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Michael Thomas Perone is an award-winning author who has written for The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, Long Island Voice (a spinoff of The Village Voice), Yahoo!, and WhatCulture!, among others. His debut novel, the action-adventure Danger Peak, was the recipient of The Fall 2022 BookFest Award in the category of Young Adult – Action and Adventure and The 2022 Firebird Book Award in the category of Magical Realism. His follow-up, the coming-of-age/sci-fi mindbender Déjà View, was the recipient of The Spring 2024 BookFest Award in the category of Young Adult – Literary and Coming of Age, where it received First Place, and The 2024 Firebird Book Award in the category of Coming of Age. It was also a finalist of The 2024 Eric Hoffer Book ...more

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I’m known mostly as an ‘80s guy, but this time, I’m taking you all the way back to the Golden Oldies, those creaky old tunes your parents listened to on their AM radio stations in their whale-sized station wagons—at least if you’re from my generation. For the purposes of this list, I’m talking about songs that were released before the ‘70s, the decade I was born. The sad news is that the songs I g

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Despite watching the original “Jurassic Park” a million times (it’s my wife’s favorite movie), I had never read its source novel. (Most readers like reading the book first; I’m the opposite.) I finally got around to it and was surprised at how differ ...more
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