morris was, what, 26 -- and the youngest person to hold the position of... |  Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book)Best Price: $10.18 The author, Peter Oikarinen, is a lifelong resident of the Copper Country and is intimately... |
 Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and CreativityBest Price: $21.11 Michael Owen Jones's study of chairmaking in southeastern Kentucky focuses on rural woodworker... |  Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $12.21 I FIRST READ THIS BOOK IN THE EARLY 70'S AND WAS COMPLETELY MESMERIZED BY THIS CHARACTER, EMETT... |  Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral UndergroundBest Price: $5.47 It is a rare day when you remove a treasured book from the bookcase and sit down, with memories... |  Growing Up Hard in Harlan CountyBest Price: $12.22 I came across this book recently when the family home was in the process of being sold. It was... |  A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by HBest Price: $2.00 This book works on many levels: 1. OK, if you just want a good read, Clancy tells the story of... |
 A Hill On Which to Die: One Southern Baptist's JourneyBest Price: $8.99 I'm not a baptist, and before reading this book knew that there had been a controversy in the... |  Jack London: A LifeBest Price: $10.29 It would appear that others have read previous London biographies and that Kershaw's work... |  High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi DeltaBest Price: $2.83 High Cotton is a fine book, enjoyable and interesting reading. It is hard to believe a... | ||
Regional U.S. Books
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