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Lone Star Nation
by H.W. Brands  Publisher Comments From bestselling historian and long-time Texan H. W. Brands, a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S. history—the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America. “For better or for worse, Texas was...
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Alaska
by Walter R. Borneman Publisher Comments The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances...
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Chasing Lightning
by Chris Moeller Publisher Comments Chasing Lightning: The Pursuit of Successful Living in America is the culmination of an exploration of the American dream and the struggle to live...
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The Money and the Power
by Sally Denton Publisher Comments The shadowy past and present of Las Vegas—and its role in the shaping of today's America—are here revealed as never before by two of the country's leading investigative reporters. After five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally...
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Downtown: My Manhattan
by Pete Hamill Publisher Comments A rich historical and personal portrait of Manhattan from the bestselling writer who is for many the living embodiment of the city. Manhattan, the keystone of New York City, is a place of ghosts and buried memory. One can still see remnants of the...
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A Tale of Two Valleys
by Alan Deutschman Publisher Comments When acclaimed journalist Alan Deutschman came to the California wine country as the lucky house guest of very rich friends, he was surprised to discover a raging controversy. A civil war was being fought between the Napa Valley, which epitomized elitism,...
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Lunatic Wind
by William Price Fox Publisher Comments In late September of 1989, South Carolina was a sleepy southern state drowsing complacently in the late summer heat. No one was ready for what would happen the night of September 21, when the most destructive hurricane of the twentieth century slammed...
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The Quotable Giuliani: The Mayor of America in His Own Words
by Bill Adler Publisher Comments "As the mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani was as controversial as he was determined to revitalize ""the greatest city in the world."" Never one to pull punches, he did things the way they had to be done, not the way everyone else thought they...
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Wetumka
by B. J Osborn Publisher Comments Wetumka was the center of a vast farming region that exploited virgin soils. Then the oil boom came and the land was exploited even more. So much has been taken from the land that most of its inhabitants have moved on in search of new lands and new ways...
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San Francisco: The Rough Guide, 6th Edition
by Nick Edwards Publisher Comments Each title in The Rough Guide 100 Essential CD series is a blueprint for a great record collection. Containing detailed reviews of 100 recordings from acknowledged classics to those that deserve to be, and brief bios of the artists responsible, these...
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From Jamestown to Texas
by Betty J Meischen Publisher Comments They packed up their Bibles and left behind them a life that had been filled with turmoil, peril and oppression. The horizon ahead of them to the west, that new Promised Land of Stephen F. Austin called Texas, was their destination. T.H. Farenbach summed...
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Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
by Nancy Lusignan Schultz Publisher Comments Boston locals still call a particular hill overlooking the harbor 'nunnery grounds', but the details of the convent's tragic demise have been obscured for over a century. Nancy Schultz lifts the veil of history from this forgotten story, brilliantly...
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Ghosts of 42ND Street
by Anthony Bianco Publisher Comments Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street. Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area wastransformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub...
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Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built
by Marc Leepson Publisher Comments When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826 -- the nation's fiftieth birthday -- he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final...
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Boston: The Rough Guide, 3rd Edition
by David Fagundes Publisher Comments Up-to-date information on New England's most beloved city from its revolutionary past to revitalized present, and from hip bars to bookstores. Also includes extensive coverage of Cambridge -- home to Harvard University and some of the area's best...
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La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
by Francis Parkman Publisher Comments Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) is among the most legendary explorers of the New World, most well-known for claiming the entire Louisiana Territory for France in 1682. Only two years later, while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River...
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Down the Great Unknown
by Edward Dolnick Publisher Comments On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon, to adventurers of that era a region...
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Feet on the Street
by Roy Jr Blount Publisher Comments “Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I,...
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Vanished Arizona
by M. Summerhayes Publisher Comments Recollections of life in the Old West Arizona by a 'New England Woman' who becomes an Army officer's wife. Fascinating, funny, and touching....
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Notes on the State of Virginia
by Thomas Jefferson Synopsis Available for the first time in Penguin Classics, Notes on the State of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and an examination of the idea of freedom. With the same genius and clear, flexible prose style that informs...
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