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― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
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“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
― Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
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― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
Memoirs and Biographies We Love
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A place to share memoirs, biographies, autobiographies (and maybe even fiction-based-in-reality) that you have enjoyed!
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