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Rick Silva grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, attended Cornell University and Curry College, and works as a high school science teacher. He is currently teaching oveseas. He worked for three years at a school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and is now teaching in Shanghai, China, where he lives with his wife and son, and their very well-traveled cat. Rick has had several short stories published in anthologies by Apex Books, Crossed Genres, and Flying Pen Press, among others. He is working on his first novel, and has also collaborated on self-published and small press zines and comics.

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This was from the professional development shelf at my job. The focus here is on motivation toward achievement, specifically in African American communities in the US, with the idea of bringing together community stakeholders to find ways to celebrat ...more
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This volume collects the Moomin newspaper strip, which was primarily published in the London Evening News. The comics presented in this volume are mostly from the mid-1950s.

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Cherry Ames Boarding School Nurse by Helen Wells
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Part of the stack of vintage kids adventure books I'm reading this year.

This is seventeen books into the series, which seems to feature an awful lot of career turnover for Miss Ames, who is here taking a school nurse job at a small girls boarding sch
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Eula Blue of New Capenna (Magic: The Gathering's "mafia-world") gets the opportunity of a lifetime to study at the premier magical university in the multiverse, Strixhaven (Magic: The Gathering's answer to certain other magical schools in literature) ...more
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I read this as part of a professional development book discussion at my job.

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