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Maureen Stanton is an award-winning nonfiction writer. Her book, The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir (March, 2025) won the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence. Her book, "Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood," was a "People Magazine" Best New Books choice and Maine Literary Award winner. People Magazine called Body Leaping Backward a "blazingly important memoir about the possibility of change." Stanton also wrote "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money," a work of immersion journalism that explores the subculture of flea markets, antiques, and collecting. "Killer Stuff" received a Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and was a Parade Magazine "Great Summer Reads" pick. She has received a National Endowment for ...more

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	Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America 3.94 avg rating — 601 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood – A Story of Addiction and Survival in a 1970s Catholic Prison Town 3.63 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir 4.74 avg rating — 35 ratings — 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
	River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction by Joe Mackall (Editor/Contributor), Daniel W. Lehman (Editor), Robert Atwan (Foreword/Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2020 — 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
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	The River Teeth Reader: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative Issue 10.1 & 10.2 Fall 2008, Spring 2009 by Joe Mackall (Editor & Contributor), Daniel W. Lehman (Editor & Contributor), Kim Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Published on October 23, 2012 20:58 • Tags: antiques, flea-market, junk, killer-stuff, pickers, sneak-preview, treasure-hunting, vintage

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“In 1784, the new prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, reduced the tea tax from 119 percent to 12.5 percent. Cheap tea was then available to the masses, though elitists decried tea's ill effects on "persons of an inferior rank." Women neglected "the affairs of their families" for afternoon tea sipping.”
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