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Lissa Brown

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Lissa Brown has been writing since she learned how to form letters and commit them to paper. She’s been a columnist, a speechwriter, a ghost writer for public and corporate officials, and a media relations specialist for gubernatorial and state legislative campaigns.
After successful careers in teaching, marketing and public relations she retired to her present home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains where she wrote Real Country: From the Fast Track to Appalachia (as Leslie Brunetsky), Family Secrets: Three Generations under her own name, an award-winning novel, Another F-Word, and a sequel to Another F-Word, Family of Choice. Filthy Money out in Oct. 2020. Her newest book is Tarnished Streets of Gold, about the journey of a young Jewi ...more

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	Another F-Word 3.97 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Oh Sandy: An Anthology of Humor for a Serious Purpose by Lynn Beighley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), A.J. Fader (Editor), Andrea Donio (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Family of Choice 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Tarnished Streets of Gold 4.36 avg rating — 11 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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	Family Secrets: Three Generations 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 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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