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German Village
By Jeanne Conte

2009/10 - 3rd edition - Trade Paper - Capitol Citicom
9781427641274
Original Publisher's Price $9.95
Our Price Only Our Price $8.96

Learn the story of the birth and rebirth of German Village. Enjoy full color photos by noted photographer Jeanne Conte.

• Captivating German Village
• Historic German Churches
• Picturesque Brewery District
• Celebrated Parks and Gardens

This 50th Anniversary of the Rebirth of German Village (Limited Edition - 1960-2010) is the third edition of the book German Village by Jeanne Conte is now available.

The book is updated with a number of new and historic photos and text. With over 80 color and historic black and white photographs, German Village is updated with a new color cover featuring the Umbrella Girl in autumn.

First introduced in 1994, with a second edition printed in 1996, German Village has sold over 18,000 copies. This new edition shows improvements of crisper type and new and restored photographs.

German Village is a wonderful depiction of what German Village is all about - its early history and the influence of German immigrants on Columbus, its churches, parks, schools, German singing and sports societies, and the present day quaint shops, bakeries and restaurants. It also covers the quiet sanctuaries of backyards, kitchen gardens, tranquil front entry landscapes, and beautiful floral window boxes. The full color photographs by the author are stunning. All in all, this book gives us a glimpse and feel of why German Village is such a marvelous place.

For the last 15 years since the book was first published, German Village has been the #1 best seller of The Book Loft.

Insiders' Guide to Columbus, Ohio
By Shawnie M. Kelley
2008/07 - 2nd edition - Trade Paper - Globe Pequot Press
9780762747849
Our Price $17.05 (10% off $18.95)

This authoritative guide provides comprehensive insider information on visiting and living in Ohio's capital. The nation's fifteenth largest city, Columbus boasts a small town atmosphere with big city culture, cosmopolitan shopping and top-notch dining. Its geographical location, competitive cost-of-living, and college-town spirit makes Columbus the third fastest growing metro area in the Midwest. It is a very attractive city in which to start a business, pursue higher education, or raise a family. If you are looking for professional sports, a flourishing arts community or just a quiet residential lifestyle, the "Discovery City" offers a little something for everyone.

From the Back Cover

For more than twenty years, the Insiders’ Guide® series has remained the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information. Each guide is written by locals and true insiders and offers a personal, practical perspective that readers everywhere have come to know and love. Ohio’s capital city, Columbus boasts a small town and quiet residential atmosphere with big city culture, cosmopolitan shopping, a flourishing arts community, and top-notch dining. The “Discovery City” offers a little something for everyone and its geographical location, competitive cost-of-living, and college-town spirit make Columbus one of the fastest growing metro areas in the Midwest. Inside you'll find:

• Countless details on how to live and thrive in the area—from the best family activities to the lowdown on real estate• The inside scoop on popular attractions such as the Columbus Zoo, COSI Columbus (Center of Science and Industry), and the Franklin Park Conservatory
• Comprehensive listings of restaurants, lodging, and outdoor recreation opportunities
• Sections dedicated to children and retirement

Whether you're planning a vacation, already living in the area, or looking to relocate, Insiders’ Guide® to Columbus, Ohio gives you everything you need to know.

Day Trips from Columbus
Getaways about Two Hours Away
By Sandra Gurvis
2001/09 - Globe Pequot Press
0762709782 - Trade Paper
Our Price ONLY $11.66 (10% off $12.95)

Enjoy a welcome change of pace and discover a world you may not know exists in your own backyard. Day Trips® describes hundreds of fascinating and exciting (and many free of charge) things to do, most within a two-hour drive of Columbus.

• Explore the verdant, leafy coolness and gushing gorges of Hocking Hills State Park.
• Brave the Millennium Force, the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, at Cedar Point Amusement Park.
• Attend a performance at Cincinnati's world-famous Playhouse in the Park.
• Take a trip back to the 1960s to experience the shops, artistic pursuits, and political activism of Yellow Springs.
• Marvel at Newark's Longaberger Home Office, the only corporate headquarters set inside a seven-story basket.

Forgotten Columbus
by Andrew Henderson
2002/06 - Arcadia Publishing
0738519618 - Trade Paper
Our Price ONLY $17.99 (10% off $19.99)

Forgotten Columbus is 128 pages of historical photographs, each with informational captions, accompanied by photos at the end of each chapter showing what became of many of the book's subjects. There are seven chapters: The Old Ohio Penitentiary; The Hartman Empire; The Brewery District; Fort Hayes; Frank Packard's Columbus; Schools and Colleges; and Hospitals and Asylums.

German Columbus
By Jeffrey T. Darbee & Nancy A. Recchie
9780738533964 - Trade Paper - Arcadia Publishing
Publisher's Price $21.99
Our Price: $19.79

German Columbus celebrates the lives and work of the German immigrants who made their homes and their livelihoods in a tight-knit, cohesive neighborhood in the Old South End of Columbus, Ohio. Natives of Germany arrived in the capital city as early as its founding in 1812, but it was only after 1830, when new transportation routes from the east facilitated travel, that a major wave of German immigration began.

By the 1850s, the area just south of downtown Columbus had a distinct flavor, with school lessons and church services conducted entirely in German and with several newspapers printed in the German language to serve the community. Merchants, business owners, and brewers, the hard-working Germans were the largest immigrant group in the city, totaling a third of the population through the end of the 19th century. Later, a shift in public opinion against immigrants and anti-German sentiment arising from World War I resulted in a rapid assimilation of Germans into the general population.

