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Mary Doria Russell
Goodreads Author
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https://www.goodreads.com/marydoriarussell
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
— published 1996 — 47 editions |
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Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
— published 1998 — 22 editions |
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A Thread of Grace
— published 2005 — 19 editions |
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Doc
— published 2011 — 13 editions |
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Dreamers of the Day
— published 2008 — 23 editions |
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Epitaph
— published 2015 — 9 editions |
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The Sparrow Series (2 Book Series)
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Ballantine Reader's Circle Reader
by , — published 1999 |
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There are a lot of variations on “those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it.” My response has always been, “Those of us who do study the past are doomed, too. We just feel worse about it.”
We are living in a country that past presidents warned against. We have institutionalized the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower predicted. We have the “unholy alliance between corrupt b...
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Mary Doria Russell
"Her Favorite Westerns: Not just for gunslingers, the real Wild West comes to life in these five frontier tales recommended by the author of Epitaph." ...More
"Her Favorite Westerns: Not just for gunslingers, the real Wild West comes to life in these five frontier tales recommended by the author of Epitaph." ...More
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Mary Russell
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Not on my watch.
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Let's hope so!
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Mary Russell
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SOLD!
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Thanks, Elaine! Word of mouth is the best and often the only advertising for books!
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Mary Russell
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Some wonderful books available now
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Oh, I loved that book so much! I hope you have my quirky taste in other books, too. Happy Doomsday is just amazing and wonderful.
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Mary Russell
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Advice for a novice writer
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If we all only wrote what we know, everything would be an autobiography and those autobiographies would be exercises in narcissism.
I read to learn an ...more " |
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Mary Russell
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Jeremy Renner on the DOC/EPITAPH project
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HAH! Yeah...
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Mary Russell
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Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral
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Best Historical Fiction
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Semifinal Round
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2015 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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"A marvelous, epic, bittersweet novel. Mary Doria Russell uses a setting I know very little about and didn't think I'd care for (Arizona in the 1880s) as the backdrop for an absolutely fascinating story about history, friendship, politics, and diff..."
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"Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
5 Stars and a heart Let me start by saying that I resisted with every ounce of my being reading Doc. While you all know I adore history, I’ve never been a fan of this particular era. Russell’s description of this era as..." Read more of this review » |
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“I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
“There's an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists."
So God just leaves?"
No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of human life and gives meaning to it by caring passionately about us, and remembering."
Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine: Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it."
But the sparrow still falls.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
So God just leaves?"
No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of human life and gives meaning to it by caring passionately about us, and remembering."
Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine: Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it."
But the sparrow still falls.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
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