Insiders' Guide to Columbus, Ohio
By Shawnie M. Kelley
2006/01 - Trade Paper - Globe Pequot Press
0762735422
Our Price $16.11 (15% off $18.95)

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.

The nation's fifteenth largest city, Columbus offers small-town atmosphere with big-city culture, cosmopolitan shopping, top-notch dining, and a competitive cost of living. Whether you plan to pursue an education, start a business, or raise a family, let this authoritative guide lead you through the rapidly growing Discovery City. Inside you'll find: Countless details on how to live and thrive in the area, from the best shopping to the lowdown on real estateA comprehensive guide to restaurants, lodging, and recreation opportunities The inside scoop on popular attractions such as the Columbus Zoo, the hands-on COSI Columbus science museum, and The Ohio State UniversitySections dedicated to children, neighborhoods, seniors, and much moreWhether you're planning a vacation, already living in the area, or looking to relocate, Insiders' Guide to Columbus, Ohio will show you everything you need to know.

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 $14.41 (15% 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 $12.74 (15% 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.

Publisher Comments

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.

Ghost Hunter's Guide to Haunted Ohio
by Woodyard, Chris
Trade Paper
Our Price ONLY $14.20

Chris Woodyard, author of the popular Haunted Ohio series, 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!!

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 $16.96 (15% off $19.95)

German Columbus
Jeffrey T. Darbee and Nancy A. Recchie
Trade Paper, 128 pages, black & white photographs
Our Price $16.99 (15% off $19.99)

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.

German Village
Jeanne Conte
Trade Paper, 31 pages, 68 color photographs
Special Value Our Price Only $4.70

A look at charming German Village - the colorful shops, restaurants and flower-aced residences. This booklet makes a great remembrance or souvenir of this unique neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.

THE COMPLETE 1300 PAGE EPIC!
Bone
By Smith, Jeff
Illustrator Smith, Jeff
2004/07 - Paperback Cartoon Books
188896314X - Trade Paper
Our Price ONLY $33.96 (15% off $39.95)

The bestselling Bone series is now available in one epic volume. This is the most critically acclaimed independent series of all time winning 36 major industry awards including the 2003 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist. Recommended as a must have by library and trade journals.

Publisher Comments:An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300-page epic adventure from start to finish in one deluxe trade paperback. Three modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pre-technological valley, speanding a year there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies. Their many adventures include crossing the local people in The Great Cow Race, and meeting a giant mountain lion called RockJaw: Master of the Eastern Border. They learn about sacrifice and hardship in The Ghost Circles and finally discover their own true natures in the climatic journey to The Crown of Horns.

Ohio Oddities: A Guide to the Curious Atttractions of the Buckeye State
By Zurcher, Neil
2001/10 - Gray & Company Publishers
1886228493 - Trade Paper
Our Price ONLY $11.86 (15% 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.

Forgotten Columbus
by Henderson, Andrew
2002/06 - Arcadia Publishing
0738519618 - Trade Paper
Our Price ONLY $16.99 (15% 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.

Day Trips from Columbus: Getaways about Two Hours Away
By Gurvis, Sandra
2001/09 - Globe Pequot Press
0762709782 - Trade Paper
Our Price ONLY $12.71 (15% off $14.95)

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.

The ABCs of Ohio Weather
By Davis, Mike
Trade Paper
Our Price ONLY $15.95

"Mike Davis' ABCs of Ohio Weather is a desktop college course, but it reads like a funny and educational bedtime story. The ABCs of Ohio Weather should be in every classroom and required reading for every person who is even a slight weather buff. You can feel Mike's comprehensive knowledge, humor, and common sense pouring from every page as he painlessly educates you. Mostly, it's good, fun reading." - Joe Holbrook, Veteran Broadcaster

America Celebrates Columbus: A Junior League of Columbus Cookbook
Hard Cover
Our Price ONLY $24.95

Share in this bountiful harvest of sophisticated but easy-to-prepare recipes. Celebrate the rich tradition of the heartland in this culinary tour of Columbus, the crossroads of America. One portion of the cookbook is dedicated to teatime at the Kelton House. Profits from the sale of the cookbook are used to support community projects of the Junior League of Columbus, Inc.