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At the Library Sale October 2024
At the Library SaleOctober, 2024Earlier this month, it once again was time for the local library's biannual book sale. On a crisp October afternoon, I set out in search of some worthy paperbacks. It...
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Book Review: New Terrors Omnibus
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Questar magazine October 1980
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Book Review: Harvest Home
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Tales of an Imperfect Future
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National Lampoon November 1975
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Book Review: A Man of Double Deed
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Comix: A History of Comic Books in America
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Book Review: Red Moon and Black Mountain
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National Lampoon December 1972
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'Rock and Roll Christmas' by George Thorogood and the DestroyersMTV Christmas Party, December, 1983Ahh, yes.....according to shatterdaymorn's 'MTV Programming Week' webpage, the week of December 21,...
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Book Review: Carlucci's Edge
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The Most Overrated Science Fiction Writers of the Postwar Era
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