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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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Alexander Belyaev
Professor Dowell's Head
It is Paris in the 1920s, that frothy heyday between the World Wars. Hidden among the opulent cabarets, cafes, and theaters, a mad scientist toils away in his own private hospital, illegally performing grotesque experimental head transplants and reanimations on bodies stolen from the morgue. Under t...
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Jamie Sean Lardner
THE DRUNKEN REVIEW: From The Genesis Of Chicks With Guns To The Death Of A Faceless Zevo
The Drunken Review is a ragged, brilliant compendium of album reviews, letters, and fevered essays from the edge of collapse. Part memoir, part music criticism, part howl-from-the-basement manifesto, The Drunken Review is Jamie Sean Lardner’s incandescent, profanity-laced love letter to Rock, M...
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John Searles
Single Girls: A Novel
An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan , and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time. In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, a soft spoken, self-p...
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Paula Broussard
Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance (Screen Classics)
When considering the best dancers in Hollywood's history, some obvious names come to mind―Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Bill Robinson. Yet often overlooked is one of the most gifted and creative dancers of all time, Eleanor Powell. Powell's effervescent style, unmatched technical prowess in tap, a...
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Stephen Lewis
Post-war Humber Cars
Discover the story of Humber cars, a prestigious British marque from the dawn of motoring to its post-war heyday. This book explores Humber's evolution within the Rootes Group, its association with royalty and government, and its role as a luxury family car. Models like the Hawk, Super Snipe, and S...
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Daniel F. Littlefield Jr
Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance
In 1898 after the murder of a white woman, two young Seminoles were chained and burned alive. Hiding behind a wall of silence and fearing reprisal for identifying their executioners, virtually the entire white community became involved with the ghastly execution. In this absorbing narrative Daniel...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
Desertion: A Novel
A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an ...
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James A. Crutchfield
On the Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail’s role as the major western trade route in the early to mid-nineteenth century made it a critical part of America’s Westward expansion and the stories of its heyday include some of the greatest adventures in the history of the Old West. Drawn from first-hand accounts of earl...
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Andrew J. Butrica
Single Stage to Orbit: Politics, Space Technology, and the Quest for Reusable Rocketry (New Series in NASA History)
Winner of the Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis given by the National Council on Public History While the glories and tragedies of the space shuttle make headlines and move the nation, the story of the shuttle forms an inseparabe part of a lesser-known but no less important drama―t...
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Dean Torrence
Surf City: The Jan and Dean Story
The Jan and Dean Story is a personal story of the iconic musician and entrepreneur Dean Torrence. As a memoir The Jan and Dean Story has elements of humor, tragedy and redemption. It tells their story from the early high school friendship struck up between Jan Berry and Dean Torrence and their as...
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Jaya Saxena
The Book of Lost Recipes: The Best Signature Dishes From Historic Restaurants Rediscovered
Enjoy Celebrated Recipes from Top Hotels and Restaurants of Their Era Discover amazing signature recipes lost to time from the most fashionable hotels and restaurants of bygone times. Part vintage nostalgia, part history tour, but all great food, the recipes―often inseparable from their legendar...
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Liz Goldwyn
Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens
“The most comprehensive study on the era of burlesque.” — V Magazine Training her journalist’s eye on the glitter and glamour of American burlesque’s Greatest Generation, Liz Goldwyn takes readers on an enthralling tour of the original queens of the striptease. Goldwyn’s incisive expos...
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Jennifer Krintz
Redondo Beach Pier (Images of America)
Piers have always drawn people to the mysterious wonder of the ocean. The ability to seemingly walk on water with the construction of a pier has created for humans a sense of temporary mastery of the majestic and merciless sea. The Southern California shoreline has always attracted tourists from nea...
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Alan Govenar
Stompin' at the Savoy: The Story of Norma Miller
Through extensive interviews with jazz dancer Norma Miller, acclaimed author and filmmaker Alan Govenar captures the vitality, wry humor, and indomitable spirit of an American treasure. When she was just five years old, in 1924, Norma Miller knew just what she wanted to do for the rest of her life...
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Victor Sebestyen
Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vivid and enthralling account of the historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city in the heart of Europe, on the fault line between East and West—from the critically acclaimed author of Lenin “A compelling portrait of one of...
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Richard Lenzi
Facing toward the Dawn: The Italian Anarchists of New London (Italian American Culture)
Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut. In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the v...
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Lani Hall Alpert
Emotional Memoirs & Short Stories
Grammy Award-winning vocalist Lani Hall Alpert brings the passion of her voice to the printed page, penning ten short works of fiction and non-fiction alike, all set against the living, breathing backdrop of Chicago. The characters crackle with energy: intelligent, modern women struggling to navigat...
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Vine Deloria Jr
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
From the most widely read Native American intellectual comes a book that searches for the structure and meaning of reality. Synthesizing ideas from some of the most eminent philosophers of modern times- ideas that have hitherto been given only a perfunctory examination- Vine Deloria Jr. juxtaposes N...
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Hua Hui
Go Down in History: Zheng He (Chinese Edition)
Zheng He's navigation is a historical summary of ancient traditions, the beginning of a new era and the milestone in the history of world civilization. As the pioneer of Chinese navigation, he can also be regarded as the first person of the world's Maritime Navigation Era. This book mainly tells the...
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