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Amy Belding Brown is the bestselling USA Today author of EMILY'S HOUSE, FLIGHT OF THE SPARROW and MR. EMERSON’S WIFE. A Vermonter and history nerd, she was infused at an early age with a New England outlook and values. She loves stone walls, sugar maples and old cemeteries, and her favorite hobby is nature photography. She’s never happier than when she’s reading a stack of 19th century letters or exploring old church records. She has taught composition and creative writing to college students and life-story writing to senior citizens, made quilts, raised four children, been a tour guide at Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House Museum in Concord, Massachusetts, taught pre-school, made cloth dolls, created wall hangings on a hand loom, baked home ...more

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	Flight of the Sparrow 3.98 avg rating — 13,796 ratings — published 2014 — 17 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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	Mr. Emerson's Wife 3.91 avg rating — 1,423 ratings — published 2005 — 15 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
	Island Summer Love 3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1992 — 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
	Strawberry Lace 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1994 — 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
	La Maison d'Emily by Amy Belding Brown (Goodreads Author), Charlène Busalli (translator) 3.94 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
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Feasting and Fasting in Puritan New England

The familiar story of the First Thanksgiving in Plymouth Colony was created in the 19th century and the myth is so charming we cling to it even though we know it’s a distortion of the historical facts. While the New England colonists occasionally celebrated days of thanksgiving, fast days were more common.

These days, we often think of fasting – if we think of it at all – as a way of shedding pound

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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers

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“Mam once told me the name Margaret means pearl. She said a pearl’s the only jewel that needs no cutting or polishing. Comes perfect from the hand of God Himself. And I ought to be treasuring myself like one.”
― Amy Belding Brown, Emily's House

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“How strange that venturing away from accepted wisdom was the very path by which she found herself”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

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A Woman Is No Man

by Etaf Rum

12 votes, 17.6%

Little Faith

by Nickolas Butler

8 votes, 11.8%

A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

8 votes, 11.8%

Endless Night

by Agatha Christie

7 votes, 10.3%

Flight of the Sparrow]

by Amy Belding Brown

7 votes, 10.3%

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

by Maggie O'Farrell

7 votes, 10.3%

Mr. & Mrs. American Pie

by Juliet McDaniel

6 votes, 8.8%

The Overstory

by Richard Powers

6 votes, 8.8%

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

3 votes, 4.4%

Mary Coin

by Marisa Silver

2 votes, 2.9%

All the Lives We Never Lived

by Anuradha Roy

2 votes, 2.9%

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