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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Publisher Comments Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of "Oscar and Lucinda, " powerfully evokes the legend of 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive prose by the barely literate bushranger himself. 1 map & 3... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey Publisher Comments The Booker Prize-winning novel — now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dillinger Days by John Toland Publisher Comments The Dillinger Days is the inside account of a desperate and determined war between the law and the lawless, a struggle that did not end until a unique set of circumstances led to Dillinger's bloody death outside a Chicago movie house. }... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Digging Up Butch and Sundance by Anne Meadows Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wildwood Boys by James Carlos Blake Publisher Comments From the raw clay of historical fact, James Carlos Blake has sculpted a powerful novel of both a man and an America at war with themselves. Here is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is pulled into a savage conflict of state... (read more) Your price: $13.99 New - Trade Paper
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Jack Maggs by Peter Carey Publisher Comments The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ned Kelly: Movie Tie-In by Robert Drewe Publisher Comments The first novel written about the bushcountry gunslinger who was both the national hero and devil incarnate of Australia, Ned Kelly imagines the inner life of a figure described by historian Manning Clark as "a wild ass of a man, snarling, roaring and... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Bonnie and Clyde (00 Edition) by Lester D. Friedman Publisher Comments Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) changed American cinema, reinvigorating the gangster genre with European, New Wave techniques and a radically candid view of sex and violence. Starring Warren Beatty, who also produced, and Faye Dunaway, the film... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shark Net: Memories and Murder by Robert Drewe Publisher Comments Written with the same lyrical intensity and spellbinding prose that has won Robert Drewe's fiction international acclaim, The Shark Net is set in the 1950s in a city haunted by the menace of an elusive serial killer. Drewe's youth in the middle-class... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Illywhacker by Peter Carey Publisher Comments In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ned Kelly and City of Bees by Thomas Keneally Publisher Comments During a bout of appendicitis, ten-year-old Ned Kelly is reduced to the size of a bee and spends the summer in a beehive.... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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