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Joy Llewellyn

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Joy Llewellyn is an avid long-distance hiker who loves living out of a backpack. She’s travelled around the world twice, was a film and television screenwriter and story editor, and taught screenwriting in Canada, India, and China. She lives on a small British Columbia island where she writes stories about adventurous female rebels.

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To Catch an Actress: And Other Mystery Stories

by Elizabeth Elwood (Goodreads Author)

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A Short History of Scotland

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard

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What a poignant, powerful book. It's the only one of Christophe's seven French books about children of the Holocaust that has been translated into English. This is her most personal, a memoir of her years spent in a number of camps, before ending up ...more
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“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”
― Anne Lamott

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“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
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