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Orvis Guide to Better Fly Casting

A Problem-Solving Approach

by Al Kyte
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008

Fly casting might look easy—you just move the rod back and forth, right? Yes, that's true, but between “back” and “forth,” a lot can go wrong. The perfect marriage of human skill and dexterity to the cork and graphite of today's fly rods takes a good bit of work, and this is the how-to book...
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Flight 93

The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11

by Tom McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

United Airlines Flight 93, which took off from Newark Airport the morning of September 11th, 2001, is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history: We know of the passenger uprising, but there’s so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax. Amazingly, the definitive...
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Royal Sisters

Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

by Anne Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject. From birth...
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Footprints in New York

Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers

by James Nevius, Michelle Nevius
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

NYC tour guides and authors James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of 20 iconic New Yorkers—from Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant to Alexander Hamilton, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.—and use them to guide the reader through...
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Deadly Times

The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror

by Lew Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

Between 1907 and 1911, the United States was hit by the longest period of sustained terrorism in its history. Of more than 200 bombings that were carried out during this period, the most shocking was the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building on the morning of October 1, 1910, which killed twenty-one...
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Shark

A Visual History

by Richard Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

“The sharks, ancient or modern, real or imaginary, have always been with us, and will probably remain with us forever. They appear not only in movies and literature, but in countless permutations of size, shape, and materials, permeating our daily lives with their silent menace. In a sense, humans...
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Under the Table

A Dorothy Parker Cocktail Guide

by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

"I love a martini— But two at the most. Three, I’m under the table; Four, I’m under the host." Raise a glass to Dorothy Parker’s wit and wisdom. Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, founder and president of the Dorothy Parker Society, gives us an intoxicating new look at the doyenne of the...
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How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun

Accidental Discoveries and Unexpected Inspirations That Shape What We Eat and Drink

by Josh Chetwynd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

Sometimes it’s neither art nor science that serves as the origins of the everyday kitchen and food items that we take for granted today. Sometimes, as Josh Chetwynd shows us in How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun, some of our greatest culinary achievements were simply by-products of “damned good luck.”...
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Ankle High and Knee Deep

Women Reflect on Western Rural Life

by Gail L. Jenner
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house. Ankle High and Knee Deep collects together essays about lessons...
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Jackie Robinson West

The Triumph and Tragedy of America’s Favorite Little League Team

by George Castle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

The competition level in Little League has never been tougher, but the kids on the Jackie Robinson West team faced their own set of challenges on and off the baseball diamond. The Jackie Robinson West team takes their fans and followers on a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs as each player shares...
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Family Table

Farm Cooking from the Elliott Homestead

by Shaye Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

With more than 70 recipes, Family Table shares Shaye Elliott's bounty of favorite dishes that nourish her hardworking farm family every day. From dry-cured bacon made from pigs raised on the Elliott Homestead to sizzling steak with vinegar and tomato dressing, each recipe is about reviving easy, traditional...
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Twentieth Century Fox

A Century of Entertainment

by Michael Troyan, Jeffrey Paul Thompson, Stephen X. Sylvester
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American multinational mass media empire and its century of entertainment—the story of Twentieth Century Fox (1915–2015). Or, to borrow the title of a classic 1959 Fox film, The Best of Everything. This is the complete revelatory story—bookended...
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Live at the Fillmore East and West

Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock's Greatest Legends

by John Glatt
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014

From the Allman Brothers Band to Frank Zappa, and through the interweaving lives of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, and Carlos Santana, author John Glatt chronicles the story of the 1960s’ rock music Colossus that stood astride the East and West Coasts—Graham’s twin temples of rock, the Fillmore East and Fillmore West.
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Blood, Sweat, and My Rock 'n' Roll Years

Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?

by Steve Katz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

On paper Steve Katz’s career rivals anyone’s except the 1960s’ and ’70’s biggest stars: the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary Blues Project, Woodstock with Blood, Sweat & Tears, and even producing rock’s most celebrated speed addict, Lou Reed. There were world tours, and his...
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