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Book cover for Chocky by John Wyndham.
If today you were to spot a kid walking around and talking to themselves, you'd probably reasonably conclude that they were imaginative.
A vintage, sepia-toned photograph of a bright crescent moon against a dark sky. Handwritten text at the top reads "Phases of Eclipse - 1917."
As the country collectively experienced its first total eclipse in many years on Monday, here’s a look back at some of the eclipses Nashville has witnessed in the past.
Book cover for Chew, a graphic novel with an illustration of a policeman holding a gun in one hand and blood on his other hand.
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Tony Chu is a cibopathic by-the-book cop who gets recruited by the Food and Drug Adminitstration to take care of some fowl business.
Glen Campbell's "Adiós" album cover, showing him outdoors holding a guitar neck against a sunlit greenery background.
Glen Campbell died yesterday. While his death was not unexpected, it does give us pause to look back on his stellar career and graceful goodbye.