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Regulatory Risk and the Cost of Capital: Determinants and Implications for Rate Regulation
Burkhard Pedell Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3540308016 |
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Ur-Ine Trouble
Kent Holtorf Manufacturer: Vandalay Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0965746747 |
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The truth about drug testing: Why drug users are passing and non-users are failing.* Backed by 172 medical references, written in easy-to-understand language.
* Discloses the foods and medications that will cause a false positive test.
* Uncovers how drug testing can be used to discriminate against women and minorities.
* Medical secrets of passing drug tests revealed. Author Kent Holtorf, M.D. wrote this book to debunk the myths associated with drug testing. Backed with 172 medical references, this first-of-its-kind testament exposes the discrimination as well as ethical issues surrounding drug testing and raises serious questions about the accuracy of such tests. People are being denied employment because of false positive tests due to medications and many common foods that they are not aware of. These injustices have not previously surfaced because employers rarely tell job candidates or employees that they failed a drug test. Thus, people are unaware that they were denied employment or forced from their job due to a false positive result.
For instance, did you know how easy it is to fail a drug test, even if you've never taken drugs? Did you know the foods you eat can cause you to test positive? And did you know the many other surprising ways you could falsely test positive? If you didn't, you'll want to arm yourself with the knowledge found in this book. If you don't, you could be the next person denied employment due to a false positive drug test.
Also, the author doesn't believe that drug testing offers any benefit in deterring or treating illicit drug use. And, he says, it violates the rights of those it is designed to protect. Thus, he has no reservations about revealing medical secrets to passing drug tests.
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Read this first - if you _must_ pee in a cup.......2004-02-03
This book gives you the info about why non-users fail and users pass. For instance, the book statesthe usage of the over the counter eyedrop "Visine" will produce a false positive for marijuana. This seems amazing, but Dr Holtorf explains the reactions in clear language so you understand how that situation gives that particular result. This is _NOT_ a "how to pass the drug test" book, so if that's what you're looking for, you have to look someplace else. But if you are wondering how do the tests determine who's sing and who is not, this is the book for you. I recommend it highly.
Ur-Ine Double Trouble.......2003-04-09
Constant consistent accurate truth it is not.
Urine Testing Shocker.......2000-06-15
This book is well written and explains in very clear detail what urine testing is all about. It is easy to understand and easy to explain to those who insist upon urine testing. This book is shocking because it reveals the real truth about urine testing and the irreparable damage and injury that is being done to society.
This book is not written for drug abusers so they can avoid detection. It is written for the innocent consumer who isn't aware that what he or she ingests could lead them down a road of disaster with no remedy. The author courageously arms the innocent consumer with knowledge to protect themselves against the urine testing Gestapo. Don't leave home without this book.
Important, informative, timely........2000-06-06
Excellent, Scarey, Helpful ý READ THIS BOOK!.......1998-05-04
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Juvenile Justice: Juveniles Processed In Criminal Court And Case Dispositions
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0788129430 |
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Juvenile justice juveniles processed in criminal court and case dispositions : report to Congressional requesters (SuDoc GA 1.13:GGD-95-170)
U.S. General Accounting Office Manufacturer: The Office ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010SG3M |
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Blinded by Starlight
Frank McGillion Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1401071201 |
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For centuries, notions such as the transformation of base into precious metals, an accord between humans and planets, the existence of an elixir of life, or prediction of the date of death, have been on the outermost fringes of science. So too have aspects of an art critical to western thought, what the Greeks termed, astronomia: an amalgam of astronomy and astrology. In Blinded By Starlight, Dr Frank McGillion demonstrates how by reference to modern scientific studies into the pineal gland, such assertions are perilously close to being shown to be, to a greater or lesser extent, true.Customer Reviews:
An eye-opening blend of science and mysticism.......2003-04-19
At one level, Blinded by Starlight is a straightforward account, from a scientist with long medical experience, of the history of that hybrid of astronomy and astrology that our ancestors termed astronomia and how discoveries about the pineal gland and its regulation of melatonin have identified the influence that this previously mysterious gland exerts on our lives.
But McGillion has taken his account to an even more fascinating level by showing how and why the traditional ideas of the physician-astrologers may very well have a basis in solid scientific fact.
