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The Reading Countess The Reading Countess said: " Without a doubt this is the most thought provoking book I’ve read (listened?) to this year. Hard stop.

The Sum of Us is a well-written journey through US history’s complicated past, present and future written by a Black attorney/economist. She looks a
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Herman Melville
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
Herman Melville

Bill Nye
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
Bill Nye

Trenton Lee Stewart
“You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.”
Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Barack Obama
“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better”
Barack Obama

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