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The Last Bookshop in London

by Madeline Martin (Goodreads Author)

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Parenting a Spicy One: A Compassionate Guide for Raising a Deep-Feeling and Wonderfully Strong-Willed Kid

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I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi

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Giving advice to someone in mourning is like offering pretzels to someone dehydrated. It doesn’t help.

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“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

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“Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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“Life keeps going. You think it'll stop, wait for you to be done crying, but it just keeps moving. Don't spend your time looking back. You don't want to miss what's ahead.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Things We Do for Love

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“Turn a page, walk the lines of sentences: the singer steps out, and conjures a world of color and noise in the space inside your head.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

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“Books should be an experience, he thought, not a trophy for having read them.”
― Steven Rowley, The Guncle

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