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MARY CALVI is the host of Club Calvi. Readers choose what book we start next from a choice of three fabulous newly published novels. After we finish, the club celebrates with a big virtual book club meetup with the author. It's free. It's fun. And it's a great way to connect with other readers.
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Calvi is the author of two presidential novels, DEAR GEORGE, DEAR MARY: A Novel of George Washington's First Love, and IF A POEM COULD LIVE AND BREATHE: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love. Both are historical fiction and are based on never-before-published research on the presidents.


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Did you know... George Washington had a first love.

Excerpts from Washington biographies in the 1800s about Mary Eliza Philipses:

Henry Cabot Lodge, 1889: “He was dined and wined in Philadelphia, and again in New York, where he fell in love at apparently short notice with heiress Mary Philipse…”

Jared Sparks, 1843: “The charms of this lady made a deep impression upon the heart of the Virginia Colonel.”

Washington Irving, 1855: “That he was an open ad Read more of this blog post »
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“You are capable of the impossible, for you have survived the unthinkable.”
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“Spring, when fragrance emerged from its cocoon, was her favorite time of year.”
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“Every daughter is her own kind of flower.”
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