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3361.
Never Before, Never Since
by Richard Chilton
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Paperback (6x9) - £11.25
ISBN: 9780759699434
One of the joys of being a baseball fan is the uncovering of some of the bizarre and unusual happenings that occur each year in the game of baseball. This book explores those instances where a major league player, famous...More
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There We Stood, Here We Stand: Lutherans Rediscover their Catholic Roots
by Tim Drake
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759613201
Nearly 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95-theses to the church door at Wittenberg, the Lutheran Church has split again and again. What went wrong? These thought-provoking testimonies by eleven former Lutherans reveal...More
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An Undying Will
by Greta Gipson
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Paperback (6x9) - £16.50
ISBN: 9781403324054
I heard a sound like a gun shot blast! The Volkswagen that I had borrowed from Dad began to go out of control. I started turning the steering wheel to keep the car on the road. For a few endless seconds, my attempts were...More
3364.
An Undying Will
by Greta Gipson
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Dust Jacket Hardcover (6x9) - £26.25
ISBN: 9781403324061
I heard a sound like a gun shot blast! The Volkswagen that I had borrowed from Dad began to go out of control. I started turning the steering wheel to keep the car on the road. For a few endless seconds, my attempts were...More
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Missionary Daughter: Witness to the End of the Ottoman Empire
by Dorothea Chambers Blaisdell
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9781403304728
The daughter of missionaries, Dorothea Chambers Blaisdell spent her childhood and early adult life in Adana, Turkey from 1900 to 1922. She witnessed the upheavals of revolutionary movements against the Ottoman Empire, the...More
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Silent Births: Fruit of the Womb
by Elaine Cordani-Gelhaus
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Dust Jacket Hardcover (6x9) - £15.25
ISBN: 9781403335777
Imagine the metaphor of God as a needle and the soul a thread weaving a magnificent tapestry through many lifetimes, and that it is essential to pick and choose the fabric from rows of other souls from those lives we come...More
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Boston's Blues: Musicians' profiles, history, festivals and radio listings of blues music in Boston
by Art Simas
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Glossy Hardcover (6x9) - £26.25
ISBN: 9781403331588
When people think of blues they usually don’t think of Boston. The Mississippi Delta, Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, Kansas City and Texas all have deeper roots in the blues. Yet Boston -- and New England in general --...More
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Renaissance Solos: 12 Plays
by Laurence Holder
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Paperback (6x9) - £16.50
ISBN: 9780759690226
From Charlie Parker to Max Roach to Valaida Snow to Monk to Contemporary MAN and Contemporary WOMAN to Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes, the plays tap into the heart of Laurence Holder and worldview past and present.More
3369.
Renaissance Solos: 12 Plays
by Laurence Holder
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Dust Jacket Hardcover (6x9) - £26.25
ISBN: 9780759690233
From Charlie Parker to Max Roach to Valaida Snow to Monk to Contemporary MAN and Contemporary WOMAN to Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes, the plays tap into the heart of Laurence Holder and worldview past and present.More
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Swimming the Hellespont
by Ben Oshel Bridgers
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Paperback (6x9) - £9.75
ISBN: 9781403309945
Here is the story of a man who never forgot the lessons of his high school English teacher. His memory of her inspires him to attempt his boyhood 'impossible dream' at the age of sixty – to swim the Hellespont. In homage...More