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Barbara Wallace

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Bestselling author Barbara Tanner Wallace makes her living making up stories. When not writing, she's either reading, crocheting or bowing to her cats' whims.

She's a life-long New Englander with two hundred years of Yankee history behind her. She currently lives just outside of Boston with her husband. They have one son who lives in the middle of nowhere and apparently likes it.

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Weekend Agreement

3.66 avg rating — 2,792 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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The Suburbs Have Secrets (S...

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The Cinderella Bride

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The Man Behind the Mask

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Beauty and the Brooding Boss

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Mr. Right, Next Door!

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Daring to Date the Boss

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Of Pollyanna and Marcus Aurelius

Talk about a rabbit hole.

This post began as a celebration of spring and how watching nature wake up reminds me that no matter how cold the winter might be, it doesn’t last forever. I thought it a fitting metaphor for life and the world today.

Then I started thinking about how some people would read my happy, optimistic post and think me a Pollyanna. That, of course, led to my thinking deeper about

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I've gone back and forth regarding the grading for this book. It's a difficult book to rate.

For starters, the title, LINCOLN'S GHOST is misleading as the late president plays a very small part in this story. This is really a story about Harry Houdini
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I have mixed feelings about this book.

To summarize: Lillivet is a young Jewish girl living in Germany with her watchmaker father. On the night of the Kristallnacht, their shop is attacked. To save Lillivet, her father pushes her through a "time door"
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