Voice From The Wilderness

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Over 100 full color paintings and drawings by artist Ray Harris-Ching, one of the leading bird artists in the world. The seventh book of his work to be published addresses the artist's concerns and fears for our fragile earth and for the animals that live here with us. Format is 11 inches by 11 1/2 inches.

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

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Bumpersticker Abbey!!
4.5 is closer to it.
If you have read a lot of Abbey this is a great book.
Skip it!
Vox et Abbey! Fantastic little book!

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal
Edward Abbey
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312064888

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For the first time in softcover, Edward Abbey's last book, a collection of unforgettable barbs of wisdom from the best-selling author of The Monkey Wrench Gang.Notes from a Secret JournalEdward Abbey on:Government"Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by a government against its own people."Sex"How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out of Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah."New York City"New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?"Literature"Henry James. Our finest lady novelist."

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Bumpersticker Abbey!!.......2001-12-03

A great service was provided Edward Abbey fans with the publication of this marvelous little tome. Now we anarchists have a handy source of short bits by Abbey to plaster on our webpages, our mail, and even our car bumpers! Up with nature, down with Empire!

4.5 is closer to it........2001-06-26

This is not Abbey's grand work nor was it intended to be. This is a small collection of one-liners and pithy observations of a highly talented, self-admitted misanthrope. "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell" is a prime example.

Abbey was a truck riding good ole boy and was about as politically correct as a punch to the head. His backpack was not designed by Gucci and his boots were mostly army surplus but he spent a life time outdoors, not behind a desk finding fault. His writings, his actions and his public appearances brought more awareness of nature and its plight to the public than did the combined number of his critics by a factor of 1000.

Borne just before the depression, he did not see all wild game as Bambi or Thumper but, as a child, watched as his father hunted for the table. Abbey may not be for everyone, but, by the same token, neither is Mr. Rogers.

If you have read a lot of Abbey this is a great book........2001-03-14

If you have read only a few of Abbey's books these quotes might not mean anything to you. This is not a story but is just a collection of quotes. Although he likes to make broad generalizations like 'all rebels are good' that is part of what makes Abbey so endearing. He doesn't sugar coat his opinions. I may not agree with all he says but I do respect him for at least putting it out there and not backing down. It also gives a lot of insight into his writing and reveals some specfics that you would have to read every book of his carefully in order to understand. It does make for a great reference and is interesting to see him contradict himself. You could very easily write 'Down the River with Abbey' by using this book and it would have much the same feel as his book concerning Thoreau. A great book for just thumbing through or reading out load to friends on a long car trip.

Skip it!.......2000-06-07

Edward Abbey is quite possibly the most overrated author of the 20th Century. For proof, look no further then this little book of pseudo-wisdom. You'll have the pleasure of watching as Ed spouts tiresome untruths (all government is bad, all science is bad, all rebels are good, etc.) with the petulant attitude that he is the very first person in history to say them all, and that it makes him great. Environmentalists who think that Abbey was some kind of hero might be shocked by the elitist arrogance of this "man of the people" (he thanks nuclear physicists for inventing the atomic bomb) or by right-wing moronics worthy of the most brainless militiaman ("the rifle and handgun are 'equalizers'--the weapons of a democracy"). Abbey even puts the s-word in print and brags about it as if he were the first person on the planet to do it. If you are an environmentalist (like me) and you want inspiration, read Emerson, read John Muir, even read Wendell Berry--but skip Edward Abbey.

