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    Motel Nirvana
    Motel Nirvana
    Motel Nirvana
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    Motel Nirvana

    By Melanie McGrath

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    Now available in ebook format. ‘Motel Nirvana’ is Melanie McGrath’s first published book.

    A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.

    ‘Motel Nirvana’ won the 1996 John Llewellyn Rhys ‘Mail on Sunday’ prize for the best new British writer under 35.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateFeb 14, 2013
    ISBN9780007509362
    Motel Nirvana
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    Melanie McGrath

    Mel McGrath is an Essex girl, co-founder of Killer Women, and an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction. As MJ McGrath she writes the acclaimed Edie Kiglatuk series of Arctic mysteries. As Melanie McGrath she wrote the critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir Silvertown. As Mel McGrath she is the author of the bestselling psychological thrillers Give Me the Child, The Guilty Party and Two Wrongs.

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      I don't know what to say about this She can write but I don't know what her goals are Every NEWAGER she meets is a poor and uneducated American Friendly but boring her travels are interesting NEVADA UTAH NEW MEXICO ARIZONA Maybe her parents were hippies and she's looking for them

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