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Owen Thomas

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Owen Thomas is a life-long Alaskan living on Maui because life is too short for long winters. He has written six books: "The Lion Trees" (which has garnered over sixteen international book awards, including the Amazon Kindle Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Book and Author Book of the Year, the Beverly Hills International Book Award and, most recently, a finalist in the Book Excellence Awards); “Mother Blues,” (a novel of music and mystery set in post-Hurricane Harvey Texas); “Message in a Bullet: A Raymond Mackey Mystery,” (the first in a series of detective novels); "The Russian Doll" (the second installment in that series); "Signs of Passing" (a book of interconnected short stories, and winner of fourteen book awards, includin ...more

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	The Lion Trees 4.08 avg rating — 203 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
	Unraveling (The Lion Trees #1) 4.14 avg rating — 91 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
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	Awakening (The Lion Trees #2) 4.45 avg rating — 44 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
	The Russian Doll: A Raymond Mackey Mystery -- Book 2 4.90 avg rating — 30 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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New Years Eve.

Put away the headlines for a minute.

They’re going to keep coming. I promise.

So here’s a resolution.

Let’s resolve to excavate ourselves.

To climb out from beneath the rubble of bad news.

Let’s lower a bucket into the abandoned well of the self.

Down, down, down. Younger. Younger.

Stop. Let it fill.

Now pull. Hand over hand over hand.

Let’s pull it all up. The light. The color. The thril

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“Then I start coming into contact with other humans. That is when everything goes, inevitably, straight to shit.”
― Owen Thomas, The Lion Trees

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