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Koville Moroccan Natural Marble Bookends for Shelves, Decorative Book Ends, 7lbs Heavy-Duty Marble Book Holders, Bookshelf Apartment Decor for Normal

"Living Fossil" in the Ocean: This fossil of nautilus is much older than people think. It is called the "living fossil" in the ocean. Dating back to the Ordovician period 500 million years ago, it was the heyday of the fossil of nautilus. Real fossil makes this bookends the premium decor piece for a...

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Ruth Elizabeth Watts Wood

Ruth's Roots: Volume I: Hershey Bars and Jim Beam

This is Volume I of five volumes about the not-so-ordinary family tree of an ordinary American family. The five volumes comprise a complete history of my family tree in narrative form, approached with humor, and accompanied by hundreds of family and historical photos and charts interspersed througho...

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Lily Barrish Levner

Mountain Maître D' Mystery (Catskills Capers)

It’s the Golden Era in the Catskills, but some skeletons won’t stay buried. In the summer of 1954, Abe and Dotty are back at work in the thriving hotel industry. The Catskill Mountains are buzzing with top-notch entertainment, packed dining rooms, and lively bungalow colonies. When a decades-...

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Weird Highway: Oklahoma: Route 66 History and Hauntings, Legends and Lore

WEIRD HIGHWAY: OKLAHOMA ROUTE 66 HISTORY AND HAUNTINGS, LEGENDS AND LORE BY TROY TAYLOR There is no greater highway in American history than Route 66 - the legendary "Mother Road" - which began in downtown Chicago and stretched all the way to the Pacific Ocean. For millions of people, it represent...

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Diving Through The Decades

Diving Through The Decades by highly acclaimed diving historian Eric Hanauer, takes readers on an up-close and personal, decade by decade journey that highlights the inventions, events, and pioneers who transformed diving from its humble beginnings to an international sport enjoyed by millions. The...

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The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (Americans and the California Dream)

What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the go...

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Lesta Sue Hardee

Myrtle Beach Pavilion (Images of America)

For almost a century, the heart of Myrtle Beach was defined by a place simply called "the Pavilion." From the original structure built in 1908, the Pavilion was the center of the resort town's growing tourism industry. It was a destination point for anyone coming to the Grand Strand. Here you could ...

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Tor K. Birkeland

Turkey: The Middle Kingdom

In 1923, the new Republic of Turkey was born, built on the ruins of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. The great father of the nation, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, did what he could to drag the new Turkey into the secular and modern vision he had for a nation state. Most Turks today remember Atatürk as the war ...

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CONGAHEAD: The Autobiography of Martin Cohen

The story of Martin Cohen and LP will be a revelation to anyone who is passionate about popular music and reward everyone who loves a good story. Congahead is a feast for the eyes, ears and imagination. It’s a wild, against all odds, rags to riches story revealed through amazing photographs, many ...

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Cynthia Sundberg Wall

The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century

Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object―a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were tra...

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American Wood Type: 1828-1900 - Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types

The first and most authoritative history of wood type in the United States is now reissued in paperback. This book tells the complete story of wood type, beginning with the history of wood as a printing material, the development of decorated letters and large letters, and the invention of machinery ...

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Boston and Maine in the 19th Century (Images of Rail: Massachusetts)

All the romance of early railroading in northern New England pervades Boston & Maine in the 19th Century. This fascinating journey begins in the 1830s with an 8-mile line that just kept growing. By the end of the century, Boston & Maine was traveling over 2,324 miles of track. This first pictorial h...

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Lucille Lang Day

Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California

Poetry. Environmental Studies. California Interest. Foreword by Dana Gioia. Introduction by Jack Foley. More than 250 poems by 149 contributors, including Ellen Bass, Christopher Buckley, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Camille T. Dungy, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Rebecca Foust, Dana Gioia, Rafael Jesús González,...

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David B. Burrell CSC

Aquinas: God and Action, Third Edition

This exploration of Thomas Aquinas's philosophical theology, decidedly "unorthodox" at the time of its original publication, had the good fortune to be employed extensively--notably at Yale and Cambridge--by my eminent colleagues George Lindbeck and Nicholas Lash. It essayed a "non-foundational" rea...

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Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster

A gripping account of the worst coal mine fire in US history—the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster that claimed the lives of 259 men. "Drawing on diaries, letters, written accounts of survivors and testimony from the coroner's inquest...Tintori's engaging prose keeps readers on the edge" ( Publishers Week...

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Tombstone True Tales and Yarns (American Legends)

Facts, Fiction & Tales of the Town Too Tough to Die The desert oasis of Tombstone has reinvented itself many times over the course of the last century. From the boomtown heyday in the 1880s, to its decline and reinvention as an icon of the Wild West, its reputation was built on colorful characters a...

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Digital Equipment Corporation (MA) (Images of America)

Through photographs of people, events, and machines, Digital Equipment Corporation tells the story of the unassuming computer revolutionaries who reshaped the technological world. From its inception in 1957, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, carved itself ...

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Cramer's Choice: Memoir of a Baseball Card Collector Turned Manufacturer

Mike Cramer's first love was baseball cards. Before high school he had a mail-order trading card business. At age 30 he founded Pacific Trading Cards with money he made fishing crab in the Bering Sea. From 1980 to 2004, Pacific created more than 200 successful trading card products. In 2021, a Pacif...

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Hardy Fuller: Nebraska Blacksmith (The Hardy Fuller Series)

Blacksmiths were an essential part of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Bringing facts and fiction together, David Golden's tale of the Union Pacific Railroad Expansion is a must read. this story takes a step back in time as the railroad expansion was its heyday and follows blacksmi...

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Quantum Cab Volume 2 : Catching Chaos

In this exciting sequel to Quantum Cab Volume 1 we follow a new recruit learning what it means to be a part of Quantum Cab. Others who encounter a frightening digital monsters known as the Scratch! We continue Jesse Soul and his friend's story as they continue down their personal roads. From finding...

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