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Jennifer Lauck

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The international bestseller of Blackbird, Still Waters, Show Me the Way, Found and The Summer of '72, author of Flight School on Substack and teacher @ The Blackbird Studio for Writers. ...more

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	Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found 4.04 avg rating — 9,581 ratings — published 2000 — 48 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
	Still Waters 3.98 avg rating — 2,866 ratings — published 2002 — 22 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
	Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting by Ann Hood (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elizabeth Berg (Contributor), Helen Bingham (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 2,557 ratings — published 2013 — 13 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
	Found 3.85 avg rating — 680 ratings — published 2011 — 9 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
	Show Me the Way: A Memoir in Stories 3.91 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 2004 — 11 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
	It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons by Andrea J. Buchanan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephany Aulenback (Contributor), Jody Mace (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 2005 — 7 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
	It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters by Andrea J. Buchanan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carolyn Alessio (Contributor), Kim Fischer (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2006 — 6 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
	Writing life 4.67 avg rating — 6 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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I've finished my fifth book tentatively titled Breathing Just a Little. This book has eaten up nine years of my life, in the telling and the living and now it is in the hands of my literary agent, Chip McGregor and I am taking a break. This is laughable because I'm not the kind of person who feels comfortable "taking a break." I am a do'er. Go. Go. Always on the move. In between tinkering arou Read more of this blog post »

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The Wild Diet: Go Beyond Paleo to Burn Fat, Beat Cravings, and Drop 20 Pounds in 40 days

by Abel James

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The Mystical City of God: A Popular Abridgement of the Divine History and Life of the Virgin Mother of God

by Mary of Agreda

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The Mystical City of God (4 Volume Set)

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“I can say anything, but the things I want to say are trapped in that wide open space so I don’t say anything at all.”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

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“and then, it's just me alone in bed with a man who can sleep with his back to me while I cry silent tears tha make the pillow wet around my head.”
― Jennifer Lauck, Still Waters

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“I've been the way he's being now, acting tough about things that really hurt me, and I can see right through to the truth. ”
― Jennifer Lauck, Still Waters

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The Seasonal Read...: Spring Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks	2717	2508	May 31, 2010 09:00PM
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