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Charles Shaw
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Baxter Barret Brown loves playing his bass fiddle so much that he wants to take it with him everywhere, so he attaches wheels and other gadgets, adding more and more until he discovers that he can no longer play--and that is what he wants to do most of all.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A World War II Marine sergeant and a Roman Catholic nun are both marooned together on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. The sergeant does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. The nun is equally fond of the sergeant, but refuses to renounce her vows.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado.
"These people," Dobie writes in his introduction, "no matter what language they speak, are
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