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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 3.85 avg rating — 52 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
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	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
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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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