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Oct 04, 2007 alice sebolds debut novel, the lovely bones, was a feelgood book about a terrible crime. Enjoy over 500 free books and audiobooks best selling books. This is a dream, of course, a wish fulfillment, but this is a dream with grit. Alice sebold is the bestselling author of the lovely bones, the almost moon, and lucky a. She is a member of the national leadership council for rape.
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