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Backyard Ballistics
$18.99 Read moreThis bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive househol
- Author: Gurstelle, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613740646
- Language: English
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Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
$18.99 Add to cartEducation has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn’t have to be. As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and edu… [more below]
- Author: McDonald, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1641600632
- Language: English
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Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties
$18.95 Add to cartThis “Bible of the Beatles” captures the iconic band’s magical and mysterious journey from adorable teenagers to revered cultural emissaries. In this fully updated version, each of their 241 tracks is… [more below]
- Author: MacDonald, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556527330
- Language: English
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The Waves Extinguish the Wind
$19.99 Add to cartToday, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century.
In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Ear… [more below]- Series: Rediscovered Classics
- Author: Strugatsky, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1641606266
- Language: English
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Chrysler’s Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit’s Coolest Creation
$17.99 Add to cart“Fascinating.” —Vanity Fair
“A delightful history.” —Wall Street Journal
In 1964, Chrysler gave the world a glimpse of the future. The automaker built a fleet of turbine cars–automobiles with jet e… [more below]
- Author: Lehto, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1613743459
- Language: English
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I Stooged to Conquer: The Autobiography of the Leader of the Three Stooges
$21.99 Read moreTelling the full story of the head Stooge, this work reveals the life-long career of a legendary funnyman. Born into a working-class family in Brooklyn, Moe Howard transformed his real-life experience… [more below]
- Author: Howard, Moe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1613747667
- Language: English
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When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art
$28.99 Read moreTruman and Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century–the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs… [more below]
- Author: Algeo, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1641607874
- Language: English
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The Trees: Volume 29
$18.99 Add to cartThe Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The… [more below]
- Series: Rediscovered Classics
- Author: Richter, Conrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1613737416
- Language: English
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A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits–Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Mission: Impossib
$21.99 Add to cart“For its sheer excellence, diversity, and cultural impact, Paul Hirsch’s filmography speaks for itself. They say a film is made in the editing room, and this book is easily the most comprehensive, rev… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 369
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1641605243
- Language: English
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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend
$16.99 Read moreAnna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors.
Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr- Author: Hodges, Graham Russell Gao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1641608838
- Language: English
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The Beetle in the Anthill
$19.99 Read moreToday, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century.
In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Ear… [more below]- Series: Rediscovered Classics
- Author: Strugatsky, Arkady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1641606789
- Language: English
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Forever Amber
$24.99 Add to cartAbandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve i… [more below]
- Series: Rediscovered Classics
- Author: Winsor, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1556524048
- Language: English
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Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels
$18.99 Add to cartBird-loving Americans share a common problem: squirrels These fast, greedy, incredibly crafty, fluffy-tailed rodents pillage birdfeeders before owners’ very eyes. For 25 years, Outwitting Squirrels h… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1613749414
- Language: English
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Colorado’s Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs
$29.99 Add to cartStandard, alternate, and technical routes for all 58 Colorado Fourteener peaks
A classic guidebook known for its accuracy and comprehensiveness, Colorado’s Fourteeners has been updated for this thir- Author: Roach, Gerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1641607750
- Language: English
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New York City History for Kids: From New Amsterdam to the Big Apple with 21 Activities Volume 44
$18.99 Read moreIn this lively 400-year history, kids will read about Peter Stuyvesant and the enterprising Dutch colonists, follow the spirited patriots as they rebel against the British during the American Revoluti… [more below]
- Series: For Kids
- Author: Panchyk, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1883052939
- Language: English
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The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark
$18.99 Add to cartThe movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. The Film That Changed My Life captures that epiphany. It explores 30 directors’ love of a film the… [more below]
- Author: Elder, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1556528256
- Language: English
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Let’s Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies
$18.99 Add to cartSince rock’s beginnings, there have been groupies. These chosen few women who bed, but not often wed, the musicians of their dreams are almost as much a part of music history as the musicians themselv… [more below]
- Author: Des Barres, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1556527896
- Language: English
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Survivor Kid: A Practical Guide to Wilderness Survival
$12.95 Read moreAnyone can get lost while camping or on a hike and Survivor Kid teaches young adventurers the survival skills they need if they ever find themselves lost or in a dangerous situation in the wild. Writt… [more below]
- Author: Long, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1569767084
- Language: English
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You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
$28.99 Add to cart“Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human…as eye-opening as it is compelling” –Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble
At a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse- Author: Shah, Meera
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1641603631
- Language: English
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Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific
$26.99 Read moreToday, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to H… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0912777257
- Language: English
