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Glenn Alan Cheney
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http://www.goodreads.com/GlennCheney
born
January 01, 1951
in Boston, The United States
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Theodore A. Rees Cheney, John McPhee, Joan Didion, E.B. White, George...more
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Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America
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Journey to Chernobyl: Encounters in the Radioactive Zone
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1995
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Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil
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Passion in an Improper Place
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2005
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A Cheney Sampler: Excerpts from Books by Clenn Alan Cheney
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Life in Caves
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1995
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Chernobyl: The Ongoing Story Of The World's Deadliest Nuclear Disaster
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Acts Of Ineffable Love: Stories
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1995
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Frankenstein on the Cusp of Something
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Love and Death in the Kingdom of Swaziland
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Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America (Nonfiction)
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updated Jul 24, 2009 07:03am
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This is the foreword to the book, exploring the question of how best to reflect truth.
Ode Ocean Ours (Poetry)
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updated Jul 23, 2009 02:45pm
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A poem about the environment and pullution and manatees and you and me
Come and Get It (poetry) (Poetry)
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updated Jul 23, 2009 02:42pm
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A poem about consumerism and life and...
Everything Screwy (Poetry)
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updated Jul 23, 2009 02:39pm
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A Poem about fraud and communication
We are all Pilgrims (History)
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The Pilgrims of Plymouth planted the seeds that became the American culture. We're all Pilgrims, even those of us who just got here.
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"This book gets off to a good start. The writer explains technical information, from biochemistry to psychology, very clearly, even entertainingly. He uses on-the-scene images and cases to make it all real. I like the way he relates this anti-pharma p...more
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This report from Swaziland gives an overview of the terrible conditions in the countryside and the obstacles faced by a religious organization providing care, particularly HIV/AIDS care. I found the depiction of the Swazi off-putting and unsympath...
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This is a great book! And one I think everyone will enjoy as well. It is way more than just a history of the holiday, as it goes into the probable feelings of the pilgrims. And though we will never know those, we all do know they had it rough. Mr....
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