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Mary Allen

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Memoir, Spirituality, Contemporary

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Mary Allen is a memoir and fiction writer whose themes are spiritual and psychological healing, love, the nature of life and death, and the ways our states of consciousness intersect with our experience of reality. Her writing — and broad range of writing topics — reflect her belief that the personal and the practical, the painful and the numinous, the spiritual and the ordinary are all blended together in our lives and cannot be separated from one another without at least part of the truth being lost.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 129 ratings · 26 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Rooms of Heaven : A Story of Love, Death, Grief, and the Afterlife 3.67 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1999 — 7 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
	The Deep Limitless Air A Memoir in Pieces 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
	Healthy Living Living Longer: 20 Delicious Beneficial food recipes for diabetics patients 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)

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The Empathy Exams

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The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)

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