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  • The Golden Flea

    A Story of Obsession and Collecting

    by Michael Rips ...
    A lovable oddball cast of characters is at the heart of this treasure-hunt through the last days of one of the greatest flea markets on earth. "[Rips] has humanity, humor and the gift of a limpid, agile, unpretentious prose style.… A captivating portrait.”—Ben Downing, Wall Street JournalAcross America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasures. For ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine

    A Life of John Snow

    by Peter Vinten-Johansen, Howard Brody, Nigel Paneth, Michael Rip, David Zuck, Stephen Rachman ...
    The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It modifies the conventional rags to riches portrait of John Snow by synthesizing fresh information about his early life from archival research and recent studies. It explores the intellectual roots of his ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Pasquale's Nose

    Idle Days in an Italian Town

    by Michael Rips ...
    Everywhere hailed for its quirkiness, its hilarity, its charm, Pasquale's Nose tells the story of a New York City lawyer who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and new baby, and discovers a community of true eccentrics -- warring bean growers, vanishing philosophers, a blind bootmaker, a porcupine hunter -- among whom he feels unexpectedly at home. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Face Of A Naked Lady

    An Omaha Family Mystery

    by Michael Rips ...
    Nick Rips’s son had always known him as a conservative midwesterner, dedicated, affable, bland to the point of invisibility. Upon his father’s death, however, Michael Rips returned to his Omaha family home to discover a hidden portfolio of paintings — all done by his father, all of a naked black woman. So begins Michael Rips’s exquisitely humane second work of memoir, a gloriously funny yet deeply ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Uncontrolled Comedy, Volume 1

    by Rip Micheals, Will "Spank" Horton, Ambrose Jones, Barbara Gray, Dave Lawson, Derrick Keener, Marvin Hunter1, Nancy Lee3 ...
    Narrated by Will "Spank" Horton, Ambrose Jones, Barbara Gray, Dave Lawson, Derrick Keener0, Marvin Hunter2, Nancy Lee4, Rip Michaels5 ...

    Unabridged

    59 min

    Uncontrolled Comedy is Def Comedy Jam meets the legendary Apollo Theater, with edgy sketch, ingenious sets, and the ability to showcase and produce the next legendary comedian. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Golden Flea

    A Story of Obsession and Collecting

    by Michael Rips ...
    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasures. For decades, no such market was more renowned than the legendary Chelsea flea market, which sprawled over several blocks and within an old garage on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would trawl through booths crammed with vintage dresses, rare books, ancient swords, glass eyeballs, Afghan rugs ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook