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History, United States history, Arts and entertainment, United States travel and geography
Part memoir, part oral history, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods gives us a rare and intimate look… at Colonial Beach, Virginia.Rich in narrative history and local color, A Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia is an homage to the town of Sherryl Woods’s summers, a place that stole her heart long ago and provided the basis for the many fictional small towns in her bestselling novels.True to Woods’s signature style of focusing on characters who are at the center of their communities, here she has woven together the stories of the very real people who helped shape this seaside Virginia town. She takes us back to the days of her own family gatherings, artfully capturing the unique essence of Colonial Beach and making us yearn for small-town life.Woods’s own memories frame the true stories she features—from the unique history of Colonial Beach itself to some firsthand accounts of the Oyster Wars that once consumed the community, to the stories of neighborhood merchants who made it a point to know just about every customer by name. From farmers to restauranteurs and hoteliers, from pastors to librarians and military folk, Woods’s research and interviews give life to the personalities of a very special place.
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Business biography, Biography, General non-fiction
"Albert M. Greenfield (1887-1967), an ambitious immigrant outsider, was courted for his business acumen by mayors, senators, governors, and presidents,… including Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. As this feisty Russian Jew built a business empire that encompassed real estate, stores (including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's), hotels (including the Ben Franklin and the Bellevue-Stratford), banks, newspapers, transportation companies, and even the Loft Candy Corporation, he challenged the entrenched business elite. Greenfield was also instrumental in bringing both major political conventions to Philadelphia in 1948. In The Outsider, veteran journalist and best-selling author Dan Rottenberg deftly chronicles the astonishing rises, falls, and countless reinventions of this savvy businessman. Greenfield's power allowed him to cross social, religious, and ethnic boundaries with impunity. He alarmed Philadelphia's conservative business and social leaders-Christians and Jews alike-some of whom plotted his downfall. In this engaging account of Greenfield's fascinating life, Rottenberg demonstrates the extent to which one uniquely brilliant and energetic man pushed the boundaries of society's limitations on individual potential. The Outsider provides a microcosmic look at three twentieth-century upheavals: the rise of Jews as a crucial American business force, the decline of America's Protestant establishment, and the transformation of American cities"--
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Travel and geography, United States travel and geography
Hit the Road with Moon Travel Guides From the waterfalls of Yosemite and the colorful Grand Canyon to the Hollywood… Walk of Fame and the Golden Gate Bridge cruise through the best of the West with Moon California Road Trip Inside you ll find Maps and Driving Tools Over 40 easy-to-use maps keep you oriented on and off the highway along with site-to-site mileage driving times and detailed directions for the entire routeEat Sleep Stop and Explore With lists of the best hikes views restaurants and more you can ride a cable car in San Francisco or hike Half Dome descend deep into the Grand Canyon or hit the waves in a classic SoCal surf town Wander through history at Alcatraz snap a photo at Big Sur or marvel at jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Chow down on an authentic Mission burrito lunch on fish tacos by the beach or watch the sunset from a rooftop bar in Los AngelesFlexible Itineraries Drive the entire two-week Best of the West mix and match destinations for shorter road trips or follow strategic itineraries for spending time in San Francisco Yosemite Las Vegas the Grand Canyon Los Angeles and smaller towns along the Pacific Coast HighwayLocal Insight Surfer and adventurer Stuart Thornton shares his thirst for the next secluded beach quirky pit stop and mountaintop vista Planning Your Trip Know when and where to get gas how to avoid traffic tips for driving in different road and weather conditions and suggestions for international visitors LGBTQ travelers seniors and road trippers with kidsWith Moon California Road Trip s practical tips detailed itineraries and local expertise you re ready to fill up the tank and hit the road Doing more than driving through Check out Moon California Moon Grand Canyon or Moon Yosemite Sequoia Kings Canyon
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Business biography
When Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata announced his plan to set up a steel plant in India sceptical Englishmen immediately… proclaimed that they were ready to eat all the steel that India would produce This is the story of how Tata made them eat their words told by the man Tata hired to make it happen Tata Keenan declares was a man with a vision who saw that India must produce steel to be free and to survive in the modern world With American engineers and Indian capital he transformed a corner of the old feudal India into the new industrial India and Keenan did a great deal to help him Now a business classic A Steel Man in India is a riveting account by a man of parts who in between his chota pegs horse racing and elephant fights soaked up Hindi and Urdu and was a typical representative of the spirit that contributed to the making of a modern India
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Business biography, Biography, Sports biography
