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Author Mary L. Hamilton grew up at a youth camp in southeastern Wisconsin, much like the setting for her Rustic Knoll Bible Camp series. Her experiences during twenty years of living at the camp, as well as people she knew there, inspired many of the events and situations in her novels.
Mary began her writing career with articles for inspirational magazines and church take-home papers. She also wrote a Christmas play entitled Homespun Angel before she turned to writing novels.
Mary also writes adult mystery/suspense novels under the pen name M L Hamilton.
Although a native of Wisconsin, Mary has lived most of her adult life in Texas where she met and married her husband and raised three children. But while her feet may be in Texas, a large par ...more

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	Pendant by M.L. Hamilton, Mary L. Hamilton (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 75 ratings — 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
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	Hear No Evil (Rustic Knoll Bible Camp, #1) 4.51 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Speak No Evil (Rustic Knoll Bible Camp #2) 4.35 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	See No Evil (Rustic Knoll Bible Camp, #3) 4.68 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Worthless Treasures: A Novel 4.88 avg rating — 25 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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Dig deep into my treasure chest–the plastic crate where I keep my personal memorabilia–and you’ll find a baseball. It was a gift from an older guy I had a crush on when I was 12.

The following summer when I was 13, he and my big brother played in a local baseball league. He invited me to their last game to watch him pitch. He allowed only one hit and they won the game. The next day, before leaving

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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset

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“If you don’t have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

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“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

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“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
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