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"There is no older nor purer form of magic than that of birds." Anne is just trying to make her way through high school: the gauntlet of tests, cliques, and friends... All that is upended when in the middle of class, she's called to office and finds out a previously unknown aunt has passed... Continue Reading →
First off, a huge shout out to my friend Adam for letting me borrow his collection of comics. I've visited the SW universe many mediums (movies, video games, animated shows, books, toys), but had yet to read any of the comic books. After talking to Adam about this, he very thoughtfully brought me a stack... Continue Reading →
A Cold War secret: a hidden town whose residents are kept in the dark about its true nature. A committee of veterans keep watch over their safety. Yet, when a lost hiker wanders down main street, he threatens to disrupt the tenure of the whole town and maybe even the world. Carter Carlson is one... Continue Reading →
The writing, the artwork, strong themes of first love, coming-of-age, and religion... this is a graphic novel that I'd been wanting to read for a long time, and it paid off. Blankets is Craig Thompson's story of growing up in a fundamentalist household in Wisconsin in the mid 80s and as an adolescent in the... Continue Reading →
A young woman's love of horses evolves into career of training them, and eventually an opportunity to own stock in and work with a particular horse. From her time growing up in Texas in the late 50s to working with the horses at Hollywood Park in the 2000s, Gail Ruffu treated her horses with respect... Continue Reading →
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