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61) The Collectors
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Collectors volume 1
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Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
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Thicker than water: A faded photograph leads attorney Natalie Jones to the secrets of her late father's past.
The colt: A newborn colt joins the First Michigan Cavalry's march into war as both an omen of good fortune and a reminder that some creatures are blessedly innocent to the careless ways of man.
Ordinary miracles: A troubled teen goes to live with a judge whose life is troubled as well.
Fielder's choice: An advertising executive's life is...
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One of our aircraft is missing: The crew of an RAF bomber is shot down in the Netherlands and struggles to escape capture by the Germans. Academy Award nomination. (1941) with Hugh Williams & Peter Ustinov.
Spitfire: The story of Reginald J. Mitchell, the man who designed the ace British fighter plane, Spitfire. The Spitfire became one of the Allies' most valuable World War II assets. (1942) with David Niven & Leslie Howard.
We dive at dawn: The...
68) Metropolis
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The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
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In this unique series, the Civil War comes vividly to life, as those who were there give eye-witness accounts from both sides of the bloody conflict. A sugar farmer and gentleman politician with no military training before the war, General Richard Taylor--son of President Zachary Taylor--plays a major role in the Red River campaign. Out of print since 1879. (Excerpt from Goodreads)
71) The silvered
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1604
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The Empire has declared war on the small, were-ruled kingdom of Aydori, capturing five women of the Mage-pack, including the wife of the were pack-leader. With the pack off defending the border, it falls to Mirian Maylin and Tomas Hagen--she a low-level mage, he younger brother to the pack-leader--to save them.
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1848
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Sixteen-year-old Hal Stevens is a budding historical scholar from a small town in Colorado. A virtual outcast at high school, he has only two friends: Roberto the Biker Witch and Cleo Mallawi. Cleo claims to be the reincarnation of Queen Cleopatra. She also believes she's being stalked by an ancient Egyptian demon, Ammut, the Devourer of the Dead. But when Hal and Roberto find Cleo murdered in the forest near her home, it appears she may have been...
74) Arts & crafts
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Includes the most important Arts and Crafts designers and factories from Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, with examples of their work and current prices.
78) The ice lion
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1882
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Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Army Life in a Black Regiment is a riveting and empathetic account of the lessons learned from an encounter between a New England intellectual and nearly a thousand newly freed slaves. In the fall of 1862, Thomas Wentworth Higginson was asked to take command of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers, and he immediately understood the significance of the experiment...
80) Shadowheart
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Something is awakening underneath Southmarch Castle, something powerful and terrible that the world has not seen for thousands of years. Can its young defenders Barrick and Briony, along with a tiny handful of allies, ordinary and extraordinary, find a way to save their world and prevent the rise of a terrible new age--an age of unending darkness?
