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Publishing house, Scholastic, has announced there will be seven new Harry Potter covers. The first new cover is for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It is the first of the seven new covers to appear on trade paperback editions coming in September 2013 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the first U.S. publication.
Bring Up the Bodies by novelist Hilary Mantel has won the title of 2012 Costa Book of the Year [UK]. The sequel to Mantel's award-winning novel Wolf Hall is the second book of a trilogy.
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A British writer has written a book based on Jane Austen's classic novel "Pride and Prejudice" but told from the servants' point of view. In "Longbourn," which will be released later this year in the United States, writer Jo Baker focuses on a romance between the main characters, a newly arrived footman and a housemaid on the Bennet family estate.
Speaking of Austen, according to at least one source, she invented the phrase "dinner party".
A new James Bond novel, written by the award-winning author William Boyd, will be published in September. Bond creator Ian Fleming's estate confirmed the date of 26 September yesterday, but is keeping the title and plot of the spy's latest adventures a secret.
The most-borrowed book in the UK's House of Commons library is How To Be An MP, by the veteran Labour parliamentarian Paul Flynn.
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National Seniors’ Australia and Random House Australia announced the winner of the 2013 National Seniors Literary Prize. Persephone Nicholas of Mosman, Sydney was the winner from over 100 entrants from all over Australia with her first novel BURNED. The prize includes $2000 cash, a three-year National Seniors membership, e-book publication and cover design, 12 printed copies and the opportunity for further print-on-demand versions.
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Australian poet Mark Tredinnick has won first place in the 2012 Cardiff International Poetry Competition for his poem 'Margaret River Sestets'. Administered by Literature Wales, it carries a A$7731 cash prize.
The Association for the study of Australian Literature presented the Mary Gilmore Award for Poetry to Fiona Wright for her collection 'Knuckled'.
'Closer to Stone' by Simon Cleary has won the inaugural Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award. The $5000 award is part of the Queensland Literary Awards - the volunteer-led awards that replaced the axed Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
Gail Jones has won this year's Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Five Bells. The $30,000 award recognises the work of an established Australian female writer.
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A long time between sequels ...
Stephen King's website says the release date for the sequel to The Shining - Doctor Sleep - has been set for September 24, 2013. It will be published by Scribner and Hodder & Stoughton. The new story follows Dan Torrance, who is now a middle-aged man living in a small New Hampshire town.
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A Brisbane fantasy writer has become the first Australian to win the prestigious British Fantasy Award.
Angela Slatter's story The Coffin-Maker's Daughter was selected from a shortlist of 72 entries to win the short fiction category of the award.
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In the UK, J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy topped the fiction charts in the first week. Its debut swept aside rivals, becoming the fastest selling hardback novel since 2009.
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The Davitt Awards are sponsored by Sisters in Crime Australia and are named in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812-1879) who wrote Australia’s first mystery novel, FORCE AND FRAUD in 1865. Awards are given annually to crime writing by women in several categories. And the winners are:
Best True Crime: Liz Porter for COLD CASE FILES.
Best Adult Novel: Sulari Gentill for A DECLINE IN PROPHETS.
Best Debut Novel: Jaye Ford for BEYOND FEAR.
Reader’s Choice Award: All the books in all the other categories are eligible for this award and all members of Sisters in Crime Australia are able to vote for it. This year the award was shared by Jaye Ford’s BEYOND FEAR with Y. A. Erskine’s THE BROTHERHOOD!.
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The winners of The Age Book of the Year Awards were announced at the Melbourne Writers Festival, 24 August.
Non-fiction: 1835: the founding of Melbourne and the conquest of Australia by James Boyce.
Fiction: Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears.
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Random House Australia Announces New Literary Prize - the National Seniors Literary Prize for 2012. The prize is awarded to a writer over fifty who has not been previously published. In sponsoring the prize, Random House is hoping to discover a new bestselling author as many famous writers started their careers later in life.
