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(0)Tom Miller
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A Place to Rest is a journey of discovery through the rapidly changing landscape of the post-World War II American South as viewed from the perspective of best friends, Mildred Morgan and Janet Bell. The pair grew up together in rural Grover's Fork, Alabama, and remained inseparable through college, despite having little in common. Mildred is the classic wallflower-soft-spoken, malleable, and emotionally fraught. Janet is outspoken, iconoclastic,...
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English
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Tom Miller's On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. Among his stops is Rosa's Cantina in El Paso, the Arizona site where a rancher sadistically tortured three Mexican campesinos, and the 100,000-watt XERF radio station where Wolfman Jack broadcasts nightly. He...
3) Seeking New York: the stories behind the historic architecture of Manhattan--one building at a time
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Universe, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
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2015.
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English
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English
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"In World War I America, magic and science have blended into an extraordinary art. Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes, a practitioner of empirical philosophy--an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal, and even fly--dreams of becoming the first male in an elite team of flying medics"--
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"Thanks to a stunning flying performance and a harrowing shootout in the streets of Boston, Robert Canderelli Weekes's lifelong dream has come true: he's the first male allowed to join the US Sigilry Corps's Rescue and Evacuation service, an elite, all-woman team of flying medics. But as he deploys to France during the waning days of the Great War, Sigilwoman Third-Class Canderelli learns that carrying the injured from the front lines to the field...
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In "Snowboarding's Last Stand: A Samurai and The Slingling," connected to ancient traditions and powerful forces Ollie, a snowboarding samurai grappling with a past he seeks to amend, and Misty a female snowboarder and inventor, encounter an audacious Slingling with a fiery spirit and unwavering loyalty to snowboarders. As their paths unexpectedly intertwine, a gripping snowboarding showdown unfolds against the backdrop of an oppressive regime and...