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M.L. Dunker

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M.L. Dunker has been a reader for as long as she can remember and when she thought the books didn’t reflect the people she knew and loved, she wrote her own stories.
A reader and a writer, she truly believes the most important piece of paper anyone will ever own is a passport. Currently she travels mostly in South, Central, and North America, India, and the Philippines as a global auditor.

She has post graduate degrees in library science and creative writing. She lives with another like-minded soul in a magical woods on the shores of a Minnesota lake.

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Average rating: 4.42 · 64 ratings · 14 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Tales of Zren Janin: Boxed Set 4.47 avg rating — 19 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
	A Gift of the Stars (The Tales of Zren Janin #1) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Manumina: Book 2 of The Tales of Zren Janin 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
	War and Wrens: Book 3 of The Tales of Zren Janin 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 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
	Exile: A New Beginning: Book 4 of The Tales of Zren Janin 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 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 Wrens Fly Away: Book 5 of The Tales of Zren Janin 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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

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“People need to see themselves in the stories. How can we only say 'he' and 'she' when we are 'all'? How can we ask great things of ourselves if all we see are others as heroes?”
― ML Dunker

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
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