Vox et Abbey! Fantastic little book!.......1996-12-02

After Ed's passing, there were many holes, despite the prolific nature of the self proclaimed bastard. This small book offers a wonderful insight into the man behind the Monkey Wrench. Through his journals, poems and other unpublished work, another ray of desert sunlight falls upon Ed's hulking form. We miss you Abbey, but this eases the emptiness a little

Up Country: Voices from the Great Lakes Wilderness

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Up Country: Voices from the Great Lakes Wilderness

Manufacturer: Creative Publishing International
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1559710160

A Voice From the Wilderness: The Story of Anna Howard Shaw

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Again, Brown tells history with expression and accuracy

A Voice From the Wilderness: The Story of Anna Howard Shaw
Don Brown
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0618083626

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By the time Anna Howard Shaw was barely twelve years old, she had crossed the stormy Atlantic (one and a half times), survived a grueling journey from Massachusetts to the unexplored woods of Michigan, and helped create a house and home in the middle of nowhere. By most measures, Anna Howard Shaw's life was hard and filled with struggle.
But a life in the North American wilderness also had many pleasures. Anna was young, happy, and strong. What Anna didn't have was school.
With incredible fortitude and purpose, not only did Anna go on to teach school herself, she also accomplished a great many other things, including helping to win the right to vote for women. With his magical storytelling and radiant artwork, Don Brown welcomes us into the pioneer life of a most extraordinary woman.

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Again, Brown tells history with expression and accuracy.......2001-09-08

This book reads smoothly and the illustrations are beautiful. The illustrations add to the text. They are riveting. As I read this story, I felt as if I was "Anna" as she travelled through her journey. The author note at the end was beneficial and children have the opportunity to locate additional information on Anna Howard Shaw.
Anna, the protagonist empowers children to feel they can make a difference in our country.

SPIRIT CALLS...a voice from the wilderness: Transcending Religion via the Essence of Metaphor

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Good healing for depression, unified religion for new millenium
...Spirit Calls by Jerry Kays

SPIRIT CALLS...a voice from the wilderness: Transcending Religion via the Essence of Metaphor
Jerry C. Kays
Manufacturer: BookSurge Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Jerry Kays' Spirit Calls takes us on his lifelong journey to find spirituality and God. This highly personal journey examines the traditional religions of the world, including New Age philosophy, along with his enlightening observations of the role of politics in spirituality throughout history. This modern day journey of man's age old quest to find God is highly relevant as Kays uses current events to help describe his personal conclusions on discovering God and spirituality. Kays brilliantly uses a few simple formulae to illustrate highly complicated concepts, making Spirit Calls a challenging and rewarding journey.

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Good healing for depression, unified religion for new millenium.......2007-01-21

Jerry describes his depressive state of mind in very convincing way. After years of depression and personal problems, Jerry C. Kay came to the conclusion to overcome it with new ideal religion, which can be taken from all other religions, like Christianity, Judaism, New Age etc,. He claims there is good in every religion, but every and each of them have faults. Christianity has Trinity, Judaism is too monotheistic and Islam has a person as a profit. This new religion can help a person with depressive state of mind to be successful in life. This is pretty interesting idea, but the problem, per my opinion is, that it is still man made religion, therefore worthless. This is good book for somebody who lost a son or family member to deep depression and wonts to help himself by inventing a self- help therapy. The beauty is you invent YOUR OWN religion, as compared to conventional one. Interesting idea, but I don't find it a practical one, since people prefer a religion that in existence already. How many people will start their own religion, when you are already depressed? Overall it is interesting book about his journey through depression

...Spirit Calls by Jerry Kays.......2005-12-30

In an epoch of brutality termed "compassionate conservativism" and warfare wherein solitary martyrs lose their lives fighting the most advanced military in the world, unorthodox author Jerry Kays has emerged as a new and powerful voice for universality, sanity, and a potent spirituality unmarred by predication.

With an almost Hegelian conviction in what Kays terms the "trinity" (thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, or, alternately, positive, negative, and neutral), the senseless polarity of contemporary thought patterns is revealed with a deft and journalistic touch that is both highly personal and intrinsically universal. Kays appears unafraid to broach any topic, historical or current, and his thought-provoking editorial covers topics ranging from Constantine to black holes.

Though Kays identifies himself as a liberal, his arguments against the rule-by-fear Right are vigorously well-wrought. His remorseless attacks are aimed at a world "based solely upon lies and false promises," and yet his accusations and analyses are tempered by an obvious abiding love for the world and its inhabitants. With a deliberate, holistic approach, Kays loops from Genesis and the Fall to a compellingly precognizant notion of our own imminent decline, a renewal of the Fall via a thoughtless immersion in dualistic thinking and egos run amuck.

