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Sunday, November 14, 2004

A Great And Terrible Beauty

Surf by the official site of A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. Have I mentioned how amazing Libba is lately? Very really quite extremely amazing. So there.

Posted by Cynthia Leitich Smith at 11:43 PM

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