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Dave W. Sawyer
A Small-Town Life: Grand Haven in the 1950s and 1960s
.Grand Haven has a colorful past. One of the oldest towns in the state along the shores of Lake Michigan, within 30 years of its founding in 1834, over a dozen sprawling lumber mills lined the small town’s harbor along the Grand River. Logs were floated to them from far up the river, and converted...
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Christine Jerome
An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp
Chronicles the author's 140-mile canoe odyssey through New York's Adirondack wilderness, retracing the 1880s travels of outdoorsman George Washington Sears After visiting the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, the author became intrigued with George Washington Sears (pen name Nessmuk...
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James W. Fonseca
Making History; Creating a Landscape: The Portuguese American Community of Southeastern New England
Since the mid-1800’s Portuguese Americans have been quietly at work, adjusting to a new culture and adapting a pre-existing American landscape to suit their needs. In the process, they have created a hybrid Portuguese American landscape quite different from both standard American urban landscapes ...
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Terria Smith
I Love You So Many: A Native Memoir of Adventure, Culture, and Family
From a celebrated Native journalist, an electrifying memoir of travel, love, friendships, and connection across cultures. "At the core of this quarter-century unfolding is Smith's personal origin story as a mighty, independent Indigenous woman with a deep love for her traditional land finding her po...
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Kate Roberts
Feet in Chains
In the pages of this classic 1936 novel, the passionate and headstrong Jane grows up and grows old, struggling to raise a family of six children on the pittance earned by her slate-quarrying husband, Ifan. Spanning the course of 40 years, this story traces the contours not only of one vividly-evoked...
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Martin Turnbull
Citizen Hollywood
Have you ever wanted to climb into a time machine and visit Hollywood during its heyday? Hollywood, 1939: When Tinseltown begins to woo wunderkind Orson Welles, he stashes himself at the Chateau Marmont until he's ready to make his splashy entrance. But gossip columnist Kathryn Massey knows he's t...
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Pasha M. Khan
The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)
The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu is a monograph on the rise and fall in popularity of "romances" ( qissah )―tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public spaces in India from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. U...
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Daylight Sales Bessemer and Lake Erie Authentic Railroad Sweatshirt [48]
9-ounce soft fleece Air jet yarn for a soft, pill-resistant finish Coverseamed crewneck, arm seams and waistband Rib knit in collar, cuffs and waistband Set-in sleeves Here is a modern tribute to the mighty coal hauler that supplied the mills of Pittsburgh throughout the heyday of the American Steel...
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
A major history of the shtetl's golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economi...
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Peter Winnewisser
The Legendary Model A Ford : The Ultimate History of One of America's Great Automobiles
Based on research and information from the Ford Research Center in Dearborn Michigan, this book is loaded with anecdotes and more than 300 photographs dedicated to the Model A's heyday (1927-1932). It elaborates on how the Model A kept America moving throughout the Great Depression and how Ford buil...
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Ben Fritz
The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book Prize at the 2018 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards “Ben Fritz crafts an electrifying and essential book that carefully chronicles how Hollywood tradition is collapsing and new models are fueling the future. A mu...
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Joseph F. Sheley
PREORDAINED: BOYS AS "FUTURE PRIESTS" DURING CATHOLICISM'S MINOR-SEMINARY BOOM AND BUST
Based on interviews of former minor seminarians, PREORDAINED focuses upon the experiences of adolescent males (conservatively, 100,000 of them; 39,000 in 1963 alone) swept into American Catholic minor seminaries between 1950 and 1980. Seminary construction and enrollment spiked wildly and then plumm...
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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...
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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...
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Anthony Lambert
Top Steam Railways of the World (IMM Lifestyle Books) Profiles of 26 Remarkable Journeys, including the Ffestiniog Railway, the Changa Manga Forest
Less than 50 years ago, trains were routinely hauled by majestic steam-powered locomotives. These magnificent machines still exercise a powerful hold on our imagination, conjuring up the romance of oldfashioned rail travel and the excitement of human ingenuity pitted against the challenges of narrow...
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Stan Kalwasinski
Blue Island's Raceway Park (Images of America)
On September 24, 1938, Raceway Park officially opened its doors, and the track remained open for over 60 years. The first race was won by Harry McQuinn, who went on to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and become the chief pit steward of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In 1948, Raceway Park added sto...
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Obi Kaufmann
The Coasts of California: A California Field Atlas (The California Lands Trilogy, 2)
A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller! An epic, gloriously illustrated journey up and down California’s shoreline. California’s coastline is world famous, an endless source of fascination and fantasy, but there is no book about it like this one. Obi Kaufmann, author-illustrator of The Califor...
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Harold Donaldson Eberlein
The Manors and Historic Homes of the Hudson Valley (Excelsior Editions)
A classic guide to the history and architecture of the historic manors and homes of the Hudson River Valley Harold Donaldson Eberlein's The Manors and Historic Homes of the Hudson Valley has been considered an essential and elegant resource ever since its first publication by J.B. Lippincott in ...
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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 ...
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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...
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