Teaching without dogma and ruminating on the hues and essence of existence, Kays reaches a profound point of understanding that is not that of a man sitting underneath the Bodhi tree but rather more akin to the entirety of humanity sitting joyously beneath the vast and welcoming dome of the universe.

--Ellen Tanner Marsh, NYT best selling author

Voice from the Sea: And Other Reflections on Wildlife & Wilderness

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Poetic and Inspirational
Voice from the Sea

Voice from the Sea: And Other Reflections on Wildlife & Wilderness
Margaret Wentworth Owings
Manufacturer: Monterey Bay Aquarium Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 187824423X

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Voice from the Sea covers five decades of Margaret Owingss writing and conveys the passion that underlies her lifetime commitment to the preservation of wilderness. Her essays, poetry and art weave the voices of the sea, the forests and wildlife into a rich tapestry of passion for the natural world. Margarets lyrical words evoke images of storm-tossed seas, ancient redwood glades, moonlit nights in Africa, cliff dwellings of the Southwest and the artists, writers and friends who shared her fascination with nature, and fierce sense of stewardship.

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Poetic and Inspirational.......2007-01-05

This book will appeal to those who find poetry in nature and are inspired to work for the preservation of nature in all its many forms. It has a lyrical style that I read in small sections so I could thoroughly absorb the beauty of the descriptions. The author's battle to save the sea otter from extinction and to help preserve the mountain lion for future generations to enjoy was a motivation to me to work likewise. We are all part of the natural plan. This book helped me to find my place in this grand plan for all living creatures.

Voice from the Sea.......2006-05-18

Superb collection that should be in the library of every good conservationist! Covers many years of the great work that Margaret Owings did with a surprising number of conservation orgs, starting with the founding of Friends of the Sea Otter.

A cry from the wilderness!: A voice from the east, a reply from the west, trouble in the north, exemplifying in the south : intended as a timely and solemn warning to the people of the United States

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A cry from the wilderness!: A voice from the east, a reply from the west, trouble in the north, exemplifying in the south : intended as a timely and solemn warning to the people of the United States
Lorenzo Dow
Manufacturer: Printed for purchaser and the public
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Federico Garcia Lorca and Sean O'Casey "Powerful Voices in the Wilderness" (Salzburg Studies: Poetic Drama and Poetic Theory)

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Federico Garcia Lorca and Sean O'Casey "Powerful Voices in the Wilderness" (Salzburg Studies: Poetic Drama and Poetic Theory)
Katie Brittain Adams Davis
Manufacturer: The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
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ASIN: 0773406042

Jansenism in Seventeenth-Century France: Voices from the Wilderness

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Jansenism in Seventeenth-Century France: Voices from the Wilderness
Alexander Sedgwick
Manufacturer: Univ of Virginia Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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Nesting: A Woman's Voice from the Wilderness

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Nesting: A Woman's Voice from the Wilderness
Linda L. Bielowski Ph.D.
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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ASIN: 1413784976

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Nesting: A Woman's Voice from the Wilderness is the collection of poems that grew from the seed of struggle and pilgrimage into the solitude of the inner dispositions of the soul. It ponders and praises and celebrates the process of becoming still to hear the call in every heart; to see with discerning eyes; to trust the indwelling comforter. It speaks and screams and echoes a pervasive, persistent longing; an unrelenting ache; a pacing on cold floorboards missing someone, someplace, something. The works within this volume reflect the crystalline pieces of self scattered and retrieved from life's passages, as a result of moving freely through memories and musings: present to past, past to present, to open to the sacred in the simple dailiness of living. It warns us not to miss the moment, not to squander our souls on the passing baubles and trinkets of life, when it is life itself that life must be about. In a recondite sense, Nesting is a poetic guidebook for "walking into the tomb," armed with the spiritual tools of the day, for heeding the call out of our groping, daily selves and into the cloister of the heart: for emerging renewed, able to recognize the minute-by-minute miracles in the mundane. Dr. Bielowski offers it to her readers, to her fellow seekers, to her wayfaring strangers as warm lining for their own nesting-as a rescue flare for their own journeying on the way to the fullness of life. Godspeed!