Today, some of the Old South End survives in historic areas such as the Brewery District and German Village.

Ghost Hunter's Guide to Haunted Ohio
by Chris Woodyard

Trade Paper
Original Publisher's Price $16.95 Our Price Only $15.26

Chris Woodyard takes you on a terrifying tour of Ohio's public haunt-spots! Meet the solitary spirits of "The Hole" at Mansfields' gothic Ohio State Reformatory (as seen on t.v.'s Scariest Places on Earth!). Sit down to lunch with a ghostly little girl at The Golden Lamb in Lebanon. View the treasures at Cincinnati's Taft Museum with Annie Taft as your ghostly guide. Check out a hunted library roamed by the spirit of a disemboweled doctor. Spend a restless night at a haunted inn in a room with a boo! From friendly to fearsome, these are chilling stories of haunted places you can visit -- if you dare!!

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Haunted Ohio
Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Buckeye State
By Charles A. Stansfield, Jr.
Illustrated by Heather Adel Wiggins
2008/04 - Trade Paper - Stackpole Books
0811734722
Our Price $8.96 (10% off $9.95)

Dead presidents, swamp monsters, and spying spaceships figure prominently in this collection of eerie tales from the Buckeye State. From across the plains to the metropolitan centers of Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati come a variety of stories and legends, including the phantom in Daytons Woodland Cemetery who perches atop his tombstone, the pitiful spirits of the Millfield miners, the fearsome ghost of boatman Mike Fink, and many more.

Lost Ohio
More Travels Into Haunted Landscapes, Ghost Towns, and Forgotten Lives
By Randy NcNutt
2006/10 - Trade Paper - Kent State University Press
0873388720
Our Price $15.26 (10% off $16.95)

Take a leisurely tour across the Buckeye State with author Randy McNutt to a massive swamp that swallowed pioneers' wagons, a haunted prison, a faded German utopia, a town where they still chase horse thieves, a marriage mecca, a village where Buster the dog voted Republican, and a myriad of abandoned "ghost towns" and small cities.

In Lost Ohio, McNutt, who has devoted his career to uncovering forgotten Ohio and its spirited inhabitants, continues his travels around the state in an attempt to discover vanishing traces of our lives--celebrations, motels, road art, drive-in theaters, traditions, inventions, folk tales, battlefields, and forts. His journeys rediscover missing pieces of our past that reflect a state of mind as well as a collection of landscapes. McNutt's vanishing Ohio is a place where rural America converges with small cities and fading history and disappearing culture, lost to burgeoning technology, global economy, technological immediacy, and time.

He visits Fizzleville, Sodaville, and Footville; the hollow, metal globe that is the final resting place of Captain John C. Symmes, who theorized that the earth was hollow and access to the core was through the polar caps; the Mansfield Reformatory, Ohio's largest and toughest haunted house; Waynesville, home of the Ohio Sauerkraut Festival; and Harry Dearwester, the "carny" who guesses peoples' weight with 90 percent accuracy. This serious but offbeat journey around Ohio will appeal to those interested in heritage tourism, Americana, Ohio history and lore, and back roads and small-town life.

Ghosthunting Ohio
By John Kachuba
2006/10 - Trade Paper - Emmis Books
1578601819
Our Price $13.49 (10% off $14.99)

Author John Kachuba bravely visits more than twenty-five haunted places in Ohio to give readers first-hand frights from the safety of their armchairs. For readers curious -- and courageous -- enough to "hunt" on their own, maps and travel information are provided to every haunted location.

A collection of light-hearted and entertaining facts from the Buckeye State of Ohio

Weird Ohio
Your Travel Guide to Ohio's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
By James A. Willis with Andrew Henderson and Loren Coleman
2005/11 - Hardcover - Sterling Publishing
1402733828
Our Price $17.96 (10% off $19.95)

Ohio Oddities
A Guide to the Curious Atttractions of the Buckeye State
By Neil Zurcher
2001/10 - Gray & Company Publishers
1886228493 - Trade Paper
Our Price ONLY $12.56 (10% off $13.95)

Ohio—a bland and ordinary Midwestern state, right? Ha! You must never get off the highway. The Buckeye State has no shortage of strange, silly, goofy, quirky, eccentric, and just plain weird people, places, and things—if you know where to look.

And no one has looked in more places for Ohio’s oddities than Neil Zurcher, the popular Fox8 TV travel reporter who makes his living on the road seeking out unusual destinations. This book collects the most remarkable things he’s found in and about the Buckeye State, including:

Mysteries. Like the “bottomless” Blue Hole of Castalia and Ashtabula’s famed Headless Chicken—who lived without a noggin for 38 days.

Big things. Like the World’s Largest . . . Crystal Ball . . . Gathering of Twins . . . Easter Basket . . . Cuckoo Clock . . .

Peculiar claims to fame. Like the “Oldest concrete road in America,” the “World’s fastest pumpkin carver.”

Strange collections. Like the Objects Swallowed by Citizens of Lima; the nation’s only vacuum cleaner museum; and the world’s largest collection of popcorn poppers and peanut roasters.

Notable citizens. Like Balto the Wonder dog, cheesemaking firewalker Komar the Magnificent, and Buckeye Chuck, the weather rodent.

And the just-hard-to-explain. Like the Wellington ATM shaped like a Victorian horse and buggy or Ohio’s strange attachment to the bathtub from the U.S.S. Maine.