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Description not available.In an account of heroism and courage, the author recounts his service in Vietnam as a gunner in the all-volunteer helicopter squadron known as the Seawolves, providing close air support to SEALs and other special forces under enemy fire. Original. AUTHOR: Daniel E. Kelly
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Figure Skating in Action
Description not available.Color photos of budding amateur skaters and international competitors show everything from the basics to combination jumps and pair-skating lifts, and also includes information on: forward and backward skating, turning and stopping, ice-dancing, and the growing popularity of synchronized skating. Simultaneous.
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
Ward Just's twelfth novel penetrates deeply into America's role in the world. Set in Indochina in 1965, A DANGEROUS FRIEND tells a story of the devolution of an innocent American crusading for democracy (VANITY FAIR), a man living the conflict of so many Americans caught in a political and spiritual crossfire. Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left home and family in an effort to become part of something larger than himself, a foreign-aid operation in Saigon. Even before he arrives, he encounters people who reveal to him the unsettling depths of a conflict he thought he understood, and in Saigon the Vietnamese add yet another dimension. This fabulous, tense and dramatic (LOS ANGELES TIMES) narrative needs neither combat nor bloodshed to tell its tale. A DANGEROUS FRIEND is the beautifully constructed story of civilians who want to reform Vietnam -- but the Vietnam they see isn't the Vietnam that is. AUTHOR: Ward Just
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Case of the Green Ghost by Harper Entertainment
Called in to investigate a case of stolen popsicle sticks, the girls follow up on a few cold leads. Then, the twins discover a trail leading right to a haunted house. AUTHOR: Harper Entertainment
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Dark Light by Faith Ingwersen, Mette Newth
In this story set in 19th-century Norway, 13-year-old Tora is diagnosed with leprosy, and is forced to leave her family behind and live in a leprosy hospital. Tora must find a way to cope with this highly contagious disease, which slowly eats away at her body. Oddly enough, as Tora's health continues to decline, she finds herself feeling more and more alive, and becomes determined to help her fellow patients. Toward this end, Tora becomes curious about what the Bible says about leprosy, and she forms a friendship with the difficult Mistress Dybendal, the only person at the hospital who can help her learn to read. AUTHOR: Faith Ingwersen, Mette Newth
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
This winner of the 1991 Whitbread Best Novel of the Year Award traces the descent of Eliza Peabody into madness. Eliza's emotional breakdown occurs during a period of unbearable loneliness, during which she writes to her neighbor Joan to berate her for leaving her husband and children to travel the world. As more letters are presented, one realizes that Eliza's version of events is not always accurate. Despite the intimacy of the letters, she barely knows Joan, and we learn that many letters are never sent: they are really the record of Eliza's breakdown. AUTHOR: Jane Gardam
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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