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New 700 - 900s/Travel Non-Fiction Books 700 Art, Design, Sports, and Recreation 800 Literature and Poetry 900 Geography, Travel, and History |
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Cricut for beginners: A guide to understand fundamentals of Cricut
by Gloria Carlson
Using the Cricut machine, you can make stickers for various purposes, including planning, journaling, and more. You can make high-end greeting cards with this program. Also, you can use the Cricut Maker to cut wood and make 3D, strong objects. Gift boxes and even paper toys are examples of 3D projects. The only limit is your imagination.
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The method : how the twentieth century learned to act
by Isaac Butler
This must read for any fan of Broadway or American film, a critic
and theater director chronicles the history of Method acting—an enthusiastic and engaging story of creative discovery and the birth
of classic Hollywood.
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The impossible art : Adventures in opera
by Matthew Aucoin
This is the user's guide to opera. New York Times Magazine describes Matthew Aucoin as, "the most promising operatic
talent in a generation." Aucoin describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections
on the past, present, and future of opera.
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The Vanished Collection
by Pauline Baer De Perignon
It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin
she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose
works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo and more. The quest takes the author from the Occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence around the wrenching experiences her family never fully transmitted,
and asks what art itself is capable of conveying over time.
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Welcome to Dunder Mifflin :
the ultimate oral history of The Office
by Brian Baumgartner
The official oral history book of The Office, featuring exclusive
interviews with every major player and never-before-seen photos,
pulling back the curtain on what went on to create the show and
why it continues to resonate with audiences today.
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The impossible art : Adventures in opera
by Matthew Aucoin
This is the user's guide to opera. New York Times Magazine describes Matthew Aucoin as, "the most promising operatic
talent in a generation." Aucoin describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections
on the past, present, and future of opera.
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The baseball 100
by Joe Posnanski
An award-winning sportswriter presents this ultimate baseball
resource that tells the story of the game through the extraordinary
lives of its 100 greatest players by retracing their origins, illuminating their characters and placing their accomplishments in the context of baseball’s past and present.
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Finding your voice, telling your stories : 167 ways to tell your life stories
by Carol LaChapelle
Asserting that each life contains the makings of a memoir, Carol LaChapelle gives writers, journal writers, and family historians the
tools to explore their memories and turn them into great stories.
Carol helps readers access and describe the important people,
places, and events in their lives.
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Time Is a Mother
by Ocean Vuong
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong
searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death.
Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his
novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with
personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the
product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break..
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Read Dangerously : The Subversive
Power of Literature in Troubled Times
by Azar Nafisi
Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader in
the Islamic Republic of Iran, a multi-award-winning New York Times
best-selling author explores the most probing questions of our time, arming readers with a resistance reading list that includes
Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and James Baldwin.
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Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
by Melissa Febos
Drawing on her own experiences, the author of the critically
acclaimed memoir Whip Smart discusses how to confront the
emotional, psychological and physical work of writing about our
most intimate lives.
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Taps on the walls : poems from the Hanoi Hilton
by John Borling
Presents poems composed by the Air Force Major General and former prisoner of war who was held in the Hanoi military prison by the Viet Cong for eight years and conveyed his poems to his fellow prisoners through taps on the walls.
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Call us what we carry : poems
by Amanda Gorman
The presidential inaugural poet—and unforgettable new voice in American poetry—presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
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These precious days : essays
by Ann Patchett
Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, the brilliant
author transforms the private into the universal, providing us all
a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting
and enigmatic life can be.
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Writer's market
by Robert Lee Brewer
Features up-to-date listings of publications, editors, magazines,
contests, awards, and literary agents, along with articles that
describe how to find, manage, and promote an author's work.
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Nowhere for Very Long : The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life
by Brianna Madia
A woman defined by motion, Brianna Madia bought a beat-up bright orange van, filled it with her two dogs Bucket and Dagwood, and headed into the canyons of Utah with her husband. Nowhere for
Very Long is her deeply felt, immaculately told story of exploration,
of the world outside and the spirit within.
