The New York Times–bestselling history of the rise of California’s wine country and its most famous vintners—from the au
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Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege�s f
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Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the Marc
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Started by Italian brothers from North Denver, the high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate began in the bootlegging days o
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At the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who,
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Abdisho bar Brikha (d. 1318) was a prominent East Syriac writer. While many of his works did not survive, his The Paradi
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Who is he? A nineteenth-century photograph glimpsed at a family reunion sets Lois Farley Shuford on a transatlantic ques
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