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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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