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Jo’s favorite books

Carrie / 'Salem's Lot / The Shining by Stephen King A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein The Crow by James O'Barr And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon On Writing by Stephen King The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch) by Caroll Spinney Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann Home before Morning by Lynda Van Devanter
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“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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