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Meg Shaffer

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Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year, a Reader’s Digest and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and has been translated into 21 languages. Meg holds an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College. She lives in Kentucky.

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SIGNED copies of THE LOST STORY available NOW!

It earned a starred Publishers Weekly review!
It earned a starred Library Journal review!
It earned a starred BookPage review!
It was chosen at a Library Reads July pick!
It was chosen as a Book of the Month Club main selection!
It's even an Amazon Editor's Pick!

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A Curse for the Homesick: A Novel
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"A Curse for the Homesick" reminds me of "Never Let Me Go." What I loved about both books is the allegorical element, the author using a sci-fi or fantasy plot element to explore the human condition. In "Never Let Me Go," Isiguro uses sacrificial hum ...more
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
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Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
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Winter Recipes from the Collective
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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
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“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
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“The stories write us, you see. We read something that moves us, touches us, speaks to us and it…it changes us.”
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