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North of Taos, New Mexico, an unidentified murder victim wearing a belt with a turquoise buckle of rare dendrite quality is discovered on the edge of the Tulona Reservation. Tribal policeman Richard Tafoya takes charge of the investigation to determine the identity and killer. Tafoya meets Forest Service biology specialist Janet Rael as he follows leads from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the Navajo Reservation in the west. Within a social ...

This book challenges some of today's mainstream Christian theology in an attempt to let the Bible speak for itself, without outside opinions and influences. But this challenge is in no way intended to demean or discredit the thousands of godly theologians and preachers who are taking the wonderful Gospel message to the world. The purpose of this book is to challenge believers and skeptics alike to study God's Word for themselves in an earnest ...

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Filled with toys and propoganda that bring back memories of times past. Matthews offers a history of toys in WWII, plus chapters on the home front, punch and stock, box tops and dimes, scrapbook collectibles, plus a whole lot more. Dynamic war-era playthings for every toy collector and enthusiast. Includes a value guide.

These memoirs are the reminiscences of Jack Matthews: his adventures in seeking out, collecting, and reading old and rare books, along with reflections upon time, memory, and other mysteries.

Keiner tötet wie er. Oder doch?New York 1891. Eine Prostituierte wird brutal ermordet. Ihre Leiche weist dieselben Verletzungen auf wie die Opfer einer berüchtigten Mordserie in England. Hat der Mörder den Atlantik überquert, um seine Spur zu verwischen? Oder handelt es sich um einen Nachahmungstäter? In der amerikanischen Metropole, die ohnehin mit Bandenkriminalität, Korruption und Verbrechen zu kämpfen hat, geht die Angst um. Der aristokrat...

With a literary style reminiscent of Mark Twain, this historical novel captures the colorful riverboat culture of 1850s Ohio.

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The covetous foraging for old and rare books", is how Matthews defines "booking". It is an act which leads naturally to the pleasures of adding them to one's personal library, then reading them as instruments of light and measure in a murky and chaotic world. The understanding that books are intrinsic to civilized living is wisdom as old as civilization itself, it is affirmed here, in their various ways, by the people who inspire and inhabit t...

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A 65-year-old Ohio book collector (Booking in the Heartland, 1986) and fiction writer (Ghostly Populations, 1986, Crazy Women: Short Stories, 1985, etc.) talks of collecting rare books. Matthews is a clear, sometimes amusing collector/dealer who only gradually got sucked into dealing, and goes about his dealing haphazardly. He tells about varieties of collectors who are often vastly knowing about narrow subjects (e.g., first editions of Britis...