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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
by John M Barry
Staff Pick
"An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the... (read more)

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by Ross King
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Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced Renaissance... (read more)

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City
by Alessandro Baricco
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by Terry Ryan
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Abarat
by Clive Barker
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Wildly imaginitive and superbly illustrated. Barker's snapshot-styled otherworldly adventure is ideal for intermittent reading and intriguing enough to avoid putting down. Highly entertaining.... (read more)

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by Ross King
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"Dogs belong to an elite group of con artists at the peak of their profession, the ones who pick our pockets clean and leave us smiling about it," begins Budiansky's litany of introductory complaints in The Truth About Dogs. (Picture a schnauzer and a... (read more)

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Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes
by Gris Grimly
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"The fate of Grimly's Jack and Jill, though no less unfortunate, is far more entertaining than that of their predecessors. Grimly's wry illustrations give these rhymes a proper (read: gruesome) resurrection."... (read more)

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