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81) Recovered
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English
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Bliss D. Light was just an ordinary children's librarian until one day she discovered she could grow a tail. Now her life is filled with more magic than any of the fairy tales she tells the children who gather at her feet at the Shipsfeather library. Like many of the other residents of Shipsfeather, Ohio, Bliss is a dogshifter, and her newly discovered ability to change from human form into that of a sleek white greyhound has left her yearning to...
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Night Shade Books
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English
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Warring factions travel to Jeroun to compete in the great fighting tournament of Tchootoo to demonstrate their opposition to Adrash, the orbiting god, but one group has plans to appease the god and bring peace to the planet.
86) Mile post 337
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Ruth Gilpin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Ruth (Pownall) Gilpin at the age of 10 helped established the town of Paulden with her family. As of the date of this writing in 2010 at the age of 96, she has lived for 86 years in Paulden. In keeping with the value she places on family and history, she wanted to leave her children and grandchildren and the future generations a glimpse of what life was like before they were born. She also wanted them to know and remember who "Grandma Ruth" was...
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Red Rock Mountain Press
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English
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"Touching letters written by a loving couple; musty letters that detail past lives, my parent's letters. A housewife and her sailor husband with shared immigrant experiences penned more than 500 letters during World War II, and the letters inform this book. Abridged versions of the letters weave a loving romantic story with actual events occurring on the home front and the battlefront. The letters are further brought to life through the 25 original...
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English
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"For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River in Arizona. Today, for at least half its length, the Gila is dead, like so many of the West's great rivers, owing to overgrazing, damming, and other practices. This richly documented cautionary tale narrates the Gila's natural and human history. Now...
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Shambhala
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English
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Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy writing. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of Le Guin's personal study and contemplation, her rendering of the text is a brilliant testament to her deep-seated understanding of Taoist...
100) Prescott
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Arcadia Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In 1864, the beautiful park-like basin under Thumb Butte was surveyed, and the town that is now Prescott was laid out along Granite Creek where gold had been panned. Twice designated the capital of the newly established Territory of Arizona, Prescott suffered a devastating fire in July 1900 that destroyed the downtown district, but the blaze afforded the town?s resilient citizens the opportunity to rebuild in more durable brick and stone. Since then,...