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    Nutshells
    Nutshells
    Nutshells
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    Nutshells

    By Brittney Barry

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    In Nutshells, writer Brittney Barry provides a collection of poems and passages describing the encounters we all face in lifes most important lessons. It exercises the good and the bad of love and loss within family, friends, and lovers.

    With this book, her intentions are to provide words for healing and to help her readers out of any nutshell they may be stuck in.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMar 24, 2016
    ISBN9781514476758
    Nutshells
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    Brittney Barry

    Brittney Barry is a graphic designer and writer living in Los Angeles, California. Though just barely getting her feet wet, Brittney has been writing since her early teens. She is probably the only person in Southern California who hopes for rainy days and also enjoys collecting books she might not ever get to read. She is currently freelancing her artwork of paintings and drawings and working on her second book.

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      Nutshells - Brittney Barry

      Copyright © 2016 by Brittney Barry.

      Library of Congress Control Number:      2016904628

      ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5144-7677-2

            Softcover      978-1-5144-7676-5

            eBook      978-1-5144-7675-8

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted

      in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,

      recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,

      without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 03/23/2016

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      CONTENTS

      Nutshells

      Hourglass

      Round and Round

      Ever After

      Deep

      Waves

      Take

      Lost

      Hopeless

      Kiss

      Pocket Change

      Dream

      Found

      Just Enough

      It Happens

      When It’s Good

      When It’s…Not So Good

      Personal

      Train

      Starry Night

      Last Resort

      Mornings

      Pain

      Miserable

      Me

      Lies

      Today

      Love

      Cloudy

      Whiskey

      Monster

      Sorry

      Music

      The Ledge

      Catfish

      Moving On

      Broken

      Long Story

      Doubt

      Wolf

      Maps

      Puzzle

      Sleepless

      You’ll Learn

      Bed

      Tick

      Games

      Sunflowers

      Country

      Strangers

      Numb

      Copilot

      Tooth and Nail

      Bad At Math

      Complicated

      Average

      Baggage

      Selfless

      Unknown

      A Burden

      Be Happy

      Calico

      Him

      Reckless

      Tree

      The Chase

      Not Helping

      Callus

      Hangnail

      Abusive

      For the Best

      Love Note

      Selfish

      Classy

      Youth

      Fire

      Half Full

      Naked

      Single

      Inside

      Panic

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