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Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland #1)

by Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)

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Katabasis

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Star Wars: The High Republic: A Valiant Vow (Star Wars: The High Republic (Middle Grade) Book 8)

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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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My father would never mention the trip again, and once home the events twisted strangely in my memory. The blood and the oath, the room full of kings: they seemed distant and pale, like something a bard had spun, rather than something I ...more

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“All this happened, more or less.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

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“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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“My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.”
― Gene Wolfe

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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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