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Karen Ulm Rettig was born and raised in Ohio and attended a small liberal arts college there. She majored in Fine Art but indulged her love of language by minoring in French. She also minored in Philosophy, evidence of a reflective streak that would later cause her to reach for a pen.

She always loved reading, and in her mid-30's she abandoned visual images for verbal ones. While her first efforts were short pieces, her works lengthened when she began to observe human nature and detect shared experiences. One of them grew into Finding God: Our Quest for a Deity and the Dragons We Meet On the Way, a book that took two decades to complete.

Unlike so many creative authors today, Rettig did not learn to write under academic tutelage. Rather, sh ...more

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Finding God: Our Quest for a Deity and the Dragons We Meet on the Way

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The Man of Property (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1)

by John Galsworthy

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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

by Liza Mundy

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Karen Rettig said: " Fantastic book! I had no idea how much women had contributed to U.S. codebreaking in the 20th century, and especially during WW2. Some of the women were merely smart, but many were brilliant. Most received no recognition whatsoever, at least until no ...more "

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Le huitième détective

by Alex Pavesi

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