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Belva Rae Staples

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in Bar Harbor, Maine, The United States

Website

http://www.thekriterionsaga.com

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Christian, Fantasy

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August 2009

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Featured Author 2014 Book Expo America May 29-31 Booth 2368

Finalist 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Religious Fiction Category

Belva Rae Staples is not only a wife, mother, grandmother, commercial fisherman, and big game hunter, she is also an award winning author with a fantasy series comprised of three books. The first in the series: The Kriterion Saga: The World Between is a Finalist in the Religious Fiction Category in the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

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Average rating: 4.16 · 31 ratings · 8 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The World Between (The Kriterion Saga, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012	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
	Through Emerald Eyes (The Kriterion Saga, Book Three) 4.43 avg rating — 7 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
	Tide Walker (The Kriterion Saga, #2) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Swan's Island Sea Chimes: Tiny Book of Poetic Musings 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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Series by Belva Rae Staples

The Kriterion Saga (2 books)
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)

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“If you tell me the truth, the truth I’ll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you’ll be fair game.”
― Belva Rae Staples

tags: humor, justice, truth-and-lies, truth-telling

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“Those with all the answers have not asked enough questions.”
― Belva Rae Staples

tags: humor, humor-inspirational

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“You'll never get anything done by sitting on your hands or by wringing them. Try getting them dirty for a change and you'll be surprised by how much you can accomplish.”
― Belva Rae Staples

tags: humor, inspirational, work-ethic

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: character-development, education, ethics

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“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: family, readers, reading

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom

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“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

tags: humor, misattributed-to-groucho-marx, time

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