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Joyce Sterling Scarbrough

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Young Adult, Fiction, Suspense

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Joyce is an intelligent Southern woman weary of seeing herself and her peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies á la Daisy Duke, so all her heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. In addition to her novels, she has short stories featured in several anthologies.

Joyce has lived all her life in southern Alabama, she's the mother of three gifted children, and she's been married for over 30 years to her husband Tony—a public school teacher, coach extraordinaire, and the love of her life.
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Spring 2020 YASH Winners

The Spring 2020 YA Scavenger Hunt is in the books, and it was FABULOUS!

Congratulations to the Grand Prize winner for the Blue Team, ASHLEIGH MILLER! Congrats also to the winner of my personal giveaway, DELIA CHAVEZ, who won all three books in my True Blue Trilogy!

Thanks so much to EVERYONE who entered and followed me on Facebook, Twitter, and Bookbub!
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Average rating: 4.03 · 373 ratings · 126 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Symmetry 3.62 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2009 — 5 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
	True Blue Forever 4.35 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2003 — 10 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
	After Me 4.29 avg rating — 49 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
	Different Roads 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2006 — 6 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
	Hope Chest: A Christmas Short Story 3.91 avg rating — 23 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
	Shades of Blue 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	True Blue (True Blue Trilogy Book 1) 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Midsummer Shower: A Short Story 3.47 avg rating — 17 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
	Royal Blue (True Blue Trilogy Book 2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Code Blue: A Short Story 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015	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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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)

by Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)

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Cold Sassy Tree

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Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

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I watched the entire series recently and absolutely loved it, so I picked this first book for one of my book clubs. Walt Longmire is completely different in the books, and I have to say I like him much better in the TV series. He's way too disorganiz ...more
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“We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny pieces will work their way to the surface for the world to see.”
― Stephanie Lawton, Shrapnel

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