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I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

~Ann Hood

Topics: Good Hug Learned Meaningful More More Power Power Strong Than Thousand Words I Have Learned

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We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

~Ann Hood

Topics: Accurately Advice Behind Bra Brain Brother Costume Costumes Family Girl Halloween Her Him His Lips Lipstick Made More Mother Newspapers Our Own Red Red Lipstick She Stuffing Suggestions Sweater Territory Them Took Wear Were Winning

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Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

~Ann Hood

Topics: Beginning End Grief Middle Plot Smooth

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I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

~Ann Hood

Topics: Am Beside Cool Glasses Her Husband New Novel Proud Vintage Who Wife Woman Writer Written I Am

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Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

~Ann Hood

Topics: Alone Brother Childhood Childhood Memories Died Easy Family Father Formed Future Glimpse Had Just Keeper Lore Lost Me Memories My Own Now Own Parents Point Since Too Where

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As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

~Ann Hood

Topics: Behind Child Enormous Forever Hole Know Left Lived Losing Nightmare Remains Someone Who

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I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

~Ann Hood

Topics: About Clearly Dramatically Endearing Experienced Felt Fondness How Just Kind Life More My Own Myself Own Precocious Remember Remembering Teenagers Than Time Troubled Who Writing

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I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

~Ann Hood

Topics: About Am Children Deal Divorce First Hand How Lot Mother Something Step Thought Witnessed I Am

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When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.

~Ann Hood

Topics: American Came Childhood Children Dozens Famous Fell Figures Henry Historical Life Like Love Me More Nancy Old Published Series Seven Years

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Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.

~Ann Hood

Topics: Alexander Book Books Buck Chest Eight Encounter Famous Forgotten Hamilton Harry Learn Meet Pearl People Readers Rules Secrets Series Some Then Through Time Time Travel Travel Treasure Twins Where Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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