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Tom Killion
California's Wild Coast Note Card Box
These lovely note cards beautifully reproduce the amazing woodcut prints of the California landscape that Tom Killion created over the past four decades. Each box contains twelve blank cards printed on fine white stock and twelve white envelopes. California's Wild Coast Note Card Box contains thre...
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Larraine Stanislaw
The Day the Circus Came to Town
In the early 1900s, when entertainment was scarce, a circus coming to town was often the most exciting thing to happen. Starting as a traveling wagon and riverboat show, The Great Wallace Show quickly became one of the highest class circuses traveling by rail in the early 20th Century, boasting a â€...
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Rosemary Ashton
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “the Great Stink” across one hot summer​ While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherw...
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Bill Everett
The Atlas Comics Library No. 2: Venus Vol. 2 (The Fantagraphics Atlas Comics Library)
The Goddess of Love…and SF horror: The eagerly anticipated single volume collecting the 10 rare issues of the overstuffed Venus comics! In the late 1940s, the first half of the Venus series from Marvel Comics predecessors Timely and Atlas Comics was published as a lighthearted romance comic abo...
$40.87
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Marlene Tromp
The Private Rod : Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain
Sensation novels, a genre characterized by scandalous narratives and emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots, had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s, in the midst of growing concern about codes of behavior in marriage. Largely excluded from the academic canon of the late ...
$31.73
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Jeffrey S. Gurock
The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community
The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish history New York Times columnist David W. Dunlap wrote a decade ago that “on the map of the Jewish Diaspora, Harlem Is Atlantis. . . . A vibrant hub of industry, artistry and wealth is all but forgotten. It is as if Je...
$17.37
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Charles River Editors
The German Air Force during the World Wars: The History of the Imperial German Air Service and the Luftwaffe
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading “My Luftwaffe is invincible…And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last — two, three weeks?” – Hermann Goering, June 1940 The first aircraft to app...
$13.24
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Justin Marriott
Paperback Fantastic Three Horror (Pulp Horror)
Devil dogs! Demon kids! Thirsty vampires! Shambling zombies! 65+ horror paperbacks and comics from the heyday of horror, reviewed and rated by a team of experts and fans. Plus mini essays on important characters, publishers and authors, such as Vampirella, Charles Birkin and Frankenstein Fully illu...
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Crystal Hill Jones
Nashvillea[a¬a[s Inglewood
Settled north of Nashville in 1782, Inglewood began as a farming community on the Cumberland River. Early prominent citizens built many grand homes in the area, including Weakley and Riverwood, which are still standing today. A new community called "Inglewood Place" began in 1908 and churches, schoo...
$21.22
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Hesba Stretton
Cobwebs and Cables
Roland Sefton fled England mysteriously after he stole 10,000 pounds from his own bank. As time progressed the widely varied effects of this wrongdoing included isolation, ruined lives, shame and death. Toward the end of the story only time, circumstances, forgiveness and the grace of God could heal...
$9.99
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Joel Peterson
Lex Luger: Power, Pain And The Path to Peace
Book Description He was the epitome of charisma, strength, and star power, contributing to the heyday of professional wrestling. However, beneath Lex Luger's polished exterior lay a man battling personal problems, extreme pressure, and a protracted path to redemption. Renowned author Joel Peterson...
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Kim Hunter Gordon
Kunqu: China’s Classical Song-drama (Forms of Drama)
From its origins in the poetic tradition and its refinement in the southern salons of the 16th century, to its 18th -century theatrical heyday and patriotic revival in modern times, this book introduces Kunqu and its enduring role in shaping cultural life. As China's classical musical and theatrical...
$90.00
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Virginia Writers Project
A History of Brookland Park: the people and the places
A History of Brookland Park: The People and the Places John Nicolay, PhD, Editor At the turn of the twentieth century, Richmond, Virginia was poised for transformation. Electric streetcars hummed across new bridges, farmland gave way to tree-lined boulevards, and a visionary generation of builders, ...
$32.00
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Sanford M. Jacoby
Modern Manors
In light of recent trends of corporate downsizing and debates over corporate responsibility, Sanford Jacoby offers a timely, comprehensive history of twentieth-century welfare capitalism, that is, the history of nonunion corporations that looked after the economic security of employees. Building on ...
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Gary Snyder
The High Sierra of California
"One of the great beauties in Sierra literature, maybe the finest of all in terms of quality of image and text, both individually and in combination." —Kim Stanley Robinson California Book Award Winner The High Sierra of California is a brilliant tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspir...
$586.73
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Chloe Frechette
Easy Tiki: A Modern Revival with 60 Recipes
60 recipes inspired by the history of tiki as well as the modern revival that's putting a fresh spin on tropical tiki drinks--all simplified for the home bartender from cocktail authority PUNCH. Tiki is the dream of escape, a tropical vacation complete with warm ocean water, island music, and beac...
$9.86
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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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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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Kevin Starr
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (Americans and the California Dream)
What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the go...
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John McAleer
Picturing India: People, Places, and the World of the East India Company
The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the Company in Indian life. And they mirror signi...
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