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- proper noun A female
given name .
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Examples
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"Are you hurt?" called Alvina, looking up into space.
The Lost Girl 1907
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Alvina Ling on My job as a children's book editor.
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Sarah Rees Brennan and Justine Larbalestier said lovely things (Sarah spoils, Justine doesn't) and my US editor Alvina Ling did a wonderful post in her Beyond the Book series on Guardian's road to publication, which also collected a number of MY favourite posts on the publication process, so be sure to check that out.
The mission must be served karenhealey 2010
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Alvina, as an editor, what do you find is the best way to establish a working relationship with an author?
GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD discussion/question thread. karenhealey 2010
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ETA: The excellent Alvina Ling offers to answer questions from an editor's point of view, also!
GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD discussion/question thread. karenhealey 2010
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Internets, the other day I went to dinner with awesome Little Brown folks - my editor, Alvina Ling, Connie Hsu, and Victoria Stapleton.
Countdown to going crazy about reading in public: 5... 4... karenhealey 2010
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Investigators said a 90-year-old member of the group, Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth, lived with member Tammy Lewis and her children.
Cult leader Alan Bushey pleads no contest to hiding body 2009
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Alvina Closs is seventy-four years old, almost seventy-five, but she looks at least ten years younger.
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My US editor Alvina Ling will also answer questions from an editor's point of view!
Launch, Chat, and Me on the Radio karenhealey 2010
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His ladyfriend and bedfellow for the past twenty-five years, Alvina Closs, is flummoxed.
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