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Nikki Stern

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Milwaukee, The United States

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Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, my father

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Nikki Stern is the author of several books and has contributed essays to others. Her first novel, THE FORMER ASSASSIN, is a top five category finalist in the 2018 Kindle Book Awards. The book is a suspense thriller about a wife, mother, and ex-assassin whose boss is bent on revenge.

HOPE IN SMALL DOSES is a 2015 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist and a 2017 BookWorks book of the week. The book is carried by the National September 11 Memorial and Museum Bookstore.

Nikki's essays have appeared in newspapers and anthologies. Short stories have published in various literary magazines. Her next book is the first in a limited series about a law officer with a past she is hiding from, a present that involves solving crime, and a future that may in ...more

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	The Former Assassin 4.50 avg rating — 60 ratings — 5 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
	Hope in Small Doses 4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2012 — 8 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
	Don't Move 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2015 — 2 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
	Because I Say So: Moral Authority's Dangerous Appeal by Nikki Stern (Goodreads Author), Marley Cornell (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	DON'T GO 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 2 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
	Gut Feeling 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Noir Suspicions: A Comic Interactive Mystery in Tribute to the Movie "Casablanca" 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	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
	Murderous Crossing by David Landau, Nikki Stern (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008 — 2 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
	The Altos by David Landau, Nikki Stern (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	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
	Noir Pointblank by David Landau, Nikki Stern (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	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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David Cullen didn't choose to become the mass shooting "go-to" guy. I know he had and still has other things to write or talk about. Yet here he is, ten years after his ground-breaking book on the Columbine shooting, and here we are, twenty years aft ...more
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Lovely, lyrical, uplifting The novel is ostensibly a mystery but it’s really a coming of age novel and most of all, an ode to a vanishing way of life. Loneliness and loss define our heroine’s existence through her childhood. She lives alone from the t ...more
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What a Trip! Nine strangers come together to rebuild their physical and emotional lives at an Australian wellness center run by an overachiever with delusions of grandeur. The book is resolutely character-driven, with chapters dedicated to the viewpo ...more
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“Whether we’re the largest, smallest, most or least significant thing in the universe makes for a marvelous late-night discussion. It’s not relevant to how we live in the here and now. We need to look around, take measure of ourselves, and decide what we can do and how much of it we do to improve our lives and the lives of as many others as we can reach.”
― Nikki Stern, Hope In Small Doses

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“For every summons to a shining city on the hill or a promise of change we can believe in, we are presented with hundreds of examples of mudslinging and appeals to mob mentality. Rudeness is recast as honesty, greed is presented as ambition, and lines in the sand blur and move.”
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