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Deborah Morse-Kahn
Lake Superior's Historic North Shore: A Guided Tour
Lake Superior's North Shore—the vast stretch between Duluth and Grand Portage—is nearly 150 miles long, with an abundance of state parks, state and national forests, streams and rivers, and more than thirty distinct communities representing a broad range of ethnic and religious groups. Many visi...
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Charles River Editors
The Hellenization of the Near East: The History of the Spread of Greek Culture to the Region under Alexander the Great and His Successors
Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity’s first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon...
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Ronald K. Gay
Pontiac (Images of America)
Detroit's first mayor, Solomon Sibley, and his wife, Sarah (Sproat) Sibley, were responsible for organizing a group that set out in 1818 for a plot of land 30 miles north, at the confluence of the Huron River of St. Clair (now the Clinton) and several Native American trails. The future town would be...
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Leonard
Ethical Empire?
This study centers upon the abolitionists, Quakers, free-traders, disenchanted colonial agents, and Parsi intellectuals who participated in the British India Society, India Reform Society, and East India Association. Beginning in the 1830s, these agitators increasingly recognized that British domini...
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John D. Luerssen
Bruce Springsteen FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Boss
Long before he sold 120 million albums globally in a career that has endured artistically and commercially like no other performer's in the rock era, Bruce Springsteen was a working-class New Jersey kid with a dream and a guitar. By the time he was 16, he was playing ShopRite openings and school dan...
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Joseph Fusco
Ray Danton: The Epitome of Cool (a career retrospective) (hardback)
Ray Danton was an actor who exemplified a particular Hollywood period even though he was not famous. He was a contract player during the demise of the studio system, a precarious time for the grooming of stars. Like the big stars of his time, Ray Danton earned his share of press and publicity puff ...
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Vivian Chibuife
Dahomey And The Slave Trade: The Real Story Of The Slave Trade In Dahomey Vs The Woman King (Black History Series)
The kingdom of Dahomey situated in what is now southern Benin reached the height of its strength and glory during the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. Abomey, Dahomey's capital, was built in 1620 by Dogbari, who left Allada after a power struggle between his brother...
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Matthew Bogart
Incredible Doom: A Graphic Novel – A Poignant Young Adult Story of Connection and First Love in the Early Internet Era
“Incredibly strong and not a little disturbing.”  — Cory Doctorow, author of In Real Life Welcome to a new age…the age of the internet. Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family’s first computer, she escapes into a th...
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Betsey Johnson
Betsey: A Memoir
A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style icon Mention the name "Betsey Johnson" and almost every woman from the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit; whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful way. The...
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Alan Johnson
How to Pinstripe, Expanded Edition: Plus Gold Leaf and Lettering (Motorbooks Workshop)
In this updated edition of the definitive pinstripe how-to, acclaimed veteran striper Alan Johnson shows you how to get started, further your mastery of the form, and create solid designs. Even before the heyday of Von Dutch and Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, the ultimate way to personalize your car o...
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Cece Bell
Animal Albums from A to Z: (A Musical Alphabet Book for Kids Ages 4-8)
From the inimitable creator of El Deafo , this all-ages alphabet book is also a hand-wrought, high-fidelity, hilariously tongue-in-cheek homage to the golden days of album cover art. Cece Bell loves music and collecting old record albums, her introduction explains, especially albums featuring an...
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L. John Harris
Portrait in Red: A Paris Obsession
The quest to uncover the history of a mysterious painting, and a joyous exploration of art in the twentieth century and beyond. While wandering the streets of Paris in 2015, L. John Harris finds an abandoned, unfinished, and strangely compelling painting. The subject: a girl wearing a bright-red hea...
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Rod Sellers
Chicago's Southeast Side (Images of America)
Steel and the steel industry are the backbone of Chicago's southeast side, an often overlooked neighborhood with a rich ethnic heritage. Bolstered by the prosperous steel industry, the community attracted numerous, strong-willed people with a desire to work from distinct cultural backgrounds. In rec...
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Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
Das Konigreich der Vandalen: Erben des Imperiums in Nordafrika (German Edition)
English summary: Better than their reputation: The civilisation of the Vandals. Their name has been used to describe destruction and devastation. In their heyday, though, these people lived in a well-organised state and followed Roman lifestyles. In the 5th century AD, when the Great Migration ...
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Polina Dimova
At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism (Perspectives on Sensory History)
Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, sounds, and shapes. Polina Dimova’s At the Crossroads of the Senses traces this new sensory experience of synaesthesia―the physiological or figurative ble...
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Pierre-Louis Coudray
‘More Furies Than Men’: The Irish Brigade in the Service of France 1690-1792 (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815)
The history of the Irish Brigade remains fascinating more than three centuries after its creation in the late seventeenth century and is regularly revived in the English-speaking world as well as in Western Europe thanks to historians, journalists, and even politicians. The military feats of these I...
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Robert A Russell
I Have Found The Way
www.RobertARussell.Org It is my hope that this book will meet the needs of those who have grown with me in spiritual understanding, in awareness of the height and depth of God's love, and in realization of man's Oneness with Him; and that those who are taking their first steps on this joyous journ...
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Gretchen McGowan
Flying In: My Adventures in Filmmaking
This is a story told from the inside out, showcasing the perspective of a woman who started with no connections, beat the odds, and rose to produce international hit films. It's the grit and glam of 1990s New York City-a heyday for independent movies. Wall Street throws money at indie films and big...
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John Schindel
The Babies and Kitties Book: A Rhyming Photo Book About How Kids and Cats Are Alike for Toddlers (Ages 0-3)
Jam-packed with colorful photos of adorable kittens and sweet babies, this rhyming board book celebrates all of the ways kids and cats are alike. A companion to The Babies and Doggies Book. When you stop and think about it, babies and kitties do many of the same things: They nap, climb, and hide...
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Karl MaLden
When Do I Start?: A Memoir (Limelight)
“This memoir is a peripatetic selection of Malden's enounters with larger-than-life Broadway figures... like Kazan, Strasberg, and Brando. The 1950s were Broadway's heyday but also the time of blacklisting, and Malden paints a vivid picture here of those times. Moreover, the actor eschews the 'dow...
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