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  • Wicked Charleston

    The Dark Side of the Holy City

    by Mark R. Jones ...
    Series series Wicked
    Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City, by local resident and tour guide Mark R. Jones, explores the dark alleys and seedy characters not often associated with the Charleston of today. A beautiful Southern city distinguished by its opulent homes, towering church steeples and hospitality, Charleston, South Carolina, has long been associated with the genteel side of Southern living. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Wicked Charleston, Volume 2

    Prostitutes, Politics and Prohibition

    by Mark R. Jones ...
    Series series Wicked
    In this follow-up volume, Mark R. Jones uncovers the seedy and wicked past of Charleston: Prostitutes, Politics and Prohibition. The city of Charleston, South Carolina, with its matchless Southern charm, has sparkled gem-like on the Carolina coast for more than three hundred years. The Holy City, as it is known, has been a cherished home to generations and an inviting destination for visitors from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palmetto Predators

    Monsters Among Us

    by Mark R. Jones ...
    Author and crime writer Mark Jones presents the stories, and criminal minds, of nine serial offenders who terrorized South Carolina during the latter part of the twentieth century. The "Super Christian"? who turned a small beach community into a terrified town. The "Gaffney Strangler"? who taunted police with the message, "Stop me or I will kill again."? The schoolteacher-turned-rapist who eluded ... Read more

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  • Charleston History in Color

    Photographs from the Civil War to Modern Days

    by Mark R. Jones ...
    Charleston Like It's Never Been Seen Hand-colored, vivid details bring these historic photographs to life like never before. Witness the beginnings of the sweetgrass basket tradition. See the bleak devastation on Meeting Street after the Civil War. Note intense contrast in blues and grays of prisoners captured at the Battle of Bull Run. Explore the Battery as it looked in the 1800s. And dazzle in ... Read more

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    Wicked Charleston

    The Dark Side of the Holy City

    by Mark R. Jones ...
    Narrated by Clark Cornell ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 10 min

    Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City, by local resident and tour guide Mark R. Jones, explores the dark alleys and seedy characters not often associated with the Charleston of today.A beautiful Southern city distinguished by its opulent homes, towering church steeples, and hospitality, Charleston, South Carolina, has long been associated with the genteel side of Southern living. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details.An important ... Read more

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  • Signing Their Lives Away

    The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

    by Denise Kiernan, Joseph D'Agnese ...
    Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and scoundrels who signed this historic document—and the many strange fates that awaited them. Some prospered and rose to the highest levels of United States government, while others had their homes and farms seized by British soldiers. Signer George Wythe was poisoned by his nephew; Button ... Read more

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  • The Great Railroad Revolution

    The History of Trains in America

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    The captivating story of how trains shaped American history**“Wolmar’s sweeping history of railroads in America is rich in drama.” —**The New YorkerThe United States was made by the railroads. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, more than two hundred thousand miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial stations covered the United States by the early 1900s. Trains ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • A City So Grand

    The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900

    by Stephen Puleo ...
    A lively history of Boston’s emergence as a world-class city—home to the likes of Frederick Douglass and Alexander Graham Bell—by a beloved Bostonian historian“It’s been quite a while since I’ve read anything—fiction or nonfiction—so enthralling.”—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter IslandOnce upon a time, “Boston Town” was an insulated New England township. But the community was ... Read more

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  • What Is the Declaration of Independence?

    by Michael C. Harris, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Jerry Hoare ...
    Series series What Was?
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Step back in time to the creation of America’s founding document with this fascinating history for young readers, part of the beloved What Was? series. The perfect way to celebrate the U.S.A.’s 250th anniversary!On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously well into the night. He was drafting the Declaration of ... Read more

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  • Black History For Beginners

    by Denise Dennis ...
    Series series For Beginners
    What is Black History? Did you know what blacks were in Cortez’s crew in Mexico, with Pizarro in Peru and Alvarado in Quito…that when Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, 30 black people were with him….that when Alarcon and Coronado conquered Mexico, black people were with them too?Any misunderstandings between blacks and whites in today’s society tend to stem from the misconceptions about blacks ... Read more

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  • A Guide to Civil War Washington, D.C.

    The Capital of the Union

    by Lucinda Prout Janke ...
    An in-depth account of the Civil War people and events that left their mark on the city at the heart of the Union, shaping its historic legacy.When the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Washington, DC, was a small, essentially Southern city. The capital rapidly transformed as it prepared for invasion—army camps sprung up in Foggy Bottom, the Navy Yard on Anacostia was a beehive of ... Read more

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