Randall: 1157 books

Book cover of Cypress Gardens
by Mary M. Flekke, Sarah E. MacDonald, Randall M. MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006

Florida's first theme park, Cypress Gardens, was the brainchild of Richard Downing Dick" Pope Sr. With his wife, Julie Downing Pope, he transformed a marshy, lakeside property in Winter Haven into a magnificent garden. The park's first visitors in 1936 toured pathways surrounded by lush plants from around...
Book cover of Detroit's New Center
by Randall Fogelman
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2004

The northern anchor of Detroit's greater downtown, New Center is a diverse and vibrant neighborhood that offers shopping, entertainment, and dining among landmark architecture, historic districts, and contemporary homes and businesses. Shortly after General Motors built their headquarters three miles...
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How to Play Piano

A Beginner’s Guide to Learning the Keyboard, Music, and Techniques

by Jason Randall
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018

Make Music on the Piano – Today! Click the READ MORE button and discover how easy it is to get started… When you read How to Play the Piano, you’ll learn how to get started with this beloved musical instrument: How the keys and pedals work Proper body and hand posture for easy playing The...
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Terry the Tramp: The Life and Dangerous Times of a One Percenter

The Life and Dangerous Times of a One Percenter

by K. Randall Ball
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011

Some folks find their way to the bright white side of the tracks, but there’s a small percentage who run through the dark alleys of life. Even a smaller portion of those survive. Terry “the Tramp,” born in 1947 to a broken middle-class home in Alhambra, California, grew up with a violent chip...
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At a Theater or Drive-in Near You

The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film

by Randall Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term derives from the fact that promoters of such films exploit the contents in advertising that plays up...
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Noel Gallagher

The Biography

by Lucian Randall
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

A look at the musician who is as well-known for his singer-songwriting talent as he is for his controversial, outspoken statements and his tempestuous relationships With the renowned Britpop band Oasis at the forefront of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, Noel Gallagher was responsible...
Book cover of Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage
by Ruth Painter Randall
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

More fascinating than fiction, this is the moving story of the most misunderstood woman in American history… The truth about Mary Lincoln has for nearly a century been hidden under a mountain of myth. They said Lincoln really loved Ann Rutledge. That he had tried to avoid marriage...
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From Battlefields Rising

How The Civil War Transformed American Literature

by Randall Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011

When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--the bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and social landscape. Prior...
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Say It Plain

A Century of Great African American Speeches

by Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006

A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more. In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...
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Religion in American Life

A Short History

by Jon Butler, Grant Wacker, Randall Balmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011

"Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One can hardly do better than Religion in American Life.... A good read, especially for the uninitiated....
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Amazing Tales from the New York Yankees Dugout

A Collection of the Greatest Yankees Stories Ever Told

by Ken McMillan, Ed Randall
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012

When it comes to baseball glory, no other team comes close to the New York Yankees, winners of forty American League pennants and twenty-seven World Series championships. Amazing Tales from the Yankee Dugout is a compilation of the funniest, strangest, and most unique stories, anecdotes, and tall...
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Julius Streicher

Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer

by Randall Bytwerk
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001

The Nazis put a remarkable amount of effort into anti-Semitic propaganda, intending to bring ordinary Germans around to the destructive ideology of the Nazi party. Julius Streicher (1885-1946) spearheaded many of these efforts, publishing anti-Semitic articles and cartoons in his weekly newspaper,...
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Angel in Goggles

Earthly Scriptures

by Randall A. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017

Angel’s earthly scriptures regard the earth from personal, secular perspectives. Like the Christian Bible, its canon admits a surprising variety of forms and lengths: There are Stories: a fateful lapse of weather-ethics; the confl ict between private and public property, the latter including humans...
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Disquiet Heart

A Novel

by Randall Silvis
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

"A master storyteller." — New York Times Book Review Pittsburgh, 1847: A cholera epidemic rages, and young women are disappearing... Poe is devastated by the death of his beloved wife and travels to Pittsburgh for a change of scenery, reuniting with Augie Dubbins, now a young...
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