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  <name><![CDATA[Carolyn Jourdan]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[A &lt;strong&gt;Best Book and Best Club Book of 2008&lt;/strong&gt; !!  (so says Book Sense &amp; The Literary Guild)

A &lt;strong&gt;Most Fun Book (Ever) and a Favorite of the Year&lt;/strong&gt; (so says Shelf Awareness)

FIRST EVER Book of the Month for &lt;strong&gt;Family Circle Magazine&lt;/strong&gt;!

Rave reveiws from &lt;strong&gt;Fannie Flagg&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Dolly Parton&lt;/strong&gt;!!

Top 10 Summer Read 2008 New York Public Library and Canada.

Amazon and Tower Bestseller in Southern Memoir and Medical Humor.

My memoir is about a spoiled, high-powered Washington lawyer (me) who is forced to leave her job at the Senate and come back home to the Smoky Mountains to work as an unpaid and inept receptionist in her father's tiny medical office.  Comedy, pathos, and bad reception follow -- and it's ALL TRUE!

It's gotten rave reviews from &lt;strong&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/strong&gt; (a Starred Review)&lt;strong&gt;Booklist&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;BookPage&lt;/strong&gt;, and Shelf Awareness!

It was the July winner of &lt;strong&gt;Elle Magazine's Readers Prize&lt;/strong&gt; and the&lt;strong&gt; # 1 Nonfiction Pick in the Nation &lt;/strong&gt;by Book Sense in July.  

Five stars from readers at the Doubleday Book Club, The Literary Guild, Amazon reviewers, and BookBrowse.

Raves from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Des Moines Register, Louisville Courier Journal, and Tampa Tribune. 

June pick of the Satellite Sisters Radio Book Club and The Pulpwood Queens Book Club.  I'm a popular speaker on radio and in person.  I love to talk to book clubs!]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[James Herriot]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>    <born_at>01/01/1866</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir]]></title>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir]]></title>
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