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Maureen Emerson
Riviera Dreaming

Step inside the Riviera's most glamorous villas and discover the real lives that shaped the Côte d'Azur's golden age.In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love wit…

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Carol Kammen
Smut

"An engrossing tale well told." --Mary Beth Norton, author of Liberty's Daughters and The Devil's Snare"Smut is a lovely book, and a smart one. As a gifted historian, Kammen writes with suc…

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Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Joseph S Flipper
The Black Catholic Movement

Charts the Black Catholic attempt to gain independence within the larger Catholic ChurchIn 1971, a delegation of Black Catholics traveled to the Vatican seeking a meeting with Pope Paul VI. While they did…

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Peter S Soppelsa
Paris After Haussmann

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity fo…

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Harriet Fletcher
Gothic Celebrity

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to disrupt the narrative of immortality that modern celebrity culture has created and how toge…

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Sarah Gold McBride
Whiskerology

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America, where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belo…

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Michael Hiltzik
Golden State

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring RevolutionFrom…

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Jeremy B Jones
Cipher

In the 1800s, Appalachian farmer and rogue William Prestwood kept salacious coded diaries, leaving his descendent, Jeremy Jones, to reflect on his complicated legacy.In 1975, a man stumbled upon a box of …

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Beth Lew-Williams
John Doe Chinaman

Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the David J. Langum PrizeA revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West-and of those who negotiated, cir…

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Jennifer Wright
Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 PICK From the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power an…

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Thomas Jefferson,
Jefferson on Race

From The New York Times --bestselling and Pulitzer Prize--winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson's writings on race that every American should readA…

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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as th…

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Lesa Cline-Ransome
Ida B. Wells and the Untold Truth of a Country

In the 1890s, Ida B. Wells documented the horrific lynchings of African-Americans and revealed the untold truths of the U.S. Her legacy as a trailblazing journalist and activist is honored in this definit…

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Carla A Simonini
Traveling Italy, Writing America

Illuminates why Italy continues to captivate the American imagination, connecting classic literature to contemporary memoirs and popular media that still view Italy as a site of transformation, desire, an…

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Sean Teuton, Who Hq,
What Was the Trail of Tears?

Learn about one of the worst tragedies in American history: the Indian Removal Act of 1830.From 1838 to 1839, thousands of people from the Cherokee Nation and other Indigenous tribes were forced off their…

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Sean Teuton, Who Hq,
What Was the Trail of Tears?

Learn about one of the worst tragedies in American history: the Indian Removal Act of 1830.From 1838 to 1839, thousands of people from the Cherokee Nation and other Indigenous tribes were forced off their…

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Heather M. Herrman
The Corpse Queen

Penguin Young Readers Group

In this twisty feminist historical thriller set in the 1850s, a teenage grave robber quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans. Now in paperback! "Deliciously macabre and utterly decadent."…

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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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James Willard Schultz
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park

In 1877 Schultz went to Montana for the summer to buffalo hunt. He ended up staying and joining the Blackfeet tribe. He wrote stories that faithfully recorded their culture. These great legends of the Bla…

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