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100 Great American Parks
by Stephanie Pearson
Nowhere in the world is there a park system like America’s. The
National Park System was the first in the world and is a collection
of the country’s best national treasures. For Americans, these
places are part of our cultural DNA. Filled with beautiful National Geographic photography, wisdom from experts, need-to-know
travel information including the best scenic overlooks and hiking
trails, and practical wildlife-spotting tips, this inspirational collection
takes readers to all 63 national parks, as well as 37 state,
recreational, and city parks and green spaces
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The Habsburgs : To Rule the World
by Martyn Rady
Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest
origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated
documents, invented genealogies, savvy marriages, and military conquest on their improbable ascent, becoming the continent's
most powerful dynasty. By the mid-15th century, the Habsburgs controlled of the Holy Roman Empire, and by the early 16th
century, their lands stretched across the continent and far beyond
it. But in 1918, at the end of the Great War, the final remnant of
their empire was gone.
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Bad Mexicans : Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Few Americans today know the significance of Ricardo Flores
Mag n (1874-1922) and the magonistas, a group of agitators
who challenged Mexican dictator Porfirio D az in the early
twentieth century. But distinguished historian Kelly Lytle
Hernandez argues their cross-border insurgency, launched from
U.S. soil, was a landmark revolt against the U.S. empire and the suffocating power Anglo-Americans held over Mexican lives.
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The house that Madigan built:
the record run of Illinois' Velvet Hammer
by Ray Long
House Speaker Michael J. Madigan was a record setter, a political powerhouse and one of the most prominent architects of Illinois'
destiny. The longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history,
Madigan saw his long reign come to an end, ironically 50 years
to the day he first took the oath as a state representative in 1971,
and 38 years since he first assumed the Illinois House speakership
he'd held for all but two years since. This book is a balanced, authoritative, deep dive into a figure who not only built the House
he led but, in a larger sense, built the house Illinoisans live in.
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Destination Heartland : a guide to discovering the Midwest's remarkable past
by Cynthia Clampitt
An informative handbook and love letter to the Midwest, Destination Heartland provides travelers with a knowledgeable companion on the highways and backroads of history. States covered in the book: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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Magical Venice : The Hedonist's Guide
by Lucie Tournebize
Go beyond the ordinary with this remarkable travelogue and
guidebook filled with spectacular color photography that
showcases Venice's magical beauty and hidden gems, from
the Piazzo San Marco to the island of Giudecca, the banks of
the Grand Canal to the Arsenal district--the second entry in the Hedonist's Guide travel series.
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Six walks : in the footsteps of Henry
David Thoreau
by Ben Shattuck
On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped
out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century
and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than
a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out
to retrace Thoreau's path through the Cape's outer beaches, from
the elbow to Provincetown's fingertip.
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Becoming story : a journey among
seasons, places, trees, and ancestors
by Greg Sarris
Moving between his childhood and the present day, Sarris creates
a kaleidoscopic narrative about the forces that shaped his early
years and his eventual work as a tribal leader. He considers the
deep past, historical traumas, and possible futures of his homeland.
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The king's shadow : obsession, betrayal,
and the deadly quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
by Edmund Richardson
Recounting one of history's most extraordinary stories, this book transports readers back to 19th-century India and Afghanistan where Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy and one of the most respected scholars in Asia, searched for the Lost City of Alexandria during the age of empires, kings and spies.
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Stalking the atomic city : life among the decadent and the depraved of Chornobyl
by Markiëiìan Kamysh
Stalking the Atomic City is a rare portrait of the dystopian reality
that is Chornobyl. Focusing on the site as it is today, Markiyan
Kamysh introduces us to the marginalized people who call the
Exclusion Zone their home, providing a haunting account of
what total autonomy could mean in our growingly fractured world.
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Adriatic : A Concert of Civilizations at
the End of the Modern Age
by Robert D. Kaplan
With a brilliant cross-pollination of history, literature, art,
architecture, and current events, in Adriatic, Kaplan demonstrates
that this unique region that exists at the intersection of civilizations
holds revelatory truths for the future of global affairs.
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Legacy of violence : a history of the
British empire
by Caroline Elkins
Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents,
and covering 200 years of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian shows how the British Empire's pervasive use of violence throughout
the 20th century was exported, modified and institutionalized in
colonies around the world.
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Blood and ruins : the last imperial war,
1931-1945
by Richard Overy
A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II,
from Britain's leading military historian Richard Overy sets out in
Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second
World War and its origins and aftermath.
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Lost Chicago Department Stores
by Leslie Goddard
Whether your family favored The Fair, Carson Pirie Scott, Montgomery Ward or Goldblatt's, you were guaranteed stunning architectural design, attentive customer service and eye-popping holiday window displays. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, advertisements, catalogue images and postcards, Leslie Goddard's narrative brings to life the Windy City's fabulous retail past.
