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Melyssa was born and raised on the southern edge of Lake Ontario in the Western New York town of Sodus. She began voraciously reading (her mother’s exact words) at the age of four as an escape from watching apple trees grow, and hasn’t stopped yet.

A trip to the town library always followed the Saturday Morning Bowling League, and Melyssa went home each week with as many books as the librarian and her parents allowed. The day she wandered out of the children’s section and into the regular fiction has been permanently etched in her mind by the searing strands of Thread falling from the sky and the Dragons who flew to fight them. With the realization that imagination is limitless, she has since been fascinated with Fantasy and Science Fiction. ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 15 ratings · 1 review · 1 distinct work

I Should Have Stayed in Oz
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Selina Rosen,

Rhonda Eudaly-Simpson,

Vickey Malone Kennedy

3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions

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First World Problems

I've been thinking a lot lately about the things that are wrong and the things that are right in my life. There are times when I get frustrated. There are times when I get angry. There are times when I think that I'm never going to achieve my goals.

Despite those moments, though, if I step back and take a really good, hard look at my life, the majority of my issues are "First World Problems". Read more of this blog post »

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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World

by Paul Cartledge

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Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

by Jimmy Carter

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Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

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Melyssa’s Quotes

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers

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“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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