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No sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burned??to ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts a??call for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost.??Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first
Zen Letters presents the teachings of the great Chinese master Yuanwu (1063?1135) in direct person-to-person lessons, intimately revealing the inner workings of the psychology of enlightenment. These
In the year 2110 technology has cured??most of our worries. But even as humankind enters??a new golden age, an amateur astronomer points??his telescope at just the right corner of the night??sky and s
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Released from prison and placed under constant electronic surveillance in a home at the edge of a dark wood, a dangerous psychopath with a penchant for murdering children waits for an opportunity to t
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The author recounts his journey from a working-class California town to the nation's top university and describes his struggles there, arguing the need for more and better education for America's Hisp
Another collection of accidental assaults on the English language include such witticisms as "Guests are advised that all fruits served have been washed in water passed by the management." By the auth
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As the New Republic takes devastating losses in??the ongoingwar with the scattered remnants of the??Empire, the galaxy's future depends on three small??children -- among them the Jedi twins -- born to
Vietnam, 1968. All of Sergeant John Burford's missions with F Company, 58th Infantry were deep in hostile territory. As leader of a six-man LRRP team, he found the enemy, staged ambushes, called in pr
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Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vic
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The Edgar Cayce story is one of the most compelling in inspirational literature.??Over the course of forty years the Sleeping Prophet time and again closed his eyes, entered an altered state of consci
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