![]() ![]() She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. ![]() She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.ĭiana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle. ![]()
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After they meet on the grounds of Mesa Community College in Phoenix where they're both taking summer classes, Dylan slowly pulls Gray closer to her and back into the world, despite his reluctance to embrace her puppy-doglike enthusiasm. In this dazzling new novel, Emily Giffin, the 1 'New York Times' bestselling author of 'Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, 'and 'The One & Only' introduces a pair of sisters who find themselves at a crossroads. "Try to see life through a creative lens" is one of the lessons she takes away from her photography class. Dylan is his polar opposite: she enjoys the world around her with a quirky gusto akin to that of the protagonist of Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl (Knopf, 2000). ![]() Gray's preferred stance is off to the side, quietly observing everything from which he's decided to separate. Gr 9 Up-Alternating between the voices of Gray and Dylan, this novel explores moving on after loss and embracing life. ![]() ![]() ExcerptĬhapter One: Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century. ![]() ![]() He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. 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Louis to the grandest stages in the world. ![]() In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Children's Books of the Year List ![]() Sibert Informational Book Award, Honorīoston Globe–Horn Book Award, Nonfiction Honor Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor ![]() ![]() ![]() Pan was able to turn into a small dragon and both he and Salcilia could take on the form of gargoyles it is unclear whether dæmons could settle as fictional forms, or if these abilities were a result of youthful creativity that would be lost upon reaching adulthood. This form represented the personality of their human. ![]() When the human and their dæmon reached maturity, the dæmon would settle into a permanent form. 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