Napa: The Story of an American Eden 0547526598, 9780547526591

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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Napa: The Story of an American Eden
0547526598, 9780547526591

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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Tracing his family history on his father's side, Alex Haley begins with the story of his great-great-grandfather, J

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How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel’s identit

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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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What could be a more fun and delicious way to celebrate American culture than through the lore of our favorite foods? Th

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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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"Here is a comprehensive, richly illustrated account of a crossroads that made it big-- Kansas City. From its earli

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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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