Mary Wesley’s first novel was published when she was 70. Richard Adam’s first novel, Watership Down was published when he was 51 and Laura Ingalls Wilder didn’t write the Little House series until she was in her sixties. Jean Rhys wrote the famous Wide Sargasso Sea when she was 76 and Frank McCourt didn’t publish the Pulitzer winning, Angela’s Ashes until he was 66. The famous Australian author, Elizabeth Jolley published her first book when she was in her fifties
The winner of the prize will have their book published by Random House along with a cash prize of $2000. For more information on the prize or entry details, go to www.nationalseniors.com.au/literaryprize
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This year's Ned Kelly Awards (the Neddies) will be announced at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 29 August. There will be a Lifetime Achievement Award going to Gabrielle Lord. The shortlist for prizes in Best True Crime, First Fiction, and a Short Story Award are:
True Crime: Sins of the Father Eamonn Duff; Call Me Cruel Michael Duffy; Cold Case Files Liz Porter.
First Fiction: When We Have Wings Claire Corbett; The Cartographer Peter Twohig; The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood.
Fiction: Pig Boy J.C. Burke; The Life Malcolm Knox; Chelsea Mansions Barry Maitland.
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Celebrated author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist Gore Vidal has died at the age of 86 (October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012).
He published some 25 novels, two memoirs and several volumes of essays. In 2009, he won the annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book foundation.
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AWARDS NEWS:
Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears has picked up the 2012 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal.
the Royal Historical Society's WHITFIELD PRIZE has been awarded to Jacqueline Rose for Godly Kingship in Restoration England: the politics of the royal supremacy 1660-1688.
The world's most valuable short story prize, the E25,000 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award went to Nathan Englander for his collection: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.
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This year's Commonwealth Writers Prize comprises best book award and best short story prize. Best book went to Shehan Karunatilaka for Chinaman; best short story was from New Zealand writer Emma Martin for Two Girls in a Boat.
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The 2012 UK literary award for women, the Orange Prize for Fiction, has been presented to Madeline Miller for “The Song of Achilles,” a novel set during the Trojan War which casts the Homeric hero’s relationship with his friend Patroclus as a love story.
The American writer received 30,000 pounds ($46,600) and a bronze statuette called “the Bessie” at a ceremony last night at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
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The Commonwealth Book Prize for the Pacific region has gone to Cory Taylor for her debut novel, Me and Mr Booker.
The shortlist for the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Awards has been announced, this year with the inaugural poetry award and the newly incorporated Australian history prize.
Adult Fiction:
All That I Am by Anna Funder
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears
Autumn Laing by Alex Miller
Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital.
Non-fiction:
A Short History of Christianity by Geoffrey Blainey
Michael Kirby Paradoxes and Principles by A J Brown
When Horse Became Saw: a family's journey through Autism by Anthony Macris
Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland
An Eye for Eternity: the life of Manning Clark by MarkMcKenna
Poetry:
Ashes in the Air by Ali Alizadeh
Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies
Armour by John Kinsella
Southern Barbarians by John Mateer
New and Selected Poems by Gig Ryan
Australian History:
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
The Biggest Estate on Earth: how Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage
Breaking the Sheep's Back by Charles Massy
Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation by Russell McGregor
Immigration Nation: the secret history of us by Renegade Films Australia Pty Ltd.
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2012 Australian Book Industry Awards:
Book of the Year 2012
All that I Am, by Anna Funder
Newcomer of the Year (debut writer) 2012
Past the Shallows, by Favel Parrett
Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2012
All that I Am, by Anna Funder
Biography of the Year 2012
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, by Hazel Rowley
General Fiction Book of the Year 2012
Sarah Thornhill, by Kate Grenville
General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2012
Worse Things Happen At Sea, by William McInnes and Sarah Watt
Illustrated Book of the Year 2012
Tasting India, by Christine Manfield
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In the UK, authors are calling on the government to remunerate them when their ebooks are lent from libraries calling it "patently unjust" that digital titles are currently borrowed with no payment made to the writer.
