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Julie Kagawa is an American author of YA fantasy novels. She writes the Iron Fey, Blood of Eden and Talon series. Born in Sacramento, California, she ended up moving to Hawaii as a kid – a land full of large insects, geckos and frequent hurricanes. Julie spent her time in class reading, especially when she […]

Talon & Chantry are two intersecting Western adventure family sagas by American author Louis L’Amour. The Chantrys emigrated to the United States from Ireland, fighting alongside the Sacketts in the American Revolution. The Talons left Quebec to settle in the American West. In another connection to the Sackett family, Em Talon was born a Sackett.

Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) was an American novelist, or as he would say, “an American storyteller.” The majority of his work was western novels (which he referred to as “Frontier novels”), although he had some science fiction and historical fiction books in there as well. Several of his books were adapted into films, including Crossfire Trail, […]