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Wendy Moore
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th-century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter. When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice wa...
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Nancy Mitford
Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie
Two sparkling comedies from early in the career of the beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. •  “Exuberant...enjoyable skulduggery and shenanigans....
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Randy Roberts
A Team For America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War – The Historic 1944 Season When College Football Met World War II
"A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war.” — Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental Sportswriter Each year the Army and Navy football teams meet for one epic game. Across the nation, fans t...
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Daniel J. Finucane
Sensus Fidelium: The Use of a Concept in the Post-Vatican II Era
Daniel J. Finucane's original work assesses the long history of the understanding and use of the concept of sensus fidelium, and develops criteria from its history and the teachings of Vatican II to critique the postconciliar use of the concept. This a comprehensive work in both its scope of history...
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David G Thomas
La Posta: From the Founding of Mesilla, to Corn Exchange Hotel, to Billy the Kid Museum, to Famous Landmark (Mesilla Valley History Series)
The story of a 160-year old building, its people, and its place. The building sits on a lot next to the plaza. The lot is a “terreno de solar,” a grant to a Mexican citizen by the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on which to build a house. By the terms of the grant, the grantee is obliged to own a ...
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Mr Robby Porter
Doodlebug: A Road Trip Journal by Robby Porter
Doodlebug [dood-l-buhg], noun: a homemade tractor assembled from parts of other machines, often ungainly mis-creations that never quite fulfill the builder’s intention. Feel like a long road trip but can’t take one? Thinking about taking one but need to know (or be reminded) what you’re gett...
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George Vecsey
Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game (Modern Library Chronicles)
“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”—Lee Eisenberg, author of The Number In Baseball , one of the great bards of America’s Grand Ol...
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Shelby R. Gilley
Painting by Heart : The Life and Art of Clementine Hunter, Louisiana Folk Artist
The most definitive book about the life and work of Louisiana Folk Artist Clementine Hunter. The book details the rich history and context of Clementine's development as an artist. The artistically friendly environment at Melrose Plantation and the encouragement she received from mentors such as Fra...
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Holly Edwards
Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930
Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures explores complex American attitudes toward the Near East--as revealed in collected paintings, interior design, and multiple vernacular forms--at the formative moment of industrialization and the crystallization of a truly mass culture. Published to coincide with the m...
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Stuart Clayton
Bass Monsters (Bass Guitar TAB Books by Stuart Clayton)
Learn Songs by Bass Monsters such as Billy Sheehan, Victor Wooten, Stuart Hamm, Jeff Berlin, James Jamerson and more! Bass Monsters contains transcriptions of some of the most challenging pieces every written for the bass guitar! Within these pages you’ll find highly detailed transcriptions an...
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Joanna Trollope
Sense & Sensibility
From Joanna Trollope, one of the most insightful chroniclers of family life writing fiction today, comes a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility , Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, money, and two very different sisters. John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care ...
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Henry Dumas
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction—Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America. Henry Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity, ...
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Olive San Louie Anderson
An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College
In 1870, the University of Michigan-one of the oldest, largest, and most prestigious public universities in the United States-admitted its first woman student. An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College , written by one of the first woman graduates from the University of Michigan and p...
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II Hampton, Codis
Gracie Hall-Hampton: The Arkansas Years, 1917-1953
I have learned over the years that there is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to give something of oneself in hopes that others will benefit from that gift. The idea was planted in my being by my father's way of raising his children. It grew in leaps and bounds and, in fact, was magnified wh...
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Marilynne Robinson
Lila (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
A New York Times Bestseller NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an ...
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Courtney Carbone
A Very Fraggle Holiday (Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock)
A Very Fraggle Holiday: A Festive Adventure Filled with Activities and Holiday Cheer! Join your favorite Fraggles in a heartwarming holiday adventure with A Very Fraggle Holiday, a lively storybook adaptation of the Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock episode “Night of the Lights” (Apple TV+). This ...
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Ralph J. Gleason
Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews
An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions, conducted mostly in...
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Brian Jacques
Loamhedge: A Tale of Redwall
The Redwall series is soon to be a Netflix original movie! The sixteenth installment of the bestselling Redwall saga sheds light on the Abbey's ancient origins in a thrilling adventure. Loamhedge, the deserted Abbey, has been forgotten for countless seasons. What secrets do it's ruins hold? Wh...
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Charlie Hailey
The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature
Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we’ve entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one place teach us about the world and ourselves? What d...
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Chuck Wendig
Vultures (Miriam Black)
In the sixth and final thriller of the “wildly entertaining” ( Kirkus Reviews ) Miriam Black series, Miriam tries to break the curse of her powers, but first she must face The Trespasser a final time. Still reeling from the events of The Raptor and the Wren , Miriam must confront two terrify...
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