Fifty Shades of Grey has just passed The Hunger Games to become as Amazon's #1 bestselling book of 2012. The list only counts paperback and hardcover books, not ebooks. The second through fourth spots are still held by the three books in The Hunger Games trilogy.
Still with Amazon, a recent study shows Amazon reviewers are more likely to look favourably on debut authors, while professionals prefer prizewinners.
Mexico's most celebrated novelist, 83-year old Carlos Fuentes, has died in hospital in Mexico City, reportedly from a sudden illness.
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Formerly the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the Commonwealth Book Prize has been changed this year to consist of one prize for a first novel and one for a short story. The format of regional prizes and an overall winner stays the same.
Four Australian novels have been shortlisted for the book prize - The Ottoman Motel by Christopher Currie; The Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen; Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor and Purple Threads by Jeanine Leane. Only one Australian is on the short story list - Nic Low for Rush.
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The shortlist for the Orange Prize, an award for fiction by female writers, is out: Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan; The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright; Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding; The Son of Achilles by Madeline Miller; Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick; and State of Wonder by Ann Patchett.
The winner will be announced on 30 May.
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The Pulitzer Prize board has failed to select a fiction award winner for the first time in 35 years.
Having narrowed the field down to three novels, the Pulitzer Prize administrator said none of the works received a majority vote from the panel.
The prize in general non-fiction went to The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, the Columbia University historian who died on the eve of its publication, won the history category.
The biography prize went to Yale professor John Lewis Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life.
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Further to the announcement (scroll down a bit) of The Diagram Prize shortlist for the Oddest book title published in 2011, ta da, the winner is:
Cooking with Poo by Saiyuud Diwong (Poo is Thai for crab and also the author chef's nickname).
Errr ... congratulations.
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Kim Scott has picked up another two gongs for his novel, That Deadman Dance, by taking out the South Australian Premier's Award and the prize for fiction. Scott has already won the Miles Franklin, the Victorian Premier's Award, a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Australian Literary Society gold medal and the WA Premier's prize.
Poetry and non-fiction awards bestowed during Adelaide Writers Week went to: Poetry - Les Murray's Taller When Prone; and Non-fiction - Mark McKenna for An Eye for Eternity: the life of Manning Clark.
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The Diagram Prize shortlist for the Oddest book title published in 2011 is out:
A Taxonomy of Office Chairs by Jonathan Olivares
Cooking with Poo by Saiyuud Diwong (Poo is Thai for crab and also the author chef's nickname)
A Century of Sand Dredging in the Bristol Channel: Volume 2 - the Welsh Coast by Peter Gosson
Mr Andoh's Pennine Diary: memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer in 1935 Hebden Bridge by Stephen Curry and Takayoshi Andoh
Estonian Sock Patterns All Around the World by Aino Praakli
The Great Singapore Penis Panic: and the future of American mass hysteria by Scott D Mendelson
The Mushroom in Christian Art by John A Rush
The 2011 shortlist has seven rather than the traditional six titles "in recognition of the high standard of oddity witnessed in publishing last year".
The winner will be announced at the end of March.
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The Hon. Phryne Fisher is set to hit tv screens this Friday - February 24. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is an Australian television drama series of thirteen one-hour episodes, based on Australian author Kerry Greenwood's series of Phryne Fisher detective novels. The title role is played by Essie Davis, supported by Nathan Page, Miriam Margoyles and Hugo Johnstone-Burt.
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More than 40 years after he wrote his first novel, The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth has been awarded the Diamond Dagger Prize for lifetime achievement in crime writing.
Chosen by his fellow crime authors to reward a career of "sustained excellence", 73-year-old Forsyth wins a prize which has gone in the past to John le Carré, PD James, Ruth Rendell and Elmore Leonard>>>>
It has been 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens ~ born 7 February 1812, died 1870 aged 58. Why not revisit some of the all time classics, like Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities or the many other titles from the Dickens' pen. We have more than 400 copies in various formats in the catalogue.
