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Pat’s favorite books

The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye One Man's Meat by E.B. White The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Still Alice by Lisa Genova The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
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This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
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Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Romance, Suspense, and Young-adult


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