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  • Casey Parks
    Casey Parks is a reporter for the Washington Post who covers gender and family issues. She was previously a staff reporter at the Jackson Free Press and spent a decade at the Oregonian, where she ...

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    Diary of a Misfit
  • Kathy Parks
    Kathy Parks was thrown out with the bathwater as a baby. This experience shaped her life and art. She is the author of novels including The Lifeboat Clique and Notes from My Captivity, and she also ...

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    Notes from My Captivity
  • Suzan-Lori Parks
    Suzan-Lori Parks
    Suzan-Lori Parks is a novelist, playwright, songwriter, and screenwriter. She was the recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog, as well as a 2001 MacArthur "genius ...

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    Getting Mother's Body

  • Tim Parks
    Tim Parks was born in Manchester, England, in 1954, grew up in London, and has lived in Italy since 1980. His novels include Europa, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and he is the author of...

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    Sex Is Forbidden
  • Priya Parmar
    Priya Parmar
    Educated at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Oxford, Priya Parmar is the author of one previous novel, Exit the Actress. She divides her time between Hawaii ...

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    Vanessa and Her Sister

  • Nando Parrado
    Nando Parrado is the leader of the famous plane crash survival story in the Andes mountains in 1972. He is a successful businessman, sportsman and television producer. Nando is also an internationally...

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    Miracle in the Andes
  • Christa Parravani
    Christa Parravani is a writer and photographer. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, and are represented by the Michael Foley Gallery in New York City and the Kopeikin gallery in Los ...

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    Her
  • Favel Parrett
    Favel Parrett
    Favel Parrett burst onto the Australian literary landscape with the heartbreaking debut Past the Shallows. She was discovered through the 2008 Hachette Australia/Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript ...

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    Past the Shallows

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