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Have you noticed a strange thing about modern culture? People everywhere are complaining that the world is becoming a more evil place….
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Perhaps the most mythologized element in Slavic mythology is water. In my own first novel, The Song of the Sirin, the Water of…
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It seems that Vikings, and everything Viking-related, is internationally popular right now. Take the multi-season History Channel hit “The Vikings” or the…
5 Fantasy Books to Read at the Beach This Summer
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A Hero for Our Time: Prince Dimitry Pozharsky
Does the news cycle depress you? Have you lost any hope in the emergence of a hero for our time who might…