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Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez

The Woman Who Heard Color by Kelly Jones

The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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Joseph ’s Quotes

“...Jonathan is an old friend from Unstable."
Connolly frowns. "Does he have a magical power?"
"He doesn't need one." I take out my phone. "He's a librarian.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Cursed Luck

tags: librarian, magic

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“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”
― Emma Watson

tags: library, love, marriage, romance

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“The human brain is the universe's most implausible science experiment.”
― Will Boast, Daphne

tags: brain, epilepsy, neurology, seizures

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“But we are never alone. We bring with us the spirits of our ancestors. We are haunted by their demons and protected by their deities.”
― William Ritter

tags: ancestors, faith, family

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“For a certain kind of person there is literally nothing nicer than eating breakfast by yourself on a moving train with a good book.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

tags: bibliophiles, books, locomotives, reading, trains

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