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Larissa Shmailo

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Larissa Shmailo's new book is Dora / Lora, a poetry collection about the mass starvation in the Ukraine in the 1930s and the role of Ukrainian collaborators in the Nazi death camps seen through the lens of one family. Her latest self help book is the Writing Resilience Workbook, a book of prompts desgned to elicit elements of the writer's story and form the basis of a memoir. Larissa is the leader and writing coach for the Writing Resilience Workshop for writers and aspiring writers affected by trauma, addiction, and/or mental illness. Larissa's most recent novel is Sly Bang (Spuyten Duyvil); her first novel is Patient Women (BlazeVOX). Her poetry collections are Dora / Lora (Unlikely Books), Medusa’s Country (MadHat), #specialcharacters (U ...more

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	Patient Women 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2015	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
	A Cure for Suicide 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008	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
	Medusa's Country 4.13 avg rating — 8 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
	In Paran 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	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
	Fib Sequence 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 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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	#specialcharacters 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	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
	Writing Resilience Workbook it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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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It's here! I am pleased to announce the publication of Writing Resilience Workbook. Writing Resilience Workbook is a distillation of the best prompts from my Writing Resilience workshop, designed to elicit your story, the pains and triumphs, and give you the basis of a memoir. It was inspired by people who are affected by trauma, addiction, and/or mental illness, but the book may be used by anyone Read more of this blog post »

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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

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Feb 05, 2012 07:37PM

Maureen wrote: "Hi Larissa, thanks for adding this fellow writer to your circle of friends. Looking forward to your book reviews/recommendations. Happy reading!"

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