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The View We're Granted
Peter Filkins
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• Author(s): Peter Filkins • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn the pivotal poem "Marking Time," which appears almost exactly halfway through Peter Filkins's...
View full detailsFields of Combat: Understanding Ptsd Among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
Erin P. Finley
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• Author(s): Erin P. Finley • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - Post Traumatic Stress DisorderFor many of the 1.6 million U.S. service members who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, the tr...
View full detailsLegal Decisions That Shaped Modern Baseball
Patrick K. Thornton
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• Author(s): Patrick K. Thornton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This work takes a look at the cases that have had a significant influence on the game of baseball, such...
View full detailsPulp Fiction to Film Noir: The Great Depression and the Development of a Genre
William Hare
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• Author(s): William Hare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General During the Great Depression, pulp fiction writers created a new, distinctly American detective story, one that str...
View full detailsJohn Tortes Chief Meyers: A Baseball Biography
William a. Young
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• Author(s): William a. Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports One of major league baseball's first Native American stars, John Tortes "Chief" Meyers (1880-1971) was the hard-hittin...
View full detailsPackaging Baseball: How Marketing Embellishes the Cultural Experience
Mathew J. Bartkowiak, Yuya Kiuchi
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• Author(s): Mathew J. Bartkowiak | Yuya Kiuchi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Walk through any major or minor league park today and the sights, sounds, and smells of ...
View full detailsMorkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157)
Theodore M. Andersson, Kari Ellen Gade
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• Author(s): Theodore M. Andersson | Kari Ellen Gade • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: SagasMorkinskinna ("rotten parchment"), the first full-length chronicle of the kings of medieval Nor...
View full detailsThe Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
Ludwig Von Mises
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• Author(s): Ludwig Von Mises • Publisher: Martino Fine Books • Publisher Imprint: Martino Fine Books • BISAC: General2012 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. If Mise...
View full detailsWeapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia
Scott B. Radnitz
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• Author(s): Scott B. Radnitz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralMass mobilization is among the most dramatic and inspiring forces for political change. When ordinary ci...
View full detailsThe Big Squeeze
Handel E. Reynolds
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• Author(s): Handel E. Reynolds • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: HistoryIn 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms...
View full detailsAssessment for Excellence: The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Alexander W. Astin, Anthony Lising Antonio
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• Author(s): Alexander W. Astin | Anthony Lising Antonio • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThe second edition of Assessment for Excellence a...
View full detailsAssessment for Excellence: The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Alexander W. Astin, Anthony Lising Antonio
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• Author(s): Alexander W. Astin | Anthony Lising Antonio • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThe second edition of Assessment for Excellence a...
View full detailsCall Me Ishmael: A Study Of Melville
Charles Olson
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• Author(s): Charles Olson • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: Semiotics & Theory
Call Me Ishmael: A Study Of Melville
Charles Olson
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• Author(s): Charles Olson • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: Semiotics & Theory
Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution: The Holland Land Purchase
Charles E. Brooks
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• Author(s): Charles E. Brooks • Publisher: Fall Creek Books • Publisher Imprint: Fall Creek Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticLand development in western New York contributed to some of the most dramatic and convu...
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The Writer and the Overseas Childhood: The Third Culture Literature of Kingsolver, McEwan and Others
The Writer and the Overseas Childhood: The Third Culture Literature of Kingsolver, McEwan and Others
Antje M. Rauwerda
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• Author(s): Antje M. Rauwerda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books & Reading What does Ian McEwan have in common with Barbara Kingsolver? Or The Shack's William Paul Young with The ...
View full detailsAmerican Automobile Advertising, 1930-1980: An Illustrated History
Heon Stevenson
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• Author(s): Heon Stevenson • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Advertising & Promotion This book provides a comprehensive history of American print automobile advertising over a ...
View full detailsA Flower Amidst the Flames
B. G. Shaffer
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• Author(s): B. G. Shaffer • Publisher: Double Infinity Press • Publisher Imprint: Double Infinity Press • BISAC: Fantasy - ContemporaryBeing an assassin is easy...But ruling a war-torn kingdom is a brutal game.For generations, Aikradal has thriv...
View full detailsManaging Equity Portfolios: A Behavioral Approach to Improving Skills and Investment Processes
Michael A. Ervolini, Terrance Odean
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• Author(s): Michael A. Ervolini | Terrance Odean • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Investments & Securities - Portfolio ManagementA groundbreaking framework for improving portfolio performance that goes beyond tr...
