Papamoa Press: 213 books

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The Drug Story

A Factological History of America’s $10,000,000,000 Drug Cartel

by Morris A. Bealle
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

A FASCINATING EXPOSÉ ON THE CORRUPTION OF WESTERN MEDICINE. "The truth about cures without drugs is suppressed, unless it suits the purpose of the censor to garble it. Whether these cures are effected by chiropractors, Naturopaths, Naprapaths, Osteopaths, Faith Healers, Spiritualists,...
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Five and Ten

The Fabulous Life of F. W. Woolworth

by John K. Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

This book, first published in 1940, is the unmissable biography of Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852-1919), the American entrepreneur behind the F. W. Woolworth Company and the operator of variety stores known as “Five-and-Dimes”. He was also the first to use self-service display cases, so customers...
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Hollywood Rajah

The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer

by Bosley Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

HE DISCOVERED GARBO AND GABLE. FOR NINE YEARS HE WAS THE HIGHEST SALARIED MAN IN THE U.S. HIS LIFE SURPASSED ALL HIS GREATEST FILMS IN LUXURY, NOTORIETY AND TRAGEDY. HE WAS A MAN TO BE FEARED. First published in 1960, Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer...
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I Love Her, That’s Why!

An Autobiography

by George Burns, Cynthia Hobart Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017

She puts salt in the pepper shaker and pepper in the salt shaker because then if she gets mixed up, she’s right. She shortens the electric cords in the house to save electricity. That’s the character Gracie Allen has played for years. And for all that time people have asked George Burns, “How...
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by Cynthia Hobart Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

First published in 1962, this is a wonderful collection of humorous articles on feminine topics written by actress and stuntwoman-turned-writer Cynthia Hobart Lindsay. “The art of being a woman successfully can be learned neither from life nor from a charm school. It is a quality mysteriously...
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Double Exposure

A Twin Autobiography

by Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Lady Thelma Furness
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

In 1921 there burst upon the New York social scene the famous Morgan twins, Thelma and Gloria, whose names in the decade that followed came to spell glamour and excitement in that magic world of the “international set.” Two continents thrilled to Thelma Furness’s romances with Richard Bennett,...
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The Golden Ham

A Candid Biography of Jackie Gleason

by Jim Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

In his foreword, Jim Bishop says of Jackie Gleason that when the comedian read the manuscript for the Fust time “he did not ask that anything be either omitted or altered. And yet there were parts of this biography that made him wince.” For The Golden Ham is candid biography. To it Mr....
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Hollywood Lawyer

The Jerry Giesler Story

by Jerry Giesler, Pete Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018

THE ACCUSED IS ENTITLED TO A DEFENSE. Jerry Giesler believed the accused is entitled to a good defense. What he delivered, consistently, was a brilliant defense. Here are some of the people he defended: Errol Flynn—charged with statutory rape on two counts; Clarence Darrow—charged...
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by Art Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

SHOW BIZ’ “LAST TYCOON” At eighteen he was president of a $2-million-a-year construction company. At twenty he couldn’t afford a house of his own. When he was thirty-seven he had four plays running simultaneously, netting him $20,000 a week. The following year he went into bankruptcy...
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by Mary Pickford
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

First published in 1935, this book by famous film actress Mary Pickford is an essay on death and her belief in an afterlife and the undying human spirit. “When we stop to consider that all of life, as we understand it, springs from a little seed, then a progression of life beyond this present...
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by Burl Ives
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

First published in 1948, this autobiography from Burl Ives, whom Carl Sandberg calls “the greatest folk ballad singer of them all,” is as fresh and wholesome as a summer’s breeze out of an Illinois cornfield. His ballads have long been an authentic expression of his land and its people—songs...
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Abandoned

The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition, 1881-1884

by A. L. Todd
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

Alden L. Todd’s Abandoned has been called “A model account of perhaps the most ill-fated and certainly the most grimly fascinating episode in the annals of Arctic exploration....” Working extensively with primary sources—official correspondence, diaries, letters, notes by the expedition’s...
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by Ruby El Hult
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

In the heyday of its water commerce, Lake Coeur d’Alene in northern Idaho was the scene of more steamboating than any other lake, salt or fresh, west of the Great Lakes. The old steamers brought gold, silver, and lead from the mines; lumber from the forests; mail to lonely homesteaders; and romance...
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by Lucius Beebe
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

Originally published in 1951, this is a richly illustrated paean to San Francisco’s cable cars dating from the years when they were in jeopardy and were eventually saved (though not entirely) through the efforts of activist citizens.
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