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Laine Cunningham is a novelist and a three-time recipient of The Hackney Award. The Family Made of Dust, set in the Australian Outback, considers how Indigenous lives thrive despite oppression. Reparation is a contemporary novel of the American Great Plains. She is the senior editor and publisher of Sunspot Literary Journal, a multinational publication seeking to change the world.

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	Seven Sisters: Messages from Aboriginal Australia 4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Beloved 4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 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
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	Writing While Female or Black or Gay: Why Women, Authors of Color, and LGBT Authors Need Not Submit (Reverse Engineering Publishing) (Volume 1) by Laine Cunningham (Goodreads Author), Angel Leya (Goodreads Author) (Cover) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Reparation: A Novel 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Panoramas of Portugal: From Lisbon to Cabo da Roca 3.33 avg rating — 3 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
	The Wisdom of Puppies: Puppyhood as a Life Path really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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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	On the Wallaby Track: Essential Australian Words and Phrases by Laine Cunningham (Goodreads Author), Angel Leya (Goodreads Author) (Cover) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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

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Heartsick Requiem, the first full-length poetry collection from Sunspot Lit’s Poetry Editor Morrow Dowdle, is coming out from Riot in Your Throat Press this November. The work is available for preorder on Riot’s website. In pieces that address Dowdle’s relationship with a difficult mother, an abusive father, a dying sister and a marriage in its […]

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“Do not carry war with you or by small degrees your mind will alter. Her wisdom was still valid.”
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May 01, 2017 12:08AM

So very kind! Thank you!
Wishing you every success in life!
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Apr 30, 2017 07:21PM

Hello, Laine! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Happy Spring 2017! Have a great week ahead. Blessings!

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