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L.A. James graduated, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Illinois with a B.A. in English. She has written for diverse businesses and non-profit organizations, published in various print media, and taught English to domestic and foreign students. In the end, she has looped back to what she has always wanted to do - write her own books.

~Life is too short to read a bad book. The only books I list on my bookshelf are books I enjoyed. No need to plow through ratings. I only put up 4 and 5 star books to share.

Five star books, to me, are worth buying and putting on your shelf. Four star books are well above average, and you should enjoy it.~

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“Good bones of Bonesville," Sherlock Bones said. "If you know what you fear, you'll fear it less.”
― Jean-Luc Fromental, Bonesville

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“Betcha my life! But you got lots o' years to learn em' in. Don't go rarin' at ' em like as if tomorrow'd be the day o' jedgment!”
― Ralph Moody, The Home Ranch

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“...I'm going to stop worrying about what might happen to us. With the Lord's help we've been able to make ourselves a good living ever since Father died, and the fortune that has befallen us here in Medford certainly doesn't lead me to believe we will be abandoned now.”
― Ralph Moody, Mary Emma & Company

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“One is respected in a community to the extent, and only to the extent, that he or she respects his own position in life. There are doctors, lawyers, and even clergymen who are a disgrace to humanity, and the disciples of Christ were lowly fishermen. I would not, for all the world, have any one of you children grow up to feel that you were less than equal in every way to any other human being who walks the face of the earth.”
― Ralph Moody, Mary Emma & Company

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“But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't hard to guess what he must have been like as a young man--for a man's character doesn't change after he's thirty. It only becomes more firmly set, and is more deeply marked in his features.”
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