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My Friend Johnny

The Last 20 Years of a Beautiful Life with Johnny Carson and Friends

by Howard Smith ...

For two decades, Howard Smith shared an extraordinary friendship with Johnny Carson-not as the legendary Tonight Show host, but simply as John. A neighbor turned close companion, Howard entered John's private world far from the spotlight.In My Friend Johnny, Smith paints an intimate portrait of the man behind the iconic desk: funny, kind, and generous, yet deeply complex. From tennis matches to ... Read more

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For two decades, Howard Smith shared an extraordinary friendship with Johnny Carson-not as the legendary Tonight Show host, but simply as John. A neighbor turned close companion, Howard entered John's private world far from the spotlight.In My Friend Johnny, Smith paints an intimate portrait of the man behind the iconic desk: funny, kind, and generous, yet deeply complex. From tennis matches to
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Viva Violetta & Verdi

by Howard Jay Smith ...

A Love Affair Inspiring the World's Most Unforgettable OperasExperience the intense, lifelong love affair between Giuseppe Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi, the brilliant and seductive soprano who shaped his legacy. As his muse, lover, and wife, Strepponi was the inspiration behind Verdi's most iconic works, including La Traviata and Aida. Her influence was pivotal, as she became the architect of ... Read more

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A Love Affair Inspiring the World's Most Unforgettable OperasExperience the intense, lifelong love affair between Giuseppe Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi, the brilliant and seductive soprano who shaped his legacy. As his muse, lover, and wife, Strepponi was the inspiration behind Verdi's most iconic works, including La Traviata and Aida. Her influence was pivotal, as she became the architect of
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Yap!

A Short History of Small Dogs

by Stephanie Howard-Smith ...

An entertaining history of our small canine companions, told in tender, engaging stories and featuring charming illustrations of the most famous pocket-sized pups and their owners across the centuries“What a respite from the woes of the world, to dive into this brilliantly researched and wittily written study of the history of our love affair with small dogs. I loved it.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New ... Read more

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An entertaining history of our small canine companions, told in tender, engaging stories and featuring charming illustrations of the most famous pocket-sized pups and their owners across the centuries“What a respite from the woes of the world, to dive into this brilliantly researched and wittily written study of the history of our love affair with small dogs. I loved it.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New
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Something's Rising

Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal

by Silas House, Jason Howard ...

Two Appalachian authors record personal stories of local resistance against the coal industry in this "revelatory work . . . oral history at its best" (Studs Terkel).Developed as an alternative to strip mining, mountaintop removal mining consists of blasting away the tops of mountains, dumping waste into the valleys, and retrieving the exposed coal. This process buries streams, pollutes wells and ... Read more

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Two Appalachian authors record personal stories of local resistance against the coal industry in this "revelatory work . . . oral history at its best" (Studs Terkel).Developed as an alternative to strip mining, mountaintop removal mining consists of blasting away the tops of mountains, dumping waste into the valleys, and retrieving the exposed coal. This process buries streams, pollutes wells and
... Read more
The Story of GGLC - A Journey from Darkness to Becoming

by Howard Smith ...

The Story of GGLC is an emotional drama about survival, identity, sisterhood, and transformation.After escaping a dangerous world that tried to control and define them, Gabrielle and the women around her struggle to rebuild their lives while searching for belonging, purpose, and independence. What begins as a fight for survival gradually becomes a journey of empowerment, leadership, and self ... Read more

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The Story of GGLC is an emotional drama about survival, identity, sisterhood, and transformation.After escaping a dangerous world that tried to control and define them, Gabrielle and the women around her struggle to rebuild their lives while searching for belonging, purpose, and independence. What begins as a fight for survival gradually becomes a journey of empowerment, leadership, and self
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Call of the Old Ones, The

An Annotated Cthulhu Mythos Collection

by H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Mearle Prout, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner ...

Narrated by Ian Gordon ...

Unabridged

26 hours 8 min

Including works by members of the original Lovecraft Circle: Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Clark Ashton Smith.In the depths of human imagination lies a realm in which ancient gods stir in their slumbers, where forbidden knowledge teeters on the edge of consciousness, and where cosmic horror threatens to cast its suffocating veil over reality. This is the world of the ... Read more

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Including works by members of the original Lovecraft Circle: Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Clark Ashton Smith.In the depths of human imagination lies a realm in which ancient gods stir in their slumbers, where forbidden knowledge teeters on the edge of consciousness, and where cosmic horror threatens to cast its suffocating veil over reality. This is the world of the
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Meeting Mozart: A Novel Drawn from the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte

by Howard Jay Smith ...

