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Alex Kadis
Big Nobody: A Novel
A wickedly funny coming-of-age novel about a misfit teenager in London determined to eliminate the one thing standing between her and a good life: her father “Hands down the funniest, most original novel I’ve read in ages.”—Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding I t...
$25.06
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Candace O'Connor
Meet Me in the Lobby: The Story of Harold Koplar & the Chase Park Plaza
Meet Me In The Lobby tells the fascinating story of the world-famous Chase Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis and three generations of the Koplar family. It captures the spirit of the "rat pack era" in the 1950's and 1960's, when entertainers such as Dean Martin, Bob Hope, and Frank Sinatra entertained t...
$580.00
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Angela Bourke
Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker
To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most coveted—and influential—seats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both ...
$16.95
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Frederick Noland
Major Taylor: The World's Fastest Man
Celebrating the history-making Black American who smashed world records and became a global cycling sensation! Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor was one of the greatest American athletes of the early 20th century, setting records in regional bike races as a teen and winning his first world champi...
$30.00
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James R Smith
San Francisco's Playland at the Beach: The Early Years
Presenting many rare photographs of Playland at the Beach and the surrounding neighborhood--including previously unpublished photographs from the private archive of ride designer Laurence Hollings--this collection contains a comprehensive photographic record of the enthralling amusement park from it...
$17.08
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Troy Taylor
Devil's Carnival
DEVIL'S CARNIVAL THE GAFF, THE BALLYHOO, THE MIDWAY, THE FREAK SHOW, PICKLED PUNKS, LINGERING GHOSTS, & SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICAN CIRCUSES AND SIDESHOWS Take a trip back in time with the owner of the American Oddities Museum, Troy Taylor, as he reveals the secret histories of America's circuses, ...
$24.00
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Anthony Taylor
Aurora Plastic Models Catalogs: Volume 1 - The 1960's
Planes! Tanks! Monsters! Ships! Superheroes! Cars! Spaceships! Build Them Yourself! In the words of Aurora - It’s a Hobby For Everybody! From 1950 to 1977, the Aurora Plastics company of West Hempstead, NY made and marketed plastic models of just about every subject under the sun. In 1961, the c...
$35.99
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Ming-Ju Sun
Dover Creative Haven Art Nouveau Fashions Coloring Book
What were well-dressed ladies wearing during the heyday of Art Nouveau? This coloring book presents 31 full-page illustrations of women and girls in the broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted fashions in vogue from the 1890s to the early 1900s. Graceful period motifs appear in the backgrounds. Pages are p...
$7.89
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Crystal Hill Jones
Nashville's Inglewood (Images of America)
A Nashville community, Inglewood's beginnings can be traced back to a farming community on the Cumberland river. Settled north of Nashville in 1782, Inglewood began as a farming community on the Cumberland River. Early prominent citizens built many grand homes in the area, including Weakley and Riv...
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Benjamin Reilly
Roman Fever: Malaria, Transalpine Travelers and the Eternal City
During the last 1500 years, Rome was the inspiration of artists, the coronation stage of German emperors, the distant desire of pilgrims, and the seat of the Roman popes. Yet Rome also lies within the northern range of P. falciparum malaria , the deadliest strain of the disease, against which north...
$30.50
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Elana Levine
Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History (Console-ing Passions)
Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic, creative, technological, social, and cultural institution. In Her Stories , Elana Levine draws on archival research and her experience as a longti...
$39.95
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Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Sandbrook 2 Books Collection Set (Who Dares Wins Britain 1979-1982, Seasons in the Sun Britain 1974-1979)
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: Dominic Sandbrook 2 Books Collection Set (Who Dares Wins Britain 1979-1982, Seasons in the Sun Britain 1974-1979): Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982: Marg...
$54.99
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Peter Straub
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to Now: A Library of America Boxed Set
From its beginning, American literature teems with tales of horror, hauntings, terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. In the tales of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, and their literary ...
$180.22
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Clarence Budington Kelland
Mark Tidd's Citadel
Mark Tidd's citadel is a children's adventure novel set during a summer vacation. A group of friends arrives at a summer hotel, only to find it abandoned and in disrepair. Faced with an unexpected situation, they decide to rent the hotel and take on the challenge of managing it. Their adventure take...
$16.97
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Tony Park
Vendetta
Captain Sannie van Rensburg and safari guide Mia Greenaway are caught in the crossfires of a decades-old feud between five veterans of South Africa's apartheid-era Border War. Haunted by the deadly mission that shaped their lives forever, the ex-paratroopers must finally confront their demons, an...
$17.97
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Tony Nourmand
The Rat Pack: Limited Edition
The most luxurious book ever made on the Rat Pack, this exquisite, 448-page tome is a deluxe, limited edition. Over 80 percent of the images have never been published before and are reproduced for the first time here in breathtaking quality. Frank Sinatra's legendary clique defined life in the fast ...
$950.00
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W. Michael Blumenthal
The Invisible Wall
The Invisible Wall is one man's quest to understand the failure of the German-Jewish relationship and to explain the character and attitudes of Germany's assimilated Jews over a three hundred-year period. He found rich and remarkable stories in the lives of six Blumenthal ancestors--all of whom h...
$15.00
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Barry Alfonso
A Voice of the Warm: The Life of Rod McKuen
In his 1960s-1970s heyday, Rod McKuen was a phenomenally popular singer-songwriter as well as the bestselling poet in publishing history. To his legions of fans around the world, he was a voice of compassion and healing, as much a prophet as an author/entertainer. McKuen songs like “If You Go Away...
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Dick Russell
The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: Volume I: The Making of a Psychologist
The life and times of the world’s foremost post-Jungian thinker, and best-selling author of The Soul’s Code . Considered to be the world’s foremost post-Jungian thinker, James Hillman is known as the founder of archetypal psychology and the author of more than twenty books, including the N...
$29.95
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Paul Davidson
Britpop: The Sound of a Nation (1991-1998): A Comprehensive History of Britain's Greatest Musical Movement
In 1990s Britain, the biggest bands of the day, including Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Pulp and more, became known under one banner: Britpop. This book examines Britpop from its heyday to its demise, with a focus on each of the bands who played a part in this musical extravaganza. Paul Davidson lived t...
$10.75
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