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“Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won’t want to stop.” —Oprah Winfrey

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in…

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This book is a freight train, and from the very first page I was grateful to be along for the ride. Lara writes so vulnerably about the challenges of being a mom of four, both as a pre-prison thief/addict and then after as a post-prison felon/ghost writer/author/literary agent. It didn't feel like I was reading, instead it felt like I was having an incredible conversation with a close friend. Typically I read a book over a span of a weeks, a little every night. But I tore through The Many Lives of Mama Love in two sittings, desperate to see…

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