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Katherine Cowley

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Katherine Cowley read Pride and Prejudice for the first time when she was ten years old, which started a lifelong obsession with Jane Austen. Her debut novel, The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Mary Bennet spy series continues with the novels The True Confessions of a London Spy and The Lady’s Guide to Death and Deception.

Katherine loves history, chocolate, traveling, and playing the piano, and she has taught writing classes at Western Michigan University. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with her husband and three daughters.

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	The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet (The Secret Life of Mary Bennet #1) 3.92 avg rating — 1,919 ratings — published 2021 — 9 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 True Confessions of a London Spy (The Secret Life of Mary Bennet, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 2022 — 8 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 Lady's Guide to Death and Deception (The Secret Life of Mary Bennet, #3) 4.27 avg rating — 459 ratings — 9 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
	Unspun: A Collection of Tattered Fairy Tales by Anika Arrington (Goodreads Author), Sarah Chow, Katherine Cowley (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 36 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
	Steel and Bone: Nine Steampunk Adventures by Penny Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katherine Cowley (Goodreads Author), Scott E. Tarbet (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2018 by Dawn Vogel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeremy Zimmerman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda Cherry (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Write with Jane Austen: Masterclasses with the Master Storyteller it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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

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I read this for book group. It's a common story: Women being mistreated in a historical setting, particularly if they want to do science (or anything non-housemaker-y). But it was executed in a refreshing way. The use of an omniscient point of view, ...more
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This novel hits the sweet spot for me--a historical mystery novel with a fascinating female sleuth, that brings in a lot of the actual history, intrigue, politics, and social history of the day. I liked the post-WWI setting and how it deals with the ...more
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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

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“Any cupcake consumed before 9AM is, technically, a muffin.”
― Brian P. Cleary

tags: humor, observation

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“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

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