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Surf City

The Jan and Dean Story

By: Dean Torrence

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The Jan and Dean Story is a personal story of the iconic musician and entrepreneur Dean Torrence. As a memoir The Jan and Dean Story has elements of humor, tragedy and redemption. It tells their story from the early high school friendship struck up between Jan Berry and Dean Torrence and their ascent to the dizzying heights of stardom riding the crest of the “surf” craze. The Jan and Dean Story is as much about the culture of the 1960s as it is about music. Dean has lived an incredible life and continues to promote a lifestyle and surf culture that is now universally admired and followed throughout the world. The story also recounts Jan’s tragic car accident and his ability to recover enough to continue to perform will be inspiring to many readers even those not familiar with surf music. For pop culture addicts and music buffs alike this book is indispensable. As early teen icons, Jan and Dean left an indelible mark on the music of the 60’s and the American psyche. Dean Torrence is still touring and creating music and often appears with the Beach Boys and other groups from the heyday of surf music.

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1590794036

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Surf City

The Jan and Dean Story

By: Dean Torrence

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The Jan and Dean Story

By: Dean Torrence

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Prairie Man

My Little House Life & Beyond

By: Dean Butler

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Prairie Man

My Little House Life & Beyond

By: Dean Butler

Celebrating its 50th anniversary and still airing in the U.S. and around the world, Little House on the Prairie is one of the most cherished family dramas in television history, and this smart, candid memoir from beloved star Dean “Almanzo” Butler, who played Laura “Half-Pint” Ingalls’ eventual husband, is a must-read for fans, filled with insider stories and anecdotes. Cast just before his twenty-third birthday, Dean Butler joined Little House on the Prairie halfway through its run, gaining instant celebrity and fans’ enduring affection.Ironically, when the late, great Michael Landon remarked that Little House would outlive everyone involved in making it, Butler deemed it unlikely. Yet for four decades and counting, Butler has been defined in the public eye as Almanzo Wilder—a role he views as the great gift of his life. Butler had been cast as a romantic lead before, notably in the made-for-TV movie of Judy Blume’s Forever, opposite Stephanie Zimbalist. But Little House was, and remains, one of the most treasured shows in television history. As the eventual husband of Laura “Half-pint” Ingalls—and the man who would share actress Melissa Gilbert’s first real-life romantic kiss—Butler landed as a central figure for the show’s devoted fans. Now, with wit and candor, Butler recounts his passage through the Prairie, sharing stories and anecdotes of the remarkable cast who were his on-screen family. But that was merely the beginning of a diverse career that includes Broadway runs and roles on two other classic shows—Moondoggie in The New Gidget and Buffy’s ne’er-do-well father, Hank, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Coming of age during a golden era of entertainment, Butler has evolved along with it, and today enjoys success and fulfillment as a director and producer—notably of NBC Golf’s Feherty—while remaining deeply loyal to Little House. The warmth, heart, and decency that fans of Laura and Almanzo fell in love with on Little House echo through this uplifting memoir, a story, in Butler’s words, about “good luck, good television, and the very good—if gloriously imperfect—people who made it so.”

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330

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Citadel Press

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0806543310

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9780806543314

Nightmare On Sims Road

By: Edward Dean

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Nightmare On Sims Road

By: Edward Dean

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352

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Page Publishing Inc

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1640277323

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9781640277328

Practicing Passion

Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church

By: Kenda Creasy Dean

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Practicing Passion

Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church

By: Kenda Creasy Dean

Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church.

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280

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802847129

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9780802847126

Rock N Roll Gold Rush

A Singles Un-Cyclopedia

By: Maury Dean

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Rock N Roll Gold Rush

A Singles Un-Cyclopedia

By: Maury Dean

An appreciation of Rock-n-Roll, song by song, from its roots and its inspriations to its divergent recent trends. A work of rough genius; DeanOCOs attempt to make connections though time and across genres is laudable.

