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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Summer is almost here! Are your Supertoys ready? I hear they last All Summer Long... </font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Henry John Drewal et al.,<span class="ContentPasted0"> <b>Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and its Diasporas,</b></span> 2008. One of the foremost volumes on Mami Wata and African water spirits and mermaids.</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Darick Chamberlin,
</span><b class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">Cigarette Boy</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" class="ContentPasted1 ContentPasted2 ContentPasted3">. <b>A
Mock Machine Mock-Epic Presented as a Proposal to the Mackert Corporation. </b>Rogue Drogue, 1991. Chamberlin is an American digital artist and designer, and this is a very rare copy of the first edition of his self-published cyberpunk book, written in a HTML-like
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<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" class="ContentPasted1 ContentPasted2">Both books should be in the Eaton stacks next month, so keep checking the library catalog!<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Speaking of mermaids... if you haven't seen it already, watch Professor Jalondra Davis' amazing video (partly filmed in Special Collections!) on UCR's YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3h9kHNV0fw" class="ContentPasted4" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" data-loopstyle="linkonly">Mermaids
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That's all for now! Until next month.</div>
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book of the month:</span></u></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"> <i style="font-weight:bold" class="ContentPasted0">Uranians,<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></i>Theodore
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