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Julie Flavell
When London Was Capital of America
In the years before independence, the famous city’s heyday as a beacon for colonial Americans   “Ambitious . . . lively. . . . Beautifully reimagining a city that was a distant but integral part of American life, Flavell’s book is essential reading for anyone interested in the colonial peri...
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Deluxe Edition Hardcover: A Novel
A stunning hardcover limited special edition of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s sensational New York Times bestselling novel. A legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine. Agi...
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Pat Ganahl
Lost Hot Rods: Remarkable Stories of How They Were Found
Whenever hot rodders get together to bench race two questions invariably come up: "Whatever happened to such-and-such car?"; and "How can I find one of these old, abandoned hot rods?" Lost Hot Rods answers both questions by finding nearly 100 lost hot rods, custom cars, and a few dragsters that were...
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GM Zenón Franco Ocampos
Learn from Sammy Reshevsky
Learn from Sammy Reshevsky In his heyday, Samuel Reshevsky was one of the great contenders for the world title and, according to Bobby Fischer, for a period of about ten years, from 1946 to 1956, he was the best player in the world. This book contains sixty of his best games, all analysed and anno...
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Timothy B. Spears
100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture
"Kiss the children and sister Minnie for me. And tell her whatever she does, never to marry a traveling man, they are the most unhappy men on earth."―E. Barton Martin to his wife, Julia, April 6, 1877 "I have maid plenty of money since I've bin off the farm & don't have to work half so hard. . . ...
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Brassaï
Henry Miller: The Paris Years
“A wonderful portrait of Miller in his heyday: full of beans and braggadocio, overflowing with the lust to live and write.”—Erica Jong His years in Paris were the making of Henry Miller. He arrived with no money, no fixed address, and no prospects. He left as the renowned if not notorious a...
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Tanya McCoy
Oklahoma's Haunted Route 66 (Haunted America)
Trace the haunted heritage of America's Mother Road across Oklahoma. Route 66 may seem like a quieter thoroughfare than it was in its heyday, but the ghosts of Oklahoma's past bustle along unabated. When the sun sets on the Road of Dreams, the shadows of its roadside attractions take on a nightmaris...
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John Grisham
The Broker: A Novel
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fast-paced, fun read with echoes of something deeper. The author’s command of pop fiction delivers crisp, sharp prose.” — The Boston Globe In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel B...
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Claire Maria Chambers
Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics (Performance Philosophy)
This book explores the intersection between apophaticism - negative theology - and performance. While apophaticism in literature and critical theory may have had its heyday in the heady debates about negative theology and deconstruction in the 1990s, negative ways of knowing and speaking have contin...
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James Orr
The Christian View of God and the World
In The Christian View of God in the World, James Orr offers an extensive description and defense of the theistic worldview centering on the incarnation of Jesus Christ. James Orr (1844-1913) was a Scottish theologian born in Glasgow. He ministered at the East Bank Church in Harwick and later was pro...
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James Parry
Sudeley Castle: Royalty, Romance & Renaissance
The first comprehensive publication about the remarkable Sudeley Castle, tracing over 1,000 years of illustrious history from the time of King Aethelred the Unready through the castle's Tudor heyday and its 19th century restoration. Set in the beautiful Gloucestershire Cotswolds, Sudeley Castle exem...
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Kurt Andersen
True Believers: A Novel
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century —delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its ...
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Tony Corcoran
Guinness: The Greatest Brewery on Earth--Its History, People, and Beer
There is no other company, industry, or premises more closely aligned—indeed almost synonymous—with its hometown than Guinness’s St. James’s Gate Brewery and the city of Dublin. From the company’s modest beginnings in 1759 to its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries an...
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Oliver Buckton
The World Is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming
The definitive history of the flamboyant life of Ian Fleming and his most famous creation, James Bond. This new biography of Ian Fleming presents a fresh and illuminating portrayal of the iconic creator of James Bond. Oliver Buckton provides the first in-depth exploration of the entire process of...
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Emily Bennington
Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job
When you’re new to the workforce, ambition and talent aren’t enough—getting on the fast track to success requires much more. If you’re a recent college graduate or new hire, Effective Immediately shows you how to excel at your first job and jump-start your career. As an up-and-coming pro...
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Haunted Lady (American Mystery Classics)
The arsenic in her sugar bowl was wealthy widow Eliza Fairbanks' first clue that somebody wanted her dead. The nightly plagues of bats, birds, and rats unleashed in her bedroom were the second indication, an obvious attempt to scare the life out of the delicate dowager. So instead of calling the ext...
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Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson
The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League's Opportunity Magazine (Harlem Renaissance)
Modern Library Harlem Renaissance In 1923, the Urban League's Opportunity magazine made its first appearance. Spearheaded by the noted sociologist Charles S. Johnson, it became, along with the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine, one of the vehicles that drove the art and literature of the Harlem Renaissa...
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James E. David
Spies and Shuttles: NASA's Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA
Revealing the connections between NASA and the United States defense community   In this real life spy saga, James David digs through newly declassified documents to ultimately reveal how NASA became a strange bedfellow to the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Central Intelligence Agency. Begin...
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Mayme Johnson
Harlem Godfather: The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson
The first and only full biography on legendary Harlem gangster, Bumpy Johnson who was depicted in the movies Cotton Club, Hoodlum and American Gangster Al Capone may have ruled Chicago. Lucky Luciano may have run most of New York City. But from the 1930s to the late 1960s, when it came to Harlem, th...
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Emma Bland Smith
Growing Up in the Shadow of Alcatraz: Childhood on a Prison Island
Selected as a Top Ten Title in the Margins Book Award Program, honoring books that authentically represent the lived experiences of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and system-impacted youth. Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay is notorious for its prison, which held some of the world's most da...
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