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J.E. Barnard

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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ikayuut solar and energy storage project now complete in Naujaat | CBC News
The Ikayuut solar and energy storage project in Naujaat, Nunavut is now complete. The solar project will generate around 1.6 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy a year. It is also the first operational...
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great company I'm keeping - or rather my essay on loving my disabled body is - in this shiny new anthology! #disability #creativenonfiction #writinglife
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down,KegsBreath.......
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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A few years ago, I watched these two bulls going at it among the dusty and low sun angle of a fantastic fall day in Elk Island NP #AB.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face “legal consequences” after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that his seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots violated state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots
The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...
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Rugged Broad @ruggedbroad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"This is the greatest threat to our parks and protected areas since 2020, when thousands of Albertans stood up against the government’s attempt to delist 175 provincial parks —and succeeded in stopping it" This takes all of us. Please consider getting involved and defend our parks.
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Trish 🇨🇦 Sorry! 🍁 @trishly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
During the historic NAFTA debates, John Turner famously warned Brian Mulroney that Canada would lose its independence. He was right, we lost our independence and our momentum.
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gosh, why the uproar over what PM Carney said in the NYT about “extreme tail risks” — rare risks with potentially catastrophic consequences? Canadian outlets reported this back in January. Why is this suddenly being treated as a revelation? Every responsible leader would plan for this.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rowan MacGregor, UK based artist making delicate copper sculptures #WomensArt
Flat copper artwork featuring a central tree with birds and a human figure either side of the trunk
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CNN - Cannabis News Network @canna-news-network.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
EUROPE 🇵🇹: Portugal's Drug Policy - 25 Years of Decriminalization Success👇🏻 www.miragenews.com/portugals-dr...
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Portugal's Drug Policy: 25 Years of Decriminalization Success
Nearly 70,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2025. While that is a decline from the nearly 108,000 deaths recorded in 2022, these grim figures
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The political world of caregiving www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The political world of caregiving
Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ok. Can we now also stop pretending that Alberta is being overrun by international students? Or that the children of international students are overwhelming our public schools? #abpoli #cdnpoli #notothenine
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Greenland Deal wesleywark.substack.com/p/the-greenl...
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The Greenland Deal
Or, WIN-win
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“EPA launches drinking water study looking for traces of abortion pills” Think for a moment about the sheer complexity of what they are bragging about wanting to do: monitor the use of abortion medication, and in some proposals, chemical components
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Still catching up with the amazing, entertaining, darkly entrancing Emily Wilde series. Here's my review of Book #2: Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, featuring Shadow the 'dog' and a faun's foot stolen from a Cambridge museum... jaynebarnard.blogspot.com/2026/09/emil... #Netgalley #EmilyWilde
Dark green book cover with ornate black, silver, and copper scrollwork around the title "Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands: Book 2 of the Emily Wilde Series. A Novel by Heather Fawcett." Beside it, in dark green on a silvery background, the text reads "...In which Professor Emily Wilde sets out with a mummifed faun foot to complete her map of Faerie realms accessible from the Austrian Alps - and incidentally outdo that previous daring scholar of dryadology, Danielle DeGrey, who vanished in those same alps many years ago. She doesn't intend it to be a family affair, but families, as we all know, have their own ideas..."
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Flights resume after ground stops at major U.S. airports, including New York's JFK and ‌LaGuardia. Thousands of flights were cancelled or delayed because of the telecommunications issue. www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
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Flights resume after ground stops at major U.S. airports, including New York's JFK and ‌LaGuardia | CBC News
Thousands of flights across the U.S. were snarled on Monday, with incoming flights halted for hours at major East Coast airports, before the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration resolved a ‌telecommun...
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Dee @dee4ever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hi, many of our students look forward to fall festival at our school. Please help me make this the best day ever for them. A like, a repost, or a donation makes a huge difference. #fallfestivalGames www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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I Love Fall Autumn with Lucas & Friends
ALT: I Love Fall Autumn with Lucas & Friends
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cold Caller Magazine coldcallermag.substack.com?r=2hjuq&utm_...
