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  • Manchester

    by Robert B. Perreault ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    Known as New Hampshire's "Queen City," Manchester could be called "Change City." Throughout its history, it has reinvented itself many times. From a Native American fishing and gathering place called Amoskeag to a Yankee colonial town known as Derryfield, it became a multiethnic industrial center, the "Manchester of America," home of the world-famous Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (1831-1936). ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manchester

    The Mills and the Immigrant Experience

    by Gary Samson ...
    Series series Images of America
    This fascinating and moving book brings to life the industrial and immigrant experience which gave birth to Manchester in the nineteenth century and continued to shape the city's destiny well into the twentieth century. More than a hundred years ago, thousands of immigrants from Europe and Canada were drawn to the mills of Manchester by the promise of a better life. In stirring photographs and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creole Soul

    Zydeco Lives

    by Burt Feintuch ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives is an exquisitely photographed volume of interviews with contemporary zydeco musicians. Featuring the voices of zydeco’s venerable senior generation and its current agents of change, this book celebrates a musical world full of passion, energy, cowboy hats and boots, banging bass, horse trailers, joy, and dazzling dance moves. Author Burt Feintuch captures an important ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Talking New Orleans Music

    Crescent City Musicians Talk about Their Lives, Their Music, and Their City

    by Burt Feintuch ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    In New Orleans, music screams. It honks. It blats. It wails. It purrs. It messes with time. It messes with pitch. It messes with your feet. It messes with your head. One musician leads to another; traditions overlap, intertwine, nourish each other; and everyone seems to know everyone else. From traditional jazz through rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll to sissy bounce, in second-line parades, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

    A Memoir

    by Lucinda Williams ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs in this “bracingly candid chronicle” (The Wall Street Journal).“[Williams’s] memoir transmutes the wisdom, pain, and hard-won joy of her life into stories ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Awkward Family Photos

    by Mike Bender, Doug Chernack ...
    With twenty-five new photographs for the eBook edition, the New York Times bestseller is now more awkward than everBased on the hit website, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com (“painful, regrettable, horrifyingly awesome snaps of family bonding, you will laugh so hard that people in adjoining offices will ask what’s wrong with you”—Esquire), this full color book features never-before-seen photos and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Kingdom of Zydeco

    by Michael Tisserand ...
    An important book for anyone with an interest in life, American music, Southern culture, dancing, accordions, the recording industry, folklore, old dance clubs in the weeds, fortune tellers, hoodoos or shotguns.” -Annie ProulxThere’s a musical kingdom in the American South that’s not marked on any map. Stretching from the prairies of Louisiana to the oil towns of East Texas, it is ruled over ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Little Pieces of Hope

    Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World

    by Todd Doughty ...
    One of The Washington Post’s Best Feel-Good Books the Year • A jolt of joy in a difficult world! Perfect for any age, this charming collection is a daily devotional of delight, designed to provide a thought-provoking break in a busy day, inspiring readers to look for and celebrate the good things that surround us.“This brilliant book will remind you of all the people, places and things you love, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Jingle Bell Christmas

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    A heartwarming collection of merry tales and Christmas lore in the Uncle John’s tradition.It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…again! Uncle John’s follow-up to his wildly successful Christmas Collection unwraps even more treasures of holidays past and present. Packed with more fun than an elf’s goodie bag, this anthology includes all the legends, lore, trivia, and history we didn’t have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Miss Ella of Commander's Palace

    by Ella Brennan, Ti Martin ...
    In this culinary memoir, readers get a personal tour of the storied New Orleans restaurant with the woman who put it—and Creole cuisine—on the map.Meet Ella Brennan: mother, mentor, blunt-talking fireball, and matriarch of a New Orleans restaurant empire. Ella is famous for bringing national attention to Creole cuisine, and her unique vision is best summed up in her own words: "I don't want a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Proper Drink

    The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved the Civilized Drinking World [A Cocktails Book]

    by Robert Simonson ...
    A narrative history of the craft cocktail renaissance, written by a New York Times cocktail writer and one of the foremost experts on the subject.A Proper Drink is the first-ever book to tell the full, unflinching story of the contemporary craft cocktail revival. Award-winning writer Robert Simonson interviewed more than 200 key players from around the world, and the result is a rollicking (if ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Hidden History of Mississippi Blues

    by Roger Stolle, Lou Bopp ...
    Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home. These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive playing style unique to Mississippi. They didn't simply play the blues, they lived it. Travel through the hallowed juke joints and cotton fields with ... Read more

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