This Place of Wonder

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A novelist writing about the wonders in the everyday, the enormous, the impossible, the magical. And the ocean.

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About Barbara ONeal

Writer, artist, explorer. Author of Author of When We Believed in Mermaids, This Place of Wonder, and many others. Her books have sold 4 million copies world wide, and have been translated into more than 20 languages.

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