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Elizabeth Barrett's life has revolved around books for many years. She worked as an editor for several publishing houses in New York City, and now has her own freelance editing business. Her first romance novel was published in 1985 and was swiftly followed by four more. In 1994, HarperCollins published her young adult novel, Free Fall. While building her editing business, she kept writing. She has self-published two of her novels, Lost Mothers and Every New Beginning. Her romances and Free Fall will be republished throughout 2016. When she is not writing or editing or reading, Elizabeth can often be found either gardening around her New Hampshire home--or shoveling snow. ...more

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Every New Beginning

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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Lost Mothers

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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In Perfect Harmony

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Free Fall

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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When in Paris

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Review of “I Cheerfully Refuse”

I will fall for a book with a unique, compelling narrative voice—or voices—every time. Maggie O’Farrell’s This Must Be the Place. Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow. North Woods by Daniel Mason. And so I fell for the first-person narrator of I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger, who starts the book by telling us “Here […]
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Victor Hugo
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

Edward Abbey
“The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the two as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should mean, change for the better - toward social justice, a livable and open world, equal opportunity and affirmative action for all forms of life. And I mean all forms, not merely the human. The grizzly, the wolf, the rattlesnake, the condor, the coyote, the crocodile, whatever, each and every species has as much right to be here as we do.”
Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

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