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A keen student of both the natural world and the workings of the human heart, Pacific Northwest author Cheryl Grey Bostrom captures their mystery and wonder in her lyrical, surprising fiction.

Her novels Sugar Birds (Christy finalist, Amazon bestseller, and Book of the Year) and Leaning on Air have won more than two dozen industry honors, among which are CT’s Fiction Award of Merit and American Fiction, Reader’s Favorite, ACFW Carol, Nautilus, Best Book, Foreword Indies, and International Book Awards. Her newest work of contemporary women's fiction, What the River Keeps, releases August 12.

Cheryl's widely published short-form work currently includes her column in the American Scientific Affiliation’s God and Nature Magazine and her Substack ...more

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	Sugar Birds 4.11 avg rating — 3,527 ratings — published 2021 — 7 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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	What the River Keeps 4.12 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	The View from Goose Ridge 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2001 — 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
	Children At Promise: 9 Principles to Help Kids Thrive in an At Risk World by Timothy S. Stuart, Cheryl Grey Bostrom (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003 — 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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Snow’s forecast—then wind and bitter cold.

The swans wintering here know.

Last night, instead of their usual dusk flight to watery roosts . . .

Trumpeters lingered in nearby feeding fields, mining soil and and grass, tugging cornstalks left for their gleaning.

While they could.

I heard them calling long after dark.

In coming days, when ice locks ponds and earth around here, they

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