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The Dark Queens : The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
by Shelley Puhak
In The Dark Queens, award-winning writer Shelley Puhak sets the
record straight. She resurrects two very real women in all their complexity, painting a richly detailed portrait of an unfamiliar time
and striking at the roots of some of our culture's stubbornest myths about female power. The Dark Queens offers proof that the
relationships between women can transform the world.
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The Modern Caravan : Stories of Love, Beauty, and Adventure on the Open Road
by Kate Oliver
The Modern Caravan is a warm invitation into rolling homes
designed for life on the open road. Brimming with evocative
storytelling and hundreds of photographs showcasing handsome
interiors and stunning landscapes, this book features more than
35 stories from solo travelers, couples, and families who traded
the comforts of a rooted life for ever-changing vistas and
eye-opening experiences.
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Things are never so bad that they
can't get worse : inside the collapse
of Venezuela
by William Neuman
Part journalism, part memoir, part history, this nuanced and
deeply reported account chronicles Venezuela’s tragic journey
from petro-riches to poverty, painting a personal portrait of this
crisis in real time, while reflecting the energy, passion and humor
of its people under the most challenging circumstances.
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Ways and means : Lincoln and his
cabinet and the financing of the Civil War
by Roger Lowenstein
Through a financial lens, a well-respected journalist and master storyteller shows how Lincoln used the urgency of financing the
Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation and,
for the first time, established a government of the people, by the
people and for the people.
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Lion City : Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
by Jeevan Vasagar
Jeevan Vasagar, former Singapore correspondent for the Financial
Times, masterfully takes us through the intricate history, present
and future of this unique diamond-shaped island one degree north
of the equator, where new and old have remained connected.
Lion City is a personal, insightful and definitive guide to the city,
and how its extraordinary rise is shaping East Asia and the rest
of the world.
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Extreme North : a cultural history
by Bernd Brunner
Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists,
and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern "cabinet of wonders" and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial mystique. Like the mythological sagas that inspired everyone from Wagner to Tolkien, Extreme North explores both the dramatic vistas of the Scandinavian fjords and the murky depths of
a Western psyche obsessed with Nordic whiteness.
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Born of lakes and plains : mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West
by Anne Farrar Hyde
"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade into Indian Country from the Great Lakes to the Columbia River. Vividly combining the panoramic and the particular,Anne F. Hyde's pathbreaking history follows five mixed-descent families whose lives were inscribed by history: corporate battles over control of the fur trade, the extension of American power into the West, the ravages of imported disease, the violence triggered by Indian removal, the incessant battles for land with encroaching American settlement, and the mix of opportunity and disaster in post-Civil War reservations and allotment. Occupying a dangerous intermediate ground in a continent of conflict, mixed-descent families were pivotal in the events that made the West"
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Watergate : A New History
by Garrett M. Graff
Explores the full scope of the Watergate scandal through the
politicians, investigators, journalists and informants who made it
the most influential political event of our modern era.
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The Founders' Fortunes : How Money
Shaped the Birth of America
by Willard Sterne Randall
In this landmark account, a noted historian investigates the private financial affairs of the Founding Fathers, revealing how and why the Revolution came about and providing a new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.
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The betrayal of Anne Frank : a cold case investigation
by Rosemary Sullivan
Using a new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, a retired FBI agent and a
Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading
to the infamous arrest of Anne Frank and her family—and came to
a shocking conclusion.
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Bronzeville Nights : On the Town in
Chicago's Black Metropolis
by Steven C. Dubin
Bronzeville was once America's most vibrant Black community,
next to Harlem. Nightclubs, dance halls, rialtos, and jazz and
blues joints lined the streets of Chicago's South Side. Not much
is left. A few sound recordings, memories passed down from
generation to generation, and―until now―only a handful of photographs.
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The art of more : how mathematics
created civilization
by Michael Brooks
A science writer with a PhD in quantum physics reveals how mathematics is one of the foundational innovations that has
catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to civilization,
and has been shaping our world ever since.
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Free : a child and a country at the
end of history
by Lea Ypi
A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated", she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes, people were equal, neighbors helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. Then the statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled.
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The invention of power : popes, kings,
and the birth of the West
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
A political scientist explains the consolidation of power in the
West through a single, little noticed event—the 1122 Concordat of Worms, which changed the terms of competition between churches
and nation-states, incentivizing economic growth that benefited
citizens over kings and popes.
