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Dana Stabenow

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Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage and raised on 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere.

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I'm sure you've been asked this a million, zillion times, but will you write another Kate Shugak novel? Thanks - Cathy Adams
Dana Stabenow I'm working on Kate21 now, Cathy.…moreI'm working on Kate21 now, Cathy.(less)
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Hi Dana----Any idea on when you might finish Kate 21?----Whats it called if I may ask?please as I live in Aussie land and want to order it from my local library---Thanks Heaps---Barbara Williams
Dana Stabenow Right now it's called Less Than a Treason. I'm hoping to have the rough draft done by the end of August, after which it will go to the editor. I don't…moreRight now it's called Less Than a Treason. I'm hoping to have the rough draft done by the end of August, after which it will go to the editor. I don't have a pub date yet.(less)
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A Cold Day for Murder (Kate...
3.76 avg rating — 18,517 ratings — published 1992 — 49 editions
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A Fatal Thaw (Kate Shugak, #2)
4.06 avg rating — 7,438 ratings — published 1993 — 43 editions
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Blood Will Tell (Kate Shuga...
4.15 avg rating — 6,912 ratings — published 1996 — 33 editions
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Dead in the Water (Kate Shu...
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Though Not Dead (Kate Shuga...
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Fire and Ice (Liam Campbell...
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Breakup (Kate Shugak, #7)
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A Night Too Dark (Kate Shug...
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In the 243 years of our existence, we have tried an average of three times a year to do away with the Electoral College. Now’s our chance.

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Never mind the elections of 2000 and 2016, I’ve disliked the whole notion of the Electoral College since learning about it in civics class in high school. In his book, Let the People Pick the President, Jesse Wegman writes

…the Electoral College…too violates the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule. We may all be eligible to vote for president

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In the 243 years of our existence, we have tried an average of three times a year to do away with the Electoral College. Now’s our chance.



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“When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.”
― Dana Stabenow
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“We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin”
― Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood
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“Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?"
"I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends."
"You mean like Alaska?”
― Dana Stabenow, Play With Fire
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Dana’s Quotes

“Live your life in such a way that the Westboro Baptist Church will want to picket your funeral.”
― Brandon Fibbs
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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris
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“Hell is the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do...For me that conception of hell lies in two words: Too late!”
― Gian-Carlo Menotti
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“There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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“Daddy always said that Christmas is a joyous season when suicides and holdups and shoplifting and like that reach a new high and that the best place to spend the whole thing is a Moslem country.”
― Patrick Dennis, The Joyous Season
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