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Lisa Francesca

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San Francisco, The United States

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Biography, Poetry, Nonfiction

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The author of The Wedding Officiant’s Guide: How to Write and Conduct a Perfect Ceremony (Chronicle Books) and Helen and The Masters: A Portrait of A California Mystic (KDP), Lisa Francesca’s essays and poetry have appeared in AboutPlace Journal, Catamaran, Beatitude and Reed Magazine.
Find out more at www.lisafrancesca.com.
When not writing or reading, Lisa gets to borrow her daughter's small white dog for walks.

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Average rating: 4.28 · 240 ratings · 35 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wedding Officiant's Guide: How to Write and Conduct a Perfect Ceremony 4.29 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2014 — 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
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Memorial Days

by Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)

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History Matters

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Bloomsbury Girls (Jane Austen Society, #2)

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Lisa Francesca rated a book really liked it At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine	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
I read this on the heels of Against The Machine by Paul Kingsnorth. Hine was a co-creator and colleague with Kingsnorth, and quotes him a bit, as well as Amitav Gosh and Ivan Illich. We find ourselves not facing a problem, with a solution and a promi ...more
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Lisa Francesca rated a book liked it Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth	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
This was a harrowing read for 3/4 of the book, making me stop frequently to reflect and take notes, and then it fell flat. I wish Kingsnorth had spent six more months on revising and editing. His writing has moments of passionate poetry, but I find s ...more
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