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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history-from the acclaimed author of The Devil in...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went

A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went

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The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before Decades ago, the historian...
Golden State: The Making of California

Golden State: The Making of California

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California-from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark...
Vintage New York City Subway Signs: 1920s-1980s

Vintage New York City Subway Signs: 1920s-1980s

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Photographic chronicle of the history and evolution of New York subway signage, covering porcelain, wood, tin, and mosaic signs from the 1920s to the 1980s. Vintage New York City Subway...
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced

The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced

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From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...
Change at King's Cross: From 1800 to the Present

Change at King's Cross: From 1800 to the Present

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The book titled Change at King's Cross: From 1800 to the Present by the author Michael Hunter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Living Stones: St Swithun's Pymble 1901-2001: St Swithun's Pymble

Living Stones: St Swithun's Pymble 1901-2001: St Swithun's Pymble

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The book titled Living Stones: St Swithun's Pymble 1901-2001: St Swithun's Pymble by the author Marcia Cameron. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Great Fortune

Great Fortune

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Everything about the conception and creation of Rockefeller Center was outsized and wildly improbable. Launched in the teeth of the worst depression in American history, the most ambitious construction project...
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

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When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River....
90s TV Quizpedia: The ultimate book of trivia

90s TV Quizpedia: The ultimate book of trivia

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Sunnydale High School was attended by which stake-wielding teen? Edwina and Patsy are the champagne-guzzling duo from which hit TV show? Which bible verse does Samuel L Jackson quote in...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

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The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...
The Midwife's Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives

The Midwife's Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives

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The Sunday Times bestseller 'Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to

A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went

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The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before Decades ago, the historian...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents

Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents

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From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But,...
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene:

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The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut ZippersNorth Carolina has always...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

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You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring, unadventurous and thoroughly unfashionable suburbs serve as their childhood...