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Barbara Conrey

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Born

in Chicago, The United States

November 07

Website

https://www.barbaraconreyauthor.com/

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

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Barbara Conrey is the USA Today Bestselling author of Nowhere Near Goodbye and Award Winning My Secret to Keep. Barbara’s stories delve into the emotional drama of family dynamics and the choices made in the name of love.
Barbara is a long-standing Women’s Fiction Writers Association member and an administrator of the Facebook Group Bookish Road Trip, where she facilitates their monthly book club. Beagles are her passion. She proudly supports the Beagle Freedom Project, a volunteer organization that rescues Beagles and other animals from product testing facilities.
Barbara lives in Central Pennsylvania, close to family and friends, where she is impatiently awaiting the release of her third book, A Fine Layer of Dust, and scurrying to finish h ...more

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Average rating: 4.25 · 1,815 ratings · 269 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Nowhere Near Goodbye 4.19 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	My Secret To Keep 4.28 avg rating — 618 ratings — published 2022 — 6 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
	A Fine Layer of Dust 4.45 avg rating — 165 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
	A Fine Layer of Dust: A Novel by Barbara Conrey (Goodreads Author), Joe Sanfelippo (Narrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 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
	My Secret to Keep really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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
	My Secret to Keep: Library Edition by Barbara Conrey (Goodreads Author), Robin Weigert (Narrator), Jesse Bickford (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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One can never go wrong with a Hank Phillippi Ryan book, and All This Could Be Yours is no exception. This book has everything I love: A debut author who makes the biggest splash ever with her book by the same title, on a spectacular book tour where h ...more
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I was hooked on this author, Annette G. Anders, from her Colors of Happiness series, so when she created The Soul Sisters series, I jumped right in with the first book. The Secrets We Carry is a treasure trove of mysteries, seances, chemistry, wishful ...more
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