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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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My Book Buffet Newsletter, November 2025

November 24, 2025

Dear Friends and Followers, Welcome to my November newsletter, featuring updates on my publishing adventure, including my novel When Things Go Missing, as …

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It’s a Hard Knock Life for Kids, Books & Reviews

August 11, 2025

Little Orphan Annie knew all about what it’s like as a child to live a “hard knock” life, and yet …

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Five Debut Novels Worth Sampling

August 12, 2018

I’ve been putting together a reading list of recently published debut novels that have been making a splash in the …

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Shogun VS. Lincoln in the Bardo

February 12, 2018

I have two books on my nightstand, Shogun by James Clavell and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Both …

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Books I’ve Abandoned

September 19, 2014

Sad to say, but I abandon more books than I finish nowadays. I simply lose interest in them. I read a …

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20 Favorite and Most Influential Books

September 9, 2014

What follows are the 20 favorite books that helped shape the way I think and write. It was hard to limit …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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