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The Guest Book

Copyright © 2012 by Marybeth Whalen

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EPub Edition © MAY 2012 ISBN: 978-0-310-33475-0

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Whalen, Marybeth.

The guest book : a novel / Marybeth Whalen.

      p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-310-33474-3

I. Title.

PS3623.H355G84 2012

8l3’.6–dc23          2012003444


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