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Rick Bailey

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in Alma, Michigan, The United States

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Fiction

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I grew up in a small town in the Midwest. I married an Italian immigrant. So there is frequently a multi-cultural theme in my writing (eating vanilla ice cream as a kid, eating gelato as an adult).

My new book is called Drop and Add, a novel, published by KDP. It's the story of an adjunct English instructor taking his first job at rural technical college. He's adjunct. The money is bad. The students are under-prepared. The prospects of getting a full-time position are remote. ...more

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	Get Thee to a Bakery 4.45 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	American English, Italian Chocolate: Small Subjects of Great Importance 3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings — 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
	Tumbling Up 4.04 avg rating — 23 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
	And Now This: A Memoir in Essays 4.38 avg rating — 16 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
	The Enjoy Agenda: At Home and Abroad 4.64 avg rating — 11 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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The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898)

by Edmund Spenser

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The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax

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Tumbling Up

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Rick Bailey said: " In my first three books, memoirs in essays, I’m all over the place: US, UK, Italy and San Marino, France, Canada, China. And all over time, in different phases of life: son, kid, guy, friend, spouse, parent, teacher, grandfather, retiree. About Get T ...more "

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Early in Linda Sienkiewicz's Love and Other Incurable Ailments, the narrator Serenity Tomczyk, confesses, “My heart ached over a stranger named Birdy,” establishing the motive for the decisions she will make and the actions that lie ahead. Who is Bir ...more
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