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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. By Mark Allan Powell. Hendrickson Publishers. 1,088 pp. $29.95
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BUG: The Strange Mutations of the World’s Most Famous Automobile. By Phil Patton. Simon & Schuster.
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