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I'm going to be meeting the Twitter Book Club (@TwitBookClub or twitbookclub.org ) tomorrow to talk about Shemlan: A Deadly Tragedy ....

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(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I came to this particular party almost thirty years late. But oh, my, what a party it was! I romped, gig...