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Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States (Ripley P. Bullen Series) Best Price: $55.84 A "group biography" of Southeast archaeology's pioneering women, whose careers spanned...	Frontier Doctor: Observations on Central Oregon and the Changing West (Northwest Reprints) Best Price: $4.89 "Frontier Doctor" edges out Arthur Hertzler's "Horse and Buggy Doctor" and...	Way Back in the Hills Book 2: Fesser Goes to College Best Price: $7.95 James Carl, a naive country boy, is enthralled by his first experience in a new world of...	Sam Houston: The Life and Times of the Liberator of Texas, an Authentic American Hero Best Price: $4.50 I'm not sure if the first reviewer read the same book that I did. As a doctoral student in...	The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South Best Price: $21.67



Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood Best Price: $6.99 Susan Allen Toth first appeared on my radar screen with her three volumes of travel essays on...	The Man Who Founded California: The Life of Blessed Junipero Serra Best Price: $59.95 San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Jose, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego - some of the string...	Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast Best Price: $21.77 I picked up this book after hearing a talk on the the recovery of the Queen Anne's Revenge,...	The Nature of Home: A Lexicon of Essays Best Price: $12.45 For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the...	The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949 - 1967: Volume 1, Academic Triumphs Best Price: $19.50 One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading...



The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing Best Price: $36.95 If you appreciated Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt for its presentation and viewpoint of growing...	Carole Lombard, the Hoosier Tornado (Indiana Biography Series) Best Price: $12.53 This book read as if the author just accumulated facts from other writers and listed them in a...	Following the Alaskan Dream Best Price: $14.95 My husband and I had just spent a number of fascinating days exploring The Pan Handle of Alaska...	Pebbles: Memories of a Small-Town Kansas Boy Best Price: $15.71 The stories we tell about our lives define how others see us and how we see ourselves. Gary...	Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South Best Price: $3.98 Summer Snow is a cornucopia of riches about a landscape steeped in traditions and customs that...

Twenty-Four Years a Cowboy and Ranchman in Southern Texas and Old Mexico: Or, Desperate Fights with the Indians and Mexicans Best Price: $1.73 Hale tells the story of his years as a cattle rancher and cowboy in unadorned, often humorously...	My Life and The Paradise Garage : Keep On Dancin' I read this book in four days! I couldn't put it down! A tale of time forgotten, where LOVE...	The Prince of Tennessee : Al Gore Meets His Fate Best Price: $2.88 "It's a new day," proclaimed Al Gore on October 6, 1999, in Nashville. It would have...	Zeb: Celebrated Schooner Captain of Martha's Vineyard Best Price: $2.49 This is a wonderful book that chronicles one of the last coastwise schooners on the East coast...	Walker in the City Best Price: $28.00 Ditching college class one day, I went to the local public library, plucked a random book from...

Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life Best Price: $2.46 Chuck Kinder's redneck roots have served him well. Last Mountain Dancer, his...	Summer Snow Best Price: $0.01 Trudier Harris will tell you that African Americans who consider themselves Southern are about...	Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol Best Price: $22.93 The most extraordinary politician, businessman, medicine man, and promoter imaginable was this...	Bitterbrush Country: Living on the Edge of the Land Best Price: $7.40 To anyone who grew up in rural areas, this is superfluous pabulum. I bet Peavey is in fact a...	Keeper Of Lime Rock Pb Best Price: $2.89 "Keeper of Lime Rock" was recently honored by the New York Public Library as a new...

Tales of San Francisco: Comprising `San Francisco Is Your Home,' `San Francisco Kaleidoscope,' `The Streets of San Francisco' Best Price: $0.87	The Body of Brooklyn (Sightline Books) Best Price: $4.42 This is a truly wonderful and unique book. Lazar's voice--conversational but concentrated,...	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...	Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet Best Price: $6.12 What you won't understand, reading this book, (at least I didn't), is that while Eugene may have...	Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet Best Price: $6.12 What you won't understand, reading this book, (at least I didn't), is that while Eugene may have...

