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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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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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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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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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In the Shadow of the Dam: The Aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874
by Elizabeth M. Sharpe Publisher Comments Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. In just thirty minutes, the Mill River flood left 139...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
by Carl Hiaasen Publisher Comments ROBBERY. GAMBLING. EXTORTION. KIDNAPPING. MURDER. JUST ANOTHER FAMILY BUSINESS. For years, the DeCavalcantes, the most powerful Mob family in Jersey, labored in the shadows of the more famous families in New York-the likes of the Gambinos and the...
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Seven Keys to Texas
by T. R. Fehrenbach Publisher Comments T.R. Fehrenbach defines Texas as "a state of mind." In Seven Keys To Texas, he provides us with a seven-part framework for understanding this unique and ever-important state: its people, frontiers, land, economy, society, politics, and the change that...
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