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Caroline Leavitt
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You get to make up stories! You get to live other lives! It is the best feeling in the world.
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Pictures of You
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2010
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Is This Tomorrow
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2013
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Cruel Beautiful World
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2016
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Girls in Trouble
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2004
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With or Without You
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2020
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Coming Back to Me
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2001
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The Haunted Clubhouse (Wishbone Mysteries, #2)
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1997
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Robinhound Crusoe (Adventures of Wishbone #4)
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1997
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Into Thin Air
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1993
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Living Other Lives
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1995
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Elinor Lipman's RACHEL TO THE RESCUE is the perfect anti-Trump, pro-voting book you need right now
You've long been political, with hilarious tweets, and now you have a book. BUT how did you know about the department that tapes back everything Trump has torn up? It's a genius idea, and you ran with it. Can you tell us about the process? I knew I wanted to write about someone with a short-lived job in the Trump administration, and one day I read about WHORM (White House Office of Reco Read more of this blog post »
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First chapter of IS THIS TOMORROW
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This is an excerpt from my upcoming novel IS THIS TOMORROW (Algonquin Books), coming May 2013
First chapter Pictures of You
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The first chapter of my new novel, Pictures of You
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The first chapter of my new novel, Pictures of You
The Wrong Sister
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short story about two sisters
High Infidelity
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High Infidelity, from New York magazine's special love and Sex issue
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I first read this novel in manuscript, and I was so completely undone by it in the best possible way that I pushed the author into changing agents and she immediately got a book deal. It's about a female mortician, about a childhood tragedy that stil
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| You know when you read a book that is so life-changing you read it twice? Frangello indeed "blew her house done," leaving her bland husband and her unhappy marriage for a fiery new love who was also married--and these are twin souls meant to be toget ...more | |
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Hi everyone, I know the holidays are coming and gift-giving season and I just want to say if you buy my book With or Without You and you want to make
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Hi, this isn't a review but it is a link to an essay on the front page of The Daily Beast "I was in a coma and no one will tell me what happened," which is about how and why I wrote With or Without You. I hope will read! https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...more |
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"Thank you Algonquin for a complimentary copy. I voluntarily reviewed this book. All opinions expressed are my own.
Caroline Leavitt is a master storyteller. She captures, in spare and surreal detail, what anyone who has lived through trauma knows – th" Read more of this review » |
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"Caroline Leavitt never fails to create authentic characters with messy, imperfect but relatable struggles. I fell in love with ethereal Stella, who just wants a stable life, and instead, after going into and coming out of a coma, finds life is a lot "
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" With or Without You is an intense, emotional novel that explores a troubled relationship and what happens when people's dreams change due to both time and circumstances beyond their control. I enjoyed this book very much and look forward to reading"
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| Amy Poeppel is ALWAYS writing smart, charming, and wonderful novels and Musical Chairs is particularly wonderful. About love, music, time, empty nests and big hearts, every single page of this wonderful book is just amazing. It's the kind of book you ...more | |
“Why doesn’t he get over it already? But that was the secret, wasn’t it? You never got over what you lost. You always carried it with you, stitched to you like Peter Pan’s shadow. And you never wanted to get over it, because who wanted to forget a time that had been so important? No, the truth was, you wanted to remember it always.”
― Pictures of You
― Pictures of You
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“Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.”
― Cruel Beautiful World
― Cruel Beautiful World
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVQZ...A video of me talking about Cruel Beautiful World, which is out in paperback August 8th!
Hi everyone, Oh my God, Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE is so incredibly great! Who is reading it?
Please join me June 18th for a special tweet chat with a three book giveaway. A few people will be invited for a video chat to follow. Plase come! It will be fun ! http://www.eventbrite.com/event/70835...
Good to connect with you here, Caroline. Thanks for accepting my friendship.Kris
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Magical Alienation: A Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery
I can't seem to upload my book trailer, but here is the url. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxBE_e...I hope you all love it!
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Caroline Leavitt blesses Jodi Picoult for mentioning her in a piece in the UK's guardian about what women writers to read who work with the same themes as Jonathan Franzen. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/...
