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California Rich: The lives, the times, the scandals and the fortunes of the men & women who made & kept California's wealthSince the Gold Rush, California has represented a land of opportunity and bounty for a special breed of Americans. Heading west in pursuit of sunshine, riches, and elusive dreams, the early mavericks of California set out to make their fortunes--and often succeeded beyond their...
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America's Secret Aristocracy: The Families that Built the United StatesAmerica has always been a constitutionally classless society, yet an American aristocracy emerged anyway-a private club whose members run in the same circles and observe the same unwritten rules. Renowned social historian Stephen Birmingham reveals the inner workings of this aristocracy and identifies which...
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The Grandes Dames: The wonderfully uninhibited ladies who used their wealth & position to create American culture in their own images-froAstor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. All family names that still adorn buildings, streets and charity foundations. While the men blazed across America with their oil, industry, and railways, the matriarchs founded art museums, opera houses, and symphony houses that functioned almost as private clubs. These...
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James Joyce: A Critical IntroductionBecause Harry Levin's view is large, as opposed to the many necessary exegeses and close textual studies, he leads the reader easily into the delights to be found in Joyce, from the comparatively simple prose of Dubliners, through Ulysses and into the complexities of...
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Wildfire Loose: The Week Maine BurnedIn October 1947, Maine experienced the worst fire disaster in its history. Climaxing months of drought, fires raged across more than 200,000 acres. Nine communities were practically leveled and four others severely damaged. Fifteen people lost their lives. Wildfire Loose describes how the fires...
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Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual AddressLife at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history which describes the lives of the rich and trendy who have lived at the Dakota, a New York apartment house daringly erected in 1884, "too far up" and on the wrong side of town....
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The Grandees: America's Sephardic EliteTracing their origins to medieval Portugal and Spain, the Sephardic Jews consider themselves 'the nobility of Jewry, ' in contrast to their pushier and more aggressive German counterparts. They were also the first Jews to inhabit the new world-first exiled from Spain and Portugal,...
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Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache HistoryWinner of a National Council on Public History Book Award On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O'odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp...
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Letters from Kentucky: My Search for Aunt CarrieIn 1912, Carrie D. Reaves, a young woman from a privileged family in South Carolina went to the mountains of Kentucky to teach in a mission school. While there she wrote letters to her family and to her college roommate. These letters describe her...
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Our Mysterious Panics, 1830-19302009 reprint of 1931 edition. Paperback, 310pp. The aim of this book has been to give, in richly anecdotal form, the human traits that have contributed to our cyclic depressions, from those connected with the early land booms through to the Great Depression of...
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The Dark Edge of Night: A Henri Lefort Mystery"Sharp eyed and sharp mouthed police detective"* Henri Lefort, is determined to solve homicides and uncover any German conspiracies threatening France--in Mark Pryor's next World War II mystery, The Dark Edge of Night. Winter 1940: With soldiers parading down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Nazi...
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Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the NationA "compelling" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy--a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their lives--part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling...
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Return to ValettoWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award for FictionA Best Book of the Year: BookPageA Must-Read: The New York Post and The Christian Science Monitor"A story of love, loss, and the enduring power of hope. I was transfixed from page...
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The Headmaster's WagerFrom Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is...
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The BookbinderA young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Dictionary of...
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Sally Brady's Italian Adventure"A fresh breeze of wit and glamour." --The Wall Street Journal "Richly evocative of the charms and contradictions of Italy. Brava!" --Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author "A gorgeously entertaining story about a spirited woman during wartime that manages to be a clever...
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Sisters Under the Rising SunFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a story of sisterhood and survival, inspired by a true story. A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather...
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Maria: A Novel of Maria Von TrappMaria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria to life as never before. In the 1950s, Oscar Hammerstein is...
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The Trouble with You"Rich in colorful characters, Feldman's riveting tale is one of resilience, determination, and hope." --BooklistIn an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose between the safe and the ethical, and the men who represent...
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Don't Push MeInspired by true events, "Don't Push Me" is an intergenerational saga of gay romance and the shame that cripples it. On a ski vacation in the Alps, Elliott discovers that the owners of the inn where he is staying are the descendants of a...
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