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The One and Only Vivian Stone

by Melissa O'Connor (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 09, 2025 10:14AM

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Butter

by Asako Yuzuki

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Jan 18, 2025 09:17AM

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How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety

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Feb 02, 2023 04:58AM

“There was forgiveness in this admission. We were all doing the very best we could: as women, as mothers and as daughters. We hurt each other; we heal each other; we mend and we break and we try again, until we can’t and the headstone has its final say. And yet still our hearts reach out for both love and forgiveness, granted and accepted.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Bookshop at Water's End

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“Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted. Sitting there in my car in the little parking lot behind Crowley Control Systems on West 10 Mile Road in Southfield, my world cracked open a tiny bit.”
― Robin Sloan, Sourdough

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“This time of year is brutal. Joe knows exactly what Donny’s referring to. It’s January, just after the holiday season, a time for family and gift giving and celebration for most, a time of unbearable depression for others. The days are cold and dark by four thirty. Joe and Donny have responded to a lot of suicides over the years, and winter is sadly the most popular season. Joe won’t miss that part of his job. Discovering the bodies. Sometimes the body parts. A teenager overdoses on heroin. A mother swallows a bottle of prescription pills. A father leaps off the Tobin. A cop eats his gun.”
― Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens

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