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Vanessa Paige Israel

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I find myself thinking about the way of storytelling often, of the types of stories I have read most of my life. Such tales including those of heroes and gods, of princes and dragons, of detectives and criminals, of little girls and evil red queens. I long delighted in classic stories of good vs. evil, the hero vs. the villain.

Noticing a pattern of western storytelling, Joseph Campbell coined the

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Lore Olympus: Volume Nine (Lore Olympus, #9)

by Rachel Smythe (Goodreads Author)

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The Reality of the Rulers: The Hypostasis of the Archons

by John Railsbach

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