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The Wine of Astonishment: Stories

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Mansfield Park (Naxos Edition)

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Women of the Way: Discovering 2500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you”
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