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36103) The vanished child
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1992
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"Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why."
New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson, Richard, the only witness, is shocked into silence, and then disappears, presumed kidnapped and killed.
Switzerland, 1905. Alexander von Reisden, "intellectual, immoral, and unstable," is "recognized" as Richard. Despite Reisden's insistence, he's not Richard, he is drawn into the affairs of the Knight family,...
36106) Voice of the Eagle
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Time Circle volume 2
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Kwani, the spiritual guide of the Anasazi tribes, her mate, and her son return to the home of her husband, Tolonqua.
36107) The volcano lover: a romance
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[1992]
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A love story set in Naples in 1772 and based on the romantic entanglements of Lord and Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson.
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Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese...
36115) Westward!
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Pub. Date
1992
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When Clay Holt returns to the Ohio Valley after traveling with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, he sparks a blood feud with the Garwood clan. Tensions have been fueled in his absence by Josie Garwood's claims about a romantic encounter. Holt and his brother, Jefferson, are forced to flee, heading out West once again.
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[1992]
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How do our brains allow us to recognize objects and locate them accurately in space, use mental imagery to remember yesterday's breakfast, read, understand speech, learn to dance, and recall a new telephone number? Recent breakthroughs in brain-scanning and computing techniques have allowed researchers to plumb the secrets of the healthy brain's operation; simultaneously, much new information has been learned about the nature and causes of neuropsychological...
36117) Whatever tomorrow brings
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Californians volume 1
Pub. Date
c1992
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Twenty-year-old Kaitlin Donovan is forced to move to turn-of-the-century San Francisco to find her family's fortune after her mother dies.
36118) What's It All About?
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""There are things that I have done in my life that I should regret. I don't." On these pages is the familiar, engaging voice one expects to encounter: the Cockney lad who realized the impossible dream - unchanged, unfazed, still so astonished at his good fortune that his natural comedic impulse must continually poke fun at himself and his surroundings." "Perhaps it has to do with the fact that, as Alfie, Michael Caine forever epitomized a culture...
36119) Where are my bears?
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c1992
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Describes the lifestyle and habitat of the grizzly bear, how the destruction of forest land threatens its survival, and what we can do to save the grizzly.
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"Once upon a time, seven wonders of the world stood tall and brilliant and, it must have seemed, would stand forever, impervious to time and gravity. Now only one remains--the pyramid at Khufu, in the Egyptian desert near Cairo. All of the others have fallen down." "Modern technologies, computerized designs, and new materials have minimized structural failures nearly to the vanishing point. Even so, we can learn from ancient as well as recent history....