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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

by Holly Ringland

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Dollbaby

by Laura Lane McNeal (Goodreads Author)

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Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)

by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)

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“Were my imagination greater I would grant stories to the souls lost to history. Were I able to hear with my bones I wold know the underside of their colossal silence.”
― Janisse Ray, Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River

tags: death, history, imagination, stories, stories-of-people, writer, writing

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“Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we know is possible.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

tags: dreams, human-potential, living-life, living-well, possibility, possibility-is-limitless, smallness, visionary

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“Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

tags: activism, inspiration, light, light-and-darkness, shine-your-light, world-change

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“I want to tell you about the most hopeful thing in the world. It is a seed.”
― Janisse Ray, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

tags: hope, seed, seed-saving, seeds

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“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

tags: forgetting-the-pain, forgetting-the-past, forgiveness, forgiving-is-not-forgetting, forgiving-others, letting-go, trauma, trauma-healing

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Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine — 179526 members — last activity 2 hours, 1 min ago
Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more

Oprah's Book Club (Official) — 88390 members — last activity Oct 16, 2026 05:49PM
Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more

Genealogy — 377 members — last activity Sep 18, 2026 12:03PM
Good reading for family historians.

Biographies & Memoirs of Other Generations — 87 members — last activity Mar 06, 2016 01:53PM
A place to share our favourite books about people who mostly made their mark pre-1960. Please add yours to the list! And please do comment on your fav ...more

Between the Wars — 164 members — last activity Apr 21, 2026 11:13PM
The purpose of this group is to create a list of books about or set during the 1920s and 1930s. This includes fiction and history as well as biographi ...more

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