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• Taking Manhattan

  the Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

  Shorto, Russell,

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• Mavericks

  Life Stories and Lessons of History's Most Extraordinary Misfits

  Draper, Jenny,

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  Breaking away from history that covers kings and queens, this books instead looks at 24 fascinating stories of the underdogs, mavericks. trail blazers and oddballs that shaped the world and what their unique experiences can teach us.

• The Gangs of Zion

  a Black Cop's Crusade in Mormon Country

  Stallworth, Ron,

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• The Rescuers

  the Remarkable People Who Saved World Heritage

  Moses, Nancy, 1948-

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• Gobsmacked!

  the British Invasion of American English

  Yagoda, Ben,

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  An account of when, how and why various British terms and phrases have become part of contempoary American English.

• Gay New York

  Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

  Chauncey, George,

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  Drawing from diaries, legal records and other unpublished documents, the author constructs a portrait of gay life in New York City that was not supposed to have existed.

• Black Tunnel White Magic

  a Murder, a Detective's Obsession, and '90s Los Angeles at the Brink

  Jackson, Rick (Retired detective),

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• Killer Story

  the Truth Behind True Crime Television : a Memoir

  St. Amant, Claire,

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  Bring a true crime story to network television takes a lot of work. The author gives an in-depth looks on the other side of the yellow tape and what it takes to succeed.

• The Prosecutor

  One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

  Fairweather, Jack,

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  The powerful true story of the gay Jewish lawyer who survived the Nazis and then returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute those who were on trial for committing war crimes only to be pitted against a nation determined to bury…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Banksy's Lost Works

  on the Trail of His Vanishing Street Art

  Ellsworth-Jones, Will,

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