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Rairarubia
W. Royce Adams
RAIRARUBIA, Book 1 in the award winning, on-going fantasy-adventure series, The Rairarubia Tales, now comes in a new Second Edition. This is the book that begins eleven-year-old Molly Doogan's adventures in a mysterious, timeless land called Rairarubia.
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