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Richard Fellinger

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Richard Fellinger is an award-winning author, a college writing instructor, and former journalist. His novel An American Girl (Serving House Books, 2025) won the inaugural Thomas E. Kennedy Novel Award. His novel, Summer of ’85 (TouchPoint Press, 2021), was a finalist for the American Fiction Award, a distinguished favorite for the NYC Big Book Award, and winner of the Seven Hills Review Novel Excerpt Contest. He is also the author of the story collection They Hover Over Us (Snake Nation Press, 2012), winner of the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award, and the novel Made To Break Your Heart (Open Books, 2017). His fiction has also earned a Pushcart Prize nomination and won the Flash Fiction Contest at Red Cedar Review. His work has also appeared i ...more

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	Made to Break Your Heart 3.19 avg rating — 52 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer of '85 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	They Hover Over Us 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Only Story

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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944

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“You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

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