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Mitchell Beazley
Pub. Date
2021.
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Miller's Collectibles Handbook & Price Guide 2021-2022 is the up-to-date guide to the collectables market no dealer, collector or auctioneer should be without. Featuring more than 4,000 objects in full color, each with a detailed description and price range, the book also shows you how to spot that rare example that may be worth twenty times more than another piece. In-depth features explain why one piece is worth more than another, show how to value...
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Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
2016
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"Game Worn: Treasures of Baseball's Greatest Heroes and Moments is a richly illustrated exploration and first-of-its-kind compendium study of the world's most coveted and precious baseball uniforms worn by Major League ballplayers during the twentieth century. This coffee-table book features many of the most historically significant uniforms, jackets, hats, as well as other treasured baseball collectibles that tell us as much about the history and...
5) Fetch
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Three more bone-chilling novella-length tales to keep even the bravest Five nights at Freddy's player up a night. Three boys -- Greg, Alec, and Oscar -- each have a problem that an item from Freddy Fazbear's Pizza might solve... if they can survive the trip!
8) 1:35 A.M
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Scholastic, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2020
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Delilah escapes deeper into her dreams each night, in desperate need of a wake-up call. Stanley is newly dumped, stuck in a dead-end job for a mysterious employer, and unable to connect with anyone. And Devon, abandoned by his dad and ignored by his mom, can't understand why love and friendship come so easily to everyone except him. Unfortunately, in the callous world of Five Nights at Freddy's, it's always in the depths of loneliness when evil creeps...
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Our heroine in these two volumes which total 18 chapters, Mary Eliska Girl
Detective Girl Aviatrix, is a well-off young lady whose grandfather Albert
Stricklin is a newspaper publisher in Piedmont, California, who supports her
as a reporter for his paper The Piedmont Star, aware that she likes to dabble
in detective work. Flying in her airplane and driving her jalopy "Calamity Jane",
Mary Eliska joins with her three best friends: nieces Jacqueline...
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Excerpt: "It has been my endeavour to provide in this book a concise, yet sufficiently complete, account of the physical characters of the mineral species which find service in jewelry, and of the methods available for determining their principal physical constants to enable a reader, even if previously unacquainted with the subject, to have at hand all the information requisite for the sure identification of any cut stone which may be met with. For...
11) Lords of the Fly
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Fish and fishing. Obsession and competition. Mother nature and the most interesting creature on earth-man. Monte Burke is completely obsessed with flyfishing for tarpon. For the past decade or so, he has chased them up and down the coast of Florida, from the Keys to the Everglades to the Panhandle. For him, and for a healthy portion of the nearly five million flyfishermen in the United States, fishing for tarpon is the absolute apex of the sport....
12) American Silver
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A practical guide to recognizing, identifying, and appreciating the finest American silverwork. Photographs and drawings of masterworks from leading collections show some of the finest work by Jacob Hurd, Jeremiah Dummer, Peter van Dyck, Edward Winslow, John Coney, Paul Revere, and other renowned silversmiths. 52 halftones, 14 black-and-white line illustrations.
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Like the old saying goes, "Money makes the world go 'round." We use it every day. We could not acquire most necessary items needed in daily life without it. We almost always want more of it, but for coin collectors, money is much more than a piece of metal. It is a hobby, a learning experience, and can be a lifelong obsession.There really are no hard statistics on the amount of people who collect coins in the world. Some people suggest that one out...
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Calvin Lee Tolbert authored "A Most Unique Storyteller" to capture his past experiences, history and youth in Baltimore Maryland. The story is told through Calvins poems, anecdotes, thoughts, short stories and even an original play. His work was the result of influence by the group of senior citizens at the Waxter Center in Baltimore in 1994. Their project was to capture the past before it is ALL forgotten.
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Ladies, Why are we still having dealing with bias when all we want to do is provide outstanding work on our jobs? Bias has become like a song that is played over and over again until you are sick of hearing it! Women, the time has come for us to stop being silent and speak up regarding the biases that we face working in male-dominated environments. 'SILENCE IS NOT A STRATEGY' tells of how one woman overcame the challenges she faced working with men...
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This edition is written especially for the Amateur or Professional clock repairer. The only Clock Repair Book that you need using Best Practices.
Everything you need to know when Repairing Mechanical Clocks. The most comprehensive, up-to-date clock repair manual available today. Over 390 pages include hundreds of color photos and diagrams. A full explanation of dismantling and putting a clock back together CORRECTLY.
A full explanation of routine...
17) Hongshan Jade
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The Hongshan culture came from the north-eastern part of China, around Liaoning, inner Mongolia, and close to the northern province of Hebei. Based on the findings at the Niuheliang site, the Hongshan demonstrated that they had a highly developed pyramide-shape society where the person that had the unique gift to communicate with the gods was the leader of that community.
Religion and secular activities were merged, and they used their temples, altars,...
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Living on the banks of the Withlacoochee River in Crackertown, Florida was a great place to live. I was either in the river or on the river as much as possible with my friends. That was our playground. I attended elementary school in Yankeetown. Then high school in Crystal River. Good old Crystal River high school. I will never forget you. After graduation I married my boyfriend and moved to Atlanta. He was a student at Georgia Tech. We had 3 children...
19) Blood Royal
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The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d'Artagnan and his three loyal friends.
The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth's acclaimed new series of Alexandre Dumas's greatest adventures is Blood Royal, the second half of what Dumas originally published as Twenty Years After. In this volume all the plots and schemes set up in the previous novel come...
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The Western Zhou dynasty left an indelible mark on Chinese history, shaping the nation's identity and cultural trajectory. Through the lens of jade artifacts, this book delves into the profound changes wrought by the Western Zhou period, offering insights into its political, social, and philosophical underpinnings. By juxtaposing ancient Greek philosophy with Chinese thought, the book elucidates fundamental differences between Eastern and Western...
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