View full detailsThe Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies
Chikako Takeshita
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• Author(s): Chikako Takeshita • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Gynecology & ObstetricsThe biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive develo...
View full detailsThe Civil War: A New One Volume History
Harry Hansen
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• Author(s): Harry Hansen • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Algorithms in Structural Molecular Biology
Bruce R. Donald
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• Author(s): Bruce R. Donald • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Molecular BiologyAn overview of algorithms important to computational structural biology that addresses such topics as NMR and design and ...
View full detailsBlind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment
Zaira Cattaneo, Tomaso Vecchi
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• Author(s): Zaira Cattaneo | Tomaso Vecchi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: OphthalmologyAn investigation of the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on cognitive abilities. Can a blind person see?...
View full detailsThe Simmonds House Kills: A Lakeside U Mystery
Meaghan Dwyer
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• Author(s): Meaghan Dwyer • Publisher: Carpenter Books • Publisher Imprint: Carpenter Books • BISAC: Mysteries & Detective StoriesA satirical and twisty whodunit, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, Karen M. McManus, and Maureen Johnson.The S...
View full detailsAustralian Horror Films, 1973-2010
Peter Shelley
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• Author(s): Peter Shelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This pioneering work provides in-depth coverage of 76 horror films produced in Australia, where serial killers, c...
View full detailsYou and Your Doctor: A Guide to a Healing Relationship, with Physicians' Insights
Tania Heller, Elaine A. Moore
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• Author(s): Tania Heller | Elaine A. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Changes in the healthcare field have threatened the once sacred relationship between patient and physic...
View full detailsLetters to a Young Activist
Todd Gitlin
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• Author(s): Todd Gitlin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Essays"Be original. See what happens." So Todd Gitlin advises the young mind burning to take action to right the wrongs of the world but also looking for ...
View full detailsThe American Presidents, Washington to Tyler: What They Did, What They Said, What Was Said About Them, with Full Source Notes
Robert A. Nowlan
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• Author(s): Robert A. Nowlan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State As of 2012, only 43 men have held the office of the President of the United States. Some have...
View full detailsVirtue Epistemology: Contemporary Readings
John Greco, John Turri
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• Author(s): John Greco | John Turri • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EpistemologyA collection of essential readings that chart the development of a diverse and flourishing field.Virtue epistemology is a diverse and ...
View full detailsPlacing Animals: An Introduction to the Geography of Human-Animal Relations
Julie Urbanik
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• Author(s): Julie Urbanik • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyPlacing Animals is the first book to survey the ways in which animals have bee...
View full detailsAnne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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• Author(s): Lucy Maud Montgomery • Publisher: Benediction Classics • Publisher Imprint: Benediction Classics • BISAC: Family - AdoptionAnne Shirley is exactly the opposite of what the Cuthberts were expecting when they send for a farmhand from t...
View full detailsLet Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus
Oliver Bullough
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• Author(s): Oliver Bullough • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe jagged peaks of the Caucasus Mountains have hosted a rich history of diverse nations, valuable trade, and incessant warfar...
View full detailsReady: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood
Elizabeth Gregory
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Gregory • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - ChildOver the past three decades, skyrocketing numbers of women have chosen to start their families in their late thirties and early...
View full detailsShock Theatre Chicago Style: WBKB-TV's Late Night Horror Showcase, 1957-1959
Donald F. Glut
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• Author(s): Donald F. Glut • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism From December 1957 through October 1959, Chicago TV viewers were held in thrall by "Marvin...
View full detailsThe China Strategy: Harnessing the Power of the World's Fastest-Growing Economy
Edward Tse
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• Author(s): Edward Tse • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International - GeneralNo major enterprise or financial institution can avoid doing business with China -- if not directly, then through myriad hidden conn...
View full detailsWe Are Soldiers: Our Heroes. Their Stories. Real Life on the Frontline.
Danny Danziger
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• Author(s): Danny Danziger • Publisher: Sphere • Publisher Imprint: Sphere • BISAC: MilitaryWhat is it like to drive a Challenger tank over desert terrain for six days in a row? Or hover an Apache AH1 attack helicopter a hundred metres above ene...
View full detailsLiterary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English: Strategies and Sources
H. Faye Christenberry, Angela Courtney, Liorah Golomb
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• Author(s): H. Faye Christenberry | Angela Courtney | Liorah Golomb • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: AfricanPostcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose l...
View full detailsBaseball State by State: Major and Negro League Players, Ballparks, Museums and Historical Sites
Chris Jensen
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• Author(s): Chris Jensen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Offering a fresh approach to the familiar concept of all-time baseball teams, this exhaustive work ranks more ...
