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All the Love: Healing Your Heart and Finding Meaning After Pregnancy Loss

by Kim Hooper (Goodreads Author)

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The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (The ParentData Series)

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The Orchid Thief

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“Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.”
― Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night

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“Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.”
― Laura Whitcomb, A Certain Slant of Light

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“That, to me, is the quintessential experience of living in the United States: constantly worrying whether or not the country is about to fall apart.”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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“Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.”
― A. Lee Martinez, Monster

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“Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

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A group for those who like learning about women in history, through fiction or non-fiction books.

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Anyone who enjoys historical fiction or history books about Tudor England will like this group. Whether you have been all the way to England just to t ...more

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Focuses on books, discussions, comments, reviews, and questions on the American Revolution. Just kidding.

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For the general discussion of Historical Fiction. This group will encourage and support the formation of Historical Fiction “Buddy Reads.”

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A place for readers/contributors of Reddit's /r/Fantasy subreddit to discuss books from the genre and see others' book lists and recommendations. ...more

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