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You get to make up stories! You get to live other lives! It is the best feeling in the world.
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Pictures of You
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Is This Tomorrow
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Cruel Beautiful World
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Girls in Trouble
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With or Without You
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Days of Wonder
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Coming Back to Me
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The Prince and the Pooch
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The Haunted Clubhouse (Wishbone Mysteries, #2)
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Into Thin Air
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A brave book of love and understanding: A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays
Listen up because this gorgeous, luminous, tear-your-heart-out and patch-it-together book is a love letter to the author’s brave transgender daughter. Please buy copies for friends, buy copies for yourself, buy copies for those who might rail against this so that they might read, open their minds and understand.
Carolyn Hayes is an award-winning, critically acclaimed
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"Thank you to #NetGalley and #AlgonquinBooks (and Caroline Leavitt!) for this deep and captivating novel. This is a story about families and how intimately and inexorably human lives are interconnected, It is a novel about love, secrets, shame, and pe"
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"Days of Wonder by Caroline Leavitt is a captivating and character-driven novel that explores the lives of Ella, Jude, and Ella's mother, Helen. As a fan of Leavitt's previous work, I was thrilled to stumble upon this book while browsing new releases "
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| Want a read that is as gorgeous as its cover?!! I have long revered the work of Katherine Vaz, joing a chorus of people. Her prose is exquisite, her command of character and story--all are breathingtaking. And here, there is so much to love in a stor ...more | |
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| I've long loved the work of Tammy Greenwood, and this particular book is even more wonderful. I Studied ballet for a while, and so I love anything that is written about it, and here, Tammy gives an intimate, insider look at the how ballet moms can fi ...more | |
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| Owens tackles every writers nightmare'--the blank page. But being Zibby Owens, she does it with aplomb! This is just a terrific novel for anyone who is trying to shake things up, be it in your career or your life--and Pippa, the audacious narrator do ...more | |
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“Why doesn’t he get over it already? But that was the secret, wasn’t it? You never got over what you lost. You always carried it with you, stitched to you like Peter Pan’s shadow. And you never wanted to get over it, because who wanted to forget a time that had been so important? No, the truth was, you wanted to remember it always.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVQZ...A video of me talking about Cruel Beautiful World, which is out in paperback August 8th!
Hi everyone, Oh my God, Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE is so incredibly great! Who is reading it?
Please join me June 18th for a special tweet chat with a three book giveaway. A few people will be invited for a video chat to follow. Plase come! It will be fun ! http://www.eventbrite.com/event/70835...
Good to connect with you here, Caroline. Thanks for accepting my friendship.Kris
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Magical Alienation: A Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery
I can't seem to upload my book trailer, but here is the url. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxBE_e...I hope you all love it!
Caroline
Caroline Leavitt blesses Jodi Picoult for mentioning her in a piece in the UK's guardian about what women writers to read who work with the same themes as Jonathan Franzen. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/...
