Books from Simon and Schuster
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Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
By Michael HiltzikThe winning bidder—the only qualified bidder, in fact—was a joint venture of the Utah Construction Company, which had made its name laying track for the Union Pacific Railroad, and a firm owned by Harry Morrison, a former Reclamation ...
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Norman Mailer: A Double Life
By J. Michael LennonAnother of his stories for Morrison, “Maybe Next Year,” was also accepted by the Advocate. Mailer thought enough of it to reprint it in Advertisements for Myself with a prefatory note explaining that the inspiration was Faulkner's The ...
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Ghoulish Song
By William AlexanderA brave girl flees a ghoul while trying to save her city in this lively companion to Goblin Secrets, the National Book Award winner that Kirkus Reviews calls “humorous, poignant, and convincing.” Kaile lives in Zombay, an astonishing ...
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The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates & Other Revenants o
By William Hope HodgesonThe third book of the five-volume set, The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea, collects more of Hodgson’s nautical fiction, including his 1909 novel The Ghost Pirates.
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The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson: The Dream Of X & Other Fantastic Visi
By William Hope HodgesonThe fifth of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction.
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The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson: House on Borderland & Other Mysteriou
By William Hope HodgsonThe second of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction.
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Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York
By Francis SpuffordA Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A ...
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From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy
By Terry Lee RiouxNichols recalled that early in their first season's voyage , she one day noticed Kelley staring at her — and Shatner and Nimoy were , too . Not because she was so beautiful — they were up to something , putting one another up to ...
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The Jealous Kind: A Novel
By James Lee BurkeOn its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality.
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Quinn's Book
By William KennedyFrom the moment he rescues the beautiful, passionate Maud Fallon from the icy waters of the Hudson one wintry day in 1849, Daniel Quinn is thrust into a bewildering, adventure-filled journey through the tumult of nineteenth-century America.
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The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee
By James MooneyExclusive to this edition, George Ellison's biographical portrait of James Mooney emphasizes the ethnologist's timeliness and his empathy for the Cherokees and their rich heritage.
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The Natural Superiority of Mules: A Celebration of One of the Most Intelligent, Sure-Footed, and Misunderstood Animals in the World,...
By John HauerHowever, the excitement of facing the challenge of the canyon, and witnessing the unparalleled beauty for the first time, created a magnetic force that tugs as strongly today as it did when Major John Wesley Powell made his first ...
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From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
By John SedgwickBeyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. New York: Penguin Books, 1953. Stiles, T. J. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. New York: Vintage Books, 2009.
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Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
By John GierachJohn Wesley Powell named this stretch the Flaming Gorge for the way the tall red-rock canyon walls lit up in the morning sun, but after looking at hundreds of Bob's paintings and hanging several of them on my walls at home, ...
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Exploring the Superstitions: Trails and Tales of the Southwest’s Mystery Mountains
By John Annerino... 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1976; 1978; 1980; 2009 ASG: Arizona: A State Guide, 1907 AU: Author, 2018 BJE: James E. Bark, 1892 to 1928 BJM: James M. Barney, 1935 BB: Barney Barnard, 1964 BJG: John G. Bourke, 1872 BRT: Ron Butler, ...
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Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs the Creator of Tarzan
By John TaliaferroAlso see John G. Bourke, An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre (1886, reprint 1987); Jason Betzinez with Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, / Fought with Geronimo (1959, reprint 1987); Anton Mazzanovich, Trailing Geronimo (third edition, ...
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Designer Baby: A Surrogacy Journey from Fashion to Fatherhood
By Aaron Elias BrunsdonJohnson & Johnson send a big hamper full of gorgeoussmelling baby products. Baby Bjorn sends a box full of baby stuff. We are overwhelmed by all the kindness. It makes us feel special and blessed, fortunate in life as we already are for ...
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The Joy of Hygge: How to Bring Everyday Pleasure and Danish Coziness into Your Life
By Jonny Jackson, Elias Larsen... Tucker / sarsmis / Fanfo / llaszlo / Gutzemberg / Georgy Kuryatov / Jodie Johnson / BL91 / Artit Wongpradu / Liv friis-larsen / Maridav / logoboom / Illustration Forest / Yiorgos GR / noppawan09 / Dudarev Mikhail / Paul Aniszewski.
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Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Mainland Chinese Cinema
By Jeff YangArmour of God ( 1986 ; Hong Kong , Ac , Cm ) D : Jackie Chan C : Jackie Chan , Alan Tam , Rosamund Kwan , Lola Forner , Bozidar Smiljanic In this flamboyant actioner - clearly inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark - Chan plays Asian Hawk ...
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The Ironwood Tree
By Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizziAfter Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins.