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Sondra Sykes Meek is originally from Florida, but has lived in several locations in the United States and abroad. She is a wife and mother of two, a retired Marine Corps master sergeant, and a Project Manager in the Defense Industry. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and has several stories in various stages of progress. She hopes to write full-time one day, but for now, she writes in the spare, quiet moments of her life.

Sondra wrote and published Model Marine to reveal the courage and sacrifices of Marines and their families. She wanted to offer people another kind of hero: someone who is not supernatural, immortal, or from the future. Although the events of this story are fiction, the setting and characters are influenced ...more

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Model Marine

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Country People

by Daniel Mason (Goodreads Author)

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Spontaneous Healing : How to Discover and Embrace Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself

by Andrew Weil (Goodreads Author)

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Unfortunately, this one wasn't for me. I didn't enjoy the main character, and I found the story painfully slow. I'm certainly not opposed to a leisurely or meandering novel, but I need compelling characters, beautiful prose, humor, atmosphere—or some ...more
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Prodigal Summer was a full-course meal. I felt completely at home in these woods and on these farms. I loved learning about bugs, trees, coyotes, and the delicate ways nature keeps itself in balance. I lost count of the laugh-out-loud moments (the old ...more
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The Eternity Cure raises the emotional stakes considerably, but it also magnifies many of the issues that only occasionally bothered me in book one. The biggest problem is Allison's internal monologue. By the second book, I expected to see some emotio ...more
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I picked this up because I was overstimulated and needed my brain to take a vacation. The Immortal Rules delivered exactly that. This is a fast-paced, post-apocalyptic vampire story with enough action and momentum to keep me listening long after I sho ...more
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