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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited December 2016

    X-treme sports, x-ray machines

  • Pheasantduster
    Pheasantduster Member Posts: 1,986
    edited December 2016
    yardstick, yucca plant (hard to kill !), that's all I could come up with :(
  • Lulu22
    Lulu22 Member Posts: 61
    edited December 2016

    Zirconium

  • everymoment
    everymoment Member Posts: 6,656
    edited December 2016

    lulu..what is the next topic?

  • Lulu22
    Lulu22 Member Posts: 61
    edited December 2016

    Oh no, I haven't followed the thread for long enough not to repeat an old topic. Howzabout you pick one for me? Happy


  • everymoment
    everymoment Member Posts: 6,656
    edited December 2016

    Female Authors (living or dead)

  • Kaption
    Kaption Member Posts: 2,934
    edited December 2016

    Louisa May Alcott

    Maya Angelou

    Jane Austin


  • everymoment
    everymoment Member Posts: 6,656
    edited December 2016

    Ann Brashares, Pearl S. Buck, Elizabeth Bishop

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,884
    edited December 2016

    Agatha Christie

  • OncoWarrior
    OncoWarrior Member Posts: 3,326
    edited December 2016

    Daphne du Maurier

  • Kaption
    Kaption Member Posts: 2,934
    edited December 2016

    Nora Ephron

    George Elliott

    Elizabeth Berg



  • Mominator
    Mominator Member Posts: 1,173
    edited December 2016

    Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café

    Anne Frank  (Diary of a Young Girl)

  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,122
    edited December 2016

    Dorothy Gilman (Mrs. Polifax series)

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited December 2016

    Mariel Hemmingway

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited December 2016

    Ida Tarbell

  • Mominator
    Mominator Member Posts: 1,173
    edited December 2016

    Shirley Jackson (1916–1965), American novelist and short story writer; "The Lottery"

    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (born 1927), German-English-Indian-American novelist and screenwriter; Heat and Dust, A Room with a View, Howards End


    sorry, had to look up on Wikipedia. I didn't know them by their names, but I am recognize these works. We all read The Lottery in school.

  • everymoment
    everymoment Member Posts: 6,656
    edited December 2016

    sue monk Kidd.

  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,122
    edited December 2016

    PD Jame

  • Mominator
    Mominator Member Posts: 1,173
    edited December 2016

    Margaret Landon (1903–1993), American novelist; Anna and the King of Siam

    Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), best known for her poem "The New Colossus" (inscribed on the Statue of Liberty)

    Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929), American science fiction and children's novelist, poet and essayist; Earthsea, Ekumen, The Lathe of Heaven

    Harper Lee (1926–2016), American novelist; To Kill a Mockingbird

    Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918), American novelist and children's novelist; A Wrinkle in Time

    Lois Lowry (born 1937), American children's novelist; Number the Stars, The Giver (book series) 

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited December 2016

    Margaret Meade, Margaret Mitchell, Anne McCaffrey

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited December 2016

    Nora Ephron

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited December 2016

    Oprah (writes for O magazine), Sinead O'Connor (writes songs), Flannery O'Connor (writes short stories)

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited December 2016
    Sylvia Plath, Beatrix Potter, Emily Post
  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,122
    edited December 2016

    JK Rowling, Nora Roberts, Karen Robard

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited December 2016

    We skipped Q: Anna Quindlen

    Ok, Zills did the R's above, so we are on S

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,884
    edited December 2016

    Mary Shelley

  • Kaption
    Kaption Member Posts: 2,934
    edited December 2016

    Betty Smith

    Dodie Smith

    Zadie Smith



  • Mominator
    Mominator Member Posts: 1,173
    edited December 2016

    S something for everyone...

    George Sand (1804–1876), French novelist and playwright; Indiana

    Alice Sebold (born 1963), American novelist; The Lovely Bones

    Anna Sewell (1820–1887), English novelist; Black Beauty

    Danielle Steel (born 1947), American romance novelist

    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American novelist, playwright, poet, librettist, and short-story writer

    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1836), American novelist; Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Patti Smith (born 1946), American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist

    Barbra Joan Streisand (born 1942), American screenwriter and songwriter



  • Mominator
    Mominator Member Posts: 1,173
    edited December 2016

    It helps to update once in a while, lol!

    Amy Tan (born 1952), American novelist; The Joy Luck Club

    P. L. Travers (1889–1996), Australian-British writer of the Mary Poppins books

    Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), American feminist; "Ain't I a Woman?"

    Natasha Trethewey (born 1966), American poet; Mississippi Poet Laureate, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited December 2016

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