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John Benedict Buescher
The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator for the Spirit Land
John Murray Spear was one of nineteenth-century America's most interesting characters. A leading social agitator against slavery and capital punishment, Spear also became the nation's most flamboyant spiritualist, inventor of “spirit machines,” and advocate of free love. In his captivating biogr...
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Jane E. Mangan
Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí (Latin America Otherwise)
Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosí was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associate...
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Heather Leigh
Haunted Southern Nevada Ghost Towns (Haunted America)
Discover what life was like in the heyday of the abandoned mines that dot the Nevada landscape, now host to the spirits of those who lost their lives in pursuit of gold, silver, and salt. Step into the Silver State’s past, where the echoes of once-thriving boomtowns and mining operations reverb...
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Sapphire
The Kid
Fifteen years after the publication of Push, one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation, Sapphire gives voice to Precious's son, Abdul. In The Kid bestselling author Sapphire tells the electrifying story of Abdul Jones, the son of Push's unforgettable heroine, Precious. A story of b...
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Tom Freston
Unplugged: Adventures from MTV to Timbuktu
A freewheeling and riveting memoir from media honcho Tom Freston that takes us behind the scenes of his global adventures—from hitchhiking around the world, to running a clothing export company out of India and Afghanistan, to cofounding MTV, to becoming CEO of MTV Networks, then CEO of Viacom, th...
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Mrs. Reneé: Neuman Spector
Reneé: My Life of Coincidence
In this deeply personal memoir that spans 90 years of life, Reneé Neuman Spector shares the story of a remarkable life. People and places come alive again to animate a web of coincidences and synchronicities that shaped the destiny of this "quiet little girl" from New Jersey. A newlywed dinner w...
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Fred Ziegler
Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia: A Nineteenth Century Health Spa in the Allegheny Foreland
Red Sulphur Springs was part of a social phenomenon centered in the nineteenth century and shared by over one hundred similar health and entertainment watering places in the borderland mountains of the Virginias. Today, just two remain in business: The Greenbrier of White Sulphur Springs, West Virgi...
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Doug Stone
Sealed for Freshness
Comedy Characters: 1 male 5 female Interior Doug Stone has set his play in 1968 during the heyday of Tupperware parties. Hostess Bonnie invites a group of neighbors over for a party. The guest list: perky rich Jean Jean's cranky and very pregnant sister Sinclair ditzy-blonde Tracy Ann and new nei...
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Erin Riley
The Mighty WMMR: An Oral History of Philadelphia's Rock Radio Revolution
In the early 1980s, the scrappy radio station 93.3 WMMR was on the verge of a major takeover of the Philadelphia airwaves. Erin Riley, who had her finger on the pulse of new artists like Bon Jovi, whose music would define a generation, was hired as the station’s Music Director in 1983. The Mighty ...
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Karl Johan Lundstrom and Ezra Gebremedhin
Kenisha: The Roots and Development of the Evangelical Church of Eritrea, 1866-1935
Kenisha by K. J. Lundström and Ezra Gebremedhin is a welcome addition to the religious history of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It builds on Gustav Arén s magisterial account of the origins and development of evangelical Protestantism in the same countries, re-covering some of the same ground and carrying...
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Chip Kidd
Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal
Shazam made his debut in Whiz Comics in 1940, and outsold his biggest competitor, Superman, by 14 million copies a month. It wasn’t long before a variety of merchandise was licensed—secret decoders, figurines, buttons, paper rockets, tin toys, puzzles, costumes—and a fan club was created t...
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Howard Pollack
Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World
A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces. A prominent leftist a...
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Stephen Michael Shearer
Gloria Swanson: Hollywood's First Glamour Queen
Gloria Swanson is most remembered today for her role as “Norma Desmond” in Billy Wilder’s noir sound classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), but Swanson during her heyday was heralded as filmdom’s leading fashion queen, as proclaimed by director Cecil B. DeMille in such silent motion pictures as ...
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James Patrick Graham
Inverted Heart
Inverted Heart takes place in Smithton, Illinois, a small Midwestern town whose heyday has passed. The story follows Mike Burke, a young man who finds himself sitting in the backseat of a police cruiser on his way to the County Jail. During the trip, the police car passes scenes and locales that rem...
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Edward Grazda
A Last Glance: Trading Posts of the Four Corners
Starting in the 1870s, trading posts were where Native Americans interacted with the Anglo world, bartering wool, rugs, baskets, and other items they made for coffee, cooking oil, flour, and other goods they needed. The trading posts functioned not only as stores but also as post offices and general...
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Gary Noy
Hellacious California!: Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State
Hellacious California! tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State. In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California "can and does furnish the best bad things," including "purer liquors . . . finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and...
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Dennis Lehane
World Gone By: A Novel (Joe Coughlin Series, 3)
New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane’s World Gone By continues the epic story of Joe Coughlin from The Given Day and Live by Night through World War II, as he struggles to navigate the criminal underworld between Cuba and Florida. “Suspenseful, devious, well-constructed and as ...
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John Reed
House of Fun: The Story of Madness
Formed in the heyday of punk, Madness were true originals who mixed ska and reggae rhythms with social comment and music hall humour to become a British group like no other. Their appeal endures to this day, Madness' latter-day concerts having become fun-packed celebrations of one of the best-love...
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Joshua Paddison
A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush
A World Transformed gathers together the writings of early European explorers, missionaries, sea captains and other visitors, from the first Spaniards to glimpse San Francisco Bay in 1769 to the eve of the gold rush. In 15 literate and accessible accounts by Father Juan Crespi, George Vancouver, Ri...
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Mary Williams
Ithaca (Images of America)
Ithaca, New York has often been called ""the Hollywood of the East,"" growing from farms to factories to Cornell University--Ithaca's history is an interesting and broad one. Nestled in the heart of the Finger Lakes, Ithaca was planned by surveyor Simeon DeWitt and incorporated in 1821 when steamboa...
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