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Virginia Woolf, Rainier Maria Rilke

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Ursula Werner is a writer and part-time attorney currently living in Washington D.C. with her family. She has written fiction and poetry for over 25 years, publishing one novel, The Good at Heart (2017) and two poetry chapbooks, In the Silence of the Woodruff (2006) and Rapunzel Revisited (2010). Magda Revealed is her second novel.

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	The Good at Heart 3.79 avg rating — 519 ratings — published 2017 — 14 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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	Kaiserwetter in der Gosse: Die juten Sitten by Anna Basener, Jasna Fritzi Bauer (Narrator), Ursula Werner (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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Thank you, Houston & Brazos Books!

Just got back from a wonderful visit to Houston and the Brazos Bookstore. Many thanks to Sarah and the staff at Brazos for their warm welcome, and to the fantastic audience I had at my reading. It is very heartening to find so many highly engaged readers, asking themselves (and me) hard questions about what the past has to teach us, and how we can apply those lessons to our lives today.

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“What was Oskar trying to tell her? Then, as Oskar continued to clasp her hands, Edith began to feel what her husband was feeling: resolution, courage, exhaustion, sadness. No fear, not even an ounce of fear. But love--the love Oskar was communicating to her at that moment was overwhelming.”
― Ursula Werner, The Good at Heart

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