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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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Peter Bacho
Uncle Rico's Encore

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy communityFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant r…

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Bruce Goldfarb
The Worst Day

A REAL-LIFE DISASTER MOVIE: A minute-by-minute account of 2 simultaneous catastrophes during a 1982 blizzard---and the extraordinary courage of civilians and first responders For fans of Deep Survival and…

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Angela Miller Keysor
The Voices of Need

Revealing how people in need advocated for and negotiated their own care until the development of standardized medicineThe Voices of Need uncovers how men and women in Charlestown, Massachusetts, who turn…

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Alexander
A Quiet Challenge

The first full-length biography of a consequential figure in twentieth-century American politicsIn 1962, Edward W. Brooke (1919--2015) upended political convention by becoming the first popularly elected …

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Christopher Everette Cenac
Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 2: The Bowie Brothers and Bayou Buffalo, Dularge

This second installment in a planned four-volume series chronicles the saga of one of the most rural and rustic regions of coastal Louisiana---Bayou DuLarge. In a story that has its origin centuries ago, …

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Nancy K Williams
Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous TerritoryHollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver and …

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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Sergei Kan
The Tlingit in Sitka

"Sitka photographer Elbridge W. Merrill (1870-1929) captured three decades of cultural transformations in the Tlingit community, Russian Orthodox clergy and congregants, and local industry. Born in B…

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Chris P Potholm, David Emery, Dennis Bailey
Real Life, Real Funny

Twenty-five famous Mainers share humorous stories of everyday life in and about the state of Maine. It's homegrown humor laced with folksy wisdom in the tradition of John Gould and Marshall Dodge. Mainers…

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Teale Dvornik
History Hiding Around Broadway

Go behind the scenes of the Great White Way with this illustrated guide to the Theater District's hidden history--an essential book for your explorations of the district from a seasoned Broadway guide.Bro…

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Gordon Simmons
Mutiny in the Mountains

Mutiny in the Mountains uses labor history to show the way forward for millions of workers struggling in an age of uncertainty.In 1969, thousands of West Virginia state highway workers went on strike in f…

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Brooke Barbier
King Hancock

A concise and highly readable biography...[Hancock's] legacy is very much worth our remembering. -Wall Street Journal"King Hancock is a vastly enjoyable work of popular history that wears its impress…

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David Ponton
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation

2025 Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of LettersA history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.Through the 1950s and beyond, the Supreme Court issued decisions…

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Jennifer Marino Walters, Who Hq,
Where Is California?

Penguin Young Readers Group

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of California with Who HQ! Learn about everything from the stars of Hollywood to the miles of coastal views in this illustrated book for young rea…

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Jennifer Marino Walters, Who Hq,
Where Is Georgia?

Penguin Young Readers Group

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of Georgia with Who HQ! Learn about everything from Georgia's role in the Civil War to the continent's largest blackwater wetland in this illustra…

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Jennifer Marino Walters, Who Hq,
Where Is New York?

Penguin Young Readers Group

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of New York with Who HQ! Learn about everything from Broadway and the bustle of New York City to the natural beauty of Niagara Falls in this illus…

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Fred S Naiden
Railroaded

The New York City subway system is one of the largest and oldest in the world, still carrying traces of the transport systems that came before it. Some of its elevated tracks are remnants of steam railroa…

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David Griscom
The Myth of Red Texas

A timely call for Texas---and the South---to reclaim its radical history, drawing lessons for today's struggle from the populists and socialists of yesteryear.In blood-red states such as Texas, politics o…

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Bill Koss
Pond Birds

The history of the University of Florida basketball program from its beginnings to the arrival of Billy Donovan, told by a former player and longtime Gator sports analystIn the 1960s, the University of Fl…

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