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Rick Silva

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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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	Fat Girl in a Strange Land by Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sabrina Vourvoulias (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O Grande Campeonato da Vida: jogando contra titãs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)

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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 ...more
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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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