It's Terminal.
California: FAT
Fresno Yosemite International
The thick, full chevron style grew in popularity thanks to this Magnum, P.I. actor who's still sporting it to this day.
Tom Selleck
The part that faces out from the shelf — don't break it!
spine
This famous not-really-a-doctor wrote his Beginner Book collection as Theo LeSieg.
Dr. Seuss / Theodor Geisel
Before we called it the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Dakota people used this name that means "sky-tinted water".
Minnesota
New York: LGA
La Guardia
Union general Ambrose Burnside grew his mustache so it connected via huge whiskers to the hair at his temples, a style that gave us this name for non-mustache facial hair.
sideburns
The flat part where the summary or the promotional blurbs go.
back
If you've read J. D. Robb's In Death series, you were actually reading this romance author who also publishes under Jill March and Sarah Hardesty.
Nora Roberts
Ojibwe gives us this name meaning "great river" or "father of waters". Yes, it's the great river you're thinking of.
Mississippi (Misi-ziibi)
Virginia: IAD
Dulles International
This surrealist painter of The Persistence of Memory (melting clocks) was as eccentric in his personal grooming as he was in his art: he waxed his mustache into sharp tips pointing up at his eyes.
Salvador Dalí
Books wear one of these for protection from the elements, just like we do (although they protect books more from dirt and water than from cold).
jacket
Since women were forbidden to publish poetry in 19th century England, these sisters sold their poems (and later, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre) under the male names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. (They kept their initials.)
Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, Anne)
The Sioux word for this state means "people of the south wind", perhaps the same wind that would carry off Dorothy's house in a tornado.
Kansas
Massachusetts: BOS
Logan International
When we first met this late host of Jeopardy!, he was sporting a dark mustache. The last time we saw it on TV (September 19, 2018), it was gray.
Alex Trebek
Since this is an addendum that the author includes to provide extra information, it probably won't burst and need to be surgically removed.
appendix
This author born Samuel Clemens didn't just get creative with his own name; he also named a character Huckleberry.
Mark Twain
More states with river-derived names include Ohio (Iroquoian "great river") and this neighbor to the southwest, home of the Cherokee village Tanasi.
Tennessee
Hawaii: HNL
Honolulu International
This 27th president was the last to wear a mustache in his official portrait.
William Howard Taft
If these are showing, it doesn't mean the book is underfed, just that the publisher has added raised horizontal bands on the outside binding edge to give a 3D look.
ribs
This founding father wrote the Poor Richard's Almanack as Richard Saunders, and a number of opinion letters to papers and journals under female aliases like Silence Dogood.
Benjamin Franklin
This big coastal state has an Aleutian name that means "great country" or "that which the sea breaks against". Checks out.
Alaska (alak-shak)