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The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
by Lily Koppel  Publisher Comments Rescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman. For more than half a century, the red leather diary lay silent, languishing inside a steamer...
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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...
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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...
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Reflections of Maine
by Greg (pht) Currier Synopsis From an image of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse mirrored in a tide pool to a lake imbued with reflected autumn color, photographer Currier finds fabulously different perspectives in Maine's scenic vistas. He also reveals marvels in less obvious places, such...
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New York: 365 Days
by Nyt Publisher Comments NEW YORK: 365 DAYS is the equivalent of a walking tour through time and space. Beginning with New Year's Day, the reader takes a fascinating and evocative journey through the New York Year, stopping at such calendrial landmarks as the opening of the...
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The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896
by Sven Beckert Publisher Comments Social classes, like fortunes, are made and remade, and invariably the two are linked. Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, this book brings to light a neglected - and critical...
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Vineyard Days, Vineyard Nights: The Romance of Martha's Vineyard
by Paul Theroux Publisher Comments Award-winning photographer Nancy Ellison offers an intimate glimpse of America's most fabled vaction island - Martha's Vinyard....
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New York: Capital of Photography
by Max Kozloff Publisher Comments For street photographers, New York has always been a city of unparalleled visual excitement, teeming with diverse people and distinctive neighborhoods. New York: Capital of Photography examines how photographers chronicled New York throughout the...
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments The unsung-and revealing-story of the Herculean effort to finish the dismantling that terrorism began Unlike any other reporter, William Langewiesche has had unrestricted access to Ground Zero and the people involved in the cleanup. He has literally...
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The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan
by Steven Gaines Publisher Comments An investigation into the secretive world of Manhattan luxury real estate and the lives of wealthy and celebrity residents offers insight into the workings of carriage-trade brokers, co-op boards, and the homes of such figures as Jerry Seinfeld, Barbra...
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Appalachian Trail on My Mind
by Globe Pequot Press Publisher Comments Page after page of beautiful photographs coupled with eloquent observations convey the beauty--and mystique--of the Appalachian Trail. Stretching more than 2,150 miles through 14 states from Georgia to Maine, this epic footpath has captured the heart and...
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America Series: Maryland
by Lloyd Kyi Tanya Publisher Comments As expansive as America itself, this outstanding series captures outstanding views of panoramic landscapes, brilliant city skylines, and picturesque communities -- 96 pages and 70 stunning images by internationally renowned photographers, plus...
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The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island
by Linda Greenlaw Publisher Comments After 17 years at sea, Linda Greenlaw decided it was time to take a break from being a swordboat captain, the career that would earn her a prominent role in Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and a portrayal in the subsequent film. Greenlaw decided to...
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The Last Good Time: Skinny D'Amato, the Notorious 500 Club, and the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City
by Jonathan Van Meter Synopsis The Last Good Time is a richly layered epic that brings to life a fascinating place, its politics, people, and culture, through the portrait of one of Atlantic City's most famous families--the powerful, flamboyant, and ultimately tragic D'Amatos. Paul...
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Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
by Jill Jonnes Publisher Comments "Superb. [A] first-rate narrative" (The Wall Street Journal ) about the controversial construction of New York's beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels\ As bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great Bridge affirm...
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments “Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.” –The New York Times “A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.” –Rocky...
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Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House
by Sarah Messer Publisher Comments In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America's fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will...
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The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness
by Paul Schneider Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non-Native Americans first learned to cherish the wilderness as a place of...
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The Adirondack Cabin
by Robbin Obomsawin Publisher Comments Best-selling author and log home expert Robbin Obomsawin features the rustic and charming architecture of the Adirondack great camps of the Northeast in her newest book. Established during the early twentieth century by wealthy rail and oil barons such...
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
by R. A. Scotti Publisher Comments It was the Perfect Storm. But instead of raging far out in the Atlantic, the Great Hurricane of 1938 left a wake of death and destruction across seven states. It battered J. P. Morgan's Long Island estate, wiped out beach communities from Watch Hill to...
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