An in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at how Auston Matthews and a gang of talented young hockey players are breaking from… Toronto s troubled sporting past and rekindling the city s love for its team Auston Matthews made history on October 12 2016 by becoming the first player in the modern game to score four goals in his NHL debut It was a momentous occasion for the talented young All-Star but it was equally important for his newly adopted city and its storied century-old team That night marked the dawn of a new era for the Toronto Maple Leafs The team had a long and colourful history and it had always been foundational to the city s image But years of losing seasons had tarnished the team s reputation and left even the most diehard fans questioning their loyalty It seemed that each passing year brought more of the same more mediocrity more heartbreak more disappointment But the team s management had a plan one that would take them where others feared to go a total rebuild Piece by piece they were assembling a group of young talented players who would reshape the team With the arrival of Auston Matthews the team s first overall draft pick in over twenty years it seemed that the Leafs were ready to break with their past Young Leafs follows the team through that remarkable season tracing the divergent journeys of the players leading up to their unlikely campaign Matthews the prodigy with the unorthodox path to the NHL Marner the baby-faced talent with immense skill and an infectious energy Nylander the son of a former hockey professional now looking to make his own mark Reilly the youngster with the mind of a general Kadri the maturing leader once billed as the team s saviour As the ups and downs of the season unfold the team tries to overcome the ghosts of its past and write a new future one that is far from certain Can a group of precocious kids bond together and become winners Will they be able to carry the hopes of a city Most important will Toronto finally have a reason to believe again
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Journals and memoirs, Sports and games, United States travel and geography
Based on his popular New York Times series bestselling author Bruce Weber shares the adventures of his solo bicycle… ride from coast to coast P Riding a bicycle across the United States is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few fulfill During the summer and fall of 2011 at the age of fifty-seven Bruce Weber an obituary writer for The New York Times made the trip alone and wrote about it as it unfolded mile by mile a vivid and immediate report of the self-powered life on the road P Now expanding upon the articles and blog posts that quickly became a must-read adventure story Weber gives us Life Is a Wheel a witty inspiring and reflective diary of his journey in which the challenges and rewards of self-reliance and strenuous physical effort yield wry and incisive observations about cycling and America not to mention the pleasures of a three-thousand-calorie breakfast P The story begins on the Oregon coast with Weber wondering what he s gotten himself into and ends in triumph on New York City s George Washington Bridge From Going-to-the-Sun Road in the northern Rockies to the headwaters of the Mississippi and through the cityscapes of Chicago and Pittsburgh his encounters with people and places provide us with an intimate two-wheeled perspective of America And with thousands of miles to travel Weber considers when he s not dealing with tractor-trailers lightning storms dehydration headwinds and loneliness his past his family and the echo that a well-lived life leaves behind P Part travelogue part memoir part romance part paean to the bicycle as a simple mode of both mobility and self-expression and part bemused and panicky account of a middle-aged man s attempt to stave off well you know Life Is a Wheel is an elegant and beguiling escape for biking enthusiasts armchair travelers and any readers who are older than they were yesterday
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United States history, Lifestyle, United States travel and geography
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United States history, United States travel and geography, Travel and geography
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United States history, United States travel and geography, Travel and geography
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United States travel and geography, Science and technology, General non-fiction
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United States travel and geography, Nature
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Business biography, Science and medicine biography, Canadian politics and government, History, Politics and government
Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman Pearson became one of the world's most important engineering contractors, a pioneer in the international… oil industry, and one of Britain's wealthiest men. At the center of his global business empire were his interests in Mexico. While Pearson's extraordinary success in Mexico took place within the context of unprecedented levels of British trade with and investment in Latin America, Garner argues that Pearson should be understood less as an agent of British imperialism than as an agent of Porfirian state building and modernization. Pearson was able to secure contracts for some of nineteenth-century Mexico's most important public works projects in large part because of his reliability, his empathy with the developmentalist project of Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, and his assiduous cultivation of a clientelist network within the Mexican political elite. His success thus provides an opportunity to reappraise the role played by overseas interests in the national development of Mexico.
