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In 1851 Chapman brought Marian Evans - the future George Eliot - to London where her arrival caused rows in the household, which included Chapman's wife and also his mistress.

The Strand was packed with booksellers, magazine publishers, theatres, clubs, and quack doctors.

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The book is a good read, but it also serves an historical function.

Aside from the fact that the book is informative, reading about the lives of the children of America's chief executives is like peering into a moment of the American equivalent of royalty.

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"American Lightning" shows the lasting impact the 1910 bombing of the "Los Angeles Times" offices had on three remarkable individuals and, through them, the country itself.

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This is an account of the life on a single spot in New England from the last ice age through years of Indians, shamans, and bears, to the colonists, witches and farmers, and now the encroaching parks.

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Reasoner strips away the dime novel legends and Hollywood myths to show readers how the gunfighters of the Old West really lived. Among the true stories are: 'Doc Holliday's Last Gunfight', 'The Shootout at the Tuttle Dance Hal'l and 'The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Jesse James'.

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Always a rum place, the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways, mud banks gave way to deep-water docks and sweatshops. This book tells the story of this part of London. It reveals the underbelly of the history of the East End.

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FINDING UTOPIA tells a touching story of love and loss, dreams realized, and dreams cut short, woven through the lens of a misguided love that shatters lives and leaves a town in ashes. Set in Utopia, Texas, in the rural Hill Country, between 1917 and 1926; the characters live on in memory long after you reach the end.

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An acclaimed author and journalist weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan.

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When James Nash discovered gold in 1867 in eastern Queensland, he could never have envisaged the frenzy which would sweep the land. Combining thorough historical research with a dramatic reconstruction of events, this book is a colourful, authentic documentary of this fascinating era in Australia's past.

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Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where the author grew up, and where she lives. It's been in the family since her ancestor Milicent Ludlow, young, single and an orphan, took it on in 1891 and began to enlarge the house and manage the farm. This title tells the story of the house and the family.

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In 1951 an aristocrat accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, her mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murdered. The ensuing trial, Clarence Darrow's last, exposed the shocking realities of a Hawaiian "paradise."

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Jacqueline Bouvier, Ethel Skakel and Joan Bennett all married into the Kennedy family and became forever linked with the American legend. This book offers an account of the relationship shared by these three women, during the "Camelot" years and beyond.

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