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Chicago's Motor Row
by John F. Hogan
Motor Row started when Henry Ford, the best known name in automobile manufacturing, opened one of his first dealerships on
South Michigan Avenue near the homes of Chicago's most affluent citizens. Others followed with sales and service buildings designed
by the nation's foremost architects. Shoppers flocked to the automotive smorgasbord. Although the auto dealers have left, most of these architectural jewels remain.
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Athens : City of Wisdom
by Bruce Clark
From the legal reforms of the lawmaker Solon in the sixth century
BCE to the travails of early twenty-first century Athens, as it
struggles with the legacy of the economic crises of the 2000s,
Clark brings the city's history to life, evoking its cultural richness
and political resonance in this epic, kaleidoscopic history.
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The bright ages : a new history of
medieval Europe
by Matthew Gabriele
Taking us through ten centuries and crisscrossing Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, this popular history sheds new
light on the European Middle Ages, revealing a time of beauty
and communion that flourished alongside dark brutality.
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Aftermath : life in the fallout of the
Third Reich, 1945-1955
by Harald Jähner
Presents a history of Germany’s national mentality in the years immediately following World War II, weaving personal stories
into facts about a country with more than half the population
displaced, cities in ruins and having no mail, trains or traffic.
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The Greeks : a global history
by Roderick Beaton
The result of decades of research, this sweeping history, from the
Bronze Age to today, tells the story of the Greeks and their global
impact told as never before.
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The 1619 Project : a new origin story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
This ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began
on the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery reimagines if our national narrative actually started in late August
of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of 20-30 enslaved people from Africa.
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The dawn of everything : a new history
of humanity
by David Graeber
An activist and public intellectual teams up with a professor of comparative archaeology to deliver an account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social
evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence and social inequality—
and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation
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Cuba : an American history
by Ada Ferrer
A Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at
New York University provides an epic history of Cuba from before Columbus arrived to modern times and discusses its complex
relationship with the United States.
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Fodor's Chicago
by Fodor's Travel Guides
A detailed and comprehensive travel guide for visitors to Chicago.
It features tips on what to see and do, from the Field Museum of
Natural History to finding the best deep-dish pizza and shopping
on the Magnificent Mile. Illustrations. Maps.
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Accessible vacations : an insider's guide
to 10 national parks
by Simon Hayhoe
This book helps readers with access needs visit national parks
and visitor centers. It describes a range of techniques and
technologies to make visiting easier and shows you what is
available for learning through driving, riding, walking, wheeling,
or feeling around ten selected national parks.
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Fodor's 2022 Paris
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Explore the City of Light from the top of the Eiffel Tower,
browsing the artwork at the Louvre or enjoying a stroll down the Champs-Élysées with a travel guidebook full of maps, suggested itineraries and curated recommendations.
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Fodor's San Francisco
by Trevor Felch
Ready to experience San Francisco? The experts at Fodor's are here to help. Fodor's San Francisco travel guide is packed with customizable itineraries with top recommendations, detailed maps of San Francisco, and exclusive tips from locals. Whether you want to explore the Golden Gate Bridge or the Presidio, visit Alcatraz or the Mission District, eat dim sum in Chinatown or explore the Napa & Sonoma Wine Country, this up-to-date guidebook will help you plan it all out.
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Walt Disney World for kids :
the official guide 2022
by Wendy Lefkon
In this must-have guide to Walt Disney World, real kids give honest advice for planning the best vacation ever through insider tips, descriptions of all theme parks and attractions, and much more.
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Not for Tourists Guide to Chicago 2022
by Not for Tourists
The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based,
neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-Town
into sixty mapped neighborhoods from Gold Coast and Lincoln Park
to Wrigleyville and Lakeview.
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Birnbaum's 2022 Walt Disney World:
The Official Vacation Guide
by Birnbaum Guides
Assists in planning a Walt Disney World vacation, including
money-saving strategies, detailed descriptions of all attractions,
resorts and places to eat, an updated “must-do” list and information
on enhanced health and safety measures.
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Where the Tour Buses Don't Go: Chicago's Hidden Sites of the Mysterious, Macabre, Ghostly & Glamorous
by Gerry Lekas
Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history—often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection Mary, Lonely Ghost of Lake Forest, St. Rita’s and so many more); all things Al Capone (seven notable Scarface sites and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre); other Outfit bigshot hangouts, graves and hit locations; Monsters of the Midway like Holmes, Gacy, Speck and more; murder and mayhem featuring 12 killers; and literally dozens of celebrity homes and hangouts from downtown to the suburbs and beyond!
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