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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
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Cooper's Folly

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Pride, Prejudice, and Push-...

3.62 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions
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Being Mary Bennet Blows

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Sunsets on Catfish Bar: A P...

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Cat Bennet, Queen of Nothin...

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Livin' La Vida Bennet (The ...

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Driving with the Top Down

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Seemingly Perfect

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Not Always a Saint by Mary Jo Putney
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All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
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Fun, fast read. I just finished rereading the whole Princess Diaries series, and except for book 10 of that, what I loved about this was that Samantha Madison was age appropriate, not wildly immature compared to her age and her classmates. Love the D ...more
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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I was shocked to realize that I've never read this. Jane Austen! I've read P&P a million times (and wrote a YA series about it) and Emma several times. (P&P is still the best, but Persuasion is next on my list, assuming I haven't ever read that eithe ...more
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Willie Nelson by Geof Smith
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Charming! And filled with good information for Willie Nelson lovers, young and old.
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How to Forget a Duke by Vivienne Lorret
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This book was actually recommended to me at a bookstore I otherwise liked! (Grumble.)

Jacinda, the "heroine" (in quotes because she has no heroic qualities), is utterly unlikeable from page 1, and that never changes. She breaks in to the hero's home b
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Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs
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Love this book. I've now read it 4 or 5 times. Love Phoebe, love the whole cast of teen characters. Love the running. Love the Greek gods concept. Phoebe's mom makes little sense (her decision to marry a week after meeting a guy: yeah, right), but ev ...more
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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
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I was unexpectedly drawn in by Haymitch's story. Powerful, compelling, but then ultimately as dark (when he returns home to district 12) as the bleak darkness of Mockingjay. Thankfully, that was a relatively short part of the book. (And all the song ...more
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Teen Idol by Meg Cabot
Teen Idol
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Cute, sweet book about the kind of teenager we should all want to be.

Updated 2026: I needed an absolute comfort read. This is GOOD!
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Better Than a Duke by Suzanne Enoch
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Simply a blast of a romp. Good biscuits vs. evil-doers, and two kids to ratchet up the fun.

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“UGH! UGH! UGH!" - Cooper from Cooper's Folly by Mary Strand”
Mary Strand, Cooper's Folly

“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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“Nerds before birds!" - Cooper from Cooper's Folly by Mary Strand”
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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“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.”
Eric Maisel, A Writer's Paris

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann

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