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Sheila Farren-Billings

Sheila grew up in a family of artists. Works in progress in all the contemporary arts, musical, written and performance art were strewn about her childhood home. This inspired her to develop her creativity and experiment with mediums and styles.

When she received her first big 64-color box of Crayolas, Sheila could sit for hours delighted to line up the crayons in endless color combinations. Now she works mostly in acrylic paints, watercolors, and pencil & ink; but the desire to combine beautiful, bright, saturated color is still a driving force in her art. Her work has appeared in many shows and galleries in the North Shore area of Boston, earning numerous awards and grants. Plus she is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

She has two illustrated books for sale and we are expecting a lot more from this great talent in the future.

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Matthew J. Fraser

Matthew's "Core Belief" is there is no one solution that's going to solve all of our problems. Rather, progress will be many smaller steps forward, such as more local farming, more walking paths or learning skills. My primary objective is to contribute to the well-being of as many people as I can. From 1995 to the summer of 2015 I did that mostly through teaching, but now I do so mostly through writing useful books. In the past I emphasized more serious writing, although now the emphasis is on language learning books and fiction. Below tells you the story behind the fruits of my labor that I have put here for you.

Read more in his book Ideas for America.

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Jerry O'Connor Bottari

Jerry comes from the original stock of Salem. Her descendant was the prosecuting Judge Hathorne and one of the accused women in 1692 he had hanged.... Well that is life in Salem and you will enjoy this spitfires classic poetry and photographs about the town she loves.

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Mi Keaton & Ana Steele

As if the age-old conflict between Heart and Brain wasn't difficult enough, you should of seen the fight between these authors to finish this work of art. Has this modern day changed Love's very chemistry? Equality of the sexes, Social Engineering- you know that Metro-sexual stuff, and the development of our "criteria box"... have really made affairs of the Heart more difficult for Brain to control? Anatomy of a Love Affair is a tale of Love where everything happens in an opposite way....Ana Steele and m i keaton tells the tale in a totally new and different way!!

You will love their book, even if they do not love each other anymore.

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Lisa Deschenes

Life long resident of Salem and frequent jogger within Greenlawn Cemetery which was featured within Rob Zombies Lords of Salem. Avid motorhead and procurer of the macabre.

She is the author of the Salem Cemetery series.

 

 

 

 

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Nick Demakes

Yes! Nick is a little Batty, or at the very least batty for bats! Such a loveable character who paints with yesterday morning's coffee and colored pencils. Rendering wonderful images from the past with a new face. His versions of classic Victorian horror characters all have animal faces. Mostly bat faces, but others like Sweeney Toad hop up from time to time. From Frakentoad to Madame Bathory Nick has created a grand menagerie.

Calendar

Web Site

Hellequin Art Gallery

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Richard Aliberti

Richard Aliberti is an artist originally from Boston. The 3rd born son in a family of 7 children, Richard first became inspired by Leonardo DaVinci and the Italian Renaissance in his youth and throughout his early work he has nurtured that inspiration by building a career as a successful artist working primarily in the plastic arts through the media of painting and sculpture. Some of his notable works include commissions of a bronze Dante Alighieri statue that is at the Dante Alighieri society in Cambridge Ma and the bronze plaque that greets visitors to St. John Parish on North Square, Boston. Richard's work is also in a permanent museum collection in the Kennedy museum on Cape Cod. Most recently, Richard has been actively creating internationally, as he is embarking on some new chapters of his colorful and diverse professional experiences.

Non-Fiction/ Art

Web Site

www.leonardolives.com

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Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard is famous for his characters Solomon Kane, Kull, and Conan the Barbarian. He was part of H.P. Lovecraft circle which included Clark Ashton Smith. All three wrote for Weird Tales magazine. After finding out his mother went into a coma Howard went out to his car and shot himself in the head in 1936. This was after his favorite illustrator quit Weird Tales as well. Lovecraft would die the next year.

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Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-teɪ/;[1] 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Her first novel The Professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel Jane Eyre was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.

Brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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Jane Austin

Jane Austen was an English ( 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humour, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike.

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D.H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.

Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".[1] At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation."[2] Later, the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness.

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H. Rider Haggard

After returning to England in 1882, Haggard published a book on the political situation in South Africa he experienced, as well as a handful of unsuccessful novels, before writing the book for which he is most famous, King Solomon's Mines. He accepted a 10 percent royalty rather than £100 for the copyright. A sequel soon followed entitled Allan Quatermain, followed by She and its sequel Ayesha, swashbuckling adventure novels set in the context of the Scramble for Africa (although the action of Ayesha happens in Tibet). The hugely popular King Solomon's Mines is sometimes considered the first of the Lost World genre. She is generally considered to be one of the classics of imaginative literature and with 83 million copies sold by 1965, it is one of the best-selling books of all time. He is also remembered for Nada the Lily (a tale of adventure among the Zulus) and the epic Viking romance, Eric Brighteyes. His novels portray many of the stereotypes associated with colonialism, yet they are unusual for the degree of sympathy with which the native populations are portrayed. Africans often play heroic roles in the novels, although the protagonists are typically European (though not invariably). Notable examples are the heroic Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and Ignosi, the rightful king of Kukuanaland, in King Solomon's Mines. Having developed an intense mutual friendship with the three Englishmen who help him regain his throne, he accepts their advice and abolishes witch-hunts and arbitrary capital punishment. Three of Haggard's novels were written in collaboration with his friend Andrew Lang who shared his interest in the spiritual realm and paranormal phenomena.

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Cory Mc'Neil

This is Cory's first book with another one coming soon. He is an avid historian always asking what if this had happened with a twisted comedic mind. He is also the producer of the Red Sock Show. His book actually might be finished one day...it just needs to be formatted.

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