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Barbara Samuel (also known as Barbara O’Neal) is the bestselling author of more than 40 books, and has won Romance Writers of America’s RITA award an astounding six times. Her books have been published around the world, including France, Germany, Italy, and Australia/New Zealand, among others. One of her recent women’s fiction titles, The Lost Recipe for Happiness (written as Barbara O’Neal) went back to print eight times, and her book How to Bake a Perfect Life was a Target Club pick in 2011.

Whether set in the turbulent past or the even more challenging present, Barbara’s books feature strong women, families, dogs, food, and adventure—whether on the road or toward the heart.

A native of Colorado Springs, Barbara lives there with her partn...more


We’ve been tussling over the title of my next book for Bantam, but I’m happy to say I now have both a title and a date! Look for THE ALL YOU CAN DREAM BUFFET in May 2014.


It’s the story of four food bloggers who meet at a lavender farm and discover …well, you’ll just have to wait and see. I will say that I did some of my favorite research ever for this book.

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Average rating: 3.83 · 6,589 ratings · 1,248 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
The Lost Recipe for Happiness
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 2,450 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
How to Bake a Perfect Life
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 2,274 ratings — published 2010
The Secret of Everything
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 1,154 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
The Garden of Happy Endings
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
Orchard / Worth dying for /...
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011
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3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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“He sat across from her and took her small hands in his own. "Babe, you don't have to carry the world. I've got it, okay?”
Barbara O'Neal, The Secret of Everything

“It was as if their feet ran on parallel train tracks and pulled in at the same stations at the same time, over and over.”
Barbara O'Neal, The Secret of Everything

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“Reality is an easy commodity in the Front Range. There's weather, and there are animals that are thinking about eating you, and there's all that beauty. It sort of whomps you on the head. It's strange that we use the word "unreal" to describe beauty-it's my experience that beauty drags us by the hair into the real.”
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“Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.”
Barbara Samuel, The Sleeping Night

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message 4: by Aida

Aida Thanks for adding me in yr Fan list...
Love your book!!!! makes me enjoying cooking and baking more!!!!!


Cheryl Thanks for the friendship invite.


LaVerne Hi Barbara- Thank you for the friend request. Enjoy the coming weekend.


message 1: by Beth

Beth Hi Barbara!
I'm glad to see a fellow Colorado Springs author here.
- Beth


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