Wake Up Dead Man
- ISBN-10
- 0955480426
- ISBN-13
- 9780955480423
- Category
- Church
- Pages
- 130
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-05-01
- Publisher
- Quick Brown Fox Publication
- Author
- Matt Stephens
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Other editions
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- 1999
- 326 pages
- Paperback
- University of Georgia Press
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- 1972
- 326 pages
- Paperback
- Harvard University Press
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