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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
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9.8
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    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil:     A Savannah Story
    Current rating
    9.7
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    • 3

    Philistines at the Hedgerow:     Passion and Property in the Hamptons
    Current rating
    9.5
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    • 4

    Ecology of Fear:     Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
    Current rating
    9.5
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    • 5

    The Power Broker:     Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    Current rating
    9.4
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    • 6

    The Jew Store
    Current rating
    9.4
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    • 7

    The Murder of Helen Jewett:     The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
    Current rating
    9.2
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    • 8

    A Midwife's Tale:     The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
    Current rating
    9.2
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    • 9

    One More Time:     The Best of Mike Royko
    Current rating
    9.2
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    • 10

    Bruculinu, America:     Remembrances of Sicilian-American Brooklyn, Told in Stories and Recipes
    Current rating
    9.1
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    • 11

    Rising Tide:     The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
    Current rating
    9.0
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    • 12

    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil:     A Savannah Story
    (Large Print Edition) [LARGE PRINT]
    Current rating
    9.0
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    • 13

    The Other Side of the River:     A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
    Current rating
    8.9
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    • 14

    The Foxfire Book:     Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moon
    Current rating
    8.8
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    • 15

    The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
    (Neighborhoods of New York City)
    Current rating
    8.8
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    • 16

    Lasso the Wind:     Away to the New West
    Current rating
    8.6
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    • 17

    To See and See Again:     A Life in Iran and America
    Current rating
    8.3
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    • 18

    Coming into the Country
    Current rating
    8.3
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    • 19

    Three Roads to the Alamo:     The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
    Current rating
    8.3
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    • 20

    The Encyclopedia of New York City
    Current rating
    8.3
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