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Janet Beard

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Knoxville, TN, The United States

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

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Born and raised in East Tennessee, Janet Beard moved to New York to study screenwriting at NYU and went on to earn an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her first novel, Beneath the Pines, was published in 2008, and her follow-up, The Atomic City Girls became an international bestseller in 2018. Janet's latest novel The Ballad of Laurel Springs was published in October 2021. Janet has lived and worked in Australia, England, Boston, and Columbus, Ohio, where she is currently raising a daughter, and working on a new novel. ...more

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Average rating: 3.54 · 27,869 ratings · 2,958 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Atomic City Girls 3.54 avg rating — 26,529 ratings — published 2018 — 10 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 Ballad of Laurel Springs 3.56 avg rating — 1,321 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Beneath the Pines 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Vintage Dolls Coloring Book: Classic Model Coloring Pages with Elegant Wardrobe Layouts, Stylish Fashion Looks, and Relaxing Creative Designs for All Ages 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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“You would never see this money, these resources being spent in peacetime. No government would go to this trouble to research cures for diseases or simply advance human knowledge. No, we exert ourselves to this extent only in times of war, to invent killing machines. And this, my dear, will be a killing machine worse than any that man has ever dreamed up before.”
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“You’re the most beautiful woman I know.” “I know that ain’t true. But I like to hear you say it.”
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“She used to love the way he looked at her, and wanted to be the girl he saw. But now she knew that she was that girl and always had been. She was thankful to him for seeing more in her than she had recognized in herself and helping her to also see it. But he wasn’t responsible for it; she alone was responsible for who she was.”
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