The discoveries with which his book primarily deals concern the pineal gland in the human brain -- the 'third eye' venerated by mystics of east and west. The name is not merely fanciful since the gland actually is light sensitive (and even used for vision by some species). However, in humans its primary function is that of regulating the production of melatonin: the hormone that, amongst many other things, profoundly influences human sexual behaviour and reproduction.
The first clues as to the effects melatonin exerts on human fertility came from a study of Eskimo women which found that menstruation ceased during the long arctic winter. Blind women, too, have been found to be less fertile than sighted women.
Repeated studies concluded that the longer hours of daylight in summer causes a decrease in melatonin production. Since melatonin inhibits fertility in women, the decrease makes women more fertile. More simply, the longer the daylight hours, the more fertile women become.
Further research found that melatonin influences a number of other endocrine glands, such as the thyroid and adrenal glands, and also affects a variety of brain hormones and neurotransmitters.
It was also found to have effects on more general processes such as the overall balance of chemicals in the body, and the function of our body clock.
More surprising is the discovery that some of the effects of melatonin can take years to come about. When melatonin was administered to newborn rats, for instance, it was found to delay the onset of puberty much later in life.
Crucially, however, this effect only took place if the melatonin was administered in a critically short period of days around the time of birth.
It is at this point that the ideas of the physician- astrologers make an appearance. If exposure to melatonin during a critically short period around birth can affect important developmental stages in later life, and if melatonin production is controlled by day length and other cosmological factors, then crucial life developments are indeed determined by the state of the heavens at the time of birth, just as the physician- astrologers claimed. And if this is the case then what other, similar, long range effects might be determined by the time we enter the world?
Another main plank of McGillion's argument is that we now know it isn't only sunlight that affects the pineal gland and hence production of melatonin, many forms of electromagnetic radiation and magnetic fields have similar effects - as indeed may other putative fields that appear to interact with living systems, but have yet to be comprehensively investigated - as in the case of the fertility test that mysteriously stopped working in 1938.
McGillion describes, for example, the work of Professor Michael Persinger at Canada's Laurentian University who has carried out strikingly original investigations into the effects of magnetic fields on the human brain, promising in the treatment of depressive illness and -- even more interesting -- affecting our perception of consensual 'reality'.
And it isn't only in the laboratory with experimental magnetic fields that such effects have been observed. There is now persuasive evidence that the Earth's own geomagnetic field can cause a wide range of phenomena, including increased aggressiveness in some animals. This discovery takes on greater significance when you know that some mainstream scientists believe the planets may influence geomagnetism, and that formal statistical studies have found a correlation in the Twentieth Century between wars and increased geomagnetic activity.
The incidence of seizures and death in animals and humans is also increased during periods of geomagnetic fluctuation. One theory is that this may be partly due to the suppression of the production of melatonin by geomagnetism -- melatonin having a pronounced anticonvulsant action.
It's not just homing pigeons that are sensitive to magnetic fields. The iron compound magnetite is present in many of our body tissues and forms receptors called 'magnetosomes' which detect changes in magnetic field strength. Brain tissues, too, contain magnetite, especially the pineal gland.
A study of water diviners showed that when their heads were shielded, they no longer produced muscular responses to weak magnetic fields; the effect was attributed to magnetosomes in the area of the pineal.
In the light of findings such as these, McGillion says; 'We know the exposure of new born babies to light changes melatonin secretion, which can lead, in turn, to alterations in development. We also know that ambient electromagnetic radiation at the time of birth alters the circulation of melatonin in humans, and that the planets - certainly as the physician-astrologers understood this term - influence this process.'
'So is it possible that the cosmologically controlled radiations which new-borns are exposed to could predetermine their future physical, psychological, and indeed, spiritual, development as our forebears claimed? Some medical and scientific professionals certainly think so.'
It is likely that many more will think so when they've read this highly original and utterly fascinating book.
Richard Milton is author of Alternative Science. ...
An eye-opening blend of science and mysticism.......2003-04-19
At one level, Blinded by Starlight is a straightforward account, from a scientist with long medical experience, of the history of that hybrid of astronomy and astrology that our ancestors termed astronomia and how discoveries about the pineal gland and its regulation of melatonin have identified the influence that this previously mysterious gland exerts on our lives.
But McGillion has taken his account to an even more fascinating level by showing how and why the traditional ideas of the physician-astrologers may very well have a basis in solid scientific fact.
