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Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink is a biography of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro from prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa. David Maraniss’pa Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story, portrays Detroit in 1963 — at the top of its game, but poised for collapse. In Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, ak Rise of Los Angeles, Les Standiford tells the story of the largest public water project ever created — William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct.

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