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Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown by Michael Cunningham Publisher Comments "Cunninghams short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." —The Washington Post"Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Lands End is... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks Publisher Comments When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice . . . and vice won.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.73 New - Hardcover
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Johnstown Flood (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, and Mornings on Horseback, and as host of the popular PBS television series "Smithsonian World?' The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto Publisher Comments In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante Publisher Comments From opium dens to the Bowery's suicide saloons, this lively, learned work of outlaw urban history ushers readers through the dark heart of New York City in the years between 1840 and 1919. "A systematic, well-researched historical account of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt Publisher Comments In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston by Gerard O'neill Publisher Comments From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State by Irina Reyn Publisher Comments Offering a literary dimension to the New Jersey Renaissance, this anthology of pieces by some of the states best and brightest take readers to just about every corner of the state, paying tribute to its unique place in the cultural consciousness.... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town by Elyssa East Publisher Comments In rich first-person narrative, Dogtown tells the strange, dark story of a wilderness ghost town that has enthralled artists, writers, and eccentrics—and of a brutal murder committed there. Documenting its history and lore, East explores the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward P Kohn Publisher Comments One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York City heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and upstart Democrat William... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham by Steven H Jaffe Publisher Comments In New York at War, historian Steven H. Jaffe offers an alternative history of New York City—arguably the most powerful and yet also the most vulnerable city on earth, and a place whose landscape, culture, and inhabitants have been shaped by... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $21.00 Used - 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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Nantucket: Seasons on the Island by Cary Hazlegrove Publisher Comments Nantucket: Seasons on the Island has been a favorite for more than a decade, and is now newly published in paperback. The tiny haven 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts is an island treasure, and in this evocative volume longtime resident and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.48 Used - Trade Paper
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The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston Publisher Comments The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune) A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury by Mary F Corey Publisher Comments Today The New Yorker is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era the magazine occupied a truly significant niche of cultural authority. A self-selected community of 250,000... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Hurricane: 1938 by Cherie Burns Publisher Comments On the night of September 21, 1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of severe weather approaching New England. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous yellow color in the sky, it was too late.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Chesapeake Country by Lucian Niemeyer Publisher Comments A country of mists and tranquil waters harboring the nation's last commercial sailing fleet and harboring a rare abundance of wildlife: snow geese, soft-shell crabs, Canada geese, green-backed herons, white-tailed deer, great white egrets. It is a region... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $3.25 Used - Hardcover
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Altered Environments: The Outer Banks of North Carolina by Jeffrey J Pompe Publisher Comments An illustrated history of how natural and human forces have shaped the development of a coastal... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City by Robert Booth Publisher Comments Most readers know Salem only for the citys notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced Americas first millionaire (still one of historys 75 wealthiest men) and boasted a maritime trade that made it the... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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