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Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amanda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Amanda Lauer’s Followers (84)
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Amanda Lauer
Goodreads Author
Born
Traverse City, Michigan, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
November 2014
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/allauer
More books by Amanda Lauer…
A Different Lent
As we’re in the 60 and above crowd, John and I aren’t expected to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday anymore, but we still do our best to come up with something to give up or something to do each year to make Lent more meaningful for us.
In years past, we did some challenging things, like giving up sugar, fasting in various forms, or, one year, I went to daily Mass. This year, I set the bar low
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Amanda’s Recent Updates
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Amanda Lauer
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In a Heartbeat (The Heartbreak Chronicles, 4)
by Ali Novak (Goodreads Author)
10 copies
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May 12, 2026
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| I loved this book! It was so meaningful to me because it described life in rural Western Ireland around 1960, including the town where my grandfather was born. Niall Williams is an unbelievably talented author. Every sentence in the book was crafted ...more | |
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| Cute book about a young woman trying to prove that magazine advice from the 1950s would not be valuable today to land her the man of her dreams. Strong writes first-person present-tense narration, with alternating chapters between the two main charac ...more | |
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| This book had me laughing out loud from beginning to end. Knowing the author personally, I could hear him narrating the story as I read. He writes exactly as he speaks. But, for those of you who don't have the pleasure of knowing Michael Sajbel, I wo ...more | |
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| This book is set in an era that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should. Post WWII, the nation was still grieving after all of its losses during the war. Susan May Warren spins a wonderful tale about five people whose lives intersect three ...more | |
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| If you have a child who has strayed from the Catholic faith or has lost their faith in God completely, I'd highly recommend reading this book. It was not only comforting, but the authors gave concrete ideas of what you, as a parent, can do be a model ...more | |
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| The Fault Between Us was the ideal book to get me out of a serious reading slump. From Page 1, I was hooked. It was one of those books that I couldn't put down, but was a bit nervous reading, knowing that the story was leading to the 1959 earthquake ...more | |
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The Catholic Book...: August 2020 BOTM - Results | 4 | 29 | Jul 20, 2020 02:14PM | |
The Catholic Book...:
September 2020 BOTM - Voting
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31 | 82 | Aug 18, 2020 08:13AM | |
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The Catholic Book...:
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24 | 64 | Sep 20, 2020 03:45AM | |
| The Catholic Book...: November 2020 BOTM - Voting | 31 | 70 | Nov 05, 2020 07:34PM | |
| The Catholic Book...: December 2020 BOTM - Voting | 38 | 60 | Nov 18, 2020 06:46PM | |
| The Catholic Book...: Yearly Voting for the Nominations List | 29 | 60 | Nov 29, 2020 12:12AM | |
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The Catholic Book...:
Yearly Voting for the Nominations List
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25 | 123 | Nov 27, 2021 08:58AM | |
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The Catholic Book...:
2022 Annual Re-Ordering Vote
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25 | 128 | Nov 19, 2022 02:47PM | |
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The Catholic Book...:
2023 Annual Re-ordering Vote
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25 | 110 | Nov 29, 2023 08:09AM |
