title: Stealing: Life In America: A Collection of Essays
author: Michelle Cacho-Negrete
description: Michelle Cacho-Negrete is an award-winning author who currently lives in Portland Maine with her husband Kevin Smith, a prominent scientist, editor and author.She was born in Brooklyn and many of her essays are about her childhood.Michelle's original degree was in clinical social work and she worked for many years with victims of domestic violence, helped establish a woman's shelter in New York, and co-facilitated a batterer education program for violent men on probation. Four of Michelle essays have been among the 100 most notable of the year and one essay won Best of Net.She is in five anthologies, including a Norton College anthology. UTNE called her essay about George Bush and the environment excellent writing.She is nonfiction co-editor for Solstice Literary Magazine. Stealing: Life in America is her first book.
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  STEALING POWER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  BO BRENNAN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Any references to real people, living or dead, real events, businesses,
  organisations and localities are intended only to give the fiction a sense of
  authenticity and reality. All names, characters, places and incidents are
  either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and
  their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Bo Brennan 2013
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Bo Brennan asserts the moral right
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  STEALING POWER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  BABY SNATCHERS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE WAGES OF SIN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  www.BoBrennan.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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