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Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks
Chicken Bone Beach: A Pictorial History of Atlantic City's Missouri Avenue Beach
Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks has compiled this history of Atlantic City's racially segregated beach during its heyday from the 1920s through the 1960s and the residents who lived on the Northside near the established Missouri Avenue Beach. Included are images, research, and oral interviews of Atlantic Cit...
$9.99
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Jotham Burrello
Spindle City: A Novel
Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel On June 23, 1911—a summer day so magnificent it seems as if God himself has smiled on the town—Fall River, Massachusetts, is reveling in its success. The Cotton Centennial is in full swing as Joseph Bartlett takes his place among the lo...
$20.13
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Kevin Zahn
The Bucko Mate: Twenty Years in the Merchant Marine
The Bucko Mate describes the author’s seafaring experiences over two decades sailing as an officer in the American merchant marine. This nonfiction, nautical adventure is full of the profane, the dangerous, the drunken, the crazy, the humorous, the romantic and the brave shipmates the author knew....
$16.00
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Wall (American Mystery Classics)
Marcia Lloyd and her brother Arthur have spent every summer of their lives exploring the grand halls and seaside grounds of their family's idyllic vacation home, a gorgeous old mansion called Sunset House built by their grandfather. But when Arthur's ex-wife Juliette arrives at Sunset to demand alim...
$25.95
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Binyamin Appelbaum
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
In this history of ideas,  New York Times  editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution. "Lively and entertaining." — The New Yorker Before the 1960s, American politicians had never paid much attention to economists. But a...
$12.80
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Erie Canal Museum
Erie Canal
The building of the Erie Canal was the engineering marvel that unleashed the growth of the young nation that was the United States. Spearheaded by the vision of Gov. Dewitt Clinton, New York State built the waterway that opened the West to settlement and made New York City the center of finance and ...
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Brian Lavery
The Ship of Line: A History in Ship Models
The Ship of the Line takes the best models from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to tell the story of the evolution of the ship of the line, known as the capital ship and epitome of British sea power during its heyday from 1650-1850. This period coincided with the golden age of ship modelin...
$35.73
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Emily Taylor
California Lizards and How to Find Them (California Herping Guides)
The author of California Snakes and How to Find Them invites budding reptile enthusiasts into a wonderland of lizards. "This guide joyfully celebrates the beauty and quirkiness of our native lizards." — John Muir Laws Lizards: they are cute, endearing, and mind-bogglingly diverse, and yet they a...
$16.80
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Adrienne Raquel
Adrienne Raquel: ONYX
“ ONYX pays homage to the heyday of hip-hop music videos of the '90s and early 2000s, adopting their aesthetics and alluding to the seductive power of the video vixen.” – CNN In ONYX , photographer Adrienne Raquel explores the intensity and escapism of the strip club experience, documenting ...
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Laura Atkins
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice, 1)
Winner, Carter G. Woodson Book Award * Winner, New-York Historical Society Children’s Book Prize *  Winner, Social Justice Literature Award * Honor Title, Jane Addams Children’s Book Award * Finalist, 2017 Cybils Awards * Nominee, Georgia Children’s Book Award * Nominee, Rebecca Caudill ...
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MAXIMILIAN DREYER
Nantucket Travel Guide 2025 (FULL COLOR): Whaling History, Lighthouse Views and Island Time
Discover Nantucket the way it was meant to be experienced: slowly, deeply, and with eyes wide open. This richly curated guidebook invites you into the rhythms of island life—from fog-draped lighthouses and lobster shacks to centuries-old inns, wildflower walks, and handwoven basket workshops. In...
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Jason Rodriguez
Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened
“The inventive writers and illustrators who crafted these transporting stories just may convince you to trash your BlackBerry and buy some stamps.” –Frank Warren, author of PostSecret You’ve seen them at flea markets and in antique shops and used-book stores across the country: Vintage post...
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Marta J. Eichsteller
Biographical Research Methods
Biographical data provide unique insights into social life, but they also pose some significant challenges for social science researchers. This book offers a systematic, flexible guide to using biographical narrative methods in your research project. Drawing upon the authors’ own research, as w...
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Mr Peter Charles Whitehead
The Rise of Antisocialism: Understand this and you will understand everything
A sweeping cascade of ideas, charting the ascendancy of the corporation and the attendant rise of individualism, materialism and antisocial behaviour, alongside the demise of socialism and the social contract.Focusing on the UK and western economies, retired Financial Times journalist Peter Whitehea...
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Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
The Institute for Other Intelligences
In The Institute for Other Intelligence s, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian brings speculative fiction and media studies to bear on an imagined future where machine intelligences convene annually for curriculum on algorithmic equity. The book presents a transcript from one of these conferences in which a ...
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Mark G. Fry
Armies, Allies and Enemies of The Khmer Empire Volume 1: Southeast Asian Warfare 802-1430AD (A Time of Knights 400 CE to 1453 CE)
Using extensive and previously unpublished photographic reference material, from three primary Khmer temple sources, Armies, Allies and Enemies of The Khmer Empire: Vol.1 is focused on the military equipment (weapons, dress, general equipment), structure and development of the armies of the Khmer Em...
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William L. Crothers
The American-Built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856: Characteristics, Construction, and Details
"A monumental work on the design and construction of the clipper ships at their apogee . . . a boon to maritime historians and modelmakers." -- Wooden Boat "The ultimate book on the American clipper ship . . . an instant classic." -- National Research Journal With the sweep of its bow, its gra...
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Georg Mohr
Forgotten Genius - The Life and Games of Grandmaster Dragoljub Velimirovic - Vol 2
Dragoljub Velimirovic was a former Yugoslav – Serbian, chess grandmaster whose international career was handicapped by political intrigues and his outspoken temperament. During the heyday of the USSR as the greatest national chess power, the former Yugoslavia was capable of running the Soviet Uni...
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Cheryl Hill
Fire Lookouts of Oregon (Images of America)
The first lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires. As the importance of fire prevention grew, a lookout construction boom resulted in hundreds of cabins and towers being built on Oregon's high points. When aircraft and cameras b...
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Kenneth Ray Young
The General's General: The Life And Times Of Arthur Macarthur
General Arthur MacArthur's extraordinary life spans the history of the United States from the Civil War through the Spanish-American War and the heyday of American imperialism in the Philippines. And in a sense, as the father of Douglas MacArthur, his influence extends well into our own century. The...
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