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		<title>Sarah Addison Allen: The Peach Keeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Addison Allen said it best when she described her books as &#8220;Southern-fried magical realism.&#8221; That&#8217;s an almost perfect description of her work: her novels are always set in the Carolinas and food features heavily in most of them. But it&#8217;s the spark of magical realism that keeps readers coming back. Whether it&#8217;s the throwing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Addison Allen does it again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned before how much I love Sarah Addison Allen&#8217;s writing. Her books sparkle with magic, yet her characters are realistically flawed. In her latest novel, The Girl Who Chased the Moon, we meet young Emily, who, after the death of her mother, has gone to live with a grandfather she&#8217;s never met. A quiet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Read: enLIGHTened</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this yoga memoir, author Jessica Berger Gross details how she &#8220;lost 40 pounds with a yoga mat, fresh pineapples, and a Beagle-Pointer.&#8221; With a subtitle like that, I had to read this book. It&#8217;s a very relatable tale. After a challenging childhood (including an abusive father and an exhausted, cowed mother), college-age Jessica finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Read: The Wishing Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this magical memoir, author Noelle Oxenhandler explores the power (and danger) of the art of wishing. After a series of tumultuous personal events, Oxenhandler finds herself divorced, spiritually bereft and raising her daughter alone in a rental house. Simultaneously envious and suspicious of her friend Carole&#8217;s ability to manifest her desires through wishing (a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Addison Allen is a must read</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>China</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One really cold evening last winter, I snuggled up with a blanket and a space heater and dove into the debut novel by an author I&#8217;d never heard of: Sarah Addison Allen. I devoured the book, Garden Spells, in a matter of hours; it captivated me from page one. Allen&#8217;s writing is somewhat similar to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Read: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>China</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eclipse is book 3 in the ongoing saga of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, which I&#8217;ve been looking forward to the way most people have been waiting Harry Potter. Meyer&#8217;s writing is so captivating, I just get swept away by her stories. In Eclipse, Bella finally graduates from high school, meaning her transformation from human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Read: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>China</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, how to even begin without spoilers? Finally, with Book 7, J.K. Rowling brings her epic Harry Potter series to a close. For those who complained that Book 6 was all talk, and no action, fasten your seat-belts. Deathly Hallows is just the opposite. It&#8217;s fast-paced. Violent. Creepy. It&#8217;s good, but also sort of ultimately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all about the sexy, part 2: The Bunny Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>China</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said before that I&#8217;m pretty much fascinated by all things Playboy. I don&#8217;t have a problem with nudity as art, or even nudity as erotica (in fact, I think I have more of a problem with modesty). I&#8217;m forever frustrated with the United States&#8217; puritanical outlook about sex and the body, especially when, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Read: The Drake Sisters series</title>
		<link>http://www.themodernista.com/recent-read-the-drake-sisters-series/20070705/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>China</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like magic. I like shows about magic, books about magic, stickers about magic, and the idea of magic in general. I even used to shop at a magic store in Florida, which was very cool. I really like Nora Roberts&#8217; Donovan Legacy series (Captivated, Entranced, Charmed, and Enchanted), which is about ordinary people who [...]]]></description>
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