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She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
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