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Mark Myers

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Mark has been married to his wife Robin since 1992 and together they have four daughters. Besides being a writer, he is a veteran, a distance runner, and a public speaker who has recently been forced to add the title of childhood cancer advocate after his youngest daughter, Kylie lost her battle with Ewing sarcoma in February of 2015. He is the Director of Communications for CURE Childhood Cancer.

In his fiction, he strives to weave moral truth and humor into a story that is relevant and engaging. One of the greatest compliments he's ever received came from a woman who said: "thank you for showing me what goes on inside a boy's mind." Not much goes on in there, you can be sure of that.

Since the loss of Kylie, the theme of his writing has ch ...more

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	Missing Kylie: A Father's Search for Meaning in Tragedy 4.32 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Virgil Creech Takes a Swipe at Redemption 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	A Concise History of Portsong it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Virgil Creech Sings for His Supper really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 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
	Virgil Creech Rides a Pig 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2016 — 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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Gravity Let Me Go

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“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
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“Lord Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, shit gold.”
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“No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.”
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“My Dutch grandfather used to say, ‘If you don’t know what to do, do nothing for eight days.’ ” Dean asked, “Why eight?” “Less than eight is haste. More than eight is procrastination. Eight days is long enough for the world to shuffle the deck and deal you another hand.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

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