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  —Tawni O’Dell, New York Times bestselling author of

  Back Roads and Coal Run

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  THE BOOK OF BRIGHT IDEAS

  A Delta Trade Paperback/June 2006

  Published by

  Bantam Dell

  A Division of Random House, Inc.

  New York, New York

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  All rights reserved

  Copyright © 2006 by Sandra Kring

  Excerpt from Life of Bright Ideas copyright © 2012 by Sandra Kring.

  Book design by Ellen Cipriano

  Delta is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

  Kring, Sandra.

  The book of bright ideas/Sandra Kring

  p. cm.

  1. Friendship—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Wisconsin—Fiction. 4. Domestic fiction.

  PS3611.R545 B66 2006

  813/.6 22 2005056008

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  This book contains an excerpt from Life of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring. This excerpt has been set for this edition only, and may not refelct the final content of the forthcoming book.

  eISBN: 978-0-440-33614-3

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