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Thad Sitton
Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942
Winner, T. H. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, thes...
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Kathryn H. H. Fuller-Seeley
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy
The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio’s ...
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Katherine Alford
Caviar, Truffles, and Foie Gras: Recipes for Divine Indulgence
Caviar, truffles, and foie gras--these luxurious ingredients create a dazzling orchestra for the senses and are appearing more and more on the menus at fine restaurants. This elegant cookbook explores the difference between Sevruga and Osetra, the controversy of foie gras, and the enigmatic nighttim...
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Renisa Mawani
Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire (Global and Insurgent Legalities)
In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported t...
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Sanford M. Jacoby
Modern Manors
In light of recent trends of corporate downsizing and debates over corporate responsibility, Sanford Jacoby offers a timely, comprehensive history of twentieth-century welfare capitalism, that is, the history of nonunion corporations that looked after the economic security of employees. Building on ...
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Mark Ribowsky
In the Name of the Father: Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty
The story of America’s most sacred and carefully constructed football dynasty is revealed in this unflinching family portrait. For generations, American athletes have enjoyed the ever-escalating celebrity lavished upon them when they combine on-the-field talent with off-the field charisma, but nev...
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Rev. J.J. Gibbons
In the San Juan
Rev. J.J. Gibbons experienced the San Juan Mountains of Colorado as few men ever did. At the end of the Nineteenth Century, when avalanches ran, mines exploded, and plagues hit hard, everyone backed off except for Gibbons. It was his job to tend to the sick, give last rites tot he dying, buy the dea...
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Gary Snyder
The High Sierra of California
"One of the great beauties in Sierra literature, maybe the finest of all in terms of quality of image and text, both individually and in combination." —Kim Stanley Robinson California Book Award Winner The High Sierra of California is a brilliant tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspir...
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F.S. Fitzgerald
The Love of the Last Tycoon (Chinese Edition)
The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, is a restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 edition, giving new luster to an unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Mon...
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Chloe Frechette
Easy Tiki: A Modern Revival with 60 Recipes
60 recipes inspired by the history of tiki as well as the modern revival that's putting a fresh spin on tropical tiki drinks--all simplified for the home bartender from cocktail authority PUNCH. Tiki is the dream of escape, a tropical vacation complete with warm ocean water, island music, and beac...
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Dr. Rovina Patel
The Unexpected Love Affair: A Dentist's Tale
Ever woken up after a one-night stand, turned around and thought, "Really? What the hell was I thinking?" That's dentistry for me, except this one-night stand has lasted seventeen years and counting. Who would have thought that peering into people's mouths for a living would turn out to be the love ...
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Alexandra Bell
The White Octopus Hotel (Platinum Spotlight)
The White Octopus Hotel follows Anna, an art valuer, who is asked by an old man to value a strange ornamental white octopus as his dying wish. As she investigates, she follows its trail to the wreck of a glamourous art deco hotel, once known for a collection of magical artefacts. Anna manages to t...
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Robert W. Cherny
San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958
Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s CP from its founding through 1958. Cherny dr...
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Sam Cheever
Yules of Yesterday (Yesterday Mysteries)
It's an old fashioned Christmas at the Nelson's. Duncan has invited several of his friends in Crocker to stay in the newly refurbished Nelson Hall. He's feeling more himself now that he has Scarlett and Lissie around to keep him company, and he plans to make Christmas as much like the ones the famil...
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James Wofford
Still Horse Crazy After All These Years: If It Didn't Happen This Way, It Should Have
A rare insider's look at the life of a professional sportsman as he tries to reconcile the passion that drives him with livelihood, family, and aging. Known for his wit, irreverence, and whip-smart observations on equestrian sport and its participants, three-time Olympian Jim Wofford's writing is as...
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Edward Kanze
The World of John Burroughs
John Burroughs was one of the earliest and most articulate pioneers of the United States conservation movement, publishing twenty-eight books on the natural world during the height of the Industrial Revolution. As an author, teacher, and poet, he wrote with intimacy and feeling, illustrating verbal ...
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George Harrison
Celebrating Beatlemania! | The Beatles
From the editors of People Magazine. Beautifully produced, gorgeous color photos, and illuminating articles covering the heyday of the Beatles....
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Jon C. Teaford
Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest (Midwestern History and Culture)
"Recommended for all who want to learn about the origins of the contemporary urban crisis." ―Library Journal Teaford writes a definitive history of the transformation of "America's heartland" into the "Rust Belt," chronicling the development of the cities of the industrial Midwest as they challen...
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Ralph A. Austen
Trans-Saharan Africa in World History (New Oxford World History)
During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves, ...
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Ethel Lina White
Fear Stalks the Village (British Library Crime Classics)
It was a model English village, filled with flowers, Tudor cottages, and cobbled streets. Joan Brook loved working there as a companion to Lady d'Arcy, living in the huge mansion with its surrounding park. And small though the village was, it was not too small for Joan to have found a man there whom...
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