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From Bobblehead dolls to refrigerator magnets, pricy porcelain figurines to autographed baseballs, everything, it seems, is collected by just about everyone. And no one knows the rapidly growing field of collectibles better than renowned expert Jeff Figler. You may have seen him on PBS's Nightly Business Report or heard him on Sirius Radio. In Collecting for Beginners, Figler introduces fledging collectors to the ins and outs of collecting from A to Z. Figler takes readers on a fascinating - and at times hilarious - journey into the back rooms of thrift stores, long neglected garages, and to...

The area that would become Poway was once the roaming grounds of the Diegueno and Luiseno Indians, several hundred years before the appearance of the Spaniards. It was also a pasturing place for mission stock, a ranch area for adventurous white settlers, a potential railroad stop that never materialized, and today is a diversified, thriving "city in the country" located within San Diego County. The story of Poway is one of many cultures, of many changes, and of many triumphs. Today it is a very desirable city in which to live, raise families, and send children to school; it is home to about...

"The Emerson Auctions Bid High, Bid Adieu" is the swiftly paced story of Roy Emerson, who owns Emerson Auctions, and his attempt to counterfeit one of the most famous - and valuable - baseball cards of all time: the Honus Wagner T206, worth millions of dollars. To accomplish this deed - and to make tens of millions of dollars with counterfeit cards - Roy uses arson, mob muscle, and deadly threats, many of them directed against Larry Dalton, a Philadelphia Fire Department investigator. Larry is the single father of eleven-year-old Miranda, who's dyslexic. The girl also becomes a target of...