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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
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4.37 avg rating — 504 ratings
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London: The Biography
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3.96 avg rating — 5,986 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,066 ratings
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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
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4.33 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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London
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4.09 avg rating — 34,222 ratings
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Seven Ages of Paris
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3.91 avg rating — 2,747 ratings
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A History of Venice
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4.17 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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Jerusalem: The Biography
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4.09 avg rating — 13,417 ratings
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
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4.15 avg rating — 433 ratings
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Barcelona
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3.82 avg rating — 1,600 ratings
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A Short History of Byzantium
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4.11 avg rating — 2,627 ratings
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
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4.30 avg rating — 2,831 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
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4.09 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
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Notre-Dame of Paris
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4.02 avg rating — 217,818 ratings
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Cairo: The City Victorious
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4.07 avg rating — 473 ratings
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St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
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4.19 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
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3.80 avg rating — 22,676 ratings
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The City of Falling Angels
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3.56 avg rating — 17,323 ratings
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The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
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3.96 avg rating — 9,871 ratings
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Magic Prague
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4.11 avg rating — 315 ratings
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A History of Venice: Queen of the Seas
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3.96 avg rating — 182 ratings
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,582 ratings
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Dr. Johnson's London
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4.04 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
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3.83 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Amsterdam
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3.90 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913/1914
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4.08 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 19,872 ratings
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
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4.13 avg rating — 13,327 ratings
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London: The Biography of a City
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4.01 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
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4.03 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
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4.15 avg rating — 4,292 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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3.97 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
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3.96 avg rating — 447 ratings
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The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
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3.75 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Detroit: A Biography
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3.71 avg rating — 1,118 ratings
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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3.95 avg rating — 11,282 ratings
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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
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3.46 avg rating — 3,333 ratings
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
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3.82 avg rating — 22,181 ratings
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History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.94 avg rating — 20,603 ratings
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History of Rome
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3.93 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy
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3.95 avg rating — 299 ratings
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London: A Social History
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3.76 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
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4.09 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
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3.31 avg rating — 1,309 ratings
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Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann
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3.75 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Restoration London : Everyday Life in the 1660s
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4.10 avg rating — 734 ratings
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Athens: A Portrait of the City in its Golden Age
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4.13 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Venice: Pure City
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3.61 avg rating — 1,421 ratings
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Florence: The Biography of a City
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3.85 avg rating — 270 ratings
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The Great Cities in History
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3.42 avg rating — 565 ratings
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Berkeley: A City in History
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3.78 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Kiev
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3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
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3.96 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
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4.10 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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4.26 avg rating — 3,576 ratings
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
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4.08 avg rating — 1,723 ratings
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Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin
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4.32 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
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4.17 avg rating — 11,461 ratings
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Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture
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3.78 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Dubrovnik: A History
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3.81 avg rating — 86 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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4.20 avg rating — 4,852 ratings
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Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,886 ratings
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Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
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3.52 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City
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4.02 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Melbourne (The City Series)
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3.55 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528
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3.89 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
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3.81 avg rating — 497 ratings
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The Fall of the Athenian Empire
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4.10 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
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3.48 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood
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3.98 avg rating — 325 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of Rome
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3.86 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Pompeii : The Living City
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3.92 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Paris: Capital of Europe : From the Revolution to the Belle Epoque
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris
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3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
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4.02 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Makers of Rome
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4.19 avg rating — 2,185 ratings
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The Stones of Florence
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3.69 avg rating — 745 ratings
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St. Louis from Village to Metropolis: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Paris and the Nineteenth Century
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3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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4.02 avg rating — 15,469 ratings
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Canberra
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3.64 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Rome: The Biography of a City
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3.89 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Darwin
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3.75 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Cities and Civilizations
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3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London
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3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
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4.11 avg rating — 5,817 ratings
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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
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3.73 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Santa Barbara
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American Odyssey - A History of a Great City
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4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
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4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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4.05 avg rating — 4,578 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,705 ratings
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Knight of the Purple Ribbon
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3.62 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty
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3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Photo Book of Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 1893
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4.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Portland: A Food Biography
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4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Downtown: My Manhattan
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3.98 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being
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4.07 avg rating — 81 ratings
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but sent for Kindle samples
on Trieste and Salonica
Athens and Rome
I've covered in other sources
probably nowhere as interesting
as yours
Thanks for the list!