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Frank Kelly

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Frank Kelly was educated at the University of Scranton, and at the University of Kansas. For most of his professional life, he taught English at Farmingdale State College in New York. Frank collaborated on three stage musicals, The Texas Chainsaw Musical, Xmas! The Xpose! and Pageant. The last has played off-Broadway, in the West End, in Australia, Japan and all over the United States. Growing Up Me: A Memoir in Poems is his first book.

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Growing Up Me: A Memoir In Poems

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Chain of Fools (Donald Strachey #6)

by Richard Stevenson

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The Expendable Man

by Dorothy B. Hughes

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Oscar Wilde: Pulitzer Prize Winner

by Richard Ellmann

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SCIENCE WITH IMPACT is an extremely tough-minded approach to a difficult problem of communicating with a target audience. It’s subtitle — how to engage people, change practice and influence policy — perfectly summarizes its targets and achievements.
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message 1: by Frederick (last edited Aug 25, 2016 11:14AM)

Jun 06, 2007 08:32PM

You have listed Vonnegut's CAT'S CRADLE as a favorite book. It's the first one by him I read and remains my favorite. I think it would still be if I'd read it, say, second.

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