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730

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Algora Publishing

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0875862276

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9780875862279

Travel Narratives from New Mexico

Reconstructing Identity and Truth

By: John Emory Dean

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Travel Narratives from New Mexico

Reconstructing Identity and Truth

By: John Emory Dean

The colonialist West has spoken for New Mexico since 1540 when Francisco Vasquez de Coronado traveled to Acoma Pueblo in his search for the legendary cities of gold. With the Spanish incursion, followed fifty-six years later by the first English-speaking colonists in New Mexico, began the representation of New Mexico from an outsider's perspective. The colonial West imagined itself to hold central claims to knowledge, so it knew its peripheries only as it encountered and articulated their presence to itself. This Western narrative, based on an imagined Western privilege to foundational or platonic knowledge, has become the dominant Euro-American discourse through which New Mexico has come to be known. The comparative study of this collection of travel and contact narratives traces the enforcement of--and resistance to--the Western myth of the Euro-American and European as normative, as well as the Hispanic and the native as Other. The author ably introduces the platonic quest as a new unifying thread that links each of these travel narratives to his argument that identity and claims to knowledge may be tested, recovered, or created in movement within New Mexico. The platonic journey has mostly been understood as an intellectual journey toward truth. This study expands upon the platonic journey to show that it may also, like the quest, be played out in geographical space. Travel Narratives from New Mexico will be a very valuable resource for students and scholars of literature, especially of the American Southwest and travel theory.

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214

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Cambria Press

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1604976314

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9781604976311

Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

By: Dean E. Arnold

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Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

By: Dean E. Arnold

A theory of ceramics that elucidates the complex relationship between culture, pottery and society.

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286

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Cambridge University Press

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0521272599

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9780521272599

Scandalous

A Victorian Era Novella

By: Cassandra Dean

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Scandalous

A Victorian Era Novella

By: Cassandra Dean

The dissolute Earl of Edgington is the last man Miss Sofia Hargrove ever wanted to see again. Ten years ago, she fell foolishly in love and, worse, she thought he loved her in return. Recklessly, she indulged her passion in a moonlit garden….and was caught. Ruined, she ran to the Continent, and then was devastated again when he didn’t follow. Now, at a London ball, he stands before her and begs for a chance to explain. Edgington knows Sofia will never forgive him. For ten years, memories of her have haunted him, but his memories pale next to the bright, vibrant woman she’s become. The chance to explain, to ask her forgiveness, burns inside him, alongside the dormant passion he’s never forgotten and a long-held love that will no longer be denied. Cassandra Dean, author of FINDING LORD FARLISLE and TEACH ME, entices readers once more with a tale of passion, love and second chances.

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SeaDub Publications

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0463777085

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9780463777084

Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community

By: Dean E. Arnold

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Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community

By: Dean E. Arnold

This ethnoarchaeological study looks at pottery production in a contemporary Peruvian Andean community.

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316

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Cambridge University Press

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0521543452

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9780521543453

The Colorado Guide

By: Bruce Caughey,Dean Winstanley

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The Colorado Guide

By: Bruce Caughey,Dean Winstanley

Written by two third-generation Coloradans, this is the most reliable single resource for discovering this spectacular Rocky Mountain state. The book organizes the state into six regions with corresponding maps, allowing readers access to over 1,400 entries of things to see and do in Colorado. Black-and-white photographs; maps; line drawings.

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Fulcrum Group

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1555910890

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9781555910891

Book's by Dean Torrence

Surf City

Surf City

Surf City

Surf City

Prairie Man

Prairie Man

Nightmare On Sims Road

Nightmare On Sims Road

Practicing Passion

Practicing Passion

Rock N Roll Gold Rush

Rock N Roll Gold Rush

Travel Narratives from New Mexico

Travel Narratives from New Mexico

Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process

Scandalous

Scandalous

Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community

Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community

The Colorado Guide

The Colorado Guide

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