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How to Save a Life

March 19, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

My Writing Hero: Sara Zarr, a guest post by Angie Manfredi for Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month, so when I put the call out for guest bloggers (we love guest bloggers here at TLT, you can write one too), I was so excited that Angie excitedly answered that call wanting to write about Sara Zarr.  I read my first Sara Zarr book last year, Story of a […]

July 21, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

When most people think of Joss Whedon, they tend to think of the guy who writes kick-ass girls.  Which he does.  But when I think of Joss Whedon I think of this: you are born into a family, but you also build a family and in many ways, that family is so much stronger because […]

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