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Ray Stickle

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Dayton, OH, The United States

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Ray Stickle is the author of The Footnotes, Ruin's Entrance, and The Unseen Death. He graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in history. He lived and taught in South Korea for four years, returning to his home in Ohio in 2006 to finish a master's degree. He currently lives in Georgia with his wife and sons. ...more

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Average rating: 4.31 · 13 ratings · 2 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Ruin's Wasteful Entrance (Marius Besshaven, #1) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea

The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi
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I bought The Accusation for the same reason I bought The Aquariums of Pyongyang and Nothing to Envy: I want to know what life is like in North Korea. I did not expect that Bandi's stories would also be great literature, but great literature they are. These seven stories shine a light onto life in North Kor Read more of this blog post »

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The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice

by Scott Ellsworth

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The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Depth of Winter (Walt Longmire, #14)

by Craig Johnson

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Ray’s Quotes

“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.”
― Jim Harrison, The Theory & Practice of Rivers and New Poems

tags: poetry

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“It's very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed.”
― Jim Harrison, After Ikkyu & Other Poems

tags: poetry

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“You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.”
― Jim Harrison, In Search of Small Gods

tags: destiny, identity

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“Every particle of dust on a patch of earth
Was a sun-cheek or brow of the morning star;
Shake the dust off your sleeve carefully--
That too was a delicate, fair face.”
― Omar Khayyam, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

tags: poetry

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“Who does more for a nation--the one who makes a fuss about it or the one who, without thinking of it, raises it to universality by the beauty of his actions, and gives it fame and immortality?”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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