The discoveries with which his book primarily deals concern the pineal gland in the human brain -- the 'third eye' venerated by mystics of east and west. The name is not merely fanciful since the gland actually is light sensitive (and even used for vision by some species). However, in humans its primary function is that of regulating the production of melatonin: the hormone that, amongst many other things, profoundly influences human sexual behaviour and reproduction.
The first clues as to the effects melatonin exerts on human fertility came from a study of Eskimo women which found that menstruation ceased during the long arctic winter. Blind women, too, have been found to be less fertile than sighted women.
Repeated studies concluded that the longer hours of daylight in summer causes a decrease in melatonin production. Since melatonin inhibits fertility in women, the decrease makes women more fertile. More simply, the longer the daylight hours, the more fertile women become.
Further research found that melatonin influences a number of other endocrine glands, such as the thyroid and adrenal glands, and also affects a variety of brain hormones and neurotransmitters.
It was also found to have effects on more general processes such as the overall balance of chemicals in the body, and the function of our body clock.
More surprising is the discovery that some of the effects of melatonin can take years to come about. When melatonin was administered to newborn rats, for instance, it was found to delay the onset of puberty much later in life.
Crucially, however, this effect only took place if the melatonin was administered in a critically short period of days around the time of birth.
It is at this point that the ideas of the physician- astrologers make an appearance. If exposure to melatonin during a critically short period around birth can affect important developmental stages in later life, and if melatonin production is controlled by day length and other cosmological factors, then crucial life developments are indeed determined by the state of the heavens at the time of birth, just as the physician- astrologers claimed. And if this is the case then what other, similar, long range effects might be determined by the time we enter the world?
Another main plank of McGillion's argument is that we now know it isn't only sunlight that affects the pineal gland and hence production of melatonin, many forms of electromagnetic radiation and magnetic fields have similar effects - as indeed may other putative fields that appear to interact with living systems, but have yet to be comprehensively investigated - as in the case of the fertility test that mysteriously stopped working in 1938.
McGillion describes, for example, the work of Professor Michael Persinger at Canada's Laurentian University who has carried out strikingly original investigations into the effects of magnetic fields on the human brain, promising in the treatment of depressive illness and -- even more interesting -- affecting our perception of consensual 'reality'.
And it isn't only in the laboratory with experimental magnetic fields that such effects have been observed. There is now persuasive evidence that the Earth's own geomagnetic field can cause a wide range of phenomena, including increased aggressiveness in some animals. This discovery takes on greater significance when you know that some mainstream scientists believe the planets may influence geomagnetism, and that formal statistical studies have found a correlation in the Twentieth Century between wars and increased geomagnetic activity.
The incidence of seizures and death in animals and humans is also increased during periods of geomagnetic fluctuation. One theory is that this may be partly due to the suppression of the production of melatonin by geomagnetism -- melatonin having a pronounced anticonvulsant action.
It's not just homing pigeons that are sensitive to magnetic fields. The iron compound magnetite is present in many of our body tissues and forms receptors called 'magnetosomes' which detect changes in magnetic field strength. Brain tissues, too, contain magnetite, especially the pineal gland.
A study of water diviners showed that when their heads were shielded, they no longer produced muscular responses to weak magnetic fields; the effect was attributed to magnetosomes in the area of the pineal.
In the light of findings such as these, McGillion says; 'We know the exposure of new born babies to light changes melatonin secretion, which can lead, in turn, to alterations in development. We also know that ambient electromagnetic radiation at the time of birth alters the circulation of melatonin in humans, and that the planets - certainly as the physician-astrologers understood this term - influence this process.'
'So is it possible that the cosmologically controlled radiations which new-borns are exposed to could predetermine their future physical, psychological, and indeed, spiritual, development as our forebears claimed? Some medical and scientific professionals certainly think so.'
It is likely that many more will think so when they've read this highly original and utterly fascinating book.
Richard Milton is author of Alternative Science....
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Chemistry of Tantalum and Niobium Fluoride Compounds
Anatoly Agulyansky Manufacturer: Elsevier Science ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0444516042 |
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Electronic, optical, mechanical and medical appliances are just a few examples of modern applications that use tantalum and niobium. In Chemistry of Tantalum and Niobium Fluoride Compounds, the author draws on thirty years' experience to produce the first ever monograph to systemize and summarize the data available on tantalum and niobium fluoride compounds. This comprehensive reference source offers a rich variety of study methodology and is invaluable to researchers examining the chemistry of fluorides, as well as teachers and students in chemistry and metallurgy.
