 SHANIA TWAIN rose to fame in the early 1990s with her debut album, Shania Twain (1993), and achieved worldwide success with her 1997 album, Come On Over, which became the bestselling album of all time by a female musician, and the bestselling country album of all time. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Twain has also achieved major success as a songwriter, winning twenty-seven BMI
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The Tragic Mystery of Suicide
Cosmopolitan, May 2008
In the space of one year the number of young women taking their own lives rose dramatically…and experts are scrambling to find out why. Here are two heartbreaking true stories of two girls who succumbed to despair and one who survived…..
Caught in the Middle
Family Circle, April 2008
For Joanna Fernandez, middle school was a total shock to the system. She’d been a smart, sunny kid—until she started sixth grade in Stafford, Virginia…..
A House On The Cape
Budget Travel, March 2008
With towering headlands covered in jack pine, a crescent of white sand bisected by a creek, and slabs of red granite half submerged in the surf, Black Brook Beach is the kind of coastline that inspires artists and poets. In me, however, it was inspiring only frustration….
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Sam Yarney The Banjo Player is an intense book. It gets hold of you from page one and doesn't let you go till the end. How did you manage that? Thank you for the compliment. I really wanted The Banjo Player to be a page turner from the very onset. As I wrote and rewrote certain sections of the manuscript, I kept thinking - I've got to hold the reader's attention. I've got to keep the reader guessing. Hopefully, it worked. Its the readership out there who will give their verdict.
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After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, Armstrong worked as a ghostwriter for a bestselling teen series and began to write her own books. She has since written picture books, easy readers, chapter books, young adult novels, and nonfiction. History has been a recurring theme in both her fiction and nonfiction.
 After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, Armstrong worked as a ghostwriter for a bestselling teen series and began to write her own books. She has since written picture books, easy readers, chapter books, young adult novels, and nonfiction. History has been a recurring theme in both her fiction and nonfiction.
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