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Jess Corban graduated college with a degree in Communications and, perhaps more instructive, thirteen stamps in her passport. After college, a chance interview at a small publisher for an even smaller position sparked a love for writing that turned into twelve nonfiction books (under various pseudonyms). Now Jess lives with her husband and two daughters in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, where she finds inspiration in a sky full of stars and hiking the Canyon of the Kings. A Gentle Tyranny is her debut novel.

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Jess Corban I'd swim right into Adrienne Young's Fable, sailing the Narrows aboard the Marigold. I can't say I'd be a dredger, though. I'd probably be up in the…moreI'd swim right into Adrienne Young's Fable, sailing the Narrows aboard the Marigold. I can't say I'd be a dredger, though. I'd probably be up in the sails with Willa. I've always had a soft spot for adventure on the high seas, ever since reading The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi in middle school.(less)
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Jess Corban Hearing from readers that your words have changed the way they see the world or themselves. Close second: Being able to excuse travel as "book researc…moreHearing from readers that your words have changed the way they see the world or themselves. Close second: Being able to excuse travel as "book research." ;-)(less)
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“I’ve liberated them for the sake of a different virtue altogether: love. The one virtue, I’m now convinced, that is greater than them all.”
― Jess Corban, A Brutal Justice
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“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
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“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
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“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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