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Holly Valero

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in Miami, The United States

September 14

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Children's, Humor and Comedy, Gay and Lesbian

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Born in Miami, Florida in the early 1960's, Holly Valero grew up on a 100-acre farm in rural Pennsylvania, where the family gardened, farmed, and raised a variety of chickens, barn cats and sheep through the 1970s.

She spent several years as the night shift DJ at WTTC Radio, a 500-watt AM/FM station with an audience largely comprised of dairy cattle, playing standards from the 1940s-50's, country music, and – oddly – polka.

Radio took her to Concord, New Hampshire, where she became involved in early community efforts to establish legal protections for gay and lesbian rights. It was there she began writing a regular series for a statewide gay and lesbian community newspaper.

A move to Portland, Maine and a change in careers (marketing, publish ...more

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	Tales of an American Lesbian - The Best of the Straight & Narrow: 1986 - 1993 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 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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Wander

This delightful, wordless story encapsulates adventure and natural beauty through its charming illustrations and glyphs.

In this picture book, a curious bear who has just emerged from hibernation explores the vast wilderness and makes some friends along the way.

An unnamed bear emerges from their cave to see a sunny spring day and wanders around the forest. Next comes summer, when the bear bef Read more of this blog post »

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When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

by Leon Festinger

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Automatic Noodle

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“The more we cull diversity, the more we are vulnerable to extinction,”
― Annalee Newitz, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

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“And anyway, lots of things had never been done before, and then they were done.”
― Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City

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“I’ve taken everything from you and now I’m going to tell you it’s your neighbor’s fault because he looks different from you.”
― Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City

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“How can we who have nothing but the immense magnificent tiny powerless spark of our own singular Self harness that energy, magnify it, make it into something that can stand beside these invisible giants, these artificial intelligences, weighty legal words on parchment and the glimmering ones and zeros of code in a processor somewhere?”
― Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City

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