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According to The Age, MATTHEW Reilly's enduring popularity was illustrated by his latest novel, Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves, finishing the 2011 year top of the fiction charts and as the best-selling Australian book (124,000), ahead of Di Morrissey's The Opal Desert (92,000).
The top-10 Australian books were: 1. Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves, Matthew Reilly; 2. The Opal Desert, Di Morrissey; 3. Simple Dinners, Donna Hay, 78,000; 4. The Happiest Refugee, Anh Do, 71,000; 5. Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks, 66,000; 6. Fast, Fresh, Simple, Donna Hay, 59,000; 7. Lola's Secret, Monica McInerney, 59,000; 8. Losing the Last 5 Kilos, Michelle Bridges, 58,000; 9. Darren Lockyer, Darren Lockyer and Dan Koch, 57,000; 10. 4 Ingredients Kids, Kim McCosker and Rachael Bermingham, 51,000.
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Almost 4 million children in Britain – one in three – do not own a book, a recent poll has found. The National Literacy Trust charity, which carried out the survey, said the proportion had risen from one in 10 in 2005, saying that children were reading from books and even computers less, but watching films and images on screens more.
Wish we were there: The Museum of London is holding its first major show on Charles Dickens for more than 40 years. The show features rarely seen manuscripts of his works including Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Bleak House but it also tries to give a sense of what Dickens's London looked like and will include numerous paintings of Victorian London.
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Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor won the $10,000 overall prize, as well as the $10,000 Fiction Book of the Year prize at this year's Age Book of the Year Awards.
The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGreachin won the Best Fiction Award at this year's Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing.
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Nigerian-American novelist Nnedi Okorafor has beaten a host of big names to win the World Fantasy award for her novel Who Fears Death, set in a post-apocalyptic Saharan Africa.
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Curtis Jobling, the creator of Bob the Builder,is the author of the new Wereworld book series. The first book is Rise of the Wolf: Book 1 where Bob the Builder transforms into a werewolf. Bob's clothes tear and his arms become terribly, terribly hairy.
It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced that it has bought the rights to Mitch Winehouse's memoir about his daughter, Amy Winehouse. The memoir will be published worldwide next summer.
Amazon.com just paid $800,000 for actor and director Penny Marshall's memoir. Amazon announced the deal at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Amazon is going into the book publishing business, which is causing quite a bit of consternation among agents and publishers.
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Six authors were named on Tuesday to the shortlist of candidates for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the most prestigious literary award in Britain. They are: Julian Barnes for The Sense of an Ending.
Carol Birch for Jamrach’s Menagerie.
Patrick deWitt for The Sisters Brothers.
Esi Edugyan for Half Blood Blues.
Stephen Kelman for Pigeon English.
A.D. Miller for Snowdrops.
The winner, who will be announced at a ceremony in London on October 18, receives £50,000, or about $80,000.
t;>>>>>>>>>>From 18 August to 15 September, Cranbourne Library will be displaying a Poet's Wall. Many contemporary Australian poets' work will be exhibited. Stop by, take a look, linger over the words and discover the meaning within them. No cost, all welcome.
Good news ... we've just launched freegal - free music downloads from Sony Music in MP3 format for digital devices. If you 've got a CCLC Library membership card, you can download 3 tracks a week. Check out our website http://www.cclc.vic.gov.au/for the freegal link. Happy listening!
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Speaking of new services, here's another one we've just introduced for Library members - seriously addictive language learning!
'Learn a new language today' is a powerful and personalised language-learning system. It features over 90 languages and 17 ESL courses; and being a Library member, you can access it 24/7 from anywhere. Log on to our website www.cclc.vic.gov.au, click on the link, register with your library card and PIN and follow the links! Enjoy!>>>
Libraries’ Rewarding Award:
One hundred and sixty-six libraries around the globe nominated titles for one of the world’s most lucrative literary prizes – the €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. The longlist and shortlist are chosen by an international panel of judges which rotates each year.
