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  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Book 1

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  The first of six books in this "trilogy" which is adapted from Adams' radio series with the same name.
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  When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball

  by Seth Davis

  The dramatic story of how two legendary players burst on the scene in an NCAA championship that gave birth to modern basketball Thirty years ago, college basketball was not the sport we know today. Few games were televised nationally and the NCAA tournament had just expanded from thirty-two to forty teams. Into this world came two exceptional players: Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird. Though they played... (more)
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  Ghost Story

  by Peter Straub

  Everyone has been afraid sometime. Everyone has felt fear close a cold hand around the heart, tug at the scalp and send the blood racing wildly. Everyone has been afraid.But none so afraid as the terror-stricken men and women of Milburn.Called by a supernatural force to answer for a supernatural sin.Sentenced in the evil heart of darkness to live out a....Ghost Story.(back cover... (more)
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  Bunnicula: Book 1

  Bunnicula

  A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery

  by Deborah Howe, James Howe

  BEWARE THE HARE! Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits...and fangs!
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  He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back

  The True Story of the Year the King, Jaws, Earnhardt, and the Rest of NASCAR's Feudin', Fightin' Good Ol' Boys Put Stock Car Racing on the Map

  by Mark Bechtel

  On a cold February day in 1979, when most of the Northeast was snowed in by a blizzard, NASCAR entered the American consciousness with a dramatic telecast of the Daytona 500. It was the first 500-mile race to be broadcast live on national television and featured the heroes and legends of the sport racing on a hallowed track. With one of the wildest finishes in sports history--a finish that was just the start of... (more)
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  The Executioner's Song

  by Norman Mailer

  Follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then killing them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting on dying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him... (more)
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  The Island

  by Peter Benchley

  First Edition stated. DOUBLEDAY AND CO., NY 1979. The book was made into a movie which was directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Michael Caine and David Warner.
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  The Long Walk

  by Stephen King

  On the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.
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  The Arthurian Saga: Book 3

  The Last Enchantment

  by Mary Stewart

  Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But sinister powers plot to destroy Camelot, and when the witch-queen Morgause -- Arthur's own half sister -- ensnares him in an incestuous liaison, a fatal web of love, betrayal, and bloody vengeance is woven.
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  The Crash of '79

  by Paul Emil Erdman

  With a keen eye for big money and magnificant women, financial wizard Bill Hitchcock manipulates international futures and astronomical fortunes from the most powerful spots of the world - New York, Washington, Saudi Arabia, and finally, the Shah of Iran's fabulous chalet at St. Moritz - as events draw him and the world he has helped to shape toward a stunning and utterly mesmerizing climax.
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  Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (Loyola Classics)

  by John R. Powers, James Quinn

  John Powers' classic comic novel of the 1960s Catholic subculture stars Eddie Ryan, a Chicago boy who learns about the important questions in life in his years at an all-boys Catholic school on Chicago's South Side. He views it all through the prism of his Catholic mentality, which often deepens the mystery but sometimes clarifies it.
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  Love Comes Softly: Book 1

  Love Comes Softly

  by Janette Oke

  She ventured west with the man she loved, but in one day her whole world had crumbled around her... Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge starts west with her adventurous, boyish husband, Clem, seeking to claim land and hoping for good fortune. But when the venture turns suddenly to tragedy, Marty is left alone with her great loss. And coupled with her grief and heartache is the grim reality that there is no way to... (more)
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  The Black Castle

  by Les Daniels

  Les Daniels’ The Black Castle is a tale of a battle between brothers. It takes place in Spain, in 1496, during The Inquisition. Perception is everything. One brother, Sebastian, is seen as evil because he is a vampire, while the other, Diego, is perceived as good because he is a man of God. But the vampire only does what he has to do to in order to survive while the churchman, an Inquisitor, inflicts pain for the... (more)
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  The Old West

  The Mexican War

  by David Nevin

  Illustrated history of the Mexican-American War
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  The Sacred and the Profane

  The Nature of Religion

  by Mircea Eliade

  A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.
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  Star Trek: The Original Series: Book 1

  Star Trek

  The Motion Picture

  by Gene Roddenberry

  The historic 5-year mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise TM is over. But when three Klingon starships are destroyed by a massive machine/organism called the V'Ger, the Enterprise is refitted and the crew is asked to investigate.
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  The Year of the French

  by Thomas Flanagan

  In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgency... (more)
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  Star Trek Lives!

  by Sondra Marshak, Joan Winston, Jacqueline Lichtenberg

  A set of paperback books comprised of the titles "Star Trek" and the number 1 through 6, housed in a nifty cardboard slipcase with an illustration of The Enterprise on a voyage in space.
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  The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

  by Chris Van Allsburg

  Sometimes that very thin line between illusion and reality is not as clearly defined as we would like it to be. It certainly wasn't the day that Alan Mitz stumbled into the garden of Abdul Gasazi. For in this bizarre and eerie place -- where strange topiary trees loomed -- the evil visage of Gasazi casts its shadow. And even after Alan escaped, the spell of Gasazi still seemed to penetrate into his everyday world.... (more)
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  The Amulet

  by Michael McDowell

  THEY ALL THOUGHT IT WOULD MAKE SUCH A PRETTY GIFT ...A simple pendant on a glittering golden chain. To the residents of Pine Cone, Alabama, it was the prettiest thing they ever saw. A gift of beauty.A GIFT OF EVIL.Rachel Coppage was the first to clasp it round her neck. To feel the power grow within her. Moments later, her husband and children were consumed in a raging housefire ...A POLICEMAN... (more)