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Susan Wiggs

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in Olean, The United States

September 01

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Literature & Fiction, Romance

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Susan Wiggs's life is all about family, friends...and fiction. She lives at the water's edge on an island in Puget Sound, and she commutes to her writers' group in a 17-foot motorboat. She serves as author liaison for Field's End, a literary community on Bainbridge Island, Washington, bringing inspiration and instruction from the world's top authors to her seaside community. (See www.fieldsend.org) She's been featured in the national media, including NPR's "Talk of the Nation," and is a popular speaker locally and nationally.

According to Publishers Weekly, Wiggs writes with "refreshingly honest emotion," and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is "one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on ...more

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	The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 41,615 ratings — published 2020 — 10 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 Oysterville Sewing Circle 3.96 avg rating — 21,604 ratings — published 2019 — 12 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 Apple Orchard (Bella Vista Chronicles, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 17,008 ratings — published 2012 — 62 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
	Family Tree (Switchback, Vermont, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 15,587 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Summer at Willow Lake (Lakeshore Chronicles, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 14,029 ratings — published 2006 — 66 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
	Just Breathe 3.95 avg rating — 13,765 ratings — published 2008 — 52 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 Beekeeper's Ball (Bella Vista Chronicles, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 12,388 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Welcome to Beach Town 3.98 avg rating — 11,664 ratings — published 2021 — 18 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
	Sugar and Salt (Bella Vista Chronicles, #4) 4.04 avg rating — 11,058 ratings — published 2023 — 33 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 Winter Lodge (Lakeshore Chronicles, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 9,912 ratings — published 2007 — 22 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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Is That Thing Diesel?: One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil

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“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
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“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer by the Sea

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“There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Goodbye Quilt

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“The best way to keep from stumbling over the past was to move forward,”
― Susan Wiggs, Candlelight Christmas

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“That if you never get your hopes up,” she said, taking a sip of hot chocolate, “you’ll never be disappointed.” “Ouch,”
― Susan Wiggs, Candlelight Christmas

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“Kyle Bohner,”
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“For the survivors”
― Susan Wiggs, The Oysterville Sewing Circle

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