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Mary Carroll Moore is the Amazon-bestselling and award-winning author of three novels: A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue (2023), Last Bets (2024), and the PEN/Faulkner-nominated young adult novel, Qualities of Light (2009). Her writing has been featured on NPR and in the New York Times. She received her MFA from Goddard College and has taught throughout the US and abroad at various writing schools and universities since 1998. Her writing-craft book, Your Book Starts Here, won the New Hampshire Literary Awards “Reader’s Choice” award.

Before moving into fiction, she worked as a chef, a cooking-school owner, a cookbook author, and a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her first cookbook won a Julia Child/IACP award. Over two hundr ...more

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	A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue 4.45 avg rating — 108 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
	Your Book Starts Here: Create, Craft, and Sell Your First Novel, Memoir, or Nonfiction Book 4.42 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Last Bets 4.33 avg rating — 70 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
	Qualities of Light 3.80 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2009 — 7 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
	How to Master Change in Your Life: Sixty-Seven Ways to Handle Life's Toughest Moments 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1997 — 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
	Turning Points: Discover How to Handle Change in Your Life it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 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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What’s new in my writing room: I’ll be taking a break next week for Thanksgiving and our annual crowd of friends and family and endless (fun) cooking. So this is a little post to set the tone for a week of gratitude, in case you need a bit right now. See you back in December for a special four-part series on risk and recovery in the writing life.

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Heidi Love’s engrossing and beautiful memoir parallels two treacherous journeys: the ocean-sailing voyage she’s dreamed of making since childhood and recovering from childhood trauma. With exacting prose and profound insights, she shines light on the ...more
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Mary Moore rated a book it was amazing The Nature of Remains (AWP Award Series in the Novel) by Ginger Eager (Goodreads Author)	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
I loved this book. Such good characters, loveable and flawed, who struggle and win against all sorts of odds. The fascinating element of Georgia geology, the abandoned house full of squatters, the pride and honor the main character carries with her t ...more
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Mary Moore made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — can you update my book with the new Amazon description? topic " Hi Gem, I believe I'm logged into my author account because I can access my author dashboard. And yes, I'm on a laptop browser, not a mobile app. Here's ...more "
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Mary Moore rated a book it was amazing Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2) by Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)	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
I loved the first Olive book and this one is even better because it draws in the surrounding community, offering viewpoints on and intersections with Olive's life from many different perspectives, so she becomes a clearer, more relatable character. I ...more
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