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Cold Caller Magazine | Substack
A fiction review of crime, mystery, and general mayhem. No reading fees | Pays $125 for first North American serial rights. Click to read Cold Caller Magazine, a Substack publication with hundreds of...
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
10 years since "When the Flood Falls" (with its closeted gay pro hockey players) won the Crime Writers of Canada Award, the risks of coming out still outweigh rewards per this memoir/hockey history by Daniel Gawthrop. #HeatedRivalry #CuttingEdge thebcreview.ca/2026/09/10/3...
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Challenging an institution with wisdom | The British Columbia Review
Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Cultureby Daniel Gawthrop
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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕂𝕖𝕪 @skeletonkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei
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LeslieMaggie🇨🇦🍁 @lesliemaggie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Among the many reasons to take a moment. Interesting read. “As a recent Bloomberg report put it: “The price of AI is collapsing, while the cost of building it is not.” It pointed out that OpenAI has repeatedly cut its fees to hang on to customers, for example.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart
Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worry
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Disability isn't identity. It is, however, a major obstacle in my quest to express my identity. Stop labeling people - especially young women, who face medical ableism daily - as 'making their illness their identity'. Community is strength & strength can shift policy. youtu.be/zFwaPS5c6RI?...
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My illness is not part of my identity
YouTube video by Anil about ME
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Let's hope we can get one before 5 years of deep societal darkness and 70 years of denial passes, like it did for the Dutch girls who lured Nazis into the woods.
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Women's right to vote was not 'given'. It was WON, with blood, sweat, tears, criminal records, hunger strikes, and most of all, persistence. #NeverthelessShePersisted
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some Crisis Comms Advice for Elections Alberta lisayoung.substack.com/p/some-crisi...
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Some Crisis Comms Advice for Elections Alberta
It’s absolutely essential that citizens have confidence in the administration of elections.
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The goddess-mother of Autumn gazes down upon her children... #September
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two families, both alike in wealth & privilege, strutting their hour upon the stage. A dinner party where undercurrents thicken. A sudden death: is it accident or murder? Who else is in peril from the clash of the oil barons? books2read.com/RockFalls #OilAndGas #Alberta #crimefiction
Book cover set against gray sky and mountains, titled "Why the Rock Falls" in large reddish letters. Below in smaller white letters is "The Falls Mysteries" and below that the author's name is J.E. Barnard. Across the gray sky to the left of the book is the following text, reddish like the book title: "Orrin Caine's a foul-mouthed old bastard, tinpot god of his own oil and gas conglomerate. If Jake wasn't my boss as well as my neighbour, you wouldn't catch me sitting in the same room with either of them."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cartoon by Dave Granlund | cagle.com/granlund.
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Vault of Horrors @vaultofhorrors.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
TCM's Noir Alley will be showing (3) films, creepy Noir films, on Halloween. The Leopard Man (1943) The 7th Victim (1943) Cat People (1942)
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Meme That Explains Albertan Politics Right Now cground.substack.com/p/the-meme-t...
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The Meme That Explains Alberta’s Politics
Reflections on Alberta’s October 19th referendum and why an old cartoon turned into an AI meme is at the heart of Alberta’s views on confederation
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Looks like if we Albertans who react hard to mRNA vaccines for Covid will have to pay at a pharmacy if we want to try Nuvaxovid, even if we'd qualify for a 'free' (paid for by our tax dollars) mRNA vaccine at a government clinic.
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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some good news: the Nuvaxovid vaccine is expected to be available in BC, AB, SK, MB and ON. Other provinces and territories are looking into purchasing vaccine doses: YT, NB and PEI. 📣 Take action : stillcoviding.ca/en/take-acti... #COVID #Novavax #NuvaxovidNow
White text on a blue-violet background reading: “Nuvaxovid now!” Below the text, a map of Canada, with lines indicating the borders of the provinces and territories. A light green colour is used for the provinces and territories that have ordered vaccine doses, or are looking into ordering vaccine doses: the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, and PEI. Below the map: an image of an envelope, with white text on a violet background reading: “Canadians need access to the Nuvaxovid vaccine in 2026/2027. Use our online tool to send emails to health ministers. StillCoviding.ca”.
