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1	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America more books like this by Erik Larson add to wishlist The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The National Parks: America's Best Idea more books like this by Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan add to wishlist This evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative--the companion volume to the 12-hour PBS series--delves into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 through to the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly 400 sites and 84 million acres. see all copies from £14.95! new only from £15.55! \| first editions
3	Truman more books like this by David McCullough (Read by) add to wishlist This biography of Harry Truman goes beyond the traditional portrait of the "ordinary man" to present an extraordinary American President. Drawing on archival material and extensive interviews, McCullough chronicles Truman's boyhood in Missouri, his entry into politics and his surprising success as a US senator. But it is Truman's emergence as a ... see all copies from £3.11! new only from £8.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America more books like this by Douglas Brinkley add to wishlist Award-winning historian Brinkley examines the life and achievements of America's Naturalist President. The author argues that it was Theodore Roosevelt--by setting aside 230 million acres of Wild America for posterity--who turned conservationism into a universal endeavor. see all copies from £9.03! new only from £15.08! \| signed copies
5	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 more books like this by David McCullough add to wishlist Popular historian David McCullough tells the story of the building of the Panama Canal, which connected the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. He relates the engineering, the politics, and the human drama. THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS won a National Book Award in history. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era more books like this by James M McPherson add to wishlist This text presents a history of the American Civil War. It starts with an account of the years before the civil war and its causes - placing slavery firmly back in the centre stage - before discussing the war, the two sides, the international dimension, the position and role of the free blacks and slaves, to its outcome, the end of the war and ... see all copies from £2.48! new only from £11.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	A Great and Terrible Beauty more books like this by Libba Bray add to wishlist It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from India to a boarding school in England. Lonely and prone to visions of the future, Gemma is now being followed by a mysterious young Indian man who's been sent to watch her. But why? see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Letters to a Young Poet more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ... see all copies from £1.84! new only from £1.84! \| first editions
9	Moloka'i more books like this by Alan Brennert add to wishlist When Rachel is just 5 years old, in the 1890s, and living in Honolulu with her family, she is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to a hospital at the Kalaupapa Leper Colony on the island of Moloka'i. Over the years, as the disease is treated (a cure is finally found in 1940), Rachel loses contact with her family, marries a fellow patient, has a ... see all copies from £6.19! new only from £6.96!
10	The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World more books like this by Steven Johnson add to wishlist Bestselling author Johnson illuminates the intertwined histories of the spread of cholera in 19th-century London, the rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry, offering both a riveting history and a powerful explanation of how it has shaped the world of today. see all copies from £5.90! new only from £7.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Land Remembered more books like this by P Smith add to wishlist In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with ... see all copies from £2.30! new only from £2.47! \| first editions
12 view cover	Norton Anthology of American Literature more books like this by Nina Baym (Editor) add to wishlist This classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present features the work of over 260 writers, with 34 newly included. Among the 36 works reproduced in their entirety are "Franklin's Autobiography"; "The Scarlet Letter"; "Walden"; "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"; "The Awakening"; "My Antonia"; "As ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.43! \| first editions
13 view cover	Last Sin Eater more books like this by Francine Rivers add to wishlist In this story set in mid 19th-century Appalachia, young Cadi learns a valuable spiritual lesson about Jesus Christ after she confronts a mysterious man who comes to absolve her guilt over her grandmother's death. Now a major motion picture from Fox Faith, starring Henry Thomas ("E.T."), set for theatrical release on February 16. Photos. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer more books like this by James L Swanson add to wishlist A New York Times Bestselling Author From April 14th to the 26th, 1865, the hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices transfixed a nation reeling from the horrors of the newly ended civil war. Manhunt takes readers on the intensive search that moves side-by-side with the desperate assassin from the streets of Washington, D. C., through the ... see all copies from £5.62! new only from £5.92! \| first editions
15 view cover	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II more books like this by Douglas A Blackmon add to wishlist Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off the debt as unpaid laborers. see all copies from £6.82! new only from £6.85!
16 view cover	Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War more books like this by Newt Gingrich add to wishlist This military history novel about the bloody and legendary battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, takes the reader into the mind of Robert E. Lee to ask: what if Lee hadn't attacked the Union army but had, instead, taken his army south in a maneuver to outflank the Yankees--and change the course of history. see all copies from £3.45! new only from £3.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Beloved more books like this by Toni Morrison (Read by) add to wishlist Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Little women more books like this by Louisa M Alcott add to wishlist This story of the four March sisters is based on the author's own childhood. The novel is divided into two parts. "Book One" focuses on the sisters' struggles with poverty while growing up in New England during the Civil War. As their father, a minister, serves in the war, the girls are raised by their loving and wise mother, Marmee. "Book Two" ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Night of the New Magicians: Merlin Mission more books like this by Mary Pope Osborne (Read by) add to wishlist Merlin sends Jack and Annie on a mysterious mission to Paris, France, where the 1889 Worlds Fair is underway. There they must find four magicians and give them an urgent message from Merlin himself. Includes all-new backmatter with activities and a window cling. Illustrations. Consumable. see all copies from £1.32! new only from £1.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Last Full Measure more books like this by Jeff Shaara add to wishlist Beginning with the Union ambush at Bristoe Station in October of 1863, this novel depicts Robert E. Lee's attempts to defend northern Virginia from General Grant's more powerful forces. The conclusion to the trilogy begun by the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning father, Michael. see all copies from £2.40! new only from £3.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Shotgun Bride more books like this by Linda Lael Miller add to wishlist In the second novel of Miller's McKettrick Cowboys trilogy, local marshal Kade McKettrick must choose between five mail-order brides who are all willing to produce an heir that will win him his father's ranch. But only one special lady steals his heart. Original. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.24! \| first editions
22 view cover	Red Badge of Courage more books like this by Stephen Crane add to wishlist THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, the harrowing tale of a young soldier in battle during the Civil War, is a masterpiece of 19th-century naturalism. Crane attended a military prep school and was obsessed with war all his life, but he wrote the novel without ever having witnessed a battle--a fact he was always slightly defensive about. Before he began to ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Killer Angels more books like this by Michael Shaara add to wishlist Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prizewinning 1974 novel describes the battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. The trilogy begun with THE KILLER ANGELS has been continued by Shaara's son Jeff with the novels GODS AND GENERALS and THE LAST FULL MEASURE. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War more books like this by Tony Horwitz add to wishlist A portrait of Civil War societies and the amateur historians who populate them throughout the South. Horwitz, the grandson of Russian immigrants who were obsessed with the conflict, spent a year visiting such societies to piece together his account. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Johnstown Flood more books like this by David McCullough add to wishlist This is a history of the Johnstown Flood. On May 31, 1889, following a storm, the old earth dam at Lake Conemaugh--outside of Johnstown, Pennsylvania--burst. The torrent of water which that flooded the Little Conemaugh River Valley killed over 2,000 people. The lake was home to the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, the membership of which ... see all copies from £6.10! new only from £7.92! \| first editions

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