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Donna Montalbano

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Donna Montalbano is the author of The House on Benefit Street, set in historic Providence, Rhode Island. Her newest book is Someplace Else, a supernatural love story that explores the phenomena of out of body travel as experienced by star-crossed lovers who meet in a place between life and death.

Donna is an award-winning advertising copywriter, a broadcast writing instructor, a former radio talk show host and a book editor and mentor.

Email: donna@donnamontalbano.com

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Average rating: 3.94 · 17 ratings · 3 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The House on Benefit Street 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2003 — 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
	Someplace Else...is there Love After Death? by Donna Montalbano (Goodreads Author), Christian Laidlaw (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Someplace Else it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Limerence: An obsessive state of romantic intoxication 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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The Beauty and the Beast of the Pine Barrens

The New Jersey Pine Barrens have two different legends of the Golden Haired Girl; and both stories are the Pines' version of the fairy tale The Beauty and the Beast, but without the happy endings. In the Pine Barrens stories, Beauty is a lovely maiden with long blonde hair...and the Beast is none other than the resident monster of the Barrens: the Jersey Devil. The Jersey Devil is like most monste Read more of this blog post »

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