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Laura’s favorite books

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

The Green Mile by Stephen King

The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle

Bitter Is the New Black by Jen Lancaster

The Color of Water by James McBride

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout

On Writing by Stephen King

I Killed by Ritch Shydner

Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason

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Laura is Currently Reading

American Patriarc...

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American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington

by H.W. Brands

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The Hero Returns: Lafayette and the Legacy of Revolution

by Richard Brookhiser

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The Jungle Book

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The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1)

by Rudyard Kipling

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Favorite Genres

Adult Fiction, African American, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Cooking, Ebooks, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Romance, Young-adult, War, and Women's Fiction

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