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  • Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Five

    Bringing Alaska's History Alive!

    by Laurel Downing Bill, Phyllis Downing Carlson ...
    This fifth book in the Aunt Phil's Trunk Alaska history series features dozens of short stories and hundreds of historical photographs that share Alaska's past from 1960 to 1984. This volume the highlights the first 25 years of statehood when the optimistic citizens of the Great Land created a government from scratch in just a few years and dealt with many challenges. Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Five ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Deadliest Sea

    The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History

    by Kalee Thompson ...
    Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its finest. The full story of an amazing rescue—where extraordinary courage, ingenuity, will, and ... Read more

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  • The Money and the Power

    by Sally Denton, Roger Morris ...
    Las Vegas—the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city’s historic ... Read more

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  • The King of California

    J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire

    by Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman ...
    The "meticulous" (The New Yorker) and "ground-breaking" (The Los Angeles Times) story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come.J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, ... Read more

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  • More Cute Stories Vol. 2: Animators and Imagineers

    by Rolly Crump ...
    THIS IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE AUDIOBOOK "MORE CUTE STORIES, VOL.2: ANIMATORS AND IMAGINEERS".Rolly Crump is back, and this time he spills the beans on his fellow co-workers in Disney Animation and WED! Bawdy jokes, off-color pranks, and trippy tales of "smoking" fill this hilarious collection of stories about what it was really like to work with the people who made the Magic.... ... Read more

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  • The Roar and the Silence

    A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode

    by Ronald M. James ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Catalina Island

    by Pedersen, Jeannine L., Catalina Island Museum ...
    Series series Images of America
    Throughout its history, the 76-square-mile island of Catalina has played host to Native Americans, smugglers, otter hunters, ranchers, miners, entrepreneurs, vacationers, movie stars, and nature enthusiasts. William Wrigley Jr. (of chewing-gum fame) bought the island in 1919 and later constructed the recognizable casino building, which was never used for gambling but did become one of the best ... Read more

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  • The Historic Core of Los Angeles

    by Curtis C. Roseman, Ruth Wallach, Dace Taube, Linda McCann ...
    Series series Images of America
    In the early 20th century, there was no better example of a classic American downtown than Los Angeles. Since World War II, Los Angeles's Historic Core has been "passively preserved," with most of its historic buildings left intact. Recent renovations of the area for residential use and the construction of Disney Hall and the Staples Center are shining a new spotlight on its many pre-1930s Beaux ... Read more

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  • Unfinished Business

    Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy

    by Ruth Milkman, Eileen Appelbaum ...
    Unfinished Business documents the history and impact of California's paid family leave program, the first of its kind in the United States, which began in 2004. Drawing on original data from fieldwork and surveys of employers, workers, and the larger California adult population, Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum analyze in detail the effect of the state's landmark paid family leave on employers ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • From the Mountains to the Sea - A History of Los Angeles

    by John Steven McGroarty ...
    What the author of this book has to tell is the true story of a great City that was founded "by order of the King," in the old days when the Western World was new. It is the story of a City that, for a century of time after its birth, showed few signs of promise, but which has now come to be the Greatest City of Western America and the metropolis of California— the "Land o' Heart's Desire." The ... Read more

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  • Memoirs, Episodes in New Mexico History, 1892-1969

    Facsimile of 1969 Edition

    by William A. Keleher ...
    William A. Keleher always had an active curiosity and this made him an outstanding newspaperman and an indefatigable researcher of historical events. It led him into many intellectual adventures that resulted in a whole series of books of New Mexicana. In this personal narrative, he gives readers a glimpse behind the scenes of his career not only as a writer but as a lawyer. The pages of this last ... Read more

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