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Diane Owens Prettyman

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The Beauty of the Sentence–Why You Should Read Fiction

At the bookstore today, I heard one of the sales staff say that last year 80% of American households did not read a book. In 2012, the number of adults...
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Published on July 06, 2014 09:31
Average rating: 3.65 · 253 ratings · 100 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
Love Is for the Birds

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Thin Places

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Redesigning Emma

3.22 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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“A word of forgiveness, not to mention love, goes a long way toward healing the soul.”
― Diane Owens Prettyman, Thin Places

“Solitude does strange things to a man. When it's just you & your soul, you better be friends.”
― Diane Owens Prettyman, Thin Places

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Diane Prettyman http://www.amazon.com/Redesigning-Emm...
My latest book, Redesigning Emma, is the story of a Manhattan milliner at the turn-of-the-last century. Determined to take the fashion world by storm, Emma launches her new line of twentieth century hats. But she soon learns that being a modern woman is more than she bargained for.


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