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Cindy Thomson

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in Ft. Riley, KS, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Sports

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C.S. Lewis, Stephen R. Lawhead, B.J. Hoff, Liz Curtis Higgs, [a:Peter ...more

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Cindy Thomson is the author of both fiction and nonfiction, including her newest novel, Enya’s Son, third in the Daughters of Ireland series based on ancient legends. Being a genealogy enthusiast, she has also written articles for Internet Genealogy and Your Genealogy Today magazines, and children’s short stories for Clubhouse Magazine. She has also co-authored a baseball biography. Most everything she writes reflects her belief that history has stories to teach. Cindy and her husband live in central Ohio near their three grown sons and their families.

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Average rating: 3.83 · 1,152 ratings · 321 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	Grace's Pictures (Ellis Island #1) 3.68 avg rating — 546 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Annie’s Stories (Ellis Island, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 200 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
	Brigid of Ireland (Daughters of Ireland #1) 3.71 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Sofia's Tune (Ellis Island #3) 4.20 avg rating — 76 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
	Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story by Cindy Thomson (Goodreads Author), Scott Brown 3.50 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Finding Juniper 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — 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
	Celtic Wisdom: Treasures from Ireland 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2008 — 9 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
	Pages of Ireland (Daughters of Ireland #2) 4.05 avg rating — 21 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
	A House for Agnes (Ellis Island #0.5) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2016	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
	Enya’s Son (Daughters of Ireland #3) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2018 — 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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Dublin, Ohio, that is. Like Dayton, I’ve been going to this festival for a long time. It feels like a reunion as each year I get to chat with vendors I’ve known a long time and reconnect with the wonderful staff at the Book Loft of German Village. I should note that this is the now the largest Irish festival in the world and is powered by a ton of fabulous volunteers along with city workers.

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Ellis Island (3 books)
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Daughters of Ireland (3 books)
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Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

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“She lifted the book to her nose. A book had a smell more soothing than any of Mrs. Hawkins's herbs. There was nothing like a good story to take her out of a world she didn't much like.”
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“He was an average-looking, hard working fellow who was more comfortable reading about people in books than socializing with them.”
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“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse to sitting down to dine thirteen at a table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, of seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tale. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, although even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching.”
― William Butler Yeats

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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
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