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Karen Wills I've just started Geraldine Brooks's, March. I'll see her at the International Historical Novel Society Conference in Portland next month. I wanted to…moreI've just started Geraldine Brooks's, March. I'll see her at the International Historical Novel Society Conference in Portland next month. I wanted to have read the novel that won her the Pulitzer. So far, I can see why she received the award.(less)
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Remarkable Silence

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MY RED RIVERS by Karen Wills
"My Red Rivers is a compelling and poignant story of one woman’s journey from the mean streets of Saigon as a homeless orphan to the American heartland. Although Jade is miraculously rescued from a life of poverty, danger and loneliness, and placed in" Read more of this review »
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This memoir is a "teachable moment" in the courage and compassion it took to move through adolescence and adulthood as a lesbian starting in the 1970s. Being a professional woman meant navigating through teaching as well as corporate employment. But ...more
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

James A. Owen
“A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version believes you were writing about theirs.”
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Alison Croggon
“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

[Letter to William Short, 13 April 1820]”
Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Shannon L. Alder
“I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It's from those circumstances that a person's attitude is affected followed by weakening of character. Not the reverse. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.”
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