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David Mayer
Liberty of Contract: Rediscovering a Lost Constitutional Right
This book shines a powerful light on a fundamental constitutional right that the Supreme Court abandoned more than 70 years ago-the freedom of individuals to bargain over the terms of their own contracts. Vital to economic and personal liberty, this right has been continuously diminished by the coun...
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Andrei Soldatov
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 oppo...
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Bonnie Graves
Catch Me When I Fall
Set in Racine, Wisconsin during the Great Depression, Catch Me When I Fall is the story of one gutsy twelve-year-old girl’s quest to learn the identity of her father, the father her mother refuses to talk about. What’s the big secret? When Emma finds a photograph hidden in her mother’s bureau ...
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Douglas Edwards
Philosophy Smackdown
From its carnival origins to its current status as a global phenomenon, pro wrestling has a unique presence in popular culture. Part sport and part theatre, the impressive antics of its larger-than-life characters have captured the imaginations of generations of fans, and prompted endless speculatio...
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Samantha Barbas
The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons
Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This first full-length biography of Parsons tells the story of her rei...
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Paul Hillmer
Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides
In 1926, Harold Keltner, a YMCA Boys Work secretary from St. Louis, and Joe Friday, a member of the Canadian Ojibwe First Peoples, channeled white middle-class fascination with Native Americans into what became the Y-Indian Guides youth pro­gram, engaging over a half million participants across the...
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Rinker Buck
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the PEN New England Award “Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” — The Wall Street Journal “Amazing…A real...
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Fort Wayne and Allen County Library
The Wabash-Erie Canal (Classic Reprint): Fort Wayne on the Old Canal
Travel back to the short era when a mighty waterway shaped a region and its people. The Wabash-Erie Canal transformed Fort Wayne and its surroundings, fueling boom towns, new industries, and shifting lives along a 452-mile route. This edition distills a pivotal chapter in mid‑19th‑century Ameri...
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Amy Shojai
Cat Life: Celebrating the History, Culture & Love of the Cat
Looking for cat gift books? Filled with beautiful color photographs of these furry friends, this book reveals virtually everything needed to appreciate this mysterious, lovable companion. “Though a cat may choose to share her affection with a human or two, she will always remain that quixotic mix ...
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Martin Turnbull
City of Myths: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood (Hollywood's Garden of Allah Novels)
Have you ever wanted to climb into a time machine and visit Hollywood during its heyday? When you live in a city built on shifting sands of myth, it can be hard to know which way is up. Kathryn Massey spends her days spreading rumors and keeping secrets. Losing herself one headline at a time has ...
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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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Lynn Ames
Chain Reactions
Some of Diana Lindstrom's fondest memories involve childhood experiments conducted under the watchful supervision of her Great-Aunt Nora, a celebrated physicist long ago shunned by the family for mysterious reasons. Now in her adult years and a sought-after scientist herself, Diana learns that Nora ...
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Avalon Hill
Rail Baron Avalon Hill Game of Building Railroad Empires
Bookshelf Game From the Box (Avalon Hill Bookshelf Game) Only in America! You are living in the heyday of the locomotive. You are Jay Gould. And you have just added another railroad to your vast railroad empire. Flushed with success, you now retire to the sartorial splendor of your very own Pullman ...
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Charles Hood
Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds: A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything in It
Lauded essayist takes to the high seas in hot pursuit of elusive birds, artistic ghosts, fathers and their memories, and above all, safe harbor. "Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood is my favorite." — Jonathan Franzen Charles Hood is on a boat, wearing at least two life jackets as he sc...
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Bitmap Books
A Tale Of Two Halves: The History of Football Video Games
Painstakingly researched and written by football-obsessed writer and experienced game journalist, historian, and documentarian Richard Moss – author of Bitmap’s own The Secret History of Mac Gaming – A Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games stays keenly on the ball as it sha...
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Amy Shojai
Cat Life: Celebrating the History, Culture & Love of the Cat
Looking for cat gift books? Filled with beautiful color photographs of these furry friends, this book reveals virtually everything needed to appreciate this mysterious, lovable companion. “Though a cat may choose to share her affection with a human or two, she will always remain that quixotic mix ...
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Ray Belcher
Greenville County, South Carolina: From Cotton Fields to Textile Center of the World
Amid the devastation left in South Carolina by the War Between the States, one of the few intact remnants of the pre-war life was a tiny cotton textile industry. For decades prior to the Civil War, the upstate textile industry rested unobtrusively near Greenville, its center of production, surrounde...
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Steven E. Sidebotham
Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route (California World History Library) (Volume 18)
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 m...
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