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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis Margin by Richard A. Swenson John Adams by David McCullough Finishing Strong by Steve Farrar Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene
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“people don’t ever get fixed. They either mature, or they just keep getting more bent up the rest of their lives.”
― Bill Thrall, Bo's Cafe: A Novel
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