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Paula Coomer is a poet and writer of both fiction and non-fiction. The daughter of more than two hundred years of Kentucky Appalachian farmers, she lived most of her childhood in the Ohio River town of New Albany, Indiana. Her work has appeared most recently in Raven Chronicles.

Ms. Coomer's books include novels Dove Creek and Jagged Edge of the Sky, Summer of Government Cheese and Somebody Should Have Scolded the Girl, short stories, and Nurses Who Love English, poetry, among others. Coomer lives in southeast Washington State. Find out more at www.paulamariecoomer.com. ...more

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	Dove Creek 3.35 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Moon Vegetarian: Recipes, Reflections, and Advice for a Plant-Based Diet 3.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Moon Vegan 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jagged Edge of the Sky 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Somebody Should Have Scolded The Girl by Paula Coomer (Goodreads Author), Twyla Beth Lambert (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer of Government Cheese 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devil at the Crossroads 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devil at the Crossroads it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nurses who Love English 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Our winter this year is disorganized. We had January temperatures in September. February snow in January, and now we have March temperatures in February. I guess you could say we've been living inside a weather blender. Likely wouldn't matter too much to most, but when you've moved to the country, it matters a lot. All of life is about our reliance on weather patterns. Meanwhile, I have packs of h Read more of this blog post »

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Eye-opening companion story to Shirley Miller Kamada's NO QUIET WATER, Zachary Whitlock graduates high school early and subsequently volunteers for one of the earliest post-war efforts to bring nourishment to survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima an ...more
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Umbra River is a small gold rush town in California with plenty of secrets and a dark history. Three women come together weekly to share dinner and talk their way through their lives, their worries, their hopes, and their difficulties. At the center ...more
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Kathie Giorgio's DON'T LET ME KEEP YOU is a wonderfully ambitious maze of a story about the way life's penduluum swings and about a woman who is in some ways out of time and place. Instead of following her mother's contemporary expectations whereby s ...more
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“For the last fifty years or so, The Novel’s demise has been broadcast on an almost weekly basis. Yet it strikes me that whatever happens, however else the geography of the imagination might modify in the future in, say, the digital ether, The Novel will continue to survive for some long time to come because it is able to investigate and cherish two things that film, music, painting, dance, architecture, drama, podcasts, cellphone exchanges, and even poetry can’t in a lush, protracted mode. The first is the intricacy and beauty of language—especially the polyphonic qualities of it to which Bakhtin first drew our attention. And the second is human consciousness. What other art form allows one to feel we are entering and inhabiting another mind for hundreds of pages and several weeks on end?”
― Lance Olsen

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