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Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life by Nancy Lord Publisher Comments For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place in America “big and wild enough to hold the intact... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Hardcover 
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John Margolies: Roadside America by Jim Margolies Publisher Comments A volume full of the most recent retail spaces in the world Retail Architecture Now! is the one place where the stars of the world of architecture, from David Adjaye to Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid encounter the people who make the world of design turn... (read more) Your price: $39.99 Sale - Hardcover
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Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments Bestselling author Jeff Guinn combines exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of two kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York by Matthew Goodman Publisher Comments The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful, entertaining, and surprisingly true story of how in the summer of 1835 a series of articles in the Sun, the first of the city's "penny papers," convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. Six... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America by Andrew Ferguson Publisher Comments Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff. Like so many sons of Illinois before him, he hung photos of Abe on his bedroom wall, memorized the Gettysburg... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart Publisher Comments New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Not a Happy Camper: A Memoir by Mindy Schneider Publisher Comments Remember those long sultry summer days at camp, the sun setting over the lake as you sang “Kumbaya”? Well, Mindy Schneider remembers her summer at Camp Kin-A-Hurra in 1974 just a wee bit differently. Not a Happy Camper chronicles a young girl&... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization by Ken Mcalpine Publisher Comments Author Ken McAlpine stands in his front yard one night in Ventura, California, trying to see the stars. His view is diminished by light pollution, making it hard to see much of anything in the sky. Our fast-paced, technologically advanced society, he... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Afternoon in Astoria by Rudolph Burckhardt Synopsis One afternoon in February of 1940, Rudolph Burckhardt took the train from Manhattan to the borough of Queens. While there he took pictures of gas stations, cars and children playing. Revealing the photographer's delight in the uncelebrated and the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion Publisher Comments A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romantic memoir. Doreen and Tim are married psychiatrists... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men: A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West by Carl P. Russell Publisher Comments This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Yellowstone by Tim Fitzharris Publisher Comments An exquisite portfolio and guide to America's most popular national park. Yellowstone National Park welcomes three million visitors every year. Most are drawn to its eye-popping hydrothermal features, including the world-famous Old Faithful. The region... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson Staff Pick Bill Bryson has tackled the Appalachian Trail, troublesome words, Captain James Cook, and repatriation. After the entertaining (and just slightly ambitious) Short History of Nearly Everything, he turns the spotlight back on himself. "This is a book about... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City (Columbia History of Urban Life) by Jonathan Soffer Publisher Comments In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989 and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown Staff Pick History at its finest! Brown uses great skill, detail, and atmosphere to dust off the story of the Donner party in this enthralling read. High adventure, suspense, and drama combine with tragedy to make this outstanding work as readable as a novel.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Crucible of Fire: Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service by Bruce Hensler Publisher Comments Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the aftermath of great fires offered a chance to shape the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602?1890 by Nathaniel Philbrick About the Author Nathaniel Philbrick, is a leading authority on the history of Nantucket Island. His In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award. His latest book is Sea of Glory, about the epic U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838andndash;1842. His other books... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography by William F Cody Publisher Comments Buffalo Bill lives deep in American legend. A Kansas-bred farm boy, he went on to become a renowned trapper and hunter, army scout, Indian fighter, and finally a world showman and celebrity. As a man of the Wild West, he became known as a larger-than... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West (New York Review Collections) by Larry Mcmurtry Publisher Comments New in paperback What was achieved and destroyed, what was made up and forgotten in the American West as the continent was mapped, the natives were displaced, and exploits were transformed into legends? In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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