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Kimberly Brock

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Kimberly Brock is the award winning author of The Fabled Earth, featured as a Must Read in Fall of 2024 by Town & Country Magazine, and The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare, which spent three weeks on the Southern Independent Booksellers Best Seller List. Both novel have been shortlisted for the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fiction.

Her debut novel, The River Witch, was an Amazon bestseller, featured by both national and international book clubs and included in multiple reading lists. Praised by RT Reviews and Huffington Post as a “solemn journey of redemption, enlightenment and love,” and evocative of “the stories of Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers,” Her first novel was honored with the Georgia Author of the Year Award in 2013, by the Geo ...more

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	The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare 3.52 avg rating — 4,106 ratings — published 2022 — 15 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 River Witch 3.62 avg rating — 1,137 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The Fabled Earth 3.67 avg rating — 1,011 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Summer in Mossy Creek (Mossy Creek, #3) by Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Debra Dixon (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2003 — 8 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
	Sweeter Than Tea (Sweet Tea, #4) by Deborah Grace Staley (Goodreads Author), Kimberly Brock (Goodreads Author), Tom Honea 4.50 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	A Cup of Christmas by Barbara Barth (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kimberly Brock (Goodreads Author), Tori Bailey (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014	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 Cup of Love: Stories From the Heart: Valentine's Day Anthology : 30 Writers on Love & Life by Barbara Barth (Goodreads Author), Sally Hamer, Kimberly Brock (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 7 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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Kimberly Brock rated a book it was amazing The Fourth Princess by Janie Chang (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
Janie Chang is beloved for her masterfully researched stories about the secrets we keep in order to contain the past. Now, in The Fourth Princess, Chang issues an irresistible dare to her readers to take up their lanterns and follow her into the dark ...more
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With her signature Southern charm, once again, Elizabeth Bass Parman delivers a warmhearted novel that brilliantly balances sorrows with sweetness, and celebrates small towns, family relationships and hard-won second chances. Parman has a knack for w ...more
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Ann Hite’s soulful work always captures stories just before they can recede into the shadows. She knows her ghosts. She stays them on the page, not by the use of flimsy nostalgia, but with indelible truths of humanity and courage. And with every word ...more
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Kimberly Brock and 14 other people liked T. Greenwood's review of Doll Parts: "I am such a glutton for books about teenage girl friendships. And so while DOLL PARTS is a sort of dark academia mystery/thriller about a rash of college girls’ suicides, it’s the friendship between the two narrators that kept me riveted. A must-read" Read more of this review »
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Polly Stewart had me wrapped around her little finger with this psychological thriller replete with Appalachian bootleggers, a lakeside town, and a complicated family that could have sprung from my own family tree if I was willing to admit to a lot o ...more
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This debut packs a punch with timely and disturbingly familiar themes that are handled with empathy even as they are examined through an unflinching lens. R.S. Hampton delivers a top-notch plot for readers of suspense who love a novel that careens fr ...more
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“Katherine Scott Crawford is a daughter of the Carolinas and she writes as such, tackling this ambitious historical fiction with an unflinching eye. Scott doesn’t shy away from the tangled and troubled history of the region or her heroine, a contempo ...more
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“There was no doubt even for a child as young as I'd been, that she'd raised his ghost. I knew then, the only thing that really ever haunts a person is regret.”
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“Besides you can't steal cake. Nobody owns cake. If you don't have sense to know cake's meant to be eaten up, you ought not be making one.”
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“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

tags: metaphor

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“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

tags: destiny, life, planning

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“I didn't really think Jesus cared what I wore to Cedar Grove Baptist Church, or to see the governor for that matter, considering the fact that in every picture I ever saw of the King of Kings, He was wearing sandals and bundled up in nothing more than a big, baggy robe.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

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“Now I know my father was a certified man of God, but at a fairly young age, I decided that when it came to my destiny, he did not know what he was talking about.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

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