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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

Published: 1975-07-12

Paperback: 1344 pages

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One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, ...

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Here is New York

by E. B. White

Published: 1999

Hardcover: 56 pages

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Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and T...

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

Published: 1961

Paperback: 0 pages

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This book has moderate shelf and/or corner wear. Excellent used condition. May have worn edges, but the binding and cover are in good condition and there are no folded or missing pages. Possible limited underlining and highlighting throughout the text but otherwise clean. Book may not include any CDs,...

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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

by Mark Binelli

Published: 2013-11-05

Paperback: 352 pages

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Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest?and, finally, into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. But ...

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The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps

by Michael Blanding

Published: 2014-05-29

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him   Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers?both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them,...

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The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America

by Langdon Cook

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In the tradition of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, and Mark Kurlansky’s Cod—a renowned culinary adventurer goes into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who seek the world’s most coveted ingredient . . . and one of nature’s la...

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Stage Door Canteen

by Maggie Davis

Published: 2014-04-01

Kindle Edition: 292 pages

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New York City, the capital of the free world, is dark, its lights turned off as enemy submarines lurk offshore, as close as Coney Island. Three men—a gunner from a B-17 bomber who is a national hero, a magazine editor uprooted from civilian life and attached to the Allied High Command, a...

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Travelling to Infinity: My Life With Stephen

by Jane Hawking

Published: 2010-09-02

Kindle Edition: 450 pages

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Complete with exclusive photographs of the couple, this moving and engaging memoir written by Stephen Hawking’s first wife covers the turbulent years of her marriage with the astrophysics genius, her traumatic divorce, and their recent reconciliation  Professor Stephen Hawking is one o...

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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (Perennial Classics)

by Paul Monette

Published: 2004-05-25

Paperback: 304 pages

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A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret—from himself and the rest of the world. Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of p...

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Maude

by Donna Foley Mabry

Published: 2014-10-16

Paperback: 434 pages

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In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She opened her mouth to say something, but then her face flushed, and she turned her head to look out the window. After a second, she squeezed...