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Stephanie Ricker

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in Fort Wayne, Indiana, The United States

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Nonfiction

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Stephanie is the internationally bestselling author of A Cinder's Tale, published in the Five Glass Slippers anthology. The story continues in The Cendrillon Cycle, a series of novellas set in the same universe. Volume 1, The Battle of Castle Nebula , released in December of 2014, and The Star Bell launched in May of 2016.

Stephanie enjoys reading books and climbing trees (simultaneously, whenever possible). If forced to choose her favorite books, she would pick Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, and Dune by Frank Herbert. All three are desert-island novels: long enough to keep her happy for a good while, and heavy enough to kill small animals with, if she were hungry. Stephanie adores the cold and the ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 776 ratings · 169 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Five Glass Slippers by Anne Elisabeth Stengl (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elisabeth Brown, Emma Clifton (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 673 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
	The Battle of Castle Nebula (The Cendrillon Cycle, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The Star Bell (The Cendrillon Cycle, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 38 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
	Bull Spec #7 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (Editor), D.K. Thompson (Fiction), Jason K. Chapman (Goodreads Author) (Fiction) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The Lyricist - The Cohesion of All Things by Stephanie Ricker (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Author), Michael Tildsley (Goodreads Author) (Author, Technical Consultant), Elizabeth Long it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	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
	Explorations: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities for the State of North Carolina Volume IV by Katherine E. Bruce (Editor), Michael Tildsley (Goodreads Author), Stephanie Ricker (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	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
	Cinco Sapatinhos de Cristal by Elizabeth Brown, Emma Clifton (Goodreads Author), Rachel Heffington (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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The Goodreads blog format is so clunky that I almost never post here, but this story was worth redirecting you to my Wordpress blog:

Backpacking in Linville Gorge and almost dying from dysentery (probably)

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The Cendrillon Cycle (2 books)
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The Captive

by Victoria Holt

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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)

by Agatha Christie

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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

by C.S. Forester

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Ms. Hobb...did you know that you can actually LET YOUR CHARACTERS FEEL HAPPINESS FOR FIVE MINUTES? There's no rule against it! No one will mind! This audiobook version was 38 hours long, and the characters suffered through every minute of it. Don't g ...more
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Will Stephanie ever finish reading all of the L'Amour books people keep giving her? Who knows. I'm still chipping away at the collection. This one was a step above the typical L'Amour, I would say; Utah gets more character development than the averag ...more
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Stephanie’s Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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