The prize is open to novels published in the preceding year, written in any language by authors of any nationality provided the book has been published in, or translated into, English. If the winning book is a translation, the prize is divided between the author and the translator, with the author receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000.
Colum McCann’s Let The Great World Spin received the most nominations (14) from libraries in countries including Ireland, Germany, Greece, Norway, the US and Canada. The shortlist also included Ransom by Australia’s David Malouf and Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey; America’s Joyce Carol Oates for Little Bird of Heaven and Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna; and Ireland’s Colm Toibin for Brooklyn.
In other award news:
The National Literary Awards bestowed by The Fellowship of Australian Writers (Vic) Inc. is a long-established event that awards both cash and/or plaques and statues to works first published in Australia.
The award for a non-fiction book with an Australian theme went to Cameron Forbes for The Korean War: Australia in the Giant’s Playground.
Fiction: The Second-Last Woman in England by Maggie Joel.
Best book of poetry: An Absence of Saints by Rosanna Licari.
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At the second Australian Romance Readers Awards, Anna Campbell received two awards - Favourite Australian Author and Historical Romance (My Reckless Surrender).
Favourite Paranormal Romance: Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh.
Favourite Sci-Fi, Urban Fantasy or Futuristic Romance: Archangel’s Consort by Nalini Singh.
Favourite Romantic Suspense: Border Watch by Helene Young (now published as Wings of Fear)
Favourite Erotic Romance: Raising Stakes by Jess Dee.
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'Wanting' by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan has won the $25,000 award for best book with Tasmanian content at the bienial Tasmania Book Prize.
The $5000 Margaret Scott Prize for best book by a Tasmanian writer was awarded to Kathryn Lomer for 'What Now, Tilda B?'
The Shortlists are out -- The ALS Gold Medal, awarded by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature :
Apocrypha by Peter Boyle.
Gravel by Peter Goldsworthy
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter, and
Bereft by Chris Womersley.
The Miles Franklin shortlist has created controversy as the judges have attacked the quality of editing in the submissions, so have only selected three ...
Bereft by Chris Womersley
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott and
When Colts Ran by Roger McDonald
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Our recent author visitor, Dianne Blacklock, has been nominated in the Romantic Book of the year 2011 for her latest novel "The Right Time". Winners will be announced in August in Melbourne.
Author, award-winning journalist and former Victorian Arts and Education Minister, Mary Delahunty has been appointed as National Director of the organisation, Writing Australia.
The Emerging Writers' Festival is on again this year ( 26 May - 5 June) in which emerging writers are given "all the advice, hob-nobbing opportunity and practical information they can shake their pens/mice at". Check out http://www.blogger.com/htt;://www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au for all the info.
Glenys Osborne's Come Inside has taken out the $35,000 Barbara Jefferis award. The prize is given to a novel that "depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society".
David Malouf was the first winner of the Dublin Impac award in 1996. He's on the shortlist again this year for Ransom along with fellow Aussies Craig Silvey (Jasper Jones) and Evie Wyld (After the Fire, A Still, Small Voice).
Australian author Kim Scott has won the South East Asia and Pacific region Best Book category of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for That Deadman Dance. Craig Cliff from New Zealand won the regional Best First Book category for A Man Melting. The two will now compete with other regional winners for the overall prize which will be announced during the Sydney Writers' Festival in May. In other award news, Rod Moss won the $5000 Chief Minister's 2011 Northern Territory Book of the Year Award from The Hard Light of Day.
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Bulwer-Lytton Award
Cathy Bryant of Manchester, England, has earned the dubious honour of being selected as the 2012 winner with this:
"As he told her that he loved her she gazed into his eyes, wondering, as she noted the infestation of eyelash mites, the tiny demodicids burrowing into his follicles to eat the greasy sebum therein, each female laying up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, causing inflammation, whether the eyes are truly the windows of the soul; and, if so, his soul needed regrouting."
Good grief! - Deb.
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