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Sam Ernst

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Warren, PA, The United States

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Sam Ernst was born in Pennsylvania in 1981. He trained as a naval architect, but after being chased through the port of Perama by a drunken, bottle-wielding communist, he abandoned the nautical life to sell bread in a landlocked bakery. At some point, Sam grew tired of slinging dough and moved on to answer telephones for a billionaire, write a rock opera about the life of Isaac Babel, and publish a thesis detailing the rhetorical tactics of online music critics. Sam lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife and son and works at Colorado State University as a grant writer. The New Manifesto is his first novel.

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The New Manifesto: Or The Slow Eroding of Time

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The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History

by Alistair Moffat

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Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

by Werner Herzog

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Stormy Isles: An Azorean Tale (Bellis Azorica Book 1)

by Vitorino Nemésio

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A solid, if uneven and occasionally muddled, start to a series. When I finished, I was intrigued enough to read the next book but still wondering if it was actually "good" or something I liked. Certainly not a wholehearted endorsement, but the world ...more
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