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Laura A. Barton

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Website

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Genre

Fantasy, Nonfiction

Member Since

March 2014

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Laura A. Barton has a knack for getting lost in worlds that don’t exist. Whether of her creation or another’s, she loves magic-stained realities and living, breathing characters. In the “real world,” she lives in Ontario, Canada with her fiancé and their dog, Lila.

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Laura A. Barton’s books

Average rating: 4.44 · 50 ratings · 20 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Project Dermatillomania: The Stories Behind Our Scars 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Killing Secrets (Secret Minders, #1) 4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 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
	Project Dermatillomania: Written On Our Skin 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 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
	Echoing Secrets it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 3 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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Secret Minders (2 books)
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The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma

by Angela Ackerman (Goodreads Author)

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Laura’s Quotes

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.”
― Jack Layton

tags: 2011, august-20, inspirational-quotes

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“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.”
― Michael J. Fox

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“We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

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“And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: charlie, perks-of-beng-a-wallflower, realistic-fiction, stephen-chbosky

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message 3: by Laura

Mar 06, 2014 10:56AM

Dani wrote: "You should claim this page by the way: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

There is link to do so near the bottom."

Already applied to claim it! Thanks! :) Someone sent me a message to PD page telling me to do the same thing. I didn't even know that was possible! Haha.

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message 2: by Dani

Mar 06, 2014 10:54AM