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Gotham
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and…
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Gotham
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and…
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I’ll Tell You a Tale
I’ll Tell You a Tale is a garland of some of Frank Dobie’s best writing, put together by Isabel Gaddis, one of his former students at the University of Texas….
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Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919
In this examination of more than 175 lynchings, Stephen J. Leonard illustrates the role economics, migration, race, and gender played in shaping justice and injustice in Colorado. One of the…
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New England in a Nutshell
Over 300 quotes, from Puritan fathers to Ray Magliozzi of Car Talk, capture the essence of New England.
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North Shore (Hardcover)
In the nineteenth century, prominent Bostonians like Thomas Handasyd Perkins and Charles Greely Loring discovered the shore north of Boston as a summer escape from the heat and stink of…
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Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast
Pirates and the treasures they buried were Edward Rowe Snow’s favorite topics, and here he describes them with all the relish of a dedicated historian and master storyteller. You will…
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Portsmouth
Photographer Nancy Horton has captured the beauty and the funky, gritty liveliness of today’s Portsmouth, NH, in this latest addition to our ?New England Landmarks? series. It’s all here, from…
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Selma
In 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Selma: A Bicentennial History is…
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Tales of Old-Time Texas
It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest’s master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm of language…
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