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Jan Crossen

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Jan Crossen is a gold level Mom's Choice Award winning author who became an avid reader when her teacher, Mrs. Sarah Blower, read Charlotte's Web, to her fourth grade class in Athens, Ohio. From then on, she was hooked on books!

Jan began writing stories after she won the Tall Tale Tellers Contest in Mrs. Blower's class. Oh, how Jan wishes she could tell her teacher what a powerful, positive influence she was on her young student!

Today, Jan writes stories about people and animals who have touched her own heart and life. Her books, FOREVER, and They Call Me CAT, were inspired by her adopted son, Joshua.

The rest of the books on her author shelf were
inspired by animals she has lived with and loved. Jan is happily married and lives on a small
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COLORS OF THE SKY: A MEMOIR

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Zoya's Gift by Gail McCormick
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Wow! What a powerful read! I admire author Gail McCormick for sharing her amazing, heartfelt story with the world. I felt all of her emotions in this outstanding memoir! I believe that she is indeed, building bridges of understanding. BRAVA!
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A Fine Layer of Dust by Barbara Conrey
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Wow – family dynamics can be a challenge but blindside a loved one with secrets and lies and you have the potential for destroying not only relationships, but lives! Several wonderful, rescued dogs, provide a respite from the tangled web of deceit th ...more
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Our Mother's Secret by Alison Ragsdale
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Through #netgalley, I read an ARC of Our Mother’s Secret by Alison Ragsdale This is an emotional story that will swell your heart with joy, and a few pages later have you reaching for the tissues. The characters are real, likeable, flawed, down-to-ea ...more
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Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Hello Stranger
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When I need a smile, a laugh, an overall feel-good story of hope, I often turn to the amazingly talented Katherine Center. All of her books are delightful and Hello Stranger, published in 2023, delivered big time! If you believe in science, appreciat ...more
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Working Class Hero by Kay Bratt
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A Heartbeat at My Feet by Kristin Judd
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Hungry Love by Tomiko Diaz
Hungry Love
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If you’re a foodie, who also enjoys a good heart wrenching, heartwarming love story, then dive into this delicious book. If you’ve heard of, or perhaps visited, the magical San Juan Islands of Washington state, and ever wondered what it would be like ...more
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The Other Kind of Lion by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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I read an ARC of The Other Kind of Lion, and it is an immersion into an admirable, decades-long relationship with members of an unlikely family; one created by happenstance and choice. They give one another the paramount gifts of hope and love as the ...more
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“I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words”
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