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Nine Nine Eight: The Glory Days of Buffalo Shopping    by Michael Rizzo
Price: $4.95 USD. 39770 words. Published on June 5, 2010. .

A unique history of the former retailing landscape in Buffalo, New York. The histories of dozens of stores that once graced the major shopping districts of the city as it grew during the early 20th Century. Biographies of the founders, as well as the store histories are included.
Maude (1883-1993): She Grew Up With the Country    by Mardo Williams
Price: $9.99 USD. 118930 words. Published by Calliope Press  on October 31, 2010. .

Maude started farm life as a pregnant bride of 19. By age 110, she’d lived through half of America’s history. With poetry and human dramas (two murders and a suicide), written by her son, a master journalist, the book shows the impact of the changing times on shy, unassuming Maude, her fun-loving husband Lee, and their four active children. An award-winning biography, with over 70 photographs
Paris, capitale du XIX siècle    by Walter Benjamin
Price: $2.99 USD. 6330 words. Published by Editions de  L'Herne  on April 14, 2011. .

Dans ce livre, Walter Benjamin choisit d’écrire non seulement une « histoire sociale de Paris au XIXe siècle », mais aussi une tentative d'interprétation globale du XIXe siècle et de son équivoque modernité.
Lakeland Hunting Memories - Volume One    by Wendy Fraser
Price: Free! 3510 words. Published on June 6, 2011. .

Recollections of Lakeland hunting in the '50s and '60s. This first volume is an introduction to further, larger volumes which will be compiled from the popular web site Lakeland Hunting Memories established three years ago by Ron Black and Wendy Fraser. Here are some pages that are soon to be archived.
Crime and Punishment in Victorian Edinburgh    by Lynne Wilson
Price: $1.40 USD. 25190 words. Published on July 3, 2011. .

A selection of true crimes, punishments and court cases from Edinburgh in the Victorian era, giving a mixture of humorous, harrowing and strange accounts of Victorian crime in this city.
Salvation Army Miscellany    by Dick Underwood
Price: $0.99 USD. 22110 words. Published by Technology Now Ltd  on November 21, 2011. .

Salvation Army Miscellany is a collection that describes the workings of the Salvation Army in the UK during the 1970's and 1980's from the point of view of a young Salvation Army Officer. It includes stories about the Salvation Army Training College, Salvation Army Social Work, and Salvation Army Corps Work. The book ranges from the sublimely funny to the deeply moving.
Outpost A Doctor on the Divide    by Gweneth Wisewould
Price: $4.95 USD. 79760 words. Published on January 27, 2012. .

Gweneth Wisewould To my fellow medical practitioners: - To the very young doctors who know everything, To the very old doctors who know nothing, And all those in between who bear the burden of the health of a nation, For I have been all of them.
A Pub on Every Corner? - Drink and the Licensed Trade in Nineteenth-Century Berwick-upon-Tweed    by Wendy               Bell Scott
Price: $6.99 USD. 11270 words. Published by Blue Button Publications  on March 14, 2012. .

Insights into the social history of the border town of Berwick upon Tweed, viewed through the developments of the licensed trade and the changes in the laws affecting it,during the nineteenth-century.