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In August 1869, 33-year-old journalist Samuel Clemens -- or as he was later known, Mark Twain -- moved to Buffalo, New York. At the time, he had high hopes of establishing himself as a successful newspaper editor in the thriving metropolis at the western end of the Erie Canal. In this engaging portrait of the famous author at a formative and important juncture of his life, Twain scholar Thomas J. Reigstad details the domestic, social, and professional...

"Here, for the first time, readers can enjoy a complete view of Frank Lloyd Wright's amazing early masterwork of 1904, the Larkin Building. It was a major factor in his fame abroad, and later, at home. But in 1950 it was razed. Why? Professor Jack Quinan of the State University of New York at Buffalo, has benefited from a hitherto unknown cache of original documents, including photographs, which enable him to answer the question. The numerous letters...

Can a woman who's rescued countless victims now save herself from an unknown enemy? After over a decade as a "guide" who helped people in trouble disappear, Jane Whitefield has promised her new husband that she will never work again. Then she is asked to perform her magic just one last time to help a plastic surgeon who becomes the target of killers seeking to eliminate evidence of their patron's change of face.

In The Unknown City Michelle Fine and Lois Weis offer a groundbreaking, theoretically sophisticated ethnography of the lives of young adults, ages 23 to 35, in two large East Coast cities. Analyzing interviews with hundreds of young people, Fine and Weis provide insights into their startling and often harrowing experiences. A major focus of the book is on the "fractures" in American society: how and why those of different races, ethnicities, and genders...