View full detailsEthics and Experience: Moral Theory from Just War to Abortion
Lloyd Steffen
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• Author(s): Lloyd Steffen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyEthics and Experience introduces students to the key topics in moral theory...
View full detailsThe Jewish Story Finder: A Guide to 668 Tales Listing Subjects and Sources, 2d ed.
Sharon Barcan Elswit
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• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...
View full detailsThe Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
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• Author(s): Niccolo Machiavelli • Publisher: Simon & Brown • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Brown • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralOriginally published in 1532, nearly five years after the author's death, "The Prince" is a pioneering w...
View full detailsFreudian Fadeout: The Failings of Psychoanalysis in Film Criticism
Arij Ouweneel
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• Author(s): Arij Ouweneel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In Western culture, the psychoanalysis that has guided popular psychology for almost a century is...
View full detailsContemporary Dance in Cuba: Tecnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement
Suki John
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• Author(s): Suki John • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Modern The lens of dance can provide a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban experience. Cuban contemporary dance, or t...
View full detailsThe Carnegie Boys: The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America
Quentin R. Skrabec
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• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Business In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie stee...
View full detailsA Europe Made of Money
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol
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• Author(s): Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Money & Monetary PolicyA Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS...
View full detailsMystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood
Ron Backer
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• Author(s): Ron Backer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This companion volume to Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood (McFarland, 2010) focuses on 22 series and 167 indi...
View full detailsExcavating Modernity
Joshua Arthurs
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• Author(s): Joshua Arthurs • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThe cultural and material legacies of the Roman Republic and Empire in evidence throughout Rome have made it th...
View full detailsCapitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery
Dorothee Bohle, Bela Greskovits
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• Author(s): Dorothee Bohle | Bela Greskovits • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyWith the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern Europ...
View full detailsThe Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
Nathan L. Ensmenger
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• Author(s): Nathan L. Ensmenger • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe contentious history of the computer programmers who developed the software that made the computer revolution possible.This is a book about ...
View full detailsWitches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America
Elaine Forman Crane
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• Author(s): Elaine Forman Crane • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflecte...
View full detailsNFL Head Coaches: A Biographical Dictionary, 1920-2011
John Maxymuk
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• Author(s): John Maxymuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football The 466 men who have held the increasingly demanding and prestigious position of Head Coach in the National Football Lea...
View full detailsAndrew Pickens: South Carolina Patriot in the Revolutionary War
William R. Reynolds
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• Author(s): William R. Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary War Brigadier General Andrew Pickens was a primary force bringing about the end of British c...
View full detailsNetworked Publics
Kazys Varnelis
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• Author(s): Kazys Varnelis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyHow maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure in our everyday lif...
View full detailsTake Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda
Peter S. Wenz
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• Author(s): Peter S. Wenz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: PoliticalReality-based arguments against right-wing fantasies: the case for reducing income inequality, rebuilding our infrastructure, investing in educatio...
View full detailsGold Thunder: Autobiography of a NASCAR Champion
Rex White, Anne B. Jones
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• Author(s): Rex White | Anne B. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Chevrolet fans were wishing for a hero and Rex White made their dreams come true. He took on big muscle cars ...
View full detailsAmericans in Egypt, 1770-1915: Explorers, Consuls, Travelers, Soldiers, Missionaries, Writers and Scientists
Cassandra Vivian
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• Author(s): Cassandra Vivian • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt The voices of Americans have long been absent from studies of modern Egypt. Most scholars assume that Ame...
View full detailsThe Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne
Edward J. Rielly, David Robert Wooten
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• Author(s): Edward J. Rielly | David Robert Wooten • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This is a collection of new essays on Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma n...
View full detailsRick Nelson, Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer
Sheree Homer
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• Author(s): Sheree Homer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Composers & Musicians - General Ricky Nelson (he later preferred "Rick") was 8 years old when he began his career in show bus...
View full detailsSoltero, Casado, Separado y La Vida Despues del Divorcio
Myles Munroe, Zondervan Publishing
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• Author(s): Myles Munroe | Zondervan Publishing • Publisher: Destiny Image Incorporated • Publisher Imprint: Destiny Image Incorporated • BISAC: Christian Life - Family
The Fry Chronicles
Stephen Fry
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• Author(s): Stephen Fry • Publisher: Abrams Press • Publisher Imprint: Abrams Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsCelebrated actor, comedian, and writer Stephen Fry offers a deeply personal and entertaining account of his life.This...
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