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Book Title: Mending SKINS
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 5.3in
Author: Eric Gansworth
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Sagas, Family Life, Native American & Aboriginal, General
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Year: 2005
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 166 Pages
