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Healing Hearts at the Christmas Inn (Lights of St. Augustine Book 1)

by Amy Rafferty (Goodreads Author)

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Nantucket Christmas: Heartwarming holiday romance reading

by Melissa Hill (Goodreads Author)

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Lobster Bay Series Books 1-8

by Meredith Summers (Goodreads Author)

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But that’s the way it was with kids sometimes. They don’t remember all the fun times their parents spend on the floor being silly or running around a yard pretending to be a pirate. They remember our failures more. I read somewhere once ...more

Caryl’s Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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This group now has a Discord! https://discord.gg/QC8vCNfzKa I would encourage everyone to join as it will become a primary hub for book-of-the-month d ...more

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Fiction Fanatics is a book club for those of us who love reading fiction books! We do book of the month each month with discussions, monthly and yearl ...more

True Crime and everything else in between — 105 members — last activity Jun 18, 2019 02:47PM
This is a book club for those that love to read about true crime and autobiographies. Or likes to read about anything that actually happened . And enj ...more

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