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Jan Surasky

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Jan Surasky has worked as a book reviewer, movie reviewer, and entertainment writer for a San Francisco daily newspaper. Her many articles and short stories were pubished in national and regional magazines and newspapers. She has also taught writing at a literary center and a number of area colleges near her home in upstate New York. Her award-winning novels include Rage Against the Dying Light, Back to Jerusalem, and The Lilac Bush is Blooming.


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Rage Against the Dying Light

3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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Back To Jerusalem

4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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The Sound of Unheard Melodies

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings4 editions
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The Lilac Bush is Blooming

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings4 editions
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Chasing Magic

It is the common belief that magic exists only from the touch of a magicians wand when a rabbit appears suddenly from nowhere.

Magic is not as elusive as all that. It exists everywhere if only you know where to look. It exists in a baby's smile, it exists in a tree when you suddenly discover its real beauty for the first time, it exists when blank pages are turned into a book that not only charms Read more of this blog post »
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“Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.”
Jan Surasky

“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that fairy tales are not just fantasy. They are the inspiration that feeds our own courage and makes our dreams come true.”
Jan Surasky

“We come into the world alone...but we come bound by the deeds and courage, the hopes and dreams, the joys and sorrows of our ancestors.”
Jan Surasky, The Lilac Bush is Blooming

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch

“Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.”
Jan Surasky

“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that fairy tales are not just fantasy. They are the inspiration that feeds our own courage and makes our dreams come true.”
Jan Surasky

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