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...that Ruth Riley (pictured), an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association, also wrote a children's book?
...that recreational parachutist Jacques-André Istel wrote a children's book claiming that the center of the world is located in Felicity, California, a town Istel founded?
...that the illustrated children's book Hot House Flowers, an allegory for illegal immigration, was written by a Brooklyn criminal court judge?

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