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Sixpence House
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Paul Collins
The author, his wife, and their baby son move from San Francisco to Hay-on-Wye, in Wales--partly because it's cheaper, partly because it's the used-book capital of the world. In the end, they return to American, but in between the two moves they encounter a good deal of local color. Collins, a writer, also has some trenchant observations to make ...
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The Christmas Candle
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Richard Paul Evans, Jacob Collins (Illustrator)
On Christmas Eve, Thomas buys a magical candle that changes the way he views his fellow human beings and helps him feel charity for those less fortunate than he.
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Illuminations: Visions for Change, Growth, and Self-Acceptance
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Stephen C Paul, Gary Max Collins (Illustrator)
A gift book of affirming proverbs that empower readers to live up to their full potential.
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
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Paul Collins
The author, his wife, and their baby son move from San Francisco to Hay-on-Wye, in Wales--partly because it's cheaper, partly because it's the used-book capital of the world. In the end, they return to American, but in between the two moves they encounter a good deal of local color. Collins, a writer, also has some trenchant observations to make ...
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck
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Paul Collins
Each of these 13 profiles documents the hitherto lost personalities behind minor, once-famous (or infamous) achievements. Biographies of a 19th-century forger, the man responsible for the development of the Concord grape, an inventor of a language based on music, and many others are included. Some of the material collected here was initially ...
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Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies
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Paul Fein, Bud Collins (Foreword by)
Includes insights about the top players through full-length interviews and features
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Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
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Paul Collins
Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology--a meditation on what "normal" is, and how human genius comes in strange and wondrous forms.
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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
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Paul Collins
This impeccably documented book offers portraits of famously forgotten men and women, who leap from the ash heap of thankless obscurity and directly onto the page. Includes profiles of the eccentric panorama painter John Banvard, the delusional physicist Rene Blandlot, and the Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland. 16-page photo insert.
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The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
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Paul Collins, Father
The author of "Sixpence House" travels the globe piecing together the missing body and soul of one of America's most enigmatic founding fathers: Thomas Paine.
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The Equipping Pastor
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R Paul Stevens, Phil Collins
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The Modern Inquisition
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Paul Collins
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American Defense Policy
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Dr. Paul J Bolt (Editor), Professor Damon V Coletta (Editor), Professor Collins G Shackelford (Editor)
American Defense Policy has been a mainstay for instructors of courses in political science, international relations, military affairs, and American national security for over 25 years. The updated and thoroughly revised eighth edition considers questions of continuity and change in America's defense policy in the face of a global climate beset by ...
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Inneractions: Visions to Bring Your Inner and Outer Worlds Into Harmony
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Stephen C. Paul, Gary M. Collins
From the bestselling creators of Illuminations, a beautiful sequel to inspire healthy, harmonious visions that enhance the quality of life after personal growth and change. Here are meditations and proverbs, phrase accompanied by a beautiful painting of a scene in nature. 94 full-color paintings.
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To Ruhleben-And Back: A Great Adventure in Three Phases
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Geoffrey Pyke, Paul Collins (Editor)
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The Big Book of Losers
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Paul Kirchner, Nancy A Collins, Irwin Chusid
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Presidential Doodles: Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles & Scrawls from the Oval Office
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The Creators of Cabinet Magazine, Paul Collins (Foreword by), David Greenberg (Text by)
What were the leaders of the free world really doing during all those meetings? As the creators of "Cabinet" magazine reveal here for the first time, they were doodling! Smart, revealing, and hilarious, "Presidential Doodles" is the ideal gift for anyone interested in politics or history--or for anyone that doodles!
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The Earthborn
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Dr. Paul Collins
Welkin Quinn has always dreamed of setting foot on Earth. As an elite Skyborn teenager aboard a transport ship destined for Tau Ceti, all he knows of his home planet is what he has learned from the Elders as well as from a wealth of records and artifacts archived in the ship's memory. The creatures known as the Earthborn-brutish survivors of the ...
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Taekwondo
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Paul Collins
This series introduces the reader to eight popular martial arts. Basic principles and history of each art are discussed, as well as tips on choosing the right club, proper etiquette, dress codes, and techniques. These books also include important terminology particular to each martial art. Find out how this martial art started in Korea and see ...
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Dhampire: Stillborn
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Nancy A Collins, L Stathis (Editor), Paul Lee
/Paul Lee, illustrator Written by bestselling horror novelist Nancy A. Collins. All his life, young Nicholas Gaunt has been tormented by visions of blood and evil, driving him to sadistic and suicidal acts. But when he learns that these violent thoughts stem from an unnatural mingling of human and undead blood before his birth, he must confront ...
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Small Garden Design
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Paul Collins
If you have only a small piece of land to work with, make the most of it! By taking the environment and your needs into account, you can create a quiet refuge, extend your living space, and enjoy a restful view from your home. Since all gardens start with plants, check the soil for type and acidity, and follow the numerous suggestions for ...
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Meaning & Textuality
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Francois Rastier, Paul J Perrone (Translator), Frank Collins (Translator)
Historically There Has Been a Wide Gulf Between continental and Anglo/American thought on the philosophy of language. It is often difficult to find important continental works in English translation. Meaning and Textuality represents key elements of the groundbreaking new theory of signs and discourse that has come out of the continent in the last ...
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Banvard's folly : thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity and rotten luck
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Paul Collins
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The Modern Inquisition: Seven Prominent Catholics and Their Struggles with the Vatican
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Paul Collins, Father
A controversial Australian Catholic priest reveals how the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith--one aspect of the inner workings of the Vatican--perpetrates a modern-day assault on intellectual freedom.
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Upon This Rock: The Popes and Their Changing Roles
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Paul Collins
A Vatican-censured former priest, tells the history of the papacy from the point of view of the women, radicals, and marginalized who have been betrayed by conservative historians. This survey of key popes documents the evolution of the papacy from its beginning to all its monarchical trappings in our own day.
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English as She Is Spoke: Being a Comprehensive Phrasebook of the English Language, Written by Men to Whom English Was Entirely Unknown
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Pedro Carolino, Jose Da Fonseca, Paul Collins (Editor)
In 1855, when Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino wrote an English phrasebook for Portuguese students, they faced just one problem: they didn't know any English. Even worse, they didn't own an English-to-Portuguese dictionary. What they did have, though, was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary, and a French-to-English dictionary. The linguistic train ...
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