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Leah Bassinger Riley

Born: 1964 in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Riley, born in Tulsa, Okla. , moved to Illinois approximately 18 years ago with her husband Jon.

Biography: She attended college at Millikin University in Decatur and received a bachelor's degree in music education in 2001, after which poverty set in. She quickly discovered that schools could not affort to hire music teachers. That in conjunction with her husbands disability sent them on the slippery slope to poverty. Read more: http://www.thetelegraph.com/articles/poverty-12518-riley-book.html#ixzz1Zq57D5DY


Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Leah Bassinger Riley on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=leah+bassinger+riley


Selected Titles

  As in the days of Noah :
ISBN: 1605636940 OCLC: 235054174

PublishAmerica, Baltimore [Md.] : ©2008.

Spread the peanut butter thin! /
ISBN: 1424183790 OCLC: 316805153

PublishAmerica, Baltimore, MD : ©2007.

 

 

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