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Michael Bell

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in Sunderland, The United Kingdom

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https://whimsicaltraveling.wordpress.com/

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Memoir, Fantasy, Travel

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	Seller Mistakes: What You Were Never Told About Selling Your Home and Why It Should Matter to You 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Security and Environmental Sustainability of Multimodal Transport (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security) by Michael Bell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Solmaz Haji Hosseinloo (Editor), Urszula Kanturska (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Th1rt3en (Eddie Flynn, #4)

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