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Elaine Freed Lindenblatt
Stop at the Red Apple: The Restaurant on Route 17 (Excelsior Editions)
An entertaining inside story of how Reuben Freed's roadside eatery became the famous Red Apple Rest. The Red Apple Rest was a legendary restaurant open from the 1930s through the 1980s on New York's Route 17. Located midway between New York City and the resorts of the Catskill Mountains, the resta...
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Douglas Clayton
Floyd Dell: The Life and Times of an American Rebel
In the heyday of the American avant-garde and Greenwich Village bohemianism, in the early years of the twentieth century, Floyd Dell was one of the scene's brightest lights. "The prose laureate of Greenwich Village," some called him, "the most talented of literary young men." In a galaxy of high-spi...
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Gary Monroe
Silver Springs: The Underwater Photography of Bruce Mozert
An undiscovered trove of underwater photographs from the Golden Age of Florida roadside attractions "This account of the state's iconic pre-Disney attraction will appeal to those who visited Silver Springs and to those who have a strong interest in Florida pop culture."—Jim Miller, photographer ...
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Mark Bassin
Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism (Russian and East European Studies, 233)
Between Europe and Asia analyzes the origins and development of Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that proclaimed the existence of Eurasia, a separate civilization coinciding with the former Russian Empire. The essays in the volume explore the historical roots, the heyday of the movement in the...
$27.24
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Giorgio Vasari
Vasari on Technique (Dover Art Instruction)
Giorgio Vasari (1511–1571) is well known for his celebrated work on the lives of the Renaissance artists. But not many people know that Vasari was a painter and architect as well as a biographer, and that he wrote one of the most valuable treatises on the technical methods of the painters, archite...
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Perry T. Cooper
A Pirate of Port Royal
A PIRATE OF PORT ROYAL is a work of historical fiction imbued with a strong Christian message. Set in the Caribbean during the heyday of the infamous Captain Morgan, the story centers around a young man, Daniel Carrington, who finds himself stranded in the notorious pirates’ den of Port Royal whil...
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James Long
Silence and Shadows
In that mysterious place where the past slips its boundaries and intrudes on the present, in a small English village where history is as alive as the nearest plowed field, James Long brings us the unforgettable story of three people who meet on an adventure through time that will lead to the depths ...
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Brian Domitrovic
Free Money: Bitcoin and the American Monetary Tradition
America in its heyday had private money—Bitcoin is seeing to it that this heyday returns. Bitcoin is private money. We needed private money again, and Bitcoin came to provide it. Bitcoin’s function, characteristics, architecture, and appeal pertain not only to our own time. Bitcoin clarifies ...
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Umberto Bongianino
The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West: Maghribi Round Scripts and the Andalusi Identity (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art)
This book traces the history of manuscript production in the Islamic West between the 10th and the 12th centuries. It interrogates the material evidence that survives from this period, paying special attention to the origin and development of Maghribī round scripts, the distinctive form of Arabic w...
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Lu Vickers
Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida
Where America's wildest dreams came true "At Cypress Gardens--the original Florida theme park--movie stars, water-ski champs, and southern sweethearts created magic. More than anyone, even Walt Disney, Dick Pope Sr. invented Florida as America's dream vacationland. This journey back to the attractio...
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Peter Criss
Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of Kiss
Founding drummer Peter “Catman” Criss’s New York Times bestselling memoir, “the best—and most honest—account of KISS craziness during the band’s heyday in the 1970s” ( Publishers Weekly ), now in paperback—“KISS fans will love every word” ( Rolling Stone ). Legendary foundi...
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George Shearing
Lullaby of Birdland (Bayou Jazz Lives S)
Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the Us, as a result of the "Shearing sound"-the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique "locked hands" approach to playing the piano, Shearing's quintet with guitar and...
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Russell Melcher
The Golden Age of Photojournalism
Russell "Russ" Melcher came to Europe and photographed the superstars of the time, either during their visits to Paris and France or accompanied them on worldwide trips. He witnessed many world events from film festivals to terrorist attacks. Among the portrayed were royal families like the Windsors...
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George Shearing
Lullaby of Birdland: The Autobiography of George Shearing
Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the "Shearing sound"―the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique "locked hands" approach to playing the piano, Shearing's quintet with guitar a...
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David M. Ewalt
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It
A fascinating and personal look at Dungeons & Dragons that "tracks D&D's turbulent rise, fall, and survival, from its heyday in the 1980s...to the twenty-first century" ( The Wall Street Journal ). Even if you've never played Dungeons & Dragons, you probably know someone who has: the game has had a...
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Elyssa Friedland
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick A Can’t-Miss Beach Read For Summer 2021 from The Skimm A Best Beach Read of 2021 from Bustle A Best Summer Read of 2021 from PopSugar A family reunion for the ages when two clans convene for the summer at their beloved getaway in the Catskills—perfect for fa...
$9.99
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John Man
Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior – Definitive Japanese History Separating Myth from Reality (P.S.)
The definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man's own treks across Asia “An immensely entertaining history, packed with splendidly blood-thirsty tales of derring-do, feats of endurance and self-sacrifice.” ― The Guardian Ou...
$14.39
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GM Zenón Franco Ocampos
Learn from Sammy Reshevsky
Learn from Sammy Reshevsky In his heyday, Samuel Reshevsky was one of the great contenders for the world title and, according to Bobby Fischer, for a period of about ten years, from 1946 to 1956, he was the best player in the world. This book contains sixty of his best games, all analysed and anno...
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James Thurber
The Years with Ross: A Classic Memoir of The New Yorker's Unforgettable Founder and Golden Era (Perennial Classics)
From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross “Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of p...
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Lynette Rice
ER: The Oral History
ER the book is a deep dive into the show that began the modern medical drama phenomenon, and contains new and original interviews with over 60 people, including John Wells (showrunner of both "ER" and now "The Pitt"), Eriq LaSalle, Noah Wyle (from "ER" and now "The Pitt"), Laura Innes, Ming-Na Wen,...
$31.00
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