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Jones Media Publishing
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[2018].
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English
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"Ray Odom was the voice and face of sports and country music in Arizona for almost 30 years! He put Arizona's first all-country music radio stations on the air in the 1950s and produced weekly concerts at Madison Square Garden and the Riverside Ballroom featuring Grand Ole Opry stars like Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jim Reeves, and Hank Snow. Newcomers like Duane Eddy, Marty Robbins and Waylon Jennings took their first steps toward stardom opening...
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A beautiful hardcover edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. The full-color jacket features art by three time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner, and interior black-and-white illustrations by Pauline Baynes, the original illustrator of Narnia. Four adventurous siblings?Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie?step through a wardrobe door and into the...
3) Stardust
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The story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. He has fallen in love with beautiful Victoria Forester and in order to win her hand, he must retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to her.
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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
7) Yondering
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The popular Western author tells stories about sea adventures, episodes from WW II, and his acquaintances as a young man.
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Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Here are the best stories about our avian friends from the public radio show BirdNote, each brief essay illuminating the life, habits, or songs of a particular bird. Why do geese fly in a V-formation? Why are worms so good for you--if you're a robin? Which bird calls, "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?" From wrens that nest in cactuses to gulls that have a strange red dot on their bills--these digestible and fascinating bird stories are a...
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"Searching for a missing man in the Arizona territories was a job Henry Logan was eager to take. His lungs, damaged from malaria during the Spanish-American War, could use a rest. But when the people of Nogales get the mistaken impression that he was a gunman instead of a gunsmith, Logan suddenly found himself the target of jeers - and bullets. All of which made it harder to uncover the truth about the missing Rip Parrish, especially when the evidence...
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Forge
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English
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In 1880s Texas after his father dies, Joey Shipman, 12, runs away from home to avoid being killed by his mother's lover who doesn't want Joey to inherit the ranch. Joey joins a band of outlaws and after many adventures returns to the ranch for a shootout to take possession of what is by right his.
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Recounts the night before Halloween in 1938 when a fake news broadcast about invading Martians sent radio listeners around the country into a panic, and examines why so many people confused entertainment with reality.
17) Wolf Creek feud
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Raider volume no. 14
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
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English
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
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[2018]
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English
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Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing.
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