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The Charleston, Savannah & Coastal Islands Book, A Complete Guide  •  Cecily McMillan  •  Wade Spees
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
An excellent, locally produced travel guide mixing history, culture and anecdote with a shipload of up-to-date practical information. It does justice to this area's rich traditions and food. (USS13, $18.95)
  The Charleston, Savannah & Coastal Islands Book, A Complete Guide
Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg and Virginia's Historic Triangle  •  Mary Alice Blackwell
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 369 PAGES
Practical information on what to do in Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, including sites, food and lodging. (USE10, $18.95)
  Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg and Virginia's Historic Triangle
Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation  •  Joseph J. Ellis
HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES
A riveting tale of Washington, Madison, Hamilton and especially of Jefferson and Adams. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, it's a fascinating glimpse into the early days of our country. (USE244, $15.00)
  Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation
My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries and Preoccupations  •  Howard Norman
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  HARD COVER  • 208 PAGES • FAVORITE
Howard Norman returned to Nova Scotia over a period of 30 years to interview local legends and research the folklore of the area. Norman writes with an impressionistic intimacy to create a portrait of this enchanting place and its people. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series. (CND204, $20.00)
  My Famous Evening: Nova Scotia Sojourns, Diaries and Preoccupations
Eastern USA Map  •   Rand McNally Maps
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A fold-up map of the Eastern United States, shown at a scale of 1:2,300,000. Two Sides. 39x28 inches. (USE127, $4.95)
  Eastern USA Map
 

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Atlantic Canada Map  •   Rand McNally Maps    •  A double-sided map of the Maritime Provinces, including Newfoundland on the reverse, at a scale of 1:950,000. (CND50, $4.95)
 
 
Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, The Official Guide to America's Historic Triangle  •   Colonial Williamsburg Foundation   • REFERENCE  •  This guidebook has all the information you need about Virginia's "Historic Triangle," where the nation began. (USE428, $16.95)
 
 
Lonely Planet Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island  •  Karla Zimmerman   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handy, compact guide to Atlantic Canada covers Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island in detail, and includes a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador. With maps, travel information and short essays on culture, attractions and nature. (CND291, $16.99)
 
 
Moon Handbook Coastal Maine  •  Hilary Nangle   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, highly recommended guide to the places and pleasures of Coastal Maine, including highlights in and around Portland and Acadia National Park. (USE363, $19.95)
 
 
Secret Providence and Newport, The Unique Guidebook to Providence and Newport's Hidden Sites, Sounds and Tastes  •  Barbara Radcliffe Rogers  •  Juliette Rogers   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guide to the lesser known attractions of Providence and Newport, from Edgar Allen Poe's favorite garden to where to find an unexpected gathering of green parrots. (USE380, $14.95)
 
 
A Short History of Charleston  •  Robert Rosen   • HISTORY  •  A short, authoritative, and lively history of Charleston by a native son. Rosen, a third-generation Charlestonian, recounts Charleston's history, communicating the town's considerable flavor. With 84 black-and-white photos. (USS12, $16.95)
 
 
Coastal Maine, A Maritime History  •  Roger Duncan   • HISTORY  •  A four hundred year history of Maine, focusing on maritime traditions and seafaring, as well coastal settlement and development. (USE247, $24.95)
 
 
The Americans, the Colonial Experience  •  Daniel Boorstin   • HISTORY  •  Winner of the Bancroft Prize, this wide-ranging portrait of colonial America looks to the origins of the American character and its institutions. (USA05, $16.95)
 
 
The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790  •  Rhys Isaac   • HISTORY  •  In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Isaac analyzes Virginia's social history during the tumultuous years between 1740-1790. (USE78, $22.95)
 
 
Classic Savannah: History, Houses and Gardens  •  William Robert Mitchell  •  Van J. Martin   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A quick tour of Savannah, focusing on its sumptuous architecture. (USS269, $35.00)
 
 
Private Newport, At Home and in the Garden  •  Bettie Bearden Pardee   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A sumptuous photographic tour of 18 opulent mansions and estates in Newport, Rhode Island. (USE345, $45.00)
 
 
American Sphinx  •  Joseph J. Ellis   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  More character study than strict biography, this celebrated book describes and defines Thomas Jefferson's beliefs, influences and aspirations. (USA51, $16.00)
 
 
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil  •  John Berendt   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Berendt magically turned his relatively brief stay in Savannah into a rollicking and sensitive portrait of the city, capturing a great variety of colorful characters and the spirit of the place. (USS09, $15.00)
 
 
One Man's Meat  •  E.B. White   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  By the author of "Charlotte's Web," a collection of observant and often humorous essays about daily life on a Maine saltwater farm. A wonderful portrait of coastal small-town life, originally published in 1938. (USE43, $14.95)
 
 
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson  •  Peter S. Onuf   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This collection of essays provides an intimate look into the political and personal concerns and motivations of Jefferson, and an assessment of his significance in American culture. (USA371, $25.00)
 
 
The Water is Wide  •  Pat Conroy   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The engrossing tale of Conroy's two-year stint as a Vista volunteer at a rural school on Yamacraw Island near Hilton Head, one of his first books. Conroy is a native of Beaufort, and South Carolina's low country features prominently in his many entertaining novels. (USS354, $15.00)
 
 
Burden of Desire  •  Robert MacNeil   • LITERATURE  •  An intricate, suspenseful novel of love and war set against the backdrop of the 1917 explosion that destroyed the north end of Halifax. Written by the noted newsman Robert MacNeil. (CND23, $16.00)
 
 
Island, The Complete Stories  •  Alistair MacLeod   • LITERATURE  •  From one of Canada's most important writers comes a collection of stories about family and tradition in Nova Scotia. They tell of a young generation who has adapted to the New World but still tries to find their place within the Old World traditions of Scotland. (CND73, $14.95)
 
 
Lady Baltimore  •  Owen Wister   • LITERATURE  •  This novel is set in Charleston just after the Civil War, when the traditional values of the Old South were in great conflict with those of the victorious northerners. First published in 1906, it's a classic southern portrait. (USS22, $10.95)
 
 
The Prince of Tides  •  Pat Conroy   • LITERATURE  •  To help the psychiatrist treating his suicidial sister, Tom Wingo travels from South Carolina to New York, to describe his family's past in this bestseller by Pat Conroy. Using the frame of Tom's conversations with a psychiatrist, Conroy paints an evocative portrait of a hard life in South Carolina's low-country marshland. (USS422, $7.99)
 
 
Cod, A Biography of a Fish That Changed the World  •  Mark Kurlansky   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A sparkling extended essay on the cod in the tradition of Lopez or McPhee, looking at the importance of the fish to cuisine and commerce, throwing much light on the plight of the Grand Banks and fisheries. (OCE10, $15.00)
 
 
A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife: Marine Mammals, Seabirds, Fish and Other Sea Life  •  Noble S. Proctor  •  Patrick J. Lynch   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive pocket guide to commonly encountered marine mammals, seabirds and other marine life of Northeastern North America, from North Carolina to Newfoundland and the Canadian Maritimes. (NAM24, $19.95)
 
 
National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England  •  Brian Cassie  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, easy-to-use overview of 1,000 of New England's trees, wildflowers, mammals, insects and other flora and fauna. It also provides an extensive overview of the area's geology, weather patterns and natural sites. (USE06, $19.95)
 
 
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States  •  Peter Alden  •  Brian Cassie   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the Mid-Atlantic States. (USE73, $19.95)
 
 
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •   National Geographic   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
 
 
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America  •  David Sibley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks. (USE262, $19.95)
 
 


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