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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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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Staff Pick From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen Publisher Comments In 1519, Magellan, five ships, and more than two hundred men set sail from Spain to find a water route to the Spice Islands. Despite suffering starvation, disease, torture, and death, they discovered the passageway known today as the Strait of Magellan... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik Publisher Comments It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin Publisher Comments Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge (P.S.) by Eleanor Herman Publisher Comments Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (P.S.) by James R. Gaines Publisher Comments Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1757 signals a... (read more) Your price: $13.99 New - Trade Paper
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age (P.S.) by Amanda Macke Stuart Publisher Comments When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.) by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood (P.S.) by Irmgard A Hunt Publisher Comments Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden -- just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat -- Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (P.S.) by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.) by John Kelly Publisher Comments La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War (P.S.) by Charles London Publisher Comments Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours. In this powerful and unforgettable book—by turns painful, funny... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.) by Lucette Lagnado Publisher Comments In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hip: The History (P.S.) by John Leland Publisher Comments Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (P.S.) by Daniel James Brown Publisher Comments In 1894, two fires south of Hinckley, Minnesota, combined to create one of the deadliest and most destructive fires in history. Brown weaves together the amazing true story of how the survivors escaped to change a nation.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung Publisher Comments One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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