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Cameron Dryden Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I write #HistFic & #CliFi, invent stuff, sing, and preach from time to time. You got a problem with that? Boston🇺🇸 Rome🇮🇹 Greece🇬🇷 Byzantium, Ephesus🇹🇷

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Book Cover for: A Brief Memoir of the Life of John F. Slater of Norwich, Connecticut, 1815 to 1884, Samuel H. Howe

A Brief Memoir of the Life of John F. Slater of Norwich, Connecticut, 1815 to 1884

Samuel H. Howe
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@crystallyn Interesting fact #2: It was co-founded by Samuel Gridley Howe, one of the “Secret Six” who funded John Brown’s disastrous attempt to lead a slave rebellion.

Hardcover, 2015

$26.95Member price:$24.25 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, Neema Avashia

Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

Neema Avashia
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Cognoscenti article by Boston teacher friend @AvashiaNeema. I’ll be reviewing ANOTHER APPALACHIA, her lifelong essay collection on growing up Indian and queer in West Virginia that debuts March 1st. Crazy good! https://t.co/7xXqIs5DNz

Paperback, 2022

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Grub Street: The Origins of the British Press, Ruth Herman

Grub Street: The Origins of the British Press

Ruth Herman
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So great that a fellow black man of Jamaican ancestry and Grubstreet colleague, @J_Escoffery’s debut has been longlisted for the National Book Award. Just…WOW! 🎉🙏🏽 https://t.co/AT9EKDPArw

Hardcover, 2020

$34.95Member price:$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy, Helen Keller

Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy

Helen Keller
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@crystallyn Helen Keller’s teacher and lifelong partner, Anne Sullivan, also went to Perkins. She had varying degrees of blindness over the course of her life.

Hardcover, 1985

$95.00Member price:$95.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A.: With a Memoir of the Author: 2, John Howe

The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A.: With a Memoir of the Author: 2

John Howe
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@crystallyn Interesting fact #2: It was co-founded by Samuel Gridley Howe, one of the “Secret Six” who funded John Brown’s disastrous attempt to lead a slave rebellion.

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Book Cover for: The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A.: With a Memoir of the Author: 3, John Howe

The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A.: With a Memoir of the Author: 3

John Howe
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@crystallyn Interesting fact #3: Samuel Howe’s wife, Julia Ward Howe, wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic (“mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord...”) to the tune of John Brown’s Body.

Paperback, 2018

$27.95Member price:$25.16 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Unlikely Animals, Annie Hartnett

Unlikely Animals

Annie Hartnett
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I will treasure @annie_hartnett’s drawing of the extinct Molossian hound of ancient Rome ’til the day I die…or at least, ’til the April 12th publication of her new blockbuster, UNLIKELY ANIMALS! https://t.co/knXoTIoyGs

Paperback, 2023

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book