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    My 20-foot Adventure
    My 20-foot Adventure
    My 20-foot Adventure
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    My 20-foot Adventure

    By Claude Lambert

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    It is about the dream of a boy. The mom is a nurse and always concerned with insect bites and viruses, including HIV. The dad is a prof and always tries to teach math at any moment of the day. His best friend is a Jewish businessman who works in construction. The great-aunt Bessie has had so many husbands that the kids believe that she has been married 82 times. There is also a dog, Backrub, whose business is to steal slippers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClaude Lambert
    Release dateNov 9, 2011
    ISBN9780983679110
    My 20-foot Adventure
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    Claude Lambert

    Claude Lambert is born in Belgium, worked in France as a geochemist and retired in the United States to be close to the American part of her family .She published in French a novel and a series of children stories. She also co-authored a political book illustrated by Virginia Haggard-Leirens, the author of “My life with Chagall.“Her recent books in English are distributed by Ingram and can be found easily on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. “On Pets and Men” are humorous very short stories. “Vague Souvenir” is a World War 2 fiction. "Crimes of the Balance Sheet" is a mystery book.

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