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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-...

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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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Driving with the Top Down

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I love Meg Cabot's books. And brava to her for trying a very different format of telling the story completely in texts, emails, newspaper articles, etc. But MAN was that tiresome! The story itself is fine, and I liked the H/H. But the format was like ...more
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Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh
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Wow. Second time reading this, and I loved it just as much as the first time. GREAT hero and heroine, and they allowed messy things to happen rather than fixing everything immediately. Loved the cast of characters in the Survivors Club, too. Wonderfu ...more
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
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Absolutely charming. Unexpected twists. Every character was a delight. A cozy, lovely, delightful read.
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Moonraker by Ian Fleming
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I've read several James Bond (Ian Fleming) novels this year, thanks to my family, who gave me way too many for Christmas last year. :-) I had started with From Russia with Love, which was very good. They mostly went downhill from there. (I think Dr. ...more
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
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Just Plain Maggie by Lorraine Beim
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This was one of my absolute fave books as a kid, one I read over and over. I think I wanted desperately to go to summer camp. (I never did.) And someone mentioned it recently on a Facebook group about old Scholastic books, and I managed to find a cop ...more
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The Last Lady B by Eloisa James
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SO GOOD. Action, mystery, gothic fun, and great humor. I love Eloisa James's books, and this is my new favorite! It feels like she took a detour from her usual writing, and it also felt more personal, like a good friend telling her own story, and I'm ...more
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Victoria and the Rogue by Meg Cabot
Victoria and the Rogue
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I adore Meg Cabot's books, so I bought this as a super fan. As Lady Victoria would say, "La! It's droll!" It's clearly early days for Meg's writing, and I'm glad she quickly found contemporaries, but it was a fun (if silly) read, and toward the end s ...more
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Not Always a Saint by Mary Jo Putney
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Excellent adventure with good twists and turns!
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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”
― Mary Strand , Cooper's Folly

“Nerds before birds!" - Cooper from Cooper's Folly by Mary Strand”
― Mary Strand, Cooper's Folly

“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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