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Soquel Baumgardner

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Chick Lit, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

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Soquel Baumgardner (pronounced SOH-kel) is a writer of chick lit, urban fantasy, alternative historical fiction, and fairy tales. She uses her degree in psychology to create complex characters. Her first job, working the night shift at a nuclear power plant, gave her a taste for the strange and unusual. Her last job, teaching creative writing to students in grades six through twelve at a private school, also brought her face-to-face with the strange and unusual. She has lived in fifty-one different homes, including next door to the famous Oak Alley Plantation and in a Victorian house in the middle of a California broccoli field said to be haunted by a ghost in a spacesuit. Again, strange and unusual.
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

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In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later

by Abby Schneiderman

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

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“We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

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“That’s really all they ask of us—our parents; our lovers, husbands, and wives; our children and dear friends. That we carry them gently in our lives as they carried us in theirs. Not with crushing sadness, for they do not wish such weight upon us. But with lightness and warmth. God bless them for the memories they left for us that make carrying them with joy possible. The wisdom and love they bequeathed us. The joy and comfort they brought to us as they carried us through life so that now we might carry them forever in our hearts—without bitterness, without crushing sadness. When someone has loved us well and long, we need not buckle beneath the weight of sorrow. Instead, we can carry them with us with gratitude, completeness, and joy.”
― Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

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