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Lena Phoenix

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The United States

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http://theheartofacult.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality

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July 2007

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To pull me in, a book must tell a really, really good story, make me laugh, or make me look at why we believe the things we do and how those beliefs affect our lives.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 24 ratings · 8 reviews · 1 distinct work

The Heart of a Cult

3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2006

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Villa Coco

by Andrew Sean Greer

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Making Money (Discworld, #36; Industrial Revolution, #5; Moist von Lipwig, #2)

by Terry Pratchett

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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

by Elle Cosimano (Goodreads Author)

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Though the fact that Carlos Castaneda perpetuated one of the greatest literary hoaxes in American history has long been public knowledge for those who cared to look, I learned quite a bit from this new biography. The topics Marshall handles include a ...more
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“The mind is a strange thing: it works in secret. Oftentimes the most important decisions in life are made while you're not paying attention.”
― Nikolai Grozni, Turtle Feet

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