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The Crown Prince of Perfect
Jay Boyer

Brian Colby and his wife Sarah are in counselling as the play begins, and it's not going well. Of course, neither has their marriage. That's ...


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Keefer
The People's Choice
Leslie Wootten

"Keefer: The People's Choice" is the true story of a racing Greyhound's tumultuous, injury-plagued journey to domination during the 1980s. ...


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Lost Sheep
A Murder Mystery
Bettie Anne Doebler

"Lost Sheep" is a mystery novel largely set in Cornwall, Oxford and London during the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease among sheep. ...


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A Viking Slave's Saga
Land of Wooden Gods, People of the Dawn, and Sacrificial Smoke
Jan Fridegård
Translated by Robert E. Bjork

This trilogy centers on a ninth-century thrall named Holme, his wife, Ausi, and their daughter, Tora, and chronicles Holme's struggle against his ...


Cover of Italian translation of Phoenix by Melissa Pritchard


Phoenix (Italian translation)
Melissa Pritchard
Translated by S. Giannoni

This Italian translation of Melissa Pritchard's first novel, "Phoenix" (1991) is part of Palomar's ...


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Professing Literacy In Composition Studies
Peter N. Goggin

Part of the "Research and Teaching in Rhetoric and Composition" series, this book explores the following key questions: ...


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Forensic Anthropology
Contemporary Theory and Practice
Debra Komar

Forensic anthropology is a vastly popular and rapidly changing profession, yet to date there has been no volume that reflects the current state of ...


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The Superorganism
The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
Bert Hölldobler

In their first major collaboration since their Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Ants," Bert ...

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