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Diane Simmons' novel Dreams Like Thunder, set on a farm in Eastern Oregon at the end of the Frontier, won the Oregon Book Award. Her short story collection, Little America, about life on the road in the West, won the Ohio State University Prize for Short Fiction. Her story, "Yukon River," was runner-up for the Missouri Review Editor's Prize. Short stories have appeared in Fiction Magazine, Northwest Review, Missouri Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Drunken Boat ...more

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	The Courtship of Eva Eldridge: A Story of Bigamy in the Marriage Mad Fifties 3.81 avg rating — 53 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
	Little America 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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
	Dreams Like Thunder liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1992 — 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
	Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in the Works of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Maxine Hong Kingston (United States Authors Series) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999	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
	Jamaica Kincaid (United States Authors Series) 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994	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
	Jamaica Kincaid it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	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
	A Western Horseman Book Legends (A Western Horseman Book: Legends, Volume 1 through 5) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Let the bastards freeze in the dark: A novel liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980 — 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
	Maxine Hong Kingston (Twayne's United States Authors Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	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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Thanks to those hosting discussions of re-issue, Dreams Like Thunder, a novel, winner of Oregon Book Award, re-issued by Red Hen.

West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry, Ireland - July 20. Diane reads at Fish Anthology Book Launch.

Words Bookstore, Maplewood, NJ - September 16, 7:30 - wine and discussion - Diane interviewed by author Meredith Sue Willis

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Diane Simmons rated a book it was amazing The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry by Stacey D'Erasmo	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
Interviews with an impressive group of artists--dancers, writers and others-who kept it up in old age. The dancer who got smashed in a car wreck and still dances. Colette who was couch ridden with arthritis still went for the guys. The man from the midw ...more
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Hidden Girls: A Birth Mother’s Story of Reunion and Reckoning (2024), a memoir, is hard to read and hard to put down. The author, daughter of a well-to-do and image-conscious Catholic family, is the bright, creative one among eight children. Looking ...more
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Diane Simmons rated a book it was amazing Outside the Lines: A Memoir by Helen Fremont (Goodreads Author)	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
Once again I can't put Helen Fremont down. In this memoir, we see the same fascinatingly complicated family--secrets and lies about World War II history and about the family's very identity--but stepping forward now is Helen herself, out as a lesbian ...more
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Deep and sweet Civil War story.
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I read it in two sittings as the author--raised Catholic in the United States--begins to discover that she and her family are not at all who she has believed them to be. What emerges is one of the most compelling stories of Holocaust survival, courag ...more
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People toss around the phrase “go to war.” This novel of the Iraq war will never let you do that again, never let you see a Middle Eastern conflict as a crisp military project. Here—in painful and clearly knowledgeable detail—we see the post-conflict ...more
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