Big Books of Summer
Jan Burnham
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Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Perfume Dreams by Andrew Lam The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman The Color of Water by James McBride The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Neither Wolf nor Dog by Kent Nerburn Barefoot Contessa at Home by Ina Garten American Cookery by Laura Kalpakian Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
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Simone Weil
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
― Simone Weil
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Rudyard Kipling
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Romance, Self help, and Spirituality


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