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Description not available.An archaeologist seeking to bring together twelve magical talismans must find a way to get the one bearing the Chinese zodiac sign of the Ox from the strongest wrestler in Mexico, El Toro Fuerte. AUTHOR: Megan Stine
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | The Horse & His Boy by C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes
During the reign of Peter the High King, a boy named Shasta discovers that the man he thought was his father is, in fact, not. Distraught by this news, Shasta runs away to Narnia but on his journey he is mistaken for another runaway. AUTHOR: C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes
PUBLISHER: Focus on the Family Publishing
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | A Family Place by Leila Philip
Description not available.The author of The Road Through Miyama plunges into her own family's rich history along the shores of the Hudson River to uncover evidence of tenant farmers, renegade aunts, secret children, manor lords, and other colorful figures. Reprint. AUTHOR: Leila Philip
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Wolfram Kandinsky
Truman Capote's masterpiece, an early example of the new journalism, is the intensely researched and imagined story of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who murdered them on a November night in 1959. AUTHOR: Truman Capote, Wolfram Kandinsky
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Airedale Terriers by Dorothy M. Miner
Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manual featuring Airedale Terriers describes the breed, which originated in the British Isles. The Airedale is very popular among dog fanciers, is a frequent ribbon winner at shows, and also makes a fine pet and devoted family member. Here is detailed information on training, exercise, grooming, feeding, and much more. AUTHOR: Dorothy M. Miner
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Pets & Animals
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 | Brown by Richard Rodriguez
America is browning. As politicians, schoolteachers, and grandparents attempt to decipher what that might mean, Richard Rodriguez argues America has been brown from its inception, as he himself is. As a brown man, I think . . . (But do we really think that color colors thought?) In his two previous memoirs, HUNGER OF MEMORY and DAYS OF OBLIGATION, Rodriguez wrote about the intersection of his private life with public issues of class and ethnicity. With BROWN, his consideration of race, Rodriguez completes his trilogy on American public life. For Rodriguez, brown is not a singular color. Brown is evidence of mixture. Brown is a shade created by desire--an emblem of the erotic history of America, which began the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. Rodriguez reflects on various cultural associations of the color brown-toil, decay, impurity, time-arranging dazzling juxtapositions for which he is justly famous: Alexis de Tocqueville, Malcolm X, minstrel shows, Broadway musicals, Puritanism, the Sistine Chapel, Cubism, homosexuality, and the influence on his life of two federal figures-Ben Franklin and Richard Nixon ( the dark father of Hispanicity ). At the core of the book is an assessment of the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America. Reflecting upon the new demographic profile of our country, Rodriguez observes that Hispanics are becoming Americanized at the same rate that the United States is becoming Latinized. Hispanics are coloring an American identity that traditionally has chosen to describe itself as black and white. AUTHOR: Richard Rodriguez
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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