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GRACE LY is the Award-Winning coauthor of Tent for Seven.

Grace worked for the White House and as an undercover officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. While living abroad in South Korea, Iraq, and Germany, she traveled the world extensively, visiting more than thirty countries, including Mongolia, Vietnam, and Morocco.

Among her many adventures, she hiked mountains in North Korea, slept under the stars in the Sahara Desert, went dogsledding across the Arctic Circle, rode camels through the Gobi Desert, floated in the Dead Sea, and ran with the bulls in Spain.

Grace has written numerous articles for the US military, the American Red Cross, the White House, and the CIA. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her British husband, yo ...more

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Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West
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Marty Ohlhaut (Goodreads Author),

Grace Ly (Goodreads Author)

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Grace Ly liked Susan's review of Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West: "Unbelievable what these 7 people encountered during their “vacation “ together in Canada 🇨🇦 They toughened out and came together as stronger than ever family at the end💝"
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“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

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― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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