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by Guy P. Harrison (Goodreads Author)

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A Fine and Private Place

by Ellery Queen

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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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Katherine’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean

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As modern living became chaotic and bewildering, the Victorians looked for order in the universe, an outline that could organize their knowledge of every living thing and maybe at the same time rationalize the meaning of existence.

Tish

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Katherine’s Quotes

“Art is always to an extent about trying to create order out of chaos.”
― Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

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“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

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“Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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“We're all servants. Some to our fellow men. Some to our vices.”
― S.S. Van Dine, Philo Vance 12 Novels Complete Bundle

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“For your happy man is a benefactor to his species. Just as one may gather knowledge from the wise, so, by contact with the happy, may one improve one's spirits; a truth deserving of consideration by the middle-aged.”
― R. Austin Freeman, The Works of R. Austin Freeman: 28 Novels and Short Stories

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