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D. Dina Friedman

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D. Dina Friedman grew up in New York City, a place she still holds close to her heart. She met her husband forty years ago at an open poetry reading in a fifth-floor walk-up in Greenwich Village. Three years later they moved to western Massachusetts, (where she still lives—next door to a farm with 600 cows) because it was “a compromise between Brooklyn and the Ozarks.”

Dina’s five books include two young adult novels: Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) an Association of Jewish Libraries Notable Book for Older Readers and an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults nominee, and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar Straus Giroux) a Bank Street College of Education Best Book. Her newer work, Immigrants, (Creators Press, 2023) a ...more

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	Escaping into the Night 3.89 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Not Ghosts, But Spirits Volume IV by Emily Perkovich (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alex Carrigan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ammy McCollum (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 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
	Here in Sanctuary—Whirling 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 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
	Descansos: Words from the Wayside by Susannah Carlson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jon Black (Goodreads Author), D. Dina Friedman (Goodreads Author) 4.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Immigrants 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 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
	Wolf in the Suitcase 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	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
	Playing Dad's Song 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Reckoning 5 by Michael J. DeLuca (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leah Bobet (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cécile Cristofari (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	What We Talk About When We Talk About It - II by Susannah Carlson (Goodreads Author), Flo Golod, Ellaraine Lockie it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Microbursts: An Anthology of the Quabbin Writers Salon by Kathryn Holzman (Goodreads Author), Epi Bodhi, D. Dina Friedman (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Ideas and Follow-Through

My partner always says ideas are the easy part. He has thousands of them. The harder part, he says, is figuring out which ideas to choose when they’re all tugging at him saying, “Me, me, pick me!”

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