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Isabelle Drake

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Isabelle Drake is the fiction alias of Melissa Ford Lucken. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lasell University and an MA in Special Education from Eastern Michigan University. She teaches creative writing and composition and is the fiction and creative non-fiction editor of the Washington Square Review.

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Average rating: 3.49 · 354 ratings · 137 reviews · 55 distinct works • Similar authors

	Undone by the Undead 3.03 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2011	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
	Satisfaction Guaranteed 3.68 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Cowboy for Hire 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Hard Fall 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2008	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
	Servant of the Undead (Tribe of the Undead Book 1) 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — 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
	Show And Tell (Naughty Nooners) 2.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009	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
	Everglades Wildfire 3.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	Not Home for the Holidays 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — 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
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	Roughneck by Request 2.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010	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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By Request (3 books)
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Invitations (5 books)
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

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McMillions: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food History

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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

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