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C. P. Cabaniss lives in a small town in the southern United States where she teaches math, imagines—and sometimes writes—stories, and reads too many books at once. She is most inspired while with her horses, meditating in a historic cemetery, or exploring retired naval ships. She loves to travel and has long dreamed of adopting a nomadic lifestyle—though she has yet to determine what this would mean for her collection of books, which seems to grow by the day.

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	Christmas Games and Candy Canes (Glenwood Harts, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 269 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
	Before and After (The Vals, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2023 — 7 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
	I've Said Love (The Vals, #2) 4.38 avg rating — 78 ratings — 7 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
	If I'm Being Honest (The Vals, #3) 4.43 avg rating — 72 ratings — 6 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
	Worlds with Ruby (Ferris Wheel Stories, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Meet Me at the Drive-In (Meet Me in Mountain Ridge, #1) 4.68 avg rating — 31 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
	Days Like These (The Vals, #3.5) 4.48 avg rating — 27 ratings — 5 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
	Falling Worlds (Ferris Wheel Stories, #2) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2019 — 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
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	Sparks Over Glenwood it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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

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The Federalist Papers (Dover Thrift Editions: American History)

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“When you're already dead, why should you be afraid?”
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“Perhaps it was darkness that needed a source here, and not light.”
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“What are friends for if not to keep us humble and remind us of our roots?”
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“If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

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“Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

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“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

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“The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

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“We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

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message 6: by Twila

Feb 15, 2017 03:56PM

Hey Courtney, we still on for Snapshot?
I made the thread :D https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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message 5: by C.P.

Nov 07, 2016 01:33PM

Gavin wrote: "Thanks for the friend request:) We seem to have a similar taste in fantasy books and now we can follow each other as we progress through WoT!"

Yes! It seems like we're pretty much on the same schedule.

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message 4: by Gavin

Nov 07, 2016 01:25PM

Thanks for the friend request:) We seem to have a similar taste in fantasy books and now we can follow each other as we progress through WoT!

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message 3: by C.P.

Jan 01, 2016 09:37PM

Twila wrote: "Happy new year Courtney! I hope you had a great 2015, and I wish for you an even greater 2016 :)"

Thank you, Twila! I wish the same for you. :)

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message 2: by Twila

Jan 01, 2016 10:36AM

Happy new year Courtney! I hope you had a great 2015, and I wish for you an even greater 2016 :)

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message 1: by C.P.

Jul 10, 2015 10:23AM

M.K.Allen wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request. :)"

You're welcome. :)

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