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3291.
Spray the Bear: Reminiscences From the Golden Age of Advertising
by Walter W. Bregman
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Dust Jacket Hardcover (6x9) - £26.25
ISBN: 9781403306586
As the advent of television broadened the range of advertising's influence on the American public, the ad men became the glamorous elite of the corporate world. In this compulsively readable, anecdotal memoir, author Walter...More
3292.
Defying the Fates: The Remarkable Story of a Jew Who Survived in Nazi Europe
by Henry H. Gleisner
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759696655
There are many Holocaust survivor stories and eyewitness accounts of Nazi horror. This the compelling story of a young Jewish man who manages to elude detection at the center of the German occupied world, and with ingenuity...More
3293.
Sexual Lynching
by Lucia Vincent
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Paperback (6x9) - £13.00
ISBN: 9780759696532
Sexual Lynching tells the story of Lucia Vincent’s six-year battle with sexual harassment and oppressive retaliation by a major corporation. In her pursuit of an acting career, Vincent takes temporary work and faces the...More
3294.
Myron's World
by Seymour Rettek, MD
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Paperback (6x9) - £9.75
ISBN: 9780759681927
These bittersweet and humorous stories describe Myron’s world, a world shared by first generation Americans who lived in the poor neighborhoods of New York during the Depression. Myron, a timid but bright 12-year old Jewish...More
3295.
Through Hell and Beyond in a Boxcar
by Robert G. Glejf
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Paperback (5x8) - £11.75
ISBN: 9781403314208
It was September 3rd, and raining bombs. The war was three days old now. German planes came over our city and unloaded their noisy cargo. They only managed to disturb the dead, by dropping their destruction on the cemetery...More
3296.
Leave Me Alone
by Robert Cory
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759648340
About the book and why I wrote it - two reasons, Jennifer and Jessica, my daughters. Several years ago I sat in my studio in Los Angeles wondering if I would ever get the opportunity to grow up with my daughters, who were...More
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Frontiers of Faith: The Story of Charles C. & Florence Personeus, Pioneer Missionaries to Alaska, "The Last Frontier," 1917-1982
by AnnaLee Conti
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759688995
“Alaska – Land of Ice and Snow? Why would you want to go there?” This was the response when Carl and Florence Personeus told people of their call to Alaska as missionaries in 1917. No accurate information about Alaska...More
3298.
The Calling
by Seymour Rettek, MD
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759681903
After World War II, Irving Radich, an eager, fun loving but self involved young man goes to medical school in Switzerland where the curriculum is in French. Although he can barely read his acceptance letter, he persists,...More
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PipeDreams: One Teacher's Journey
by A. R. Magaletta McClure
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Paperback (5x8) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759692800
Snow is streaming from the sky as a short yellow school bus pulls up to a red brick building that is well on the plus side of fifty years old. A young girl, approximately ten years old, exits the bus through an open window...More
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Before I Could Walk
by Abigail Collins
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Paperback (5x8) - £8.75
ISBN: 9780759666429
BEFORE I COULD WALK is the courageous account of one woman’s journey out of the darkness of Multiple Personality Disorder, resulting from childhood, satanic ritual abuse, into the light of wholeness. Uniquely, the author...More