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The Productivity and Sustainability of Southern Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Environment (Ecological Studies)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0387948511 |
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The forest ecosystems of the southern United States are the region's predominant land use and comprise vital resources of economic and biological significance. These forests, covering 85 million hectares or 40% of the land area, are subject to numerous physical and chemical stressors. Temperature, precipitation, and nutrition are three factors that currently limit forest ecosystem health and productivity in the region. In a changing global environment, these forest ecosystems face an unprecedented rate of change and will be directly and indirectly affected by additional stresses from air pollutants and climate change, including increasing concentrations of carbon dixoide, methane, other trace gases and atmospheric aerosols, and altered land use patterns. The research presented in this book provides a sound scientific basis for management and policy decisions regarding the productivity and sustainability of forest ecosystems in the context of a rapidly changing global environment. This volume is a synthesis of five years of field and laboratory research on southern forests conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to provide scientific assessments to the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The book will provide scientific information for policy makers and land use managers. It will also be of interest to researchers in the environmental disciplines of ecology, forestry, atmospheric science, hydrology, soil science, and biogeochemistry.
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And now, the long-awaited... "THEORY OF EVERYTHING"
Eugene Sittampalam Manufacturer: Vantage Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0533126738 |
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And now, the long-awaited... "THEORY OF EVERYTHING" The Holy Grail of physics is found!As Stephen Hawking opined in his famous book, A Brief History of Time, "...if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists." Here indeed is that all-embracing final theory. It is simple and straightforward. It is for high-school kids and research scientists alike. It is a cause-and-effect exposition of our entire physical world of observation. It is NOT some abstruse or crackpot idea to replace Einstein's theory of general relativity and the many other such misconceptions that still plague physical science and warp the logic of everyday experience. Just as simply refute it AND COLLECT UP TO A MILLION DOLLARS! The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the status quo - are the ones who do. Think different. Think straight. We have the faculty. WE HAVE NOW ALSO THE CRITICAL HARD DATA. Read the book in the new light for the greatest conceptual breakthrough OF ALL TIME!
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Back to the Bedroom
Janet Evanovich Manufacturer: HarperTorch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items: Accessories: ASIN: 0060598859 Release Date: 2005-07-26 |
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Dear Reader:
In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales.
I'm excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. Back to the Bedroom is presented here in almost original form. I've done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around.
I lived in northern Virginia when I wrote Back to the Bedroom. My children were young, and we spent a lot of time visiting the Washington, D.C. museums and wandering through the historic neighborhoods. One day while strolling Capitol Hill I came upon two townhouses that captured my imagination. The houses were totally different -- a birthday cake of a house and a bran muffin of a house, and yet they shared a common wall. I wondered about the people who lived inside the houses. And eventually the houses inspired Back to the Bedroom.
Back to the Bedroom is the story of a young woman with the soul of a birthday cake living in a bran muffin house -- and a nice-looking guy with the substance of a bran muffin living in a birthday cake. They share some misadventures, some romantic moments, some misunderstandings, and ultimately they turn into wedding cake.
And for Plum fans, you'll be interested to find that this was the first of the four romances to feature Elsie Hawkins, the prototype for Grandma Mazur.
Janet Evanovich
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Dear Reader:
In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales.
I'm excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. Back to the Bedroom is presented here in almost original form. I've done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around.
I lived in northern Virginia when I wrote Back to the Bedroom. My children were young, and we spent a lot of time visiting the Washington, D.C. museums and wandering through the historic neighborhoods. One day while strolling Capitol Hill I came upon two townhouses that captured my imagination. The houses were totally different -- a birthday cake of a house and a bran muffin of a house, and yet they shared a common wall. I wondered about the people who lived inside the houses. And eventually the houses inspired Back to the Bedroom.
Back to the Bedroom is the story of a young woman with the soul of a birthday cake living in a bran muffin house -- and a nice-looking guy with the substance of a bran muffin living in a birthday cake. They share some misadventures, some romantic moments, some misunderstandings, and ultimately they turn into wedding cake.
And for Plum fans, you'll be interested to find that this was the first of the four romances to feature Elsie Hawkins, the prototype for Grandma Mazur.
