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$3 Slow-Cooked Meals

Delicious, Low-Cost Dishes from Both Your Slow Cooker and Stove

by Ellen Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009

It doesn't take much of anything—time, money, or stress. And it doesn't leave your taste buds in the lurch. No wonder it's catching on. * A whole new take on $3 Meals— 250+ cost-busting, slow-cooking, simple, healthy recipes for great meals and more Food...
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$3 Meals in Minutes

Delicious, Low-Cost Dishes for Your Family That Can Be Prepared in No Time!

by Ellen Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009

It doesn't take much of anything—time, money, or stress. And it doesn't leave your taste buds in the lurch. No wonder it's catching on. * A whole new take on $3 Meals— 250+ cost-busting, simple, healthy recipes for great meals and more Food prices have...
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by Ellis Amburn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018

This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its most iconic actresses. The book benefits tremendously from the author's meeting with Olivia de Havilland after he was assigned to handle her projected memoir at the Delacorte Press in 1973. Amburn also knew many of...
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Newsmaker

Roy W. Howard, the Mastermind Behind the Scripps-Howard News Empire From the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age

by Patricia Beard
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

This is the story of one of the most important American newspapermen of the twentieth century. Roy Howard rose to prominence at the height of newspapers’ power and became a leader in the evolution of print news starting in 1908—when E. W. Scripps appointed him head of the fledgling United Press...
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Listen Out Loud

A Life in Music--Managing McCartney, Madonna, and Michael Jackson

by Ron Weisner, Alan Goldsher
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Even hardcore music fans don’t know the name Ron Weisner . . . but they should. A high-powered manager for over four decades, Ron worked alongside Madonna, Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Gladys Knight, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, and, most notably, Michael Jackson. He saw the King of Pop through...
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1932

The Rise of Hitler and FDR--Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny

by David Pietrusza
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president—ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished “Wonder Boy” Herbert...
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Making of the Great Communicator

Ronald Reagan's Transformation from Actor to Governor

by Kenneth Holden
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

One week after Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for governor of California, the San Francisco Chronicle gibed: “It was simply a flagrant example of miscasting.” Reagan was tanking, and his businessmen backers panicked. Their bold experiment was about to fail. Then a think-tank friend suggested...
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Mestengo

A Wild Mustang, a Writer on the Run, and the Power of the Unexpected

by Melinda Roth
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013

Exhausted by her job as a political press secretary, Melinda Roth found the courage to escape. Her goal: a simpler life in rural Illinois that would let her pursue her passion for writing. But then real life intervened. A fire at a neighboring farm and a misinterpreted gesture of kindness transformed...
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Lincoln's Secret Spy

The Civil War Case That Changed the Future of Espionage

by Jane Singer, John Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

A month after Lincoln’s assassination, William Alvin Lloyd arrived in Washington, DC, to press a claim against the federal government for money due him for serving as the president’s spy in the Confederacy. Lloyd claimed that Lincoln personally had issued papers of transit for him to cross into...
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Journeys on the Silk Road

A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book

by Joyce Morgan, Conrad Walters
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012

When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world’s great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist...
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Murder Aboard

The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Ordeal of Thomas Bram

by C. Michael Hiam
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019

“An utterly original and gripping story of murder on the high seas.” — Sebastian Junger From an author praised by the Wall Street Journal for his “eye for a good story” comes an account of Herbert Fuller tragedy of 1896, a tragedy that occurred on the high seas and one involving...
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New Boston Globe Cookbook

More than 200 Classic New England Recipes, From Clam Chowder to Pumpkin Pie

by The Boston Globe, Sheryl Julian
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

The classic cookbook, now fully updated and revised With The New Boston Globe Cookbook, the beloved Boston Globe Cookbook*—which was first published in 1948 and has sold almost 100,000 copies in Globe Pequot Press editions since the 1980s*—comes back to life in all its glory, now also reflecting...
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American Icons

Yellowstone National Park

by Stonesong Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

The American Icons series celebrates the people, places, and objects that have informed American popular culture over the last 75 years. Illustrated throughout and replete with anecdotes, fun facts, and informative sidebars. American Icons: Yellowstone National Park is a celebration of America's...
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American Icons

Corvette

by Stonesong Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

The American Icons series celebrates the people, places, and objects that have informed American popular culture over the last 75 years. Illustrated throughout and replete with anecdotes, fun facts, and informative sidebars. American Icons: Corvette celebrates the vehicle that defined high-performance....
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