by Jon Krakauer  
Publisher Comments The extraordinary bestselling true story of a young man's uncompromising pilgrimage that ended in tragedy.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Marc Reisner
Publisher Comments Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The Great American Earthquake Of 1906". From the bestselling author of "The Map That Changed The World" and "Krakatoa" comes this enthralling story of the extraordinary earthquake that took place in San Francisco in 1906. He brings together... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Timothy Egan
Powells.com Staff Pick A fresh, stirring look at the Dust Bowl and Depression, Timothy Egan follows the personal dramas of a handful of families, allowing their voices to reveal the environmental and human tragedies that rocked the nation. Grippingly detailed, this exciting... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Dennis Covington
Publisher Comments On assignment in Alabama to cover a murder trial, New York Times journalist Dennis Covington discovered the bizarre, mysterious, ultimately irresistible world of holiness snake handling. As he explored the lives and beliefs of the poor, white Southerners... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Doughty Publisher Comments USA Today calls it, "An authoritative and in-depth look at all that the island offers." The author is a resident who personally and anonymously reviews every facet of Maui. From restaurants to helicopter companies to scuba to beaches to trails, he sees... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Tony Horwitz
Publisher Comments When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by John Bailey Publisher Comments It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bob Sehlinger Publisher Comments From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide(R) to Walt Disney World(R) A Tourist's Best Friend --Chicago Sun-Times Indispensable --The New York Times Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide(R): Every attraction ranked and... (read more) Your Price $16.99 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich’s dream was to focus on the riches of one small place—a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by David McCullough
Publisher Comments This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history, during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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