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Jan Peregrine

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Adopted at seventeen days, grew up in rural Nebraska, got a Masters of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University-Chicago, worked as a nanny and missionary, wrote book and movie reviews for 14 years for epinions.com, wrote books, suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury along the way...

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Nat'l Book Award Winner Stamped From The Beginning~

By 1968 both Democrats and Republicans had popularized the call for “law and order.” It became a motto for defending the Planet of the Whites. “Law and order“ rhetoric was used as a defense for police brutality...

The above passage from Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi tells us two impo Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.88 · 8 ratings · 5 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Dr. Freudine Is In: The Story Begins (#1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 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
	Eden At Play: A Grown-Up Fable it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Eden in Purrgatory 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Memoir of a Writing Porn Star it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 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
	Eden Forever by Jan Peregrine (Goodreads Author), Patrick Helwig (Photographer) it was amazing 5.00 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
	From Out Of The Desert: Inspirational Poetry And Humanistic Retrospective 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	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
	Finding Myself: The Evolution of a Humanist 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	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
	From Out Of The Desert: Finding Myself 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	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
	Dr. Freudine Is in: The Drama Deepens (Eden Trilogy #2) by Jan Peregrine (Goodreads Author), Patrick Helwig (Photographer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Dr. Freudine Is In: The Tale's Tail (Eden Trilogy #3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2017 — 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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The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe~~~~~ With Marilyn Monroe's one hundredth birthday celebration coming up June 1st, many people will be trying to cash in on the femme fatale's prodigious celebrity and author James Patterson entered the fray a few month' ...more
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I was inspired to write this poem after reading Kaelynn Partlow's 2026 book Life on the Bridge: Linking my World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist. I can't say she brought up these specific feelings, but thisis how my brain works and it's what I, as ...more
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I don't read many political thrillers. While I really enjoyed the buddy mysteries approved by former presidents Obama and Biden and a Stephen King about JFK's assassination, I can't remember reading another until my online friend Keith Pruitt self-pu ...more
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Jan Peregrine rated a book it was amazing Hotwired: How the Hidden Power of Heat Makes Us Stronger – A Science-Based Guide to Heat Adaptation, Sweat Therapy, and Peak Performance by Bill Gifford	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
Hotwired~~~~ I eagerly picked up Bill Gifford's new nonfiction book Hotwired: How.the Hidden Power of Heat Makes Us Stronger. He's a science writer in his fifties who wouldn't have thought about writing about our crucial need for heat acclimatization ...more
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Jodi Picoult's Lone Wolf~~~ I was astonished to learn in the Author's Note at the end of Lone Wolf that author Jodi Picoult was inspired by a real man who, after years of studying and interacting with them daily, lived for a couple years in the wilder ...more
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I listened to the audiobook version of this and he did a superb job with the narration. He used different voices believably. I just noticed the author Walter Farley wrote many sequels of The Black Stallion and I'll check out the next one. It was an e ...more
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