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Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Children of the Wandering House by Lois Wickstrom

Sentient Houses

180 books — 88 voters

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

California Memoirs

290 books — 79 voters

San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries by Beth Winegarner

Northern Californian history (nonfiction)

127 books — 38 voters

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“ Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from 'high up', to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outside the box and to look at life’s patterns from this high perspective is the inspiration behind the slang term “high” itself. ...more ”
― Sebastian Marincolo

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“ It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog. ”
― Francis Crick, What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

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