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Jamie Ayres

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Born

Greenville, Michigan, The United States

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http://www.jamieayres.com

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Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary

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George Lucas, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Dr. Seuss, Mrs. Davis & Mrs. P ...more

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January 2012

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Jamie Ayres writes young adult paranormal love stories by night and teaches young adults as a high school English teacher by day. When not at home on her laptop or at school, she can often be found at a local book store grabbing random children and reading to them. So far, she has not been arrested for this. Although she spent her youthful summers around Lake Michigan, she now lives in Florida with her prince charming, two children (sometimes three based on how Mr. Ayres is acting), and a basset hound. She really does have grandmothers named Olga and Gay but unlike her heroine, she's thankfully not named after either one of them. She loves lazy pajama days, the first page of a good book, stupid funny movies, and sharing stories with fantast ...more

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Average rating: 3.56 · 1,433 ratings · 285 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	18 Things (My So Called Afterlife #1) 3.44 avg rating — 1,058 ratings — published 2013 — 7 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
	18 Truths (My So Called Afterlife, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 2014 — 7 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
	18 Thoughts (My So Called Afterlife, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2015 — 7 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
	Minors with Major Tales: A Tenth Grade English Anthology of NaNoWriMo Stories 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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Happy New Year! For the past three years, in addition to a New Year’s Resolution, I set a reading resolution for myself. This year’s goal was 40 books, and I met my goal right before Christmas (you’ll see 45 on the list, but 5 were rereads, so I’m not really counting those). In this post I offer my list in the hopes you’ll pick one of them up in 2019. I listed my top 5 Nonfiction

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“can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.”
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“people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.”
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“truth is rarely pure and never simple.” —Oscar Wilde”
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: self-control

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“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: birth, death, life

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“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”
― William Blake

tags: birth, pain

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message 1: by Harlequin Books

Feb 05, 2012 01:16PM

Hi Jamie, I'm sorry it took a bit to stop by and say thanks for being a friend. I swear my day is over before it properly began! While here, I want you to know that if you ever have any questions about the books on my shelves or about Harlequin.com, Stop by the HB profile and I would be delighted to answer them. Also, I list as much Harlequin news and author news as I can so be sure to watch for my updates.

Happy reading,
Kim S., Harlequin Books ambassador

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