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Taryn R. Hutchison

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Taryn R. Hutchison has published five books in a variety of genres. One Degree of Freedom, Two Lights of Hope, and Three Colors of Courage are historical YA fiction set in Cold War Romania, and part of A Cold War Trilogy. Sentenced to Life is a true story of a prisoner whose sentence far outweighed his crime. We Wait You is a memoir of her years in Eastern Europe.

Taryn hails from a town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with a booming population of 75 people, three million chickens, several dogs, and her two imaginary friends. She loves people, art, storytelling, and travel. She’s visited all 50 states, lots of countries, and every continent except Antarctica. She and her husband live in a sleepy town in western North Carolina where she ear
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One Degree of Freedom

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Introduction to the World

I’m proud to introduce to the world, (drum roll, please) . . . my newest book and the final installment of A Cold War Trilogy: Three Colors of Courage! It’s been nine years since I wrote the first chapter of the first novel for my graduate fiction writing class in 2015. Five years since I […]
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“Memories are precious gifts, draga. You own them, all of them, good and bad. They become part of you. Nobody can ever take them away. Someday you’ll know what I mean.”
Taryn R. Hutchison, One Degree of Freedom

“Time softens a person. Like the mountains at home. The older peaks are not as jagged. Time wears on them, rounds them.”
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“A rainy day and a good book in a hidden room. What could be a more perfect way to spend a free afternoon?”
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“She burrowed beneath the covers in Romania in 1987, but soon she was whisked to Britain in the 1940s, transported through an enchanted wardrobe into the snowy and timeless world of Narnia. The wardrobe led her away from her boring engineering-student life and opened a wide vista, filled with adventure. Filled with possibilities. She could never go back to how things were before. Her world had shifted forever.”
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“A book is but a stack of paper until someone reads it. And when someone reads it, they build a house within its pages so whenever they return to that book, they feel right at home.”
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“She was the book he couldn’t put down.”
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“When trust died, the country became mute.”
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“Time softens a person. Like the mountains at home. The older peaks are not as jagged. Time wears on them, rounds them.”
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