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- Draven, Alan
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- Edwards, Art
- Engelman, Muriel P.
- Evans, Duane
- Fishbein, Susie
- Fleming, Tim
- Foster, Melissa
- Freese, Mathias B.
- Gardner, Cheryl Anne
- Garthwaite, Lynn D. & Craig Howarth
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- Gould, Linda
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- Hunter, Frances
- Hutton, Tad
- Jackson, Kris
- Jerome, David
- Johns, R. Scot
- Johnson, John Robert
- Jones, Colin D.
- Kale, Suzann
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- Kelly, Ann
- Kelly, Carla
- Kerr, John
- Kimport, Larry
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- Meyer, Don
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- Orr, Floyd M.
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- Reilly, Steve
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- Silber, Bob
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- Christmas Dream, A
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- Civil General, A
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- Coming Together
- Confederate War Bonnet, The
- Confession of Piers Gaveston, The
- Convergence of Valor
- Court-Martial of Charlie Newell, The
- Crimson Warrior, The
- Crusading Spirit in Modern America, The
- Cyberdrome
- Dance Your Way to Psychic Sex
- Dark Shadows Red Bayou
- Dawn of Saudi, The
- Dead On
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- Devil's Feathers
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- Distant Cousin
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- Divine Right
- Dolphins Under My Bed
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- Eyes of a Monster
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- Far Place in Time, A
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- Faust
- Fixin' Things
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- Fuhrer Virus, The
- Getting Lucky
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- Going Rouge
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- Helluva Guy, A
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- Honest Sid
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- In Her Name
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- Inside the Kill Box
- Is the American Dream Killing You?
- Janeology
- Key of Solomon, The
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- Lake, The
- Last Horizon, The
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- Living With Evolution or Dying Without It
- Loose End of the Rainbow, The
- Love Divine
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- Lumberjack Christmas ...Revisited, A
- Making Dead Ends Meet
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- Midnight Tequila
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- Missing Peace of a Heritage Puzzle, The
- Mission Accomplished: Stop the Clock
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- Mozart Forgeries, The
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- Mugging for the Camera
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