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Heartwood

by Amity Gaige (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 18, 2026 09:37PM

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A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

by Haley Cohen Gilliland (Goodreads Author)

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"About chapter 17. Lost children. Sometimes pregnant mothers. Abducted and they don’t even know whether they are alive. One was found in Chile instead of Argentina. They could be all over. Hard to find the children. The women risk everything." — Feb 15, 2026 08:48PM

Feb 09, 2026 05:55PM

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Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

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“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

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“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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