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Woodworking with Hand Tools: Tools, Techniques & Projects
Eden Phillpotts - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback
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For woodworkers, hand tools put the emphasis on the process of woodworking rather than the result. Yet hand tools also are essential to the highest level of craftsmanship, bringing a refinement to work that machines alone cannot produce. Whether using hand tools alone as a source of pleasure,... |
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
Harold Schechter - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana... |
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Shula: The Coach of the NFL's Greatest Generation
Mark Ribowsky - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Spanning seven decades, the notorious loss of Super Bowl III, and an historic undefeated season with the Dolphins, Shula is the definitive biography of a coaching legend. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Don Shula remains the winningest coach of all time with 347 career victories... |
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The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families... |
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
Drew Philp - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, withdraws from the comforts of life on a university campus in search of a place to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread... |
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Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
Geoffrey Wheatcroft - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A major reassessment of Winston Churchill that examines his lasting influence in politics and culture.Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German... |
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A Good Day to Bake: Simple Baking Recipes for Every Mood
Benjamina Ebuehi - ?Quadrille Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A Good Day to Bake is full of 70 sweet and savory baking recipes for any day of the week, led by flavor.Going through the ritual of bringing out the measuring scales, pouring out flour, whipping up the eggs, stirring the batter and impatiently slicing up warm cake is a beautiful thing that... |
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