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Merinda Brayfield is a writer by day, IT wizard by night living in Texas. She has a self-published book and written many unique stories. Merinda is a semi-professional extrovert who spends her time immersed in twitter @merindab, fangirling about Doctor Who and cuddling her dog Church.

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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

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“Envy of the older nations gnawed at him. He complained to Theodore Roosevelt that the English nobility on continental tours never visited Berlin but always went to Paris.”
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