Books
A Novel of Psychological Suspense
DRAWN FROM LIFE is a redemptive tale of courage and compassion, the story of a young woman bound by twin burdens of conscience and a powerful, domineering relative. In her quest for the truth will she find a path toward healing, or will her manipulative cousin destroy everything?
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In paperback and ebook.
ISBN: 9798218332280
EAIN: B0CVFB65JS
Drawn from Life - 2024
Playing Chess with Bulls - 2023
Stories
This eclectic, highly acclaimed collection of ten short stories (and one non-fiction essay) present ordinary people faced with difficult, sometimes extraordinary choices. The title story was a finalist for the 2021 Doris Betts Fiction Award. In paperback and ebook.
ISBN: 979-8-8690-2556-2
ASIN: B0CQXMZPSM
river, horse, morning - 2024
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poems
These twenty-three beautifully crafted poems are by turns dark, tender, defiant, and intensely moving. Some explore the mysteries and beauty of the natural world. Others, more deeply personal, are concerned with love, loss, and mortality. This poetry rises from both searing memory and everyday observation, passed through a lens of compassion and honesty into strength and a timeless grace.
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Reviews
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river, horse, morning is engaging, bright, unblinking... Blanchard's command of language pulls the reader into her backyard and up to the stars. [This is] a gift to poetry lovers.
—Diana Morley, 2019 Oregon Poetry Association award winner; author of Spreading Like Water and Splashing.
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Blanchard wrestles with the beauty and ambiguity of life in these lovely poems. The vivid descriptions of nature’s beauty tugs in equal measure with a subtle melancholy...Blanchard’s excellence is in showing how death gives life, and in describing that rich mystery.
—Karen Warinsky, Poets at Large coordinator and author of Sunrise Ruby and Dining with War.
ISBN: 979-8-3019-8975-9
ASIN: B0DJD7DVTL
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