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M.Q. Barber

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I am a former Midwestern gal who well knows the joy of flopping down in a field for an afternoon and composing stories about the shapes in the clouds. As it turns out, adulthood doesn't have to be so different from childhood.

Sharing those stories is a new thing for me. I hope readers will love the characters as much as I do. ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 5,492 ratings · 806 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 1,562 ratings — published 2013 — 9 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
	Crossing the Lines (Neighborly Affection, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 1,025 ratings — published 2014 — 9 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
	Healing the Wounds (Neighborly Affection #3) 4.19 avg rating — 855 ratings — published 2014 — 9 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
	Becoming His Master (Neighborly Affection, #4) 4.18 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Finding Their Balance 4.26 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Three-Way Tie (Neighborly Affection #3.5) 4.20 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Her Shirtless Gentleman (Gentleman, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 2015 — 7 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
	Minding Their Manners (Neighborly Affection, #6) 4.67 avg rating — 123 ratings — 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
	Tuesdays with Jay and Other Stories (Neighborly Affection, #2.5) 4.63 avg rating — 100 ratings — 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
	An Accidental Gentleman (Gentleman, #2) 3.72 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2016 — 6 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

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M.Q. Barber made a comment on Chris "Stu"’s review of Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) " I enjoy the Locke Lamora books quite a bit; I'll have to try this. ...more "
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I am writing this on Christmas Eve, just a few minutes after finishing Prairie Lotus, with all of the thoughts and emotions the book raises still swirling in my mind. I love that feeling; a book that has me thinking on it after I close the pages is a ...more
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You

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