"Ever since the release of Amadeus, the concept of writing historical fiction based on the golden age of classical music has flourished… Frankly speaking, many of them are outstripped by this new riveting book. 5 out of 5 Stars"—ManhattanBookReview.comMeeting Mozart: A Novel Drawn From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte is a deftly plotted and richly detailed historical novel that spans ... Read more

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"Ever since the release of Amadeus, the concept of writing historical fiction based on the golden age of classical music has flourished… Frankly speaking, many of them are outstripped by this new riveting book. 5 out of 5 Stars"—ManhattanBookReview.comMeeting Mozart: A Novel Drawn From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte is a deftly plotted and richly detailed historical novel that spans
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Unshackled The Christian And Depression

by Howard Smith ...

I hate it.I hate me.I try, but I can't shake it.If only someone could tell me how to get out of this great, bigblack hole!Unshackled is a book that demystifies and disablesdepression with both understanding and effective strategiesfor change.Everything you need to know about overcomingMajor Depression and turning on the light in your life oncemore! ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

I hate it.I hate me.I try, but I can't shake it.If only someone could tell me how to get out of this great, bigblack hole!Unshackled is a book that demystifies and disablesdepression with both understanding and effective strategiesfor change.Everything you need to know about overcomingMajor Depression and turning on the light in your life oncemore!
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The Greatest Children's Classics of All Time – Ultimate Collection: 1400+ Titles in One Book

Novels, Stories, Fantasy Classics, Fables, Fairytales, Adventures & Legends

by Beatrix Potter, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, Thornton Burgess, Margery Williams, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Howard R. Garis, L. Frank Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Vishnu Sharma, Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, J. M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, Carlo Collodi, George Haven Putnam, Johanna Spyri, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emerson Hough, Eleanor H. Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Dorothy Canfield, Susan Coolidge, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mark Twain, R. L. Stevenson, John Meade Falkner, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Jonathan Swift, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna Sewell, Jack London, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Howard Pyle, Marion St. John Webb, Jules Verne, Eva March Tappan, W. R. S. Ralston, Arthur Ransome ...

The 'Greatest Children's Classics of All Time – Ultimate Collection' brings together a monumental array of over 1400 works, casting a wide net over the landscape of children's literature. This anthology encompasses a broad range of themes from whimsical fairy tales to profound moral lessons, delivered through a diverse array of literary styles including fantasy, realism, and fables. Embedded ... Read more

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The 'Greatest Children's Classics of All Time – Ultimate Collection' brings together a monumental array of over 1400 works, casting a wide net over the landscape of children's literature. This anthology encompasses a broad range of themes from whimsical fairy tales to profound moral lessons, delivered through a diverse array of literary styles including fantasy, realism, and fables. Embedded
... Read more
George Valentine Dureau

Life and Art in New Orleans

by Howard Philips Smith ...

New Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930–2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, then the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, in the mid-1960s. Not only did his career undergo a meteoric rise, but his work proved at once controversial and provocative, nuanced and groundbreaking. ... Read more

$17.99 USD

New Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930–2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, then the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, in the mid-1960s. Not only did his career undergo a meteoric rise, but his work proved at once controversial and provocative, nuanced and groundbreaking.
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The Cthulhu Mythos MEGAPACK®

40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

by H.P. Lovecraft, T.E.D. Klein, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Brian Stableford, Brian McNaughton, Robert Bloch, Stephen Mark Rainey, Lin Carter, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Adrian Cole ...

This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Colour Out of Space") to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Bloch), to later followers (Henry ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Colour Out of Space") to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Bloch), to later followers (Henry
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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb and Others

by Mike Mignola ...

Travel from the Appalachian mountains to Russia, France, and all the way back to Savannah, Georgia as Hellboy returns to take on phantoms, demons, and reanimated foes.Collected in one volume for the first time, revisit some of the most beloved Hellboy short stories, including The Return of Effie Kolb, Long Night at Goloski Station, The Seven Wives Club, Her Fatal Hour and The Sending.Dive into ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Travel from the Appalachian mountains to Russia, France, and all the way back to Savannah, Georgia as Hellboy returns to take on phantoms, demons, and reanimated foes.Collected in one volume for the first time, revisit some of the most beloved Hellboy short stories, including The Return of Effie Kolb, Long Night at Goloski Station, The Seven Wives Club, Her Fatal Hour and The Sending.Dive into
... Read more