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1) Booked: a traveler's guide to literary locations around the world

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Kreitner, Richard

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809 Kre

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2019.	First edition.	Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers	xiii, 226 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.	English	On Shelf 1 copy. Additional copies on order. La Farge 809 Kre	More Info Place Hold

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A must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the Monroeville, Alabama courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird, Chatsworth House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, and the Kyoto Bridge from Memoirs of a Geisha. The full-color photographs throughout reveal the settings readers have imagined again...

2) Break it up: secession, division, and the secret history of America's imperfect union

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Kreitner, Richard

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320.973 Kre

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2020.	First edition.	Little, Brown and Company	viii, 486 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.	English	On Shelf 2 copies. Additional copies on order. Main New Books has 2 320.973 Kre	More Info Place Hold

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From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account" of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn't...

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