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Amazing Feats

The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall
Call Number: B ROGET
The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor by Marguerite Holloway
Call Number: B RANDEL
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Call Number: 423 WIN
To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers by Philippe Petit
Call Number: B PETIT

Aristocrats and Elite

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie
Call Number: B CHANEL
Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
Call Number: DOCTOROW
Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham
Call Number: B HUGHES
The Clarks of Cooperstown by Nicholas Fox Weber
Call Number: B CLARK

Hucksters

Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
Call Number: B BRINKLEY
The Museum of Hoaxes by Alex Boese
Call Number: 001.95 BOE
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York by Matthew Goodman
Call Number: 974.7103 GOO

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