 | A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield
Buy new: $12.47 / Used from: $7.80 The search for the perfect red pigment led to murder, espionage, and greed.
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 | Blue: The History of a Color. by Michel Pastoureau
Buy new: $22.85 / Used from: $18.95 |
 | The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.81 A fascinating account of the Basque people.
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 | The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World by Christy Campbell
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $2.59 |
 | American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel
Buy new: $28.80 / Used from: $11.70 |
 | Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield
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 | Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History by H.E. Jacob
Buy used from: $29.85 Erudite and entertaining history of bread; its role in society; and how it impacted politics from the Roman Empire to Napoleon.
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 | Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America by James Green
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.69 |
 | Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America by Edward Behr
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.58 |
 | Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.46 |
 | Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.28 |
 | This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.00 |
 | A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 by Frederic Morton
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.28 Very literate account of cultural life in Vienna at the end of the 19th Century.
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 | Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.96 |
 | Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 by Frederic Morton
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 | The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
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 | Wittgenstein's Vienna by Allan Janik
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.50 Revealing story of how the famous but dysfunctional Wittgenstein Dynasty helped bring together some of the great minds of Europe toward the Fin=d-Siecle
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 | The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks
Buy used from: $9.27 Rousing history of the Pirate Wars of the Barbarry Coast.
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 | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $1.67 |
 | Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $4.11 |
 | And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $5.95 This isn't exactly light summer reading, but it's worthwhile. An excellent history using contemporary sources of the case of Leo Frank, a Southern Jewish businessman accused of the murder of a young white woman who worked for him. Brings into play the rise of the KKK, modern yellow journalism, black/white relations, and the New South in a spellbinding story.
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 | The Norton Book of Travel
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $1.32 Good, true adventure, edited by Paul Fussell.
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 | Norton Book of Sports
Buy new: $45.00 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from the Golden Age of Exploration, 1800-1900 (Outside Books)
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $0.70 |
 | Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books by Ted Bishop
Buy new: $20.47 / Used from: $3.35 Haven't read it. Sounds intriguing.
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