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Magpies has been awarded the Gold Medal in General Fiction in the Florida Book Awards. The medal ceremony will take place March 21st in Tallahassee and the awardees will also be honored at a banquet at the Florida Library Association Conference in Orlando in April.

Publishers Weekly (Dec. 05, 2011) says of Magpies: "Barrett portrays adult lives with minimal flourishes and a powerful command of setting. Florida is electric with the tension of "all that can happen"--hurricanes, sinkholes, and a boom-and-bust history. It becomes as eerie as it is richly imagined, whether stories take place in an Art Deco building or a gas station. One of the year's finer university press offerings, the collection is especially noteworthy for "The Noir Boudoir,"...more

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Angles of Belonging

Before going back to Monclair, NJ, right by where I grew up, for a reading, I was thinking about the complexities of being a Florida author (and Magpies winning a Florida book award has led to lots of questions about that) while somehow always being a New Jersey writer. And having studied in NC, and having set stories in many other places, how, I wondered, do I borrow on what I know about origi... Read more of this blog post »

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	The Secret Names of Women 4.73 of 5 stars 4.73 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1998	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
	Magpies 4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011	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 Land of Go 4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1997	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
	Blue Christmas: Holiday Stories for the Rest of Us by John Dufresne (editor), Diana Abu-Jaber (Contributor), Preston Allen (Contributor) 4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	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 Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition by Jon L. Breen (Introduction), Clark Howard (Contributor), William Bankier (Contributor) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	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
	A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir by Megan Abbott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Val McDermid (Introduction), Lisa Respers France (Contributor) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	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
	Murder to Music by Cynthia Manson (Editor), Kathleen Halligan (editor), Agatha Christie 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997 — 2 editions	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
	Marilyn: Shades of Blonde by Carole Nelson Douglas (Goodreads Author) (Editor / Contributor), Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Contributor), Barbara Collins (Contributor) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	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
	James M Cain Cookbook: Guide to Home Singing, Physical Fitness, and Animals by Roy Hoopes (Editor), Lynne Barrett (Goodreads Author) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988 — 2 editions	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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