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Joanne - Portobello Book Blog @portybelle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Netgalley Book Review from @budgettales.bsky.social - The Case of the Christie Honeymoon Murder by Kelly Oliver (AD PR PRODUCT) budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/n...
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Netgalley Book Review – The Case of the Christie Honeymoon Murder by Kelly Oliver (AD PR PRODUCT)
Genre: Cosy Mystery Number of Pages: 313 Date of Publication: 26 September 2026 Publisher: Boldwood Books Thank you so much to the Publisher for sending me this gifted ebook in exchange for an hone…
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The man who literally wrote the book on Alberta separatism gives us a detailed history of how we got to this crazy place, including how Indigenous Nations in the region are the ones saving Canada where greedy white folks would destroy it. www.youtube.com/live/ZZEAFff...
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Incite: Patrick Lennox in Conversation with Max Cameron
YouTube video by Vancouver Writers Fest
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From earlier today: The Trump administration unlawfully terminated a $7 billion grant program for solar energy, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled on Friday Story @bloomberg.com here (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump’s Axing of $7 Billion Solar Program Unlawful, Judge Says
The Trump administration unlawfully terminated a $7 billion grant program for solar energy, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled on Friday.
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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦 @captncanada.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“If America’s most dependent neighbour can diversify its way out of subordination, the entire leverage model collapses.[It] is therefore not about getting a better deal. It is preemption. Strangle the prototype in the cradle before other countries decide to build one.”
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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
Literature poses questions that cannot be answered with the help of Wikipedia. 

-Olga Tokarczuk
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Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'If you have never been to a literary festival, find one close to you and go. You don’t need to know every writer on the programme, or any of them.' writes @hollowaywriter.bsky.social for IMAGE Magazine in this fabulous feature entitled 'Why literary festivals matter' www.image.ie/living/why-l...
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Why literary festivals matter | IMAGE.ie
“Reading is one of the great solitary pleasures and writing can be even more solitary, but at a festival neither has to be,” Patrick Holloway
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What's the over-under on the first Trump-beef recall date?
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Calgary's Avenue Magazine celebrates the individuals who help make #yyc a wonderful place, regardless of their birthplace or citizenship. Help keep Calgary & Alberta in Canada, and vote NO to the 9 divisive questions on the October referendum. www.avenuecalgary.com/better-toget...
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Better Together: Calgarians We Love - Avenue Calgary
For more than three decades, Avenue has profiled Calgarians doing amazing things to make our communities better. We’re resharing some of their stories here.
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Ethan's Rescue Pet Project @ethanspetproject.org · 11/09/2026
1/3 Even the dogs were impacted by what they saw. One such dog was Worf. Worf was a 12 year old German Shepherd who deployed to the scene and found the remains of two firefighters on his first day. Worf was impacted by what he saw. He stopped eating, he shut down. His fur even began falling out.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"as the world changes our elites are changing, becoming more fascist, attracted to ideas justifying that only some people are going to make it. it’s the job of a credible left to put forward a vision of the future for how we live together well on this planet." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Johanna is a meteorologist, a seismologist, a pilot, a children’s book author, a mother, and a television presenter. 🫪
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ian Bremmer: "I think that after President Trump is gone in 2029, that any U.S. president that replaces him, Democrat or Republican, will work to repair the relationship, because, frankly, America's Canada policy is about as unpopular as Trump's Epstein policy." #cdnpoli
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/09/2026
“All of our agents are currently assisting other tormented souls. Your anguish is important to us. Press 1 to scream into the Void. Press 2 to scream louder. Press 3 to accept that life is meaningless."
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨🔽😢 #DumbHumans #RejectAI www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Steve Jones cartoon in Guardian of a massive datacentre in a parched desert with onlooker saying "Of course, I miss water, but at least I don't have to think for myself any more".
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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies is "a page-turner, with other-worldly excursions and twisty deals with fae both Tall and wee, through breathtaking scenery and spellbinding terror." jaynebarnard.blogspot.com/2026/09/ever... #Netgalley #EmilyWilde #DarkFae
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