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Jess’s favorite books

On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah

Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock

A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark

Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah

All Around The Town by Mary Higgins Clark

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Before I Say Good-Bye by Mary Higgins Clark

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark

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Last Night Was Ki...

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Last Night Was Killer

by Mary Pauline Lowry (Goodreads Author)

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In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood

by Collin Gosselin

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Jess’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Elsewhere Express

The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao

“It might surprise you how little a person without purpose weighs.”

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Jess Nelson has read 131 books of their goal of 75!

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Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult

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