A Not-So-Simple Life (22 page)

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The characters and events in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons or events is coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Carlson Management Co. Inc.

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 and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Published in the United States by WaterBrook Multnomah, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc., New York.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carlson, Melody.
   A not-so-simple life : a novel / Melody Carlson.
     p. cm. - (Diary of a teenage girl. Maya; bk. 1)
   Summary: Maya keeps a journal the year following her aunt’s death, in which she records her thoughts about her alcoholic and drug-addicted mother and her own feelings of depression, until she decides to give her heart to God.
   eISBN: 978-0-307-49898-4
   1. Cousins—Fiction. 2. Family problems—Fiction. 3. Emotional problems—Fiction. 4. Christian life—Fiction. 5. Diaries—Fiction. I. Title.
   PZ7.C216637 2008
   [Fic]-dc22

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