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  • Quotable San Francisco

    Historic Moments in Memorable Words

    by Terry Hamburg, Richard Hansen ...
    A treasury of quotes from San Franciscans and about San Francisco, from the gold rush to the tech boom.San Francisco is forty-nine square miles surrounded by reality. —Paul Kantner, Jefferson AirplaneSan Francisco surged from hamlet to boomtown overnight—the most meteoric "instant city" in history. From the Gold Rush to the Tech Rush, it's been the site of daring innovations, counterculture ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Land of the Dead

    How the West Changed Death in America

    by Terry Hamburg ...
    The fabled nineteenth-century migration to the American West was filled with peril and despair. From sailing ship to covered wagon, ambitious young pioneers endured six months of unprecedented, largely unanticipated personal hardship – that is, if they survived the trip. Death was a constant companion and the promised land proved as lethal as it was fickle. Land of the Dead explores how the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Finding Florida

    The True History of the Sunshine State

    by T. D. Allman ...
    A National Book Award Nominee and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, “God’s waiting room,” and a place to start over. Depopulated after the extermination of its original native population, today it’s home to nineteen million. The site of ... Read more

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  • A Short History of San Francisco

    by Tom Cole ...
    A concise, "colorful, well-told" history of the City by the Bay, from the Gold Rush to the Summer of Love to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of ... Read more

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  • The National Road

    Dispatches From a Changing America

    by Tom Zoellner ...
    This collection of "eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character" serves to remind us that despite our differences we all belong to the same land (Publishers Weekly).“How was it possible, I wondered, that all of this American land––in every direction––could be fastened together into a whole?”What does it mean when a nation accustomed to ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Multiply/Divide

    On the American Real and Surreal

    by Wendy S. Walters ...
    I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history. The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image. Perhaps this is because I am pretty certain I would not have survived it.In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy Walters deftly ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Hellacious California!

    Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State

    by Gary Noy ...
    "Teems with bittersweet compounds of 19th-century nefariousness, including . . . gambling, knife fights, the demon drink, con artistry, and prostitution." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California "can and does furnish the best bad things," including "purer liquors . . . finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cool Gray City of Love

    49 Views of San Francisco

    by Gary Kamiya ...
    "A kaleidoscopic homage both personal and historical . . . Kamiya's symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure." -New York Times Book ReviewThe bestselling love letter to one of the world's great cities, San Francisco, by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon.Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal history, deeply researched history, in-depth ... Read more

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  • Strange and Obscure Stories of New York City

    Little-Known Tales About Gotham's People and Places

    by Tim Rowland ...
    The 1948 crime film The Naked City (later a television show) ended with this iconic line There are eight million stories in the naked city.” Things have not changed either before or since: every era and neighborhood is full of true tales and legends about which even residents are likely to be unaware. Strange And Obscure Stories Of New York City takes the reader on a breathtaking tour of the five ... Read more

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  • Low Life

    Lures and Snares of Old New York

    by Lucy Sante ...
    The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: "A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves" (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review).Lucy Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • City of the Century

    The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

    by Donald L. Miller ...
    "A wonderfully readable account of Chicago's early history" and the inspiration behind PBS's American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).Depicting its turbulent beginnings to its current status as one of the world's most dynamic cities, City of the Century tells the story of Chicago—and the story of America, writ small. From its many natural disasters, including the Great Fire of ... Read more

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  • 1,000 Things to Love About America

    Celebrating the Reasons We’re Proud to Call the U.S.A. Home

    by Brent Bowers, Barbara Bowers, Henry Gottlieb, Agnes Gottlieb ...
    From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 People, comes a new book that celebrates the reasons we’re proud to call America home—from jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle hamburger. Chock full of anecdotes and often surprising insights and historical information, 1,000 ... Read more

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