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Leila Meacham
Ryan's Hand
A sweeping, classic romance about the ties that bind us together-and the promises that can break us apart ... Some friends are more like family...and that's exactly how Cara Martin feels about Ryan Langston. He stood by her side through the most difficult time of her life and there's nothing she w...
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Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt on the Record: The Magic Behind the Music (Music Pro Guides)
Ever wonder what goes into the creation of some of the best music ever recorded? Ever wonder how someone becomes an iconic professional who is universally admired and respected? Al Schmitt on the Record: The Magic Behind the Music reveals answers to those questions and more. In this memoir of one o...
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Mark Martel
Dayton's Children: The unlikely gang who brought us aviation, "the Cash" and the keys to the road.
History repeats. Today’s headlines of NSA cyberwar, missing jetliners, GM ignition scandals and environmental disaster echo back to WWII codebreaking, Murphy’s Law, Colonel Deeds’ Barn Gang and the epic bad luck of Thomas Midgley, Jr. For over 100 years remarkable, intertwined individuals h...
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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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Pablo de Sarasate
Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 (Multilingual Edition)
The 19th century was a heyday for arrangements of all kinds. So it was natural that the composer and violin virtuoso Sarasate should turn to this genre to expand his repertoire. He composed numerous fantasies on successful operas of the time, but pride of place undoubtedly belongs to his Carmen Fant...
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Craig Cheetham
The World's Greatest Cars: 250 of the most memorable automobiles
The World's Greatest Cars brings together some of the most famous motor vehicles in the world, from the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost and Ford GT40 to the VW Beetle and 2CV. Each car is illustrated over two pages with full-colour five-view studio photography, annotated to show particular features worthy ...
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Cecil Roth
History of the Jews in Venice
The heyday of the Jewish community of Venice is both comparatively late and short, comprising the greater parts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. However, during this time, Venice attracted some of the most vivid personalities in the whole range of Jewish history. It also became for a whil...
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JoAnn Levy
Yosemite Farewell: An Untold Tale from the California Gold Rush
Fact and Fiction In 1848 the shout heard ‘round the world was “Gold in California!” The rush was on. Endangered native people saw invaders dig up land gently tended for centuries, deer and fish disappear, cultures collide. Jim Savage, a former mountain man famously befriending Indians, learn...
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Cheryl L. Baisden
Camden (NJ) (Images of America)
Poet Walt Whitman proclaimed his adopted home of Camden, in its heyday, "the city invincible," a powerhouse of industrial might destined for greatness. Camden resurrects that fascinating era of invincibility through powerful images of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge construction; Cooper Hospital's ne...
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Bob Plott
Legendary Hunters of the Southern Highlands:: A Century of Sport and Survival in the Great Smoky Mountains
From the heyday of the Cherokee Nation and on through the twentieth century, the Great Smoky Mountains have nurtured some of the most celebrated hunters in American history. Predicting changes in weather and almost telepathically sensing animal behavior, these outdoorsmen were linked inextricably wi...
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Sheila Connolly
Digging Up History (A Museum Mystery)
The New York Times bestselling author of Dead End Street returns with Nell Pratt discovering one of Philadelphia’s darker buried secrets . . . When a summer intern at the Preservation Society discovers an aged document hidden in the binding of an antique book, Society president Nell Pratt is i...
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Sianne Ngai
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic categories that most people u...
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Norman H. Finkelstein
Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan's Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants
A Sydney Taylor Honor Book A loving tribute to a towering figure in Jewish American history from two award-winning creators. Two-time National Jewish Book Award winner Norman H. Finkelstein and Sydney Taylor Award winner Vesper Stamper have teamed up to tell the story of Abraham Cahan, the found...
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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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Vladimir Guerrero
The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
The Anza Trail and the Settling of California synthesizes firsthand documents and diaries from the Anza expeditions to retell the story of the exploration of the Southwest and the settlement of the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1774, the Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of...
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Yoshiko Uchida
Journey to Topaz (50th Anniversary Edition)
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a landmark work of juvenile fiction. "A haunting reminder of how indignities and dignity can reside side by side." — Terry Tempest Williams This much-loved and widely read classic is the moving story of one girl’s struggle to remain brave during the World War ...
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David Schmidt
The History of Concrete
Discover the hidden story behind the world’s most abundant manufactured material. We walk on it, drive over it, and live within it, yet concrete remains curiously invisible—a simple, gray fact of life. This book unearths the vibrant and unexpected saga of concrete, revealing it to be a testament...
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Amanda Petrusich
Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records
“A thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records” ( Los Angeles Times ), Do Not Sell at Any Price is a fascinating, complex story of preservation, loss, obsession, and art. Before MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or ...
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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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Zachary Leader
Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century―an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce’s reputation. Richard Ellmann’s Jame...
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