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    Susan Rowland
    “Puzzlement radiated from them, thought Mary, as if not recognizing that the beings staring at back at them were human.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders
    tags: book-club-pick, human-nature, mirror-moments, social-commentary, thought-provoking, urban-fantasy, witchy-mystery
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    “And reading takes forever!”
    ― Coco Calvoz Cordon, Debbie Wants No Words
    tags: funny-reads, kids-books, picture-book, read-aloud, reading-struggles, reluctant-reader, storytime
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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The war in Vietnam was little more than an attempt… to keep the people of Indochina ‘in their place and enslaved.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick
    tags: anticolonial, facts, historymatters, informative, seriousreads, slaves, truthtelling, vietnamwar, warfiction
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    Anne Allen
    “She breathed in the salty, seaweedy air as she stood, beguiled and calmed by the moon, part of her thinking what a brilliant painting it would make.”
    ― Anne Allen, The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir
    tags: artist-protagonist, atmospheric-fiction, cottage-life, creative-life, evening-read, moonlit-nights, quiet-moments, seaside-setting
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    Max Nowaz
    “Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.”
“They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.”
But Brown was worried. As they entered the canteen, the lights came on
automatically. There was nobody there.
“What’s going…...” but he never finished the sentence. Brown felt a sharp pain on the
side of his head and everything went black.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: action, action-thriller-fiction, drama, fiction, intrigue, mystery, suspense, thriller
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    J.L. Marrain
    “This was getting worse by the minute.”
    ― J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER
    tags: adventure, book-quotes, fantasy, high-stakes, page-turner, relatable, tension
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    David Øybo
    “They had placed the hospital on a flat lot on the tip of the peninsula, against the North Atlantic Ocean with the fjords in the back.
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    ― David Øybo, Julebord: The Holiday Party
    tags: atmospheric-reads, coastal-fiction, crime-fiction, fjord-vibes, hospital-fiction, medical-drama, nordic-setting, setting-matters
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  • #8
    “The people of Light are always stronger than the people of Evil, for they have already conquered it in themselves. They have conquered the weaknesses that still entrap others.”
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    ― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean
    tags: innerwork, inspirationalreads, peopleoflight, philosophicalfiction, selfmastery, shadowwork, spiritualgrowth
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    Rich DiSilvio
    “But these men at the top have great power, Marc, power that extends beyond the world of commerce, for they are now buying our heads of state and manipulating policy.”
    ― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age
    tags: american-history-fiction, book-club-reads, corporate-influence, gilded-age, historical-fiction, political-power, social-justice-themes, thought-provoking
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    Tricia Newlan
    “Storm-grey eyes, broad shoulders encased in a dark blue suit jacket. Jaw carved from some righteous, attorney-like stone. My brother Evan's old friend. My teenage crush. And now, to my surprise, my new boss.”
    ― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance
    tags: forbidden-attraction, long-time-crush, new-boss, page-turner-romance, romancebooks, slow-burn-tension, suited-up, swoony-moments, workplace-romance
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  • #11
    “Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain. Now it flowed faster, steadily staining her pale flesh a horrific red.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: blood, descriptive-prose, horror
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    K. Ritz
    “Few comprehend celibacy.
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    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adult-themes, character-study, fantasy, identity, inner-life, introspection, loneliness, quiet-pain
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    Rachel Caine
    “He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?"
    "Like what?"
    "Like hitting on you."
    "Ew. No, of course not. He doesn't see me that way."
    Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee.
    "What? You think he does?"
    "Sometimes he looks at you a little... oddly, that's all. Maybe you're right. Maybe he just wants you for your blood."
    "Again, Ew! What's with you this morning?"
    "Not enough coffee.”
    ― Rachel Caine, Ghost Town
    tags: claire-danvers, funny, ghost-town, humor, michael-glass, morganville-vampires, myrnin, rachel-caine, shane-collins, teacher, vampire, vampires
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
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    Victoria Dougherty
    “I trust no one. Not even myself.” —Joesph Stalin”
    ― Victoria Dougherty, The Hungarian
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    Rachel Carson
    “Intoxicated with a sense of his own power,” she wrote, “[mankind] seems to be going farther and farther into more experiments for the destruction of himself and his world.”
    ― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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    Dean Koontz
    “If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”
    ― Dean Koontz
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    Herman Wouk
    “His identity as a naval officer is the essential balancing factor. It’s the key to his personal security and therefore he’s excessively zealous to protect his standing. That would account for the harshness and ill temper I spoke about before.” “Would he be disinclined to admit to mistakes?” “Well, there’s a tendency that way. The commander has a fixed anxiety about protecting his standing. Of course there’s nothing unbalanced in that.” “Would he be a perfectionist?” “Such a personality would be.” “Inclined to hound subordinates about small details?” “He prides himself on meticulousness. Any mistake of a subordinate is intolerable because it might endanger him.” “Is such a personality, with such a zeal for perfection, likely to avoid all mistakes?” “Well, we all know that reality is beyond the hundred-per-cent control of any human being—” “Yet he will not admit mistakes when made. Is he lying?” “Definitely not! He—you might say he revises reality in his own mind so that he comes out blameless. There’s a tendency to blame others—”
    ― Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
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