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The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo, #3)

by Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)

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“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

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“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”
― Socrates

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“Call me Ishmael.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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For fan discussion of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire series. Occasionally referred to by the first book of the series, A Game of Thrones. ...more

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We seek the Dark Tower, and will travel with Roland throughout the year, reading the Seven as well as Related Holy Texts.

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