Remains: Non-Viewable: A Memoir Best Price: $1.99 It's hard to remember that it's been so long since the Viet Nam war. Half the people in the...	On A Street Called Easy, In a Cottage Called Joy Best Price: $24.30 Great Book. Hilarious read if you have an interest in renovation or old houses. One of my...	Very Close to Trouble: The Johnny Grant Memoir Best Price: $11.75	Aberdeen High Jinks Best Price: $12.03 It really doesn't matter what small American town you grew up in, because the author is able to...	Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: The Politics of Provincial Independence Best Price: $328.38

Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family Best Price: $12.89 I found this book while browsing in the stacks one day. I had no idea that Japanese had been...	Fruitcake Hill: A History and Memoir of Life on the Hill in a Family of 15 Best Price: $6.46	Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary Best Price: $69.60 Those big shoulders belonged to a lot of women, too! The result of ten years of research and...	Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone Best Price: $8.55 The book has four themes: journal and musings while in the Oregon wilderness, auto biography,...	Chesapeake Boyhood: Memoirs of a Farm Boy (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) Best Price: $11.95 Loved the book, couldn't wait for the next chapter. Easy to read. Turner has another book East...

Eudora Welty: A Writer's Life Best Price: $11.49 Interpretations of books may differ, but most readers agree that an author's lot in life is to...	Willie Brown: A Biography Willie Brown is a politician regarded as both a political reformer and a modern political boss,...	Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier (Southern Classics Series) Best Price: $4.57 I agree with Landess in the preface. This book is poorly researched. It doesn't show us the...	Terry Texas Ranger Trilogy: Terry's Texas Rangers, Reminiscences of the Terry Rangers, the Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd Best Price: $24.95 I have been interested in Civil War history and wanted to read about Terry's Rangers since they...	My Appalachia: A Memoir Best Price: $29.89 Sidney Saylor Farr grew up in the back hollers of southeastern Kentucky during the depression...

New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary Best Price: $20.68 From Smokey Bear to the "Sundance Kid" from Pablita Velarde, Jake Viarial to Jeff...	What I Think I Did: A Season of Survival in Two Acts Best Price: $0.48 If you have ever struggled trying to find the rhythm of reading Woiwode, here is the book to...	In Jewish Texas: A Family Memoir Best Price: $3.95 Stanley Ely says that when the fiftieth or so person confronted him with a skeptical, "You...	A Pikes Peak Partnership: The Penroses and the Tutts In "A Pikes Peak Partnership," historians Tom Noel and Cathleen Norman tell the...	Tio Cowboy: Jaun Salinas, Rodeo Roper and Horseman (Fronteras Series) Best Price: $17.59 Juan Salinas is not one of the better known cowboys in the history of rodeo, but he should be....

Vacationland: A Half Century Summering in Maine Best Price: $4.31	Blithe Tomato Best Price: $1.56 Mike Madison's short essays are small snippets of reflection... they are witty, thoughtful,...	He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman Best Price: $12.49 George Garrigues uses the medium of letters to depict a history of LA through a native's eyes....	Once upon a Time When We Were Colored Best Price: $5.99 It's pouring down rain outside and the house is empty except for the dog and myself. I grabbed...	Four Midwestern Sisters' Christmas Book Best Price: $22.50 One of my own sweet sisters gave this book to me for Christmas several years ago. I read it...

All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter (Deep South Books) Best Price: $10.00 Not a children's book -- including sibling rape early on -- Foster's autobiography rings true to...	Christmas in Plains: Memories Best Price: $1.88 Just sit back and enjoy. We all have these memories wether we are rich or poor, powerful or not....	The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley: The Life of Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley Best Price: $0.90 A contemporary of Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and other New England Renaissance figures,...	Sons of the River: A Nebraska Memoir Best Price: $5.00 This book is wonderful. It lifted my soul exactly when I needed it. A Nebraska story of simple...

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