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The Compass Point
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Song of the Pearl and Oyster
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The Accidental Journey of Charlie Brewster
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Driftwood Fire: Poems of Michigan Cycling Trails
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| Grace was an inspiration! I loved Lawhon's depiction of an underappreciated Irish noblewoman and pirate! After her compelling Frozen River book, I wondered what direction she would take, and this one is so much more vibrant! In real life, Grace defie ...more | |
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"Follow the adventurous Charlie Brewster from Oklahoma to Alaska! Patty’s Duffy’s engaging storytelling deftly transported me to Charlie’s life in 1938. I felt like I was witnessing the world through his eyes. Charlie matures and his life is enriched "
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| Strout's window into Artie Dam's curiosity about free will is sweet, poignant, vulnerable, and all too real. Although Artie has a loving wife, a caring son, and adoring high school history students, he's unhappy. He takes his sailboat out one day, an ...more | |
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| This is the best book I've read since Kate Quinn's Briar's Club. I've also read Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, Tom Lake, The Dutch House, and The Magician's Assistant. Two sisters deal with the reappearance of their long-ago stepfather, Eddie, a boo ...more | |
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“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
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“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you...”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
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