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Melissa’s favorite books

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty The Purveyor of Enchantment by Marika Cobbold Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein James Herriot's Treasury for Children by James Herriot Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set by J.R.R. Tolkien
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“We are all stardust and stories”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Young-adult, and Women's Fiction


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