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So a decade ago, hack advertisers needed to make everything cyber-this and i-that. Fifty years ago, everyone was selling a Space-whatsit, and a hundred years ago it was all radium-whatever. Radium Razor Blades! (
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From the Boston Directory for 1848-1849
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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2011
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
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2003
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Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
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2004
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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
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2001
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The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
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2009
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The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
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2005
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Mole Hunt (The Maximus Black Files, #1)
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2011
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Mack Dunstan's Inferno
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2011
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Dream Weavers
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1996
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Frontier Worlds
by Paul Collins (Goodreads Author) , Rowena Cory 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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1983
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“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.”
― Paul Collins
― Paul Collins
“If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: Hello. I am an easy-to-read work on espionage, romance, a celebrity, and/or murder. To readers who do not care for such things, this lettering tells them: Hello. I am crap.”
― Paul Collins, Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
― Paul Collins, Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
“Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. … But autism … is as much about what is abundant as what is missing, an over-expression of the very traits that make our species unique.”
― Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
― Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
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