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Leah Beck

Born: 1991 Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: *Born in Chicago, Illinois

Biography: N/A

Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Children; Young adult readers

Leah Beck on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=leah+beck

Selected Titles

My grandma's angels /
ISBN: 1579213081 OCLC: 45817135

WinePress Pub., Enumclaw, WA. : ©2001.

The true story of a little girl's dream in which angels visited her and said they were taking her Grandmother to Heaven to see Jesus; on that same night her Grandmother dies unexpectedly.

 

 

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