Linda Collison
Linda Collison was born in Baltimore in 1953. She has been a registered nurse, a skydiving instructor, a volunteer firefighter, a freelance writer, writer of short stories, and a novelist. The New York Public Library chose Collison's novel Star-Crossed to be among the Books for the Teen Age --...
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Linda Collison was born in Baltimore in 1953. She has been a registered nurse, a skydiving instructor, a volunteer firefighter, a freelance writer, writer of short stories, and a novelist. The New York Public Library chose Collison's novel Star-Crossed to be among the Books for the Teen Age -- 2007. Her fiction, creative nonfiction and articles have been published by a variety of magazines and she has received awards from Foreword Reviews, Literary Fiction Book Review, Honolulu Magazine, Southwest Writers Workshop, the former Maui Writers' Conference, and the National Student Nurses Association.www.lindacollison.com
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I really enjoyed this Young Adult adventure, which takes place in a refurbished Chinese Junk, with its crew of troubled teens. Already the scene is set for a assortment of misfits and interesting interactions. What made this book different, was the main character, fifteen-year-old James McCafferty, ...
Castles, Customs and Kings edited by Debra Brown and the late M.M. Bennetts and has essays from such historical fiction authors such as Katherine Ashe, Gillian Bagwell, Nancy Bilyeau, Sandra Byrd, Stephanie Cowell, Christy English, Barbara Kyle just to name a few, go here to read more about these au...
bookshelves: seven-seas, winter-20132014, published-2012, historical-fiction, caribbean-caper, e-book, net-galley, next Netgalley/Fireship PressFrom the description: Portsmouth, England,1760. Patricia Kelley, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Barbadian sugarcane planter, falls from her imag...
This tale of a young woman who stows away on a ship in hopes of gaining an inheritance overseas reminded me in some particulars of L.A. Meyer's 'Jacky Faber' novels. However, where Meyer's over-the-top tales cruise on their own high-spirited energy, the more down-to-earth tone of "Star-Crossed" serv...
The best woman-on-board-story since "Pirates" by Celia Rees. A lot of interesting historic details, a captivating story, a slowly maturing heroine, a little bit of cross-dressing and a nice love story with a swashbuckling bosun's mate.
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