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Debbie Russell

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Debbie Russell is a lawyer turned writer. She spent twenty-five years as an Assistant County Attorney in Minneapolis, prosecuting numerous high-profile cases and fighting off several nervous breakdowns. At age fifty-five, Debbie took early retirement, giving up a full pension for the freedom of time. She now spends that precious time writing, restoring her property to native prairie and wetlands, and training her rambunctious retrievers.

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Crossing Fifty-One: Not Quite a Memoir

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This Writer’s Life: Some Great News!

As I write this newsletter, the winds are howling, but it’s already 60 degrees, and headed to a high of 67. This Minnesota fall has been warm and dry, which most people tend to favor, but the trees are stressed and the colors are muted. Sort of like many of us feel in this moment.

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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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Cindy Ojczyk brings this heartwarming story of the human-canine connection to life as she describes how, through a series of foster dogs, she came to better understand her two teenage daughters and their unique challenges. Each chapter describes a new ...more
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Debbie Russell made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — duplicate edition topic " Thanks so much and I'm sorry...my ignorance of all of this knows no bounds! ...more "
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