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Speed Grieving

3.80 avg rating — 1,300 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions

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Tahoma and Its People: A Natural History of Mount Rainier National Park

by Jeff Antonelis-Lapp

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Art and Lies

by Jeanette Winterson

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Nietzsche's Views on God, Religion & Suffering: The Improvers of Mankind, The Anti-Christ, The Prejudices of Philosophers & more (Grapevine Edition)

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I would not identify as a widow. I was merely a married working mother who just happened to be between husbands. It was a delusional strategy, and I knew it and I didn’t care.”
― Allison Ellis, Speed Grieving

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