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Ryan Smithson at the Hudson Children's Book Festival
Come check out the Hudson Children's Book Festival held at Hudson High School in Hudson, NY, on May 5th, 2012. I went last year and really enjoyed it. They even fed us pancakes. Ah, the perks of being an author… For more info, visit HudsonChildrensBookFestival. Don't forget, if you like me in real life, go ahead and "like" me on Facebook !

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Ghosts of War
by Ryan Smithson

Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. It will change the way you feel about what it means to be an American.
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A much welcoming approach to Tikrit. That is, if you don’t know that Tikrit is Saddam Hussein’s hometown, and, thus, not a friendly place.
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