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United States history, Arts and entertainment, Travel and geography, United States travel and geography
The history of Pawleys Island can be summed up in four words rice sea golf and… hammocks The rivers threading through coastal South Carolina created an ideal environment for cultivating rice and by the mid-18th century vast plantations were producing profitable crops and wealthy landowners But those plantations also produced malaria-carrying mosquitoes so the landowners sent their families to the seashore for the summer and built the first houses on Pawleys Island starting in 1822 The end of slavery doomed the rice culture and the old plantations were sold to rich Northerners for hunting and fishing retreats During the Depression the Lachicotte family started making and selling distinctive rope hammocks the perfect symbol for the island s slow simple lifestyle By the 1960s many of the old plantations were turned into golf courses reviving the economy But the beating heart of Pawleys Island remains the rhythm of the sea and what one early visitor called the only beach in the world
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General fiction, Humourous fiction, Lifestyle, United States travel and geography
The Failure is a picaresque novel set in Los Angeles about two guys who conceive and badly execute a plan… to rob a Korean check-cashing store in order to finance the prototype for an impossibly ridiculous Internet application James Greer one of the nimblest and most multilayered American fiction writers has with his latest novel The Failure pulled off a sublime and shivery-smooth literary hat-trick-cum-emotional-gotcha I defy anyone to come up with an equation to explain how this book s first impression as a ridiculously clever funny crime story can gradually disclose a metanovel built from far more encyclopedic scratch only to reveal upon its conclusion a central overriding thought so heartfelt literally it trembles your lower lip This is one stunning piece of work --Dennis Cooper author of Ugly Man James Greer s The Failure is such an unqualified success both in conception and execution that I have grave doubts he actually wrote it --Steven SoderberghJames Greer is the author of the novel Artificial Light Akashic Books which won a California Book Award for Best Debut Novel and the nonfiction book Guided By Voices A Brief History Grove Press a biography of the band for which he once played bass guitar He is currently working with director Steven Soderbergh on a rock musical about Cleopatra starring Catherine Zeta-Jones He lives in Los Angeles
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Business biography, Business and economics, History
The creators of Budweiser and Michelob beers the Anheuser-Busch company is one of the wealthiest most colorful and… enduring family dynasties in the history of American commerce In Bitter Brew critically acclaimed journalist William Knoedelseder tells the riveting often scandalous saga of the rise and fall of the dysfunctional Busch family an epic tale of prosperity profligacy hubris and the dark consequences of success that spans three centuries from the open salvos of the Civil War to the present day
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General fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, United States travel and geography
A wonderful accomplishment The power is in the writing Mr Meno… is a superb craftsman -Hubert Selby Jr The author moves the story along at a surprisingly fast and easy pace The evil eyes of small-town America seem to peer from every page of Meno s claustrophobic noir where the good and the bad are forced down the same violent paths -Kirkus Reviews Joe Meno writes with the energy honesty and emotional impact of the best punk rock -Jim DeRogatis pop music critic Chicago Sun-Times A likable winner that should bolster Meno s reputation -Publishers Weekly Joe Meno writes with the energy honesty and emotional impact of the best punk rock -Jim DeRogatis Chicago Sun-Times Fans of hard-boiled pulp fiction will particularly enjoy this novel -BooklistA young ex-con in a small Illinois town A lonely giant with a haunted past A beautiful girl with a troubled heart Strange and darkly magical How the Hula Girl Sings begins exactly where most pulp fiction usually ends with the vivid episode of the terrible crime itself Three years later Luce Lemay out on parole for the awful tragedy does his best to finds hope in a new job at the local Gas-N-Go in his companion and fellow ex-con Junior Breen who spells out puzzling messages to the unquiet ghosts of his past and finally in the arms of the lovely but reckless Charlene How the Hula Girl Sings is a suspenseful exploration of a country bright with the far-off stars of forgiveness and dark with the still-looming shadow of the death penalty
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Biography, Historical biography, Adventure and exploration, United States history, United States travel and geography
Called the "Great Pathfinder", Daniel Boone is most famous for opening up the West to settlers through Kentucky. A symbol… of America's pioneering spirit Boone was a skilled outdoorsman and an avid reader although he never attended school. <P><P>Sydelle Kramer skillfully recounts Boone's many adventures such as the day he rescued his own daughter from kidnappers.
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Travelogues, United States travel and geography
An enduring portrait of America s virtues and vices as seen by one of England s greatest thinkers After losing… his brother in the Great War a troubled and depressed G K Chesterton accepts an invitation to join a lecture tour that will take him across the United States for the first time Part travelogue part exploration of the American experiment What I Saw in America begins with a man of letters trying to reconcile his faith with the atrocities and moral dilemmas of war and expands into an illuminating consideration of the limitations of capitalism the concept of American exceptionalism and the future of the democratic system This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices
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Business biography, Business and economics, Biography, Historical biography, General non-fiction
- Age-appropriate vocabulary- Clear linkage between text and photos- Includes archival reproductions where appropriate- Positioned in the middle Early Intervention… range- Comprehensive glossary of "Words You Know"- Index makes navigating subject matter easy
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United States history, United States travel and geography, General non-fiction
The bestselling nonfiction companions to the Magic Tree House books! When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in… Magic Tree House #15: Viking Ships at Sunrise, they had lots of questions. Why did Vikings go on raids? Did they really wear horned helmets? What were Viking ships like? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about Vikings. Filled with up-to-date information, photographs, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discover in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. And teachers can use Fact Trackers alongside their Magic Tree House fiction companions to meet Common Core text pairing needs. Have more fun with Jack and Annie on the Magic Tree House® website at MagicTreeHouse.com!