Janet Evanovich
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Kittens,car crashes,fires,explosions,excellent sex!.......2007-08-08
Loved It!!.......2007-07-15
Fun Quick Read.......2007-04-14
don't bother.......2007-03-09
Back to The Bedroom.......2007-03-01
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Bedroom Games: Stripteases, Seductions, and Other Surprises to Keep Your Partner Coming Back for More
Mary Taylor Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0609809741 Release Date: 2003-01-07 |
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The lights are low. Your favorite sultry tunes are playing quietly in the background. The phone is off the hook. A scented candle is burning. Your man sits in the center of the room, eagerly awaiting the surprise you’ve been planning for weeks. Slowly, you make your entrance, dressed in a little black number you bought on the sly. As his jaw drops you slink toward him, moving to the rhythm of the music. You’ve got his attention now, and the night has only just begun.Customer Reviews:
Surprise!.......2006-10-10
I am a beginner..........2006-07-29
Great!.......2006-03-19
Beginners Only.......2006-02-12
entertaining, but no pictures.......2004-09-12
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Back In The Bedroom (Harlequin Temptation)
Jill Shalvis Manufacturer: Harlequin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0373691629 |
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Fun Heat.......2005-09-24
From Back Cover.......2005-06-12
heated humorous romance.......2004-02-01
Former CIA agent Reilly manages to get Tessa out of the potential hostage mess. Afterward, both agree the cold and the moment brought the heat to equatorial levels, but that was last night in the wrong bed and this is freedom and the morning after. Still, neither can forget the best night of their respective lives in spite of the danger, but Reilly believes that a good woman like Tessa deserves a more grounded and safer person than someone like him guarding her heart and still trying to mentally come in from the cold.
BACK IN THE BEDROOM is a heated humorous romance with some early suspense that readers will fully enjoy and be tempted to search for Jill Shalvis' back list (worth the effort). The story line is fast-paced as the enchanting duo sing "I'm Not In Love", but cannot get enough of the other. Torrid funny fun for contemporary fans.
Harriet Klausner
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Wild Women Talk Back: Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond
Manufacturer: Conari Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 157324967X |
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Wild Women Talk Back is a funny, inspirational banquet of delicious bon mots, quips, and unforgettable one-liners from movie stars, musicians, politicians, and women writers. The wild women quoted in this book are sassy, outrageous, and wickedly funny. From sex to motherhood, physical appearance to self-esteem, and coping with a career to finding wisdom, the women quoted here offer their own brash brand of counsel and commentary on themes common to women's lives: "I still miss my ex-husband, but my aim is improving."Debbie Marsh, pistol owner
"I'm as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac."Annie Lamott, best-selling single mom
"No more tears now; I will think of revenge."Mary, Queen of Scots
"Some people were raised by wolves. I was raised by drag queens."Margaret Cho, comic monologist
"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."Lucille Ball
Sometimes shocking, always entertaining, everyone from Madonna to Dr. Ruth to Isabel Allende weighs in on the meaning of life with wild-woman wit and timeless wisdom. Wild Women Talk Back is arranged into sections, such as Self-Esteem: On Being the Bees Knees, Working Women (Oh, Like There Are Any Other Kind) and Child Rearing and House Keeping. Compiler and author Autumn Stephens introduces each section, shedding contemporary light on the collection of quotes.
Sure to lift anyone's spirit, Wild Women Talk Back is sure to help any woman rejoice in her wild side.
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Wild Women Talk Back.......2005-09-03
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Back To The Bedroom
Janet Evanovich Manufacturer: HarperAudio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF4534 |
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Back to the Bedroom Cassette
Janet; J., Critt C. Evanovich Manufacturer: HarperAudio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEMZZA |
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Hot Stuff, Manhunt, Smitten, Metro Girl, Back to the Bedroom, & Thanksgiving (Set of 6)
Janet Evanovich Manufacturer: Harper Torch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000W48FWY |
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Janet Evanovich is funny and uplifting.
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Janet Evanovich - 4 Book Set - Smitten, Manhunt, Love Overboard, & Back to the Bedroom.
Janet Evanovich ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WP8NMU |
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Set of 4 paperbacks by Janet Evanovich: Smitten, Manhunt, Love Overboard, & Back to the Bedroom.
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The Online Business Setup, Cheap Marketing, Back End Sales for Bedroom Accessories Businesses
J Bowman J Orr Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000WV1VNW |
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The Online Business Setup, Cheap Marketing, Back End Sales for Bedroom Designs Businesses
J Bowman J Orr Manufacturer: LTBR, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000WW004M |
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