Ella Minnow Pea – A Word Lover’s Delight!

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn Fiction/Epistolary Novel, Published 2001 Challenges: N/A Received from paperbackswap.com Read March 2010 4/5 From the Cover: Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina.  Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the [...]

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I Want to Join the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Historical Fiction, Published 2008 5/5 From the Cover: January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject.  Who could imagine that she would find it [...]

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These is my Words

These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 – Arizona Territories by Nancy E. Turner Historical Fiction, Published 1998 Read June-July 2008 Arizona Author Award, Willa Cather Literary Award Finalist 5/5 From the Cover: A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author’s own family memoirs, these words belong to [...]

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Weekly Letters

    The Wednesday Letters Jason F. Wright Fiction, Published 2007 www.thewednesdayletters.com Read Oct. 2007 4.5/5.0   Book Quotes… In meeting “The King” and his ‘exquisite bride’ April 22, 1970 To my “exquisite bride,” …I can count on one hand the number of experiences I ‘ve ever had that will live in my mind until [...]

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