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Charity Girl

author: Michael Lowenthal
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publication date: January 3, 2007
Genre: Fiction

Design info:

designer: Martha Kennedy
Typefaces: Sackers Gothic Sackers Roman

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The Book Cover Archive is edited and maintained by Ben Pieratt of General Projects and Eric Jacobsen of Whisky Van Gogh Go.

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