“This is a story that will hit home for a generation that is still here with us to read about it.”
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The Next Best Book Blog→
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"What I particularly love are the ceiling-high bookshelves that make me feel like one of Max Perkins’s clients from the ’20s or ’30s. Hey, we’re writers… we imagine!"
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JKS October Newsletter→
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#ComingofConscience social giving campaign
Author Rita Dragonette announced a social giving campaign that will run from September 18 to December 31 in support of a Coming of Conscience Scholarship for a student at NIU. During that time, she will be donating $1 for each share, retweet, or like on her posts about the campaign. For a photo or book post, Rita will be donating $2, and for a video sharing a personal Coming of Conscience moment, Rita will donate $5. Help Rita reach her goal of $10,000 in scholarship funds and learn more at her website!
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NIU Today→
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Judy’s journey mirrors Dragonette’s experience at NIU – arriving on campus as a nursing major on a U.S. Army scholarship.
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Girl Who Reads→
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“The author's portrayal of Judy was so well done that I felt like she was someone I knew in college.”
Read MoreLiving Our Faith Out Loud→
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The story is beautifully written with compassionate and thoughtful narrative and engaging characters who play out all the angst of the era set on a Midwestern college campus when America was at its most vulnerable.
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Publisher's Weekly→
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A story that speaks to the poignant clash of young adulthood, feminism, and war and offers an inquiry into the domestic politics of protest.
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“Rita Dragonette writes a good story describing the turmoil, fears, anger and sadness of that time.”
Read MoreJorie Loves A Story→
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“A brilliantly conceived and conceptualized ‘time capsule’ of a particularly inclusive period of turbulence in American history.”
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