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Meg Shaffer

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Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year, a Reader’s Digest and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and has been translated into 21 languages. Meg holds an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College. She lives in Kentucky.

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Meg Shaffer books and art for the holidays!

We're offering book boxes and original artwork for the holidays! Signed and personalized!

We commissioned original book-inspired art prints from the famous Cricket Press in Lexington, Kentucky. Signed and numbered limited edition prints are available for both "The Wishing Game" and "The Lost Story."

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The Wishing Game
4.03 avg rating — 180,445 ratings — published 2023 — 48 editions
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"A Curse for the Homesick" reminds me of "Never Let Me Go." What I loved about both books is the allegorical element, the author using a sci-fi or fantasy plot element to explore the human condition. In "Never Let Me Go," Isiguro uses sacrificial hum ...more
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A Curse for the Homesick
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"A Curse for the Homesick" reminds me of "Never Let Me Go." What I loved about both books is the allegorical element, the author using a sci-fi or fantasy plot element to explore the human condition. In "Never Let Me Go," Isiguro uses sacrificial hum ...more
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The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land and Other Poems
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The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Neil Sinyard
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
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Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
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Film for Her by Orion Carloto
Film for Her
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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game
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“Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself.”
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“The stories write us, you see. We read something that moves us, touches us, speaks to us and it…it changes us.”
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