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Mary Strand practiced law in a large Minneapolis firm until the day she set aside her pointy-toed shoes (or most of them) and escaped the world of mergers and acquisitions to write novels. The first manuscript she wrote, Cooper’s Folly, a romantic comedy, won RWA’s Golden Heart award and was her debut novel. Her love of Jane Austen prompted her four-book YA series, The Bennet Sisters.

Seemingly Perfect is her third novel in The Pendulum Trilogy of women's fiction novels.

Mary lives on a lake in Minneapolis with her family, too many Converse Chucks, and a stuffed monkey named Philip. When not writing books or songs, she lives for sports, travel, rocking out on guitar, dancing (badly), and ill-advised adventures (including dancing) that offer a ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 172 ratings · 46 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Cooper's Folly 3.95 avg rating — 62 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
	Pride, Prejudice, and Push-Up Bras 3.63 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Being Mary Bennet Blows 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Sunsets on Catfish Bar: A Pendulum Novel (Pendulum Trilogy Book 1) 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 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
	Cat Bennet, Queen of Nothing (The Bennet Sisters, #3) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Livin' La Vida Bennet (The Bennet Sisters, #4) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Driving with the Top Down 4.40 avg rating — 5 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
	Seemingly Perfect 3.75 avg rating — 4 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
	The Bennet Sisters Boxed Set (Books 1 - 4) 3.33 avg rating — 3 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
	The Mere Exposure Effect and In-Game Advertising: Exploring the effectiveness of using video games as an avenue for advertising 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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Mary Strand rated a book it was amazing Bridge Over Time by Brenda Hiatt (Goodreads Author)	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
BRILLIANT. (Truly.) I do love time travel, and this was SO well done. Two heroines, two stories, lots of adventure (especially in the 1825 story). I started it last night and blew off my plans for today (ooops!) to finish reading the whole thing. Kee ...more
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I wanted to love this based on the premise, but it was a REALLY slow slog. It gives the appearance of having a plot, but in fact little happens to move the story forward, making for slow pacing. And I wanted to care about the characters, but I couldn ...more
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Mary Strand rated a book it was amazing Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud	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
Research book. But this was a truly delightful picture book, telling the story of the author's rise from a 4-year-old getting her first "jingle" dress to a professional dancer. Really enjoyable. ...more
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Mary Strand rated a book really liked it Dance Team Bully (Academy of Dance) by Margaret Gurevich (Goodreads Author)	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
Research book. Good info on tap and ballet, plus the requisite bullying.
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Mary Strand rated a book really liked it Dance Team (Focus Readers: Shall We Dance?: Beacon Level) by Candice Ransom (Goodreads Author)	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
Research book. Good information for young readers.
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Mary Strand rated a book it was amazing Miss Lattimore's Letter by Suzanne Allain (Goodreads Author)	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
Reminds me so much of a Georgette Heyer romp! Very fun.
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Mary Strand rated a book it was amazing The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #1) by Alison Goodman (Goodreads Author)	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
Best book I've read so far in 2026. (I realize it's only February, but I have a good feeling about this one!) Adventure upon adventure, danger, thrills, and a fabulous H/H. Brilliant. ...more
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Mary Strand rated a book it was amazing The Devil's Waltz by Anne Stuart (Goodreads Author)	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
Montcalm is nicer than he appears ... and when he's not, he's smart and sometimes funny. And Annelise is simply fab. Great couple! ...more
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Mary Strand rated a book it was amazing Schooled by Gordon Korman	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
Loved this! Despite being by far the "weirdest" guy in 8th grade, Cap Anderson is SO incredibly kind and likeable. What a journey! And I loved putting each chapter in a different point of view: I think there were 7 total POVs? Great read, and a day b ...more
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Mary Strand rated a book really liked it Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters by Adriana Trigiani (Goodreads Author)	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
A little bit of a mixed bag, like most anthologies, but overall a delight to spend time with some of Austen's characters. Two of the best were the two stories about Miss Bates of EMMA. (Although I was surprised that they HAD two stories about Miss Ba ...more
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“Have you ever taken a really long dump and then you sit on the toilet going “God dang, what did I eat?” That’s the feeling that you get after playing this game! This is SUPER RAD VIDEO GAME DUDE!" - Cooper from Cooper's Folly by Mary Strand”
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“Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a painful boil.”
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“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
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