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A Stretch of Time
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Young Love on the Run from the Federal Alien Administration New Mexico Division (1984)
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The Heir of Night
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Thornspell
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The Gathering of the Lost
The Gathering of the Lost by Helen Lowe Five years after the Wall of Night was breached and...