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Cara Bertoia

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Growing up in a straight laced Southern family, I was always fascinated with casinos. In my twenties on a summer hiatus from teaching in North Carolina, I drove to California and became a dealer at Caesars in Lake Tahoe. My mother highly disapproved of my working in a casino, "a place so bad it has 'sin' in the middle."

Thankfully the paper from Palm Springs disagreed with my mother. The Desert Sun raved, "As if often the case, the author pulls from real-life experiences to create a worthy piece of fiction. And her own life is a vivid kaleidoscope of adventure. Casino Queen arrives at the perfect time when crime-solving tales that revolve around strong female protagonists aren’t just a luck of a draw. They’re downright successful. (See TV’s
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A Month of TikTok taught taught me the ten ways it spreads wild anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Israel-Hamas war





No calls for genocide here!

I’ve been on TikTok for the last month trying to understandhow the social media site handles posts about the Israel-Hamas war. This cameabout because after the war broke out my niece asked me to educate people onthe conflict. I usually post on TikTok, but I had a broken arm, so I decidedjust to comment. War sucks, but I do admit to a bias, I think Hamas must be

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A Month of TikTok taught taught me the ten ways it spreads wild anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Israel-Hamas war





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The Perfect Breasts by Cara Bertoia
"Thoughts: This story came at a difficult time for my family - and yet, maybe it was serendipitous. The day I received this for review was the day my niece was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. A year after my sister (her mother) had her own chall" Read more of this review »
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"The author does a wonderful job of portraying the effects of cancer on a family. We follow the main character Hannah from adolescence to adulthood as she copes with her mother's illness and subsequent death while worrying about her future. With reali" Read more of this review »
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"Brilliantly written, The Perfect Breasts is a riveting tale that chronicles the lifelong impact that breast cancer has on every aspect of the lives of each member of the Clein family. Author Cara Bertoia has penned a tautly emotional plot driven by l" Read more of this review »
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“It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.”
Cara Bertoia, Cruise Quarters - a Novel About Casinos and Cruise Ships

“It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.”
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