Globe Pequot: 748 books
Hometown Hardball
A Minor League Baseball Road Trip from the Rocky Shores of Maine to the Bright Lights of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Grab a Zweigle's White Hot at Dwyer Stadium (built in 1939) and cheer on the Batavia Muckdogs. Join B.B. the Bluefish as he warms up the crowd at Bridgeport's Ballpark at Harbor Yard. Take in the view of Coney Island from the upper deck of MCU Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. Watch from a box...
Discovering Vintage New York
A Guide to the City's Timeless Shops, Bars, Delis & More
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
As Manhattan succumbs to the big chain stores and tourist traps that come with the modern age, it struggles to maintain its storied identity. Fortunately for locals and visitors alike, a number of classic restaurants, shops and other establishments still thrive today that evoke the unique charm of...
A Home Called New England
A Celebration of Hearth and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
New England is the oldest and most influential region of America. Although it has changed much through the centuries, it remains a place that even the Colonials may still recognize. Through a collection of photos, illustrations, history, and stories, this book explores the architectural history of...
It Happened in Las Vegas
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Sin City, It Happened in Las Vegas describes everything from a nineteenth-century land deal that almost created two competing cities to the torrential rainstorm that flooded downtown Vegas with three inches of water.
Haunted Christmas
Yuletide Ghosts and Other Spooky Holiday Happenings
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
In plenty of time for the holidays, here is a gathering of thirty tales of ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal happenings purported to have taken place on or around Christmas, or that are otherwise related to this holiday. By a long-time believer in the paranormal who in the introduction tells the...
Connecticut: Mapping the Nutmeg State through History
Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays. Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Nutmeg State from...
by David O. White
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Black soldiers of the American Revolution? Not a credible statement in light of what most Americans have read about the Revolutionary War. We have heard of Casimir Pulaski the Pole, Marquis de Lafayette the Frenchman, and Baron von Steuben the German, but not black participants. Yet, close to 5,000...
Georgia Myths and Legends
The True Stories Behind History’s Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Georgia Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Georgia’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Georgia history.
From the...
Death in Salem
The Private Lives behind the 1692 Witch Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Salem witchcraft will always have a magnetic pull on the American psyche. During the 1692 witch trials, more than 150 people were arrested. An estimated 25 million Americans—including author Diane Foulds—are descended from the twenty individuals executed. What happened to our ancestors? Death...
by Tricia Martineau Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Many of the events that took place along the Oregon Trail are well known--the perils the Applegate family faced as they rafted down the raging Columbia River, the plight of the Donner Party as they found themselves snowbound and starving at Truckee Lake. But do you know the whole story?
It...
Mysteries and Legends of New England
True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Mysteries and Legends of New England explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in the region’s history—evenly divided between the New England States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island).
Remarkable Women of New England
Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers: The War Years 1754 to 1787
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In eighteenth-century America, information about a woman’s life and accomplishments was very difficult to discover, but some woman were avid letter writers or devoted journal keepers, and thankfully some of those letters and journals were saved. These woman include Mary Gray Bidwell, a quiet country...
by Ron Franscell, Karen Valentine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Cri**me Buff's Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania is the ultimate guidebook to the crime, injustice, and seedy history of the Keystone State. With photographs, maps, directions, and sites to visit, this collection of outlaw tales serves as both a travel guide and an entertaining and informational read....
Wicked Weird & Wily Yankees
A Celebration of New England's Eccentrics and Misfits
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Incredible Stories of the Prophets, Vagabonds, Fortune-Tellers, Hermits, Lords, and Poets Who Shaped New England
New England has been a lot of things—an economic hub, a cultural center, a sports mecca—but it is also home to many of the strangest individuals in America. Wicked Weird &...