Lost Valley


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War has a way of following some people...John Eric Carver and Shrek are a retired Navy SEAL war dog team, now living in the mountains outside of San Diego. Both man and dog thought their life was now settled, finding peace on the forty acre ranch they had moved to. But life, and a mutated virus, changed all that. Now, they have to survive a world-wide pandemic. Taking refuge in a near-by Boy Scout camp, he leads a group of teens and their parents as they are forced to deal with infected creatures that are rapidly consuming the world. Will John and Shrek survive another war, or will this be the end of the line for the Seal team?







Bal Harbour Blues


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In 1991, John has a good life running the numbers racket In Brooklyn and Staten Island until his mob boss, Louie the Finger, pulls him out with a late-night phone call. New York state lottery is moving into the mob's turf, so The Finger is shifting business to crack and prostitution. In his mid-fifties and with no interest in the drug trade, John takes Louie's offer to retire on a mob pension to a tacky South Florida high-rise with his wife, Eleanor. Cast out of New York and adrift without purpose, John begins to dissipate in the heat. But Eleanor has other ideas and quietly begins making forays into the Miami underworld with one goal in mind - to develop the perfect crime to help her husband get his mojo back.




The Battle for the Buffalo River


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Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building campaign. A grateful public generally lauded their efforts, but when they turned their attention to Arkansas’s Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps’s assumption that damming a river was an improvement. Led by Neil Compton, a physician in Bentonville, Arkansas, a group of area conservationists formed the Ozark Society to join the battle for the Buffalo. This book is the account of this decade-long struggle that drew in such political figures as supreme court justice William O. Douglas, Senator J. William Fulbright, and Governor Orval Faubus. The battle finally ended in 1972 with President Richard Nixon’s designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. Drawing on hundreds of personal letters, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and reminiscences, Compton’s lively book details the trials, gains, setbacks, and ultimate triumph in one of the first major skirmishes between environmentalists and developers.




The Columbia River


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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature


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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.




Skiing


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The Neverending Hunt


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Prepared by renowned Howard scholar Paul Herman with the assistance of Glenn Lord, this is the first new bibliography of Robert E. Howard since 1976. This massive volume contains more than twice as much information as the preceding biblio, The Last Celt. Robert E. Howard is considered the Godfather of Sword and Sorcery, and the creator of the international icon, Conan the Cimmerian, yet wrote successfully in numerous genres. The Neverending Hunt lists every story, poem, letter and publication in which a Howard work has appeared. It's more than you might think . . .




Skiing Maine


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Maine Ski Hall of Famer John Christie, author of the definitive history of the resort at Sugarloaf and veteran of Maine's ski industry, teams up with his son Josh to guide skiers to all the best places. Every public ski mountain or hill in the state is listed, along with pertinent information about trails, amenities, conditions, and personal anecdotes and suggestions from the authors, who have skied at all of them. Included are destinations for cross-country and downhill skiing.




Siblings OO


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Ogum and Oxossi are two valiant gods among the ten gods birthed by the goddess Of the sea, Yemanja, who lives in the valley of Orixa, a realm for gods and all magical creatures. The two gods are taken out of the realm while they were still toddlers to protect them from evil forces that had invaded Orixa. Tempo, god of time, and Exu, god of fire, were tasked with the mission to take the two toddlers to another dimension. With Tempo’s power weakened, Exu shoulders the responsibility of handing over the two young gods, Ogun and Oxossi, into the care of the Gypsy queen. Disclosing the situation and their identity, he requests that she nurtures and trains the two gods for twenty years as her sons, after which he would return to take them back to the valley of Orixa. The two young gods grow strong and powerful under the training and loving guidance of the gypsy queen and her tribe. Still, their true identities remain unknown until they decide to set out for new adventures outside the land of gypsies with three hundred soldiers at their command. During their journey, they encounter many difficulties: vanquishing predators that escaped from the magical realm, saving cities, training and exploring the depth of their magical powers, experiencing different supernatural beings, and tasting victories and defeat. A time came when their true identity was revealed. The seal that bound a hoard of magical evil creatures beneath the ocean of Orixa has broken, evil is unleashed, and Orixa is on the verge of destruction. They locate their brother, Exu, and meet a demigod named Olufe, who joins them on their mission. The four set out in search of Tempo, their elder brother. It is time to return home. The gods realize they have a greater mission; a battle unlike no other has begun. They can’t win with just their powers; they have to stay pure, void of malice, courageous and alert.