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Kerstin Lieff came to the United States with her parents as an immigrant from Germany in 1952. She grew up in Minnesota and now calls Boulder her home. She is a recent graduate from Fairleigh Dickinson University where she received her Master's Degree in creative writing. Her first book, LETTERS FROM BERLIN, is a memoir of a young woman caught in the devastation of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia, and was published in 2012. Kerstin has been accepted as a Teach For America secondary English teacher and is awaiting her placement to teach in the fall of 2013. She has two children, three grandchildren, and one dog. ...more

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Invitations & Requests for Book Club Appearances! - Letters From Berlin

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It has been such a pleasure to participate in various book club meetings over the past two years. Last week I met with members of one of the book clubs affiliated with the Boulder Public

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	Letters From Berlin: A Story Of War, Survival, And The Redeeming Power Of Love And Friendship 4.19 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 2012 — 6 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 Wolf Children of the Eastern Front by Sonya Winterberg (Goodreads Author), Kerstin Lieff (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Letters from Berlin: A Story of War, Survival and the Redeeming Power of Love and Friendship by Margarete Dos, Kerstin Lieff (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 24 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

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