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A monographic study of the genus Lycium of the western hemisphere
Charles Leo Hitchcock
Manufacturer: Washington university
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ASIN: B000873JJY

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Examines the development of statutory rape laws in the United States.

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Jailbait
Jeremy Clowes
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ASIN: B000T3IHVW

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Adult book

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Jailbait
William Bernard
Manufacturer: World Distributors
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Jailbait

Manufacturer: Popular Library
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000HUAMAG

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A book without growth
Ugh!
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Jailbait
Leslea Newman
Manufacturer: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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ASIN: 0385734050
Release Date: 2006-12-12

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Andrea Robin Kaplan is a clique unto herself.

In other words, she has no friends. Her only goal is get through high school with the least amount of humiliation possible, which should be easy— nothing ever happens in the suburbs, right? Wrong.

One day, as Andi walks home from school, a little brown VW drives up and she meets Frank. Frank makes her feel beautiful and special. With Frank, Andi forgets how alone she is.

From boundary breaking author Lesléa Newman comes a haunting story about a girl who is all alone, and a man old enough to know better.

From the Hardcover edition.

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A book without growth.......2007-01-26

Andi, a fifteen year old growing up in 1970s suburbia, has no friends, a miserable school life, and a family that she hates. When a car drives by her every day, Andi begins to fantasize about a relationship with the driver. Until the day he stops, opens the door, and says "Get in, gorgeous." Frank is a lot older, and during their daily after-school meetings, he makes Andi feels beautiful, loved and wanted. Andi knows that she has to keep thier relationship a secret, because Frank could go to jail for the things that he does with her. And even when their relationship begins to take an unpleasant edge, Andi knows that she can never, ever tell.

This book starts with a overheard, anonymous quote about statutory rape: "Please, that girl knew exactly what she was getting into." And this book neither proves nor disproves the quote. It shows a compelling and tragic portrait of a girl from a good neighborhood and a good family who falls below the radar. It is easy to see how Andi could be blinded by someone who made her feel special. What is more difficult is to understand how someone as smart as Andi could have gotten into the relationship in the first place, or have fallen for Frank's stories, or let it go on as far as it did. Even though the book is from Andi's perspective, it doesn't feel like we're in her head. I still don't understand how Andi got to where she got with Frank. It feels like you're watching from a distance. And at the end of the book, even though things have, in a way, changed, it's still difficult to see any change or growth in Andi. It's more like she narrowly avoided disaster than that she grew up enough to navigate clear of it. This is an unsatisfactory book that left me feeling a little empty and unfulfilled at the end of it.

Ugh!.......2007-01-12

I really wanted to like this story. It sounded interesting and different.

Instead, I got to read about a sullen, uninteresting and completely screwed up teeanagers in the 1970's.

Kind of boring and very typical. There was not a redeeming feature in any of the characters and the storyline was stilted and rigid.

Not a good read.

Amazing.......2006-10-18

I finished Jailbait a couple of hours ago, and I'm still shaking. It's a young adult novel, but it could also be horror. Leslea Newman does a perfect job of detailing how an average girl from a sleepy suburban town can suddenly find herself to be "jailbait."

I knew this book was about an underage girl, Andrea, who gets involved with an older man, so when I started reading it yesterday I assumed that although I may find the story interesting and well-written (which it absolutely is!), I doubted I would ever be able to identify with this character at all. I would never get into some strange man's car to begin with. Or even if I did, I certainly never would get physical with him. And there's no way I would ever lie or steal for some guy. Or would I? Am I really above succumbing to some suave older man's wiles? While I never had an experience quite like Andrea's, in retrospect . . . I did take some pretty brainless risks back when I was a teenager. And I rationalized them the same way Andrea does.

This novel made me question my self-assuredness and highlights how stealthily sexual predators operate. Jailbait is scary not just because of the plot but also because how easily readers, via Newman's honest prose, can identify with Andrea's state of mind and the emotions propelling her well-meaning but destructive choices.

Jailbait should be required reading for all young adults, and their parents.

Disappointing, but well-written........2005-10-07

Leslea Newman, Jailbait (Delacorte, 2005)

It is quite probable that, no matter what happens with Leslea Newman's career, she will forever have her name linked with Heather Has Two Mommies, her 1990 juvenile picture book that inspired a firestorm of controversy (that still rages today). She could win the Nobel Prize for Literature next week, and people would probably still refer to her as "the person who wrote Heather Has Two Mommies." Whether Jailbait was an attempt to break the mold by writing another book with an undeniably controversial theme or not, I've no idea, but I must admit the thought crossed my mind more than once.

I find it exceptionally interesting that a previous Amazon reviewer (August 16, 2005) criticizes the novel for not "[disproving] the myth that young girls always understand the consequences sexual involvement with an older man can bring." I'm not terribly sure where that reviewer is getting her information; in America, the myth (and the law to back it up) is that no "child" of either sex understands the consequences of sexual involvement with an older member of either sex. And while to say exactly how Newman tackles that question would be the spoiler of spoilers for the book (for that question and how it is addressed, predictably, is the climax of the novel), I have to say that from where I'm standing, the previous reviewer seems to have read exactly the opposite of the book I did.

It's impossible to judge the book without looking at the deeper ethical concepts raised, unfortunately, but I think I managed to base my review more on the book's construction than the questions it addresses. It is aimed at the 10-12 grade crowd, and the language fits. The characters are well, and surprisingly, drawn; for a book set in 1971, the token trapped-in-the-sixties stoner is surprisingly understated, and one has to give at least grudging respect to the idea that Newman had to have been tempted to turn said token stoner into a stereotype. Instead, he turns out as human as the rest of the cast. The boyfriend, who is of course at the core of the book, is handled quite well; Newman uses the book's first-person-singular to keep us from knowing any more about him than her protagonist does, which proves on more than one occasion to simultaneously frustrate the reader and lend an air of veracity. (One imagines an author with lesser skills sending her protagonist off to play amateur detective, a move Newman wisely avoids.) Our hero's parents slip a little now and again towards stereotype, but that's to be expected in literature aimed at the teen set, and Newman never takes it too far.

An interesting book, both well-written and worth thinking about for its subject matter; I just wish Newman had strayed as far from conventional morality in the latter as she did from conventional genre writing in the former. *** ½

An interesting read.......2005-09-20

The title and cover seem to imply more drama than this novel provides - Andi's affair with an older man, Frank, is instead a private matter, which makes the story all the more realistic. In 1971, Andi is fifteen-going-on-sixteen, a somewhat overweight (so she thinks) loner at school (her best friend has moved away, her brother is at college) and bullied slightly. When she meets Frank, a handsome older man who drives by her every day on her way home, she creates romantic scenarios inside her head, falling hard and fast for a guy she barely knows, even after she spends time with him. She's drawn in by the compliments and the intimacy, and even when he becomes distant or abusive, she still cares about him and wants him to go back to the way he was. Although sex is a part of this novel such scenes are appropriately non-graphic, as befits the YA audience, and while the conclusion isn't entirely satisfactory (particularly given that the reader sees the unhealthy relationship far more clearly than Andi appears to) it does feel authentic.

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Jailbait

Manufacturer: Popular Library
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1415003920

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Juvenile Delinquency

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Jailbait
Grant Fuller
Manufacturer: Corinth
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ASIN: B000TVUA14

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Adult Book, Not for sale to minors.

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Jailbait and Other Stories
Brad Gooch
Manufacturer: Sea Horse Pr Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0933322178

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Jailbait in Holy Water
James W Crissman , and James Crissman
Manufacturer: Pudding House Pubs
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Poetry Chapbook 5x8 1/2 saddle-stitched.

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Jailbait Jungle
Wenzell Brown
Manufacturer: Belmont Books
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ASIN: B000ITYSR4

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