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Stephen Doster

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Born

Kingston On Thames, The United Kingdom

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http://www.sdoster.com

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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Miguel de Cervantes, Brainard Cheney, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain ...more

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I was born in England to a mother who served as a WAFF on eight RAF fighter stations during World War II and a father who served as a navigator in the Pacific during that war on the USS Taylor, a Fletcher class destroyer that earned nine battle stars. Much to my good fortune, our family relocated first to Alabama, then Georgia, where I grew up on a small barrier island off the Georgia coast. St. Simons (now a resort area) is a low-country boil of clashing cultures. Timucua Indians, Spanish missionaries, English settlers, slaves and plantation owners, Confederate and Union soldiers, and Saltwater Geechee have all taken their turns on its stage, supplanting one another as lords and masters of the island. St. Simons is now the domain of middle ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 120 ratings · 40 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lord Baltimore: Memoires of the Adventures of Ensworth Harding, How he was abandoned on a highway by his father his sufferings on a barrier island his ... and notorious adventureres witih all t 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2002 — 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
	Voices From St. Simons: Personal Narratives of an Island's Past really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2008 — 4 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
	Jesus Tree 4.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Rose Bush 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Shadow Child: Tales of the Georgia Coast really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Cumberland Island: Footsteps in Time by Stephen Doster (Goodreads Author), Benjamin Galland (Photographs) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 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
	Her Finest Hour: A Teen's Personal War With Hitler's Germany 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 11 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
	Georgia Witness: A Contemporary Oral History of the State 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Palms, Priests, and Pirates: The Epic History of Amelia Island, Florida by Stephen Doster (Goodreads Author), Benjamin Galland (Photographer) 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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A Good Day for "The Book"

(Note: This was originally posted as a guest blog on Robert Inman's web site: http://robert-inman.com/blog. Bob is a talented novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and essayist living in North Carolina).

Around Nashville you occasionally see a “Save The Book” bumper sticker, courtesy of Parnassus Books, a local bookseller started by Karen Hayes and Ann Patchett after a major independent bookseller f Read more of this blog post »

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Published on October 31, 2014 08:17 • Tags: anne-patchett, parnassus, pat-conroy, post-modernism, robert-inman, save-the-book, southern-festival-of-books

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“In one day, life placed before you a series of lessons, each with its own important message, and the best you can do is come away with a single, pessimistic observation? That is not a pattern of thought that will serve you well over the years. It is certainly not a pattern that leads to happiness. I would suggest that if you wish to avoid becoming embittered by degrees, you should look for the positive lesson in all instances.”
― Stephen Doster, Lord Baltimore: Memoires of the Adventures of Ensworth Harding, How he was abandoned on a highway by his father his sufferings on a barrier island his ... and notorious adventureres witih all t

tags: positive-thinking

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“Don't rely on memory alone. Memory has a way of skewing what actually happened into what should have happened. You cannot learn from what should have been, only from what was.”
― Stephen Doster, Lord Baltimore: Memoires of the Adventures of Ensworth Harding, How he was abandoned on a highway by his father his sufferings on a barrier island his ... and notorious adventureres witih all t

tags: memory

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