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Joel Beard
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Joel’s favorite books

Buried Child by Sam Shepard Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance The Widow's Children by Paula Fox Paula Fox by Susanna Daniel The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjöwall The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Richard Lancelyn Green Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Maj Sjöwall Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon
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The Secrets Man
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The Edge of Fate
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Wild Warrior (Weavers Circle #2) by Jocelynn Drake
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the thought made him want to curl up into a ball and hide
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George Eliot
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot
tags: inspirational
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George Eliot
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Children's, Cookbooks, Cooking, Fiction, Food, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, Thriller, and Young-adult


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