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Meet teenage Carrie Bradshaw as she hits the bright lights, big city of NewYork for the very first time! Find out how Carrie transforms from countrygirl to super-cool fashionista in the second explosi...
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Eight months after The Iron Duke, can their marriage survive a new danger? After Mina is called in to investigate the murder of an aristocratic bounder, her husband Rhys—known to the world as the Iro...
Both the great cities studied in this book are renowned for their imposing streets and buildings, their cultural and political vitality and their cosmopolitan lifestyles, but just outside their centre...
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On November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the nation's first African-American mayors to govern their cities. Ten years later more than two hundred black mayors he...
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