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Peter Moruzzi
Palm Springs Paradise
This book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Society's expansive archive. Featured are many Hollywood celebrities, including Sinatra and the Rat Pack, who vacationed there, the early da...
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Bernadette Baillie
Baby Ballers: Venus and Serena Williams
Introduce a new generation to Venus and Serena Williams with this cute board book for baby tennis fans! 2023 National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) winner Before they were serving up grand slam victories, Venus and Serena Williams were just two sisters growing up in Compton, California. Follo...
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Pacific Coast Poetry Series
Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Pacific Coast Poetry)
Named one of Los Angeles Times Book Critic David Ulin's "Top 10 Books of 2015", Wide Awake draws together nationally acclaimed poets and gifted newer writers—one hundred twelve poets of Los Angeles and its surrounding territories—whose work speaks to the humanity, pathos and comedy, of what may ...
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Michael Witzel
The American Diner
Americans love to eat and nothing could be finer than eating breakfast, lunch, or dinner in an American diner! Here is the story of that tasty American original, from the early days of Walter Scott and the first horse-drawn lunch wagons through the birth of the premanufactured dining car industry, t...
$55.00
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Jason E. Hill
Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News
Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of ...
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Marcel Kornfeld
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies: Third Edition
George Frison’s Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains has been the standard text on plains prehistory since its first publication in 1978, influencing generations of archaeologists. Now, a third edition of this classic work is available for scholars, students, and avocational archaeologists. Thor...
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Chloe Sultan
Atiba Jefferson: Skate Photography
Nearly three decades of skateboarding photography from the sport’s foremost documentarian Atiba Jefferson’s image-making practice has come to define nearly 30 years of street, editorial and commercial skate photography, expressing a unique mode of spectatorship that engages with skateboarding n...
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Cheryl A. Head
Time's Undoing: A Novel
A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago—inspired by the author’s own family history Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just mo...
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Roger Owen
Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul
In the heyday of Empire just before the First World War, Lord Cromer was second only to Lord Curzon in fame and public esteem. In the days when Cairo and Calcutta represented the twin poles of British power in Asia and Africa, Cromer's commanding presence seemed to radiate the essential spirit of im...
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Mr. John R. Ormsby
The History Of Girls' Basketball In North Carolina - Aberdeen High School
After the conclusion of WWII, high school girl’s basketball in North Carolina began to hit its heyday. The popularity of the game actually exceeded that of the boy’s game in many rural and small high schools. The development of the game was championed Mr. Robert E. Lee, who was coach of the Aber...
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Dan Rusanowsky
If These Walls Could Talk: San Jose Sharks: Stories from the San Jose Sharks Ice, Locker Room, and Press Box
Relive the greatest moments in San Jose Sharks history with behind-the-scenes stories from the ice, locker room, and press box. For over three decades, Dan Rusanowsky has been the radio voice of the Sharks, offering a unique perspective on the team's evolution. If These Walls Could Talk takes you ...
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Charles Greenstreet Addison
The History of the Knights Templar,: the Temple Church, and the Temple
A detailed and rewarding work, Charles Addison's "The History of the Knights Templar" paints a stunning picture of the rise and fall of this almost mythical religious/military group. As an actual member of the Knights Templar, Addison provides a truly intimate glimpse into how this organization oper...
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Jan Royt
Medieval Prague
The perfect culture guide for the curious traveler or medieval history enthusiast. Prague, established with the Czech state at the end of the ninth century, reached its medieval heyday during the reign of Emperor and King Charles IV. A Přemyslid on his mother’s side and an ambitious Luxembourg...
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Emily Buenzle
Counting Penguins
How many penguins do you see? Join this fun, winged flock as they frolic on the arctic ice, counting along the way! ---------------------------------------- Our Never-AI Promise to the Readers We Reach: In an increasingly automated world where AI-generated content is having its heyday, we, as pare...
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Sebastian Bach
18 and Life on Skid Row: The NPR Best Books Memoir of a Rock Star's Journey from Excess and Debauchery to Broadway
NPR Best Books of 2017 NOW IN GLORIOUS PAPERBACH AND FEATURING NEW PHOTOS 18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout...
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Steve Levi
Cowboys of the Sky: The Story of Alaska's Bush Pilots
For more than 80 years, bush pilots have carried supplies, delivered mail, and transported emergency personnel over Alaska's rugged terrain. They've flown with felons handcuffed to the seat, with corpses strapped to the wing, and with drugged polar bears sleeping in the cargo compartment. Ever since...
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Lynnette Bonner
Beauty from Ashes (Large Print Edition) (Wyldhaven - Large Print)
Liora Fontaine wants nothing more than to help mistreated women escape from brothel owner, John Hunt. She understands the desperation and manipulation that force many women into his employ. But when she rescues a young girl, she is shocked by Hunt’s ruthless reprisal. Now as she cowers in her cab...
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Alice Schertle
Little Blue Truck
Beep! Beep! Meet Blue! Filled with truck sounds and animal noises, Little Blue Truck is a rollicking homage to the power of friendship and the rewards of helping others. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick-up—that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the m...
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Gay M. Grant
Around the Kennebec Valley: The Herman Bryant Collection (Images of America)
Fans of Gay M. Grant's Along the Kennebec: The Herman Bryant Collection will enjoy these more than 200 newly released images taken by gifted South Gardiner photographer Herman Bryant (1858-1937). Now part of the collections of the Maine State Museum, Bryant's work documents late-19th- and early-20th...
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Irina Borogan
The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
In The New Nobility , two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposi...
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