Isabelle Merlin
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http://www.goodreads.com/isabellemerlin
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Mystery & Thrillers, Romance, Children's Books
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Charlotte Bronte, Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, Meg Cabot, fairytales, myths and legends
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January 2008
about this author
The first stories Isabelle Merlin remembers are the traditional French fairytales told to her by her French grandmother. Later, she heard family stories, which proved to her that magic and romance and terror don't only appear in fairytales: like the romantic story of the beautiful ancestor who caught the eye of the Sun-King, Louis XIV; or the amazing story of the wily ancestor who went from being a poor peasant to a multi-millionaire; or the tragic story of the curse of madness and misfortune that pursued other ancestors; or the spooky story of the chain-rattling ghost that haunted the family home deep in the green countryside of France. It's no wonder that she grew up with a head full of stories and a burning desire to become a writer.
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Three Wishes by Isabelle Merlin (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.69 — 16 ratings — published 2008 |
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Pop Princess by Isabelle Merlin (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2009 |
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Cupid's Arrow by Isabelle Merlin (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2009 |
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Bescherelle espagnol : Les exercices by Isabelle Merlin (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) by Juliet Marillier |
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Paperback) by Gregory Maguire |
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Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1) by Juliet Marillier |
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Fairest (Hardcover) by Gail Carson Levine |
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The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1) by Shannon Hale |
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Clementine (Hodder Silver Series) by Sophie Masson |
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"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."
— G.K. Chesterton
— G.K. Chesterton
"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
— Charles Dickens
— Charles Dickens
"Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not."
— Leo Tolstoy
— Leo Tolstoy
"Certainty of death, small chance of success... well, what're we waiting for?
(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien
(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Hi Isabelle -
We got your book in today at the bookstore I work at, am I right in thinking today was the release? Anyhow, congratulations on it coming out, and all that jazz.
Sally
