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What people say about Collectors Encyclopedia of Fiesta: Plus Harlequin, Riviera, and Kitchen Kraft (Collector’s Encyclopedia of Fiesta) (by Bob Huxford):

If you collect Fiesta, this is a must have.
FIESTA
An excellent history and price guide for HLC China.
Was this book assembled in the authors’ basement?
Book is informative, bind not so good
The best Fiesta book out there, but with glaring errors
Excellent effort with room to grow.
Excellent Resource
I am a newbie to Fiesta
A Classic! A must have.
Great for any collector!
Very good, but vague in a very few instances
Best quick reference for new and old collectors
A Fiesta Bible
The newest version of the Bible of Fiesta
A great book, if you look past the errors…
Filled with errors
The book to buy before buying vintage Fiestaware.
Huxford’s Book is #1
A jumbled up mess
Huxford’s Fiesta 10th Edition
Not bad, but could be better.
A Good Beginning
Goes beyond just listing prices

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What people say about Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album (by Teresa Jordan):

A loss of a way of life
Great book with a deeper meaning
The Gift of Simple Description
A great book about the west, focusing on women’s experiences
Finding a place of honor
Jordan reveals incires into our own lives
Progress replacing simplicity
This is an outstanding book!
Worth the price
It’s a great read and good therapy all in one.
Good Book
The ties between family and personal identity
A fascinating story of a disappearing way of life.
Snapshots: Riding the White Horse Home by Teresa Jordan
Learning to See
Absorbing memoir of a Wyoming ranch family . . .

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What people say about Roar of the Heavens: Surviving Hurricane Camille (by Stefan Bechtel):

I Felt Like I Was in the Eye of the Storm
Camille
Absolutely excellent!
Author perpetuates the myth of the “Hurricane Party”
The Beast That Was Camille
Hurricanes
Page Turning and Instructive
Thrilling
Newt753
Bravo!
So vivid I almost forgot I was reading
A storytelling event of the first order
A great book about a great disaster
Camille was no lady
A quick read with a lasting impression
Roar of the Heavens
Totally absorbing
Awe Inspiring

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What people say about Losing Matt Shepard (by Beth Loffreda):

Well-balanced discussion of a painful episode
Great
Author Missed Matthew Shepard
Lives in the aftermath of tragedy
Never Losing Him
A must read for everyone. Read, weep, and learn
Excellent insight
Always Relevant
Remembering Matt Shepard: Passion and Necessity
Beth Loffreda has nothing to say about Matt Shepard…
A lot of things found…
Great!
Reclaiming Laramie
SUPERB REPORTING
Beth hit the nail on the head.
Broadening our horizon
Still relevant almost ten years later
Direct, Honest, and Powerful
Prissy, scolding tone
Stunning, complicated

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  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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What people say about Always Coming Home (California Fiction) (by Ursula K. Le Guin):

One of her best
Lyrical and Luminous
A Slow, Quiet, Rich Read
With apologies to Le Guin
Predicting, or observing?
It’s Hard to Know What I Think
Spiritual balm for a homesick Californian
So pleased it’s back in print!
Deserves a Much Wider Audience
A woman’s life-journey in a distant time, familiar place
Didactic Environmentalism
An Homage to Her Parents
Deeply insightful look at our culture via another culture.
An Archaeology of the Future
An Amazing Piece of Work!!
Synopsis of Always Coming Home, Utopia with feminist themes
Too Durkheimian for its own good; problematic as well
It’s the best!
It can take a lifetime to go thirty miles, and come back.

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What people say about Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin (by John Bengtson):

Wonderful Silent Film History
Great book, Poor design
Part Two of a Trilogy? One Can Only Hope!
5 STAR RATING!
A wonder
READ THE BOOK, SEE THE MOVIES (AGAIN)
A Must-Have!
John Bengtson Has Done it Again
Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood through the Films of Charlie Chaplin
Incredible research and great gift for fans of Chaplin
Every Page of This Book is Fascinating!
Brilliant
AN ABSOLUTE MUST!!!!
Bravo!! Mr. Bengtson!!
Chaplin and L.A. Spaces
A Great – and FUN – Must-Own Chaplin Book For Chaplin-Lovers

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What people say about Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party (by George R. Stewart):

Pilgrims’ Progress
If you only read one book about the American West,here it is
Simple but gripping narrative
An American Epic
The Donner Party was no party…
AN AMERICAN SURVIVAL STORY…
You’ll Hunger For More!
Intriguing. . .
Would you…? Don’t answer lightly: pray for those who did
Six Star Material
Very good book, history written as a compelling story.
Cliched but true: “A harrowing tale”
An American Tragedy
The Shortcut That Led Them Into Hell
Heartbreaking tale of sorrow, starvation, cannibalism.
Ordeal by hunger filled me with dread
Timeless Story
Thrilling, Inspiring, and Educational
An epic tale of heroism and despair
Compelling story, gripping writing
Interesting
An exciting, if biased and highly romanticized account
HUNGRY FOR A GOOD BOOK?
WOW
This book is well worth reading.
Tragic account of human endurance.

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What people say about Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (by Victor Davis Hanson):

Hanson is the Daddy of Hanson
Well written, well researched, well balanced
Immigration Rational
Expert?
What about the statistical aspect?
Compassionate critique
A Good Place to Start
Racist paranoia from bigot
Dispassionate, honest , and objective
A balanced look at a problem out of control
A book on this subject was long overdue
COMMON SENSE
Finally, a book that tells it like it is
But I already knew why I left California for good!
A truly awful book
Something needs to be said
Liberal Reviewers’ condescension
Heed the message, not the messenger
The fix is in:America to become another 3rd world slum
THE book on immigration
Not a simple book. Much honest food for thought.
The nation state and massive immigration
Hanson must think all Mexicans are illiterate…
Mexifornia
Man, the racism in this book & these reviews is frightening!
The best book about California of the past 20 years
Hansons’s Frank Mexifornia Tells some Harsh Truths
Must Reading for All Americans
Someone who sees it as it is!
A throwback to the attitudes of 80 years ago.
What I’ve been wanting to tell people!
Another Anti-Immigrant Diatribe.
Will California have 40 million or 70 milion in 50 years?
Mexifornia or mexiphobia?
Never an Alien in my own land
A book that seems to have found its audience
At last the plain truth!!
Please take the time to read this; it ought to scare the pants off you!
Persuasive…But Less Than Entirely
Scrutinizes the impact of massive illegal immigration
Arrogance and Hubris Abound
Speaking Fearlessly
A Scholar?s Personal Account of the Problems of Immigration
The Turn.
Outstanding book on complicated subject
At last an honest accounting of a frightening issue
A Sobering View of Immigration From the Southern Border
Thought provoking yet down to earth
Very Unengaging
A Professor of security studies
Superb, but remedies don’t go far enough…
A very good and important book
Blatantly Honest
Thought provoking
Much needed plain talk
Everybody’s Burden
A rarity: a genuinely thoughtful book
Show Me the Sources
An expert’s review
A Voice Against Cultural Annihiliation
Mighty foolish stuff!
Well done
Nativist Nonsense
Thought-provoking
Has some good ideas but should be more academic
A Tinely Debate!
The difficult truth about California…
Voice that needs to be heard by any one who truly loves USA
An Intimate and Thoughtful Look at Immigration
Interesting narrative, flawed scholarship
This wave is different.
The honest truth
50’s Nostalgia as the Solution for Today’s Problems
The Old Simplicity That Doesn’t Work
Linguistic Aparthid, English Speakers vs. Spanish Speakers
A must read
Another Great Book From Hanson
Absolutely Great Book!
Interesting
“Mexifornia”, The Truth Finally Told
Truth is incontrovertible
How logical can one get in discussing an illogical situation
California Dreaming
Mexiphobia
“New arrivals”? Hardly.
Pity Me

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What people say about Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey (by Lillian Schlissel):

Humbling, yet empowering to women today…
The most moving book I have read.
This book makes me appreciate my life today.
Fine and true
A Comprehensive and Intimate Study
Indispensible resource for Westward migration
Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey
Great Book!
Scholarly Approach to Forgotten History
Family Stories
Experience an incredible journey!
Some women’s diaries
Excellent. The images stay with you for a very long time.
Well researched
Hungry for more
Amazing insight for women today
No title
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What people say about Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Women of the West) (by Elinore Pruitt Stewart):

A wonderful glimpse of life on the praire.
A great, authentic read about the American experience
An inspiring display of “mind power” years before it was even called that
Insight into homesteading in the turn of the century Wyoming
Letters of a woman Homsteder
“The blue veil of distance”
So good, I thought it was a contemporary novel!
A candid slice of life
Extraordinary!
An intriguing look into the past of America’s frontier
A look at how it really was!
Joyous and Inspiring and a Great Gift
Great to read about yesteryear
I can’t put it down!
Pioneer grit
Proud to be progeny