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Fran Hawthorne got sidetracked for three decades writing award-winning nonfiction, including eight books, mainly about consumer activism and business social responsibility. But she's been actually been writing novels since she was in elementary school.

Her newest--HER DAUGHTER--will be published in January 2026 by Black Rose Writing. Fran has also published two other novels, including I MEANT TO TELL YOU (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, November 2022), a finalist for the SARTON AWARD, the ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD, the NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS (in both contemporary novel and women's fiction), and other honors. ...more

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	Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love 2.95 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat 3.71 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Meant to Tell You 4.30 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant 3.26 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heirs 3.39 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting,and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism 2.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pension Dumping: The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Brief History of American Pensions-The Origins of U.S. Retirement Plans liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teach Yourself VISUALLY Investing Online it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pension Investing and Social Activism: Combining Conscience and Commerce it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Names

by Florence Knapp

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Friends of the Museum

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Le Mage du Kremlin

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Fran Hawthorne made a comment on Christopher Febles’s review of Margo's Got Money Troubles " I enjoyed your detailed review. It sounds like there are a lot of subplots, but they all work together in the end. (Interesting that you gave it only ...more "
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Fran Hawthorne and 36 other people liked Christopher Febles's review of Margo's Got Money Troubles: "Margo has an affair with a professor, gets preggers, and decides to have the baby. It ain’t easy and it ain’t cheap. Then her dad, the retired wrestler Jinx, mentions a former “colleague” who’s now on the, um, er…adult site OnlyFans and raking in som" Read more of this review »
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Fran Hawthorne and 19 other people liked Wendy with a book's review of The Writer: "A twisty page-turner where you’re not sure who did what… and who might just get away with it. I don’t read much Patterson, but I love JD Barker! So when I saw he co-wrote this, I grabbed it! (If you’re not reading him, you should. He wrote my favorite" Read more of this review »
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Fran Hawthorne and 2 other people liked Evelyn Pecht's review of Peace Like a River: "I really enjoyed this book. Eleven-year-old Reuben Land, who suffers from asthma, believes in miracles. Along with Swede, his younger sister,and his god-fearing father, he finds himself on a cross-country search for his older brother, who has been ch" Read more of this review »
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Fran Hawthorne made a comment on Sandysbookaday ’s review of Trust Me on This " I always appreciate your detailed reviews. Have you noticed that we seem to seeing a spate of novels about sisters recently? Or is it just that I'm lo ...more "
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Fran Hawthorne and 29 other people liked Sandysbookaday 's review of Trust Me on This: "EXCERPT: Aurora smiled, her biggest one, all perfect white teeth and lips stretched wide. Her high-wattage smile, their dad called it. "It's me," she said, throwing out her arms. "Surprise. Sister road trip." "Wait, what?" She couldn't be serious, cou" Read more of this review »
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Fran Hawthorne made a comment on Laurie Shook ’s review of Again and Again " I really like your system of rating. IT's so rare--and wonderful--when a novel sticks with me. I'm still haunted, for instance, by Jonathon Coe's uniq ...more "
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Fran Hawthorne made a comment on Cindy Sheppard Gidge’s review of The Clover Girls' Network: From fear to defiance in war-torn Poland (Women in War) " THank you for telling your readers about this book. It seems that in the last couple of years, we're seeing a lot of books -- fiction and nonfiction - ...more "
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“In this age of consumer activism, pinpoint marketing, and unlimited and immediate information, we want the impossible: products and producers that will assure us that we are fashionable, and that don’t pollute, harm animals, or contain weird chemicals, that run on alternative energy, pay their workers good salaries, recycle their scraps, use natural ingredients, buy from local suppliers, donate generously to charity, donate in particular to their neighborhoods, and don’t throw their weight around by lobbying. (Or maybe they should lobby for the right causes?)”
― Fran Hawthorne, Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love

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“People keep secrets for all kinds of reasons. To avoid hurting other people. To protect their jobs. Sometimes I think people just get so used to their public versions of the truth, if they've been doing it for a long time, that they forget the secret they've been hiding.”